Recent publications

"According to the Trump Administration, You May Be a Terrorist and Not Know It," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Apr. 23, 2026

"Yes to the Department of War--and a More Honest Foreign Policy," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 28, 2025

"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