Publications

Books, monographs, and special editions

Chaos Reconsidered: the Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics (co-edited with Robert Jervis, Diane Labrosse, and Joshua Rovner). Columbia University Press. July 2023.

When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and the Challenge to World Order. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, in press.

 Rhetoric and Grand Strategy.  Edited with Ronald R. Krebs.  Security Studies, Special Issue of Security Studies, 24(1), (Jan-March 2015)

 Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Articles in Refereed Journals

“From Poles to Hubs: Network Theory Meets Structural Realism,” Security Studies, forthcoming.

“Contestation in a World of Liberal Orders,” (with Ronald R. Krebs, Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, and Berthold Rittberger), Global Studies Quarterly, forthcoming. 

 “‘The Most Humane of all Weapons: discrimination, airpower, and precision doctrine” (with Colleen Larkin), European Journal of International Security, 8 (4) (2023): 531-549. 

“From ‘Butcher and Bolt’ to ‘Bugsplat’: Race and Liberal Pacification in International Politics” (with Paul K. MacDonald), Security Studies, 32 (4/5) (2023): 714-747.

“Statecraft: instruments, logics, and international order.” (with Daniel H. Nexon and Paul K. MacDonald). International Relations, 33(2) (2019): 304-321.

“Embedded revisionism: networks,institutions, and world order.” International Organization, 72(4) (Fall 2018).  

“The Dynamics of Power Politics:Realpolitik in Post-Paradigmatic Security Studies,” (with Daniel Nexon). Journal of Global Security Studies, 1(1) (Winter 2016): 4-18.

"Rhetoric, Legitimation, and Grand Strategy," with Ronald R. Krebs. Security Studies 24 (1): 5-36.

"The Rhetoric of Appeasement: Legitimation and British Foreign Policy," Security Studies 24(1): 95-130.

“Brokering Peace: Networks, Legitimacy, and the Northern Ireland Peace Process.” International Studies Quarterly, 56(3) (September 2012): 501-515.

“Brokering change: Networks and Entrepreneurs inInternational Politics,” International Theory, 1(2) (2009): 249-281.

“When Right Makes Might: How Prussia Overturned the European Balance of Power,” International Security, 33(3), (Winter 2008/2009), 110-142.

“Correspondence: Time and the intractability of territorial disputes: a response to Hassner on indivisible territory,” International Security, 32(3), (Winter 2007/2008), 191-201.

“Uncommon Ground:territorial conflict and the politics of legitimacy,” International Organization, 60(1), Winter 2006, 35-68.

“Paradigm Lost? Reassessing Theory of International Politics,” (with Daniel H. Nexon). European Journal of International Relations, 11(1), Spring 2005, 9-61.

“Correspondence: Taking Offense at Offense-Defense Theory,” International Security, vol. 23(3) (Winter 1998/1999) 189-95.

Article reprinted in Offense, Defense and War: an International Security Reader (Cambridge: MIT Press), 2004.