Recent publications
"Debate on What Liberalism Is and Isn't," with Stephan Haggard, University of California-San Diego, May 8, 2025
Essay review of Jack Snyder's Human Rights for Pragmatists, Apr. 28, 2025
"Donald Trump Is Not a Fascist," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 15, 2024
"Stop the Enemies of Free Speech," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Apr. 14, 2024
"America Is Not Always the Friend of Freedom and Justice," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Mar. 24, 2024
"Brazil's Trump, America's Trump and the Dangers to Democracy," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 12, 2023
"The Panic Industrial Complex," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 15, 2023
"America Was Right to Leave Afghanistan. Now, End the Economic War," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 21, 2022
"Say No to Ukraine in Nato, End the War," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette," Mar. 12, 2022
"Rein in Emergency Powers in Pennsylvania," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 8, 2021
Books
Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power (Princeton University Press, 2019)
The Global Right Wing and the Clash of World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2012): Book of the Decade Award, International Studies Association, 2020 (co-winner)
Foreign Affairs review essay of The Global Right Wing
The International Struggle for New Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009) (editor and chapter author)
The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism (Cambridge University Press, 2005): Book of the Year Award, International Studies Association, 2007; North Central Sociological Association Scholarly Achievement Award, 2007; Globalist Top Book of the Year
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