Research
Research
Book project
"Contestation from Below: Status and Revisionism in World Politics"
Recipient, 2022 International Studies Association (ISA) International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Patricia Weitsman Award
Peer-reviewed publications
"Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare," International Studies Quarterly, Volume 69, Issue 3 (2025). [link]
"Contestation from Below: Status and Revisionism in Hierarchy," International Studies Quarterly, Volume 68, Issue 3 (2024). [link]
"Manufacturing Consensus: China's Strategic Narratives and Geoeconomic Competition in Asia," European Journal of International Relations, Volume 30, Issue 3 (2024): 725-755 (first author, with Saori Katada) [link]
"Striving for Greatness: Status Aspirations, Rhetorical Entrapment, and Domestic Reforms," Review of International Political Economy, Volume 29, Issue 1 (2022): 175-201 (first author, with Saori Katada) [link]
"US Bias in the Study of Asian Security: Using Europe to Ignore Asia," Journal of Global Security Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3 (2019): 393-401. (with David Kang) [link]
Policy publications
"The Elusive Consensus: Diverging US Views on Competition against China." The Washington Quarterly, Volume 49, Issue 1 (2026) (with Robert Ralston) [link]
"China Won't Rush to Join CPTPP. Neither Should the US." The Diplomat, January 2021 (with Saori Katada; received inquiry from the Parliament of Australia) [link]
"Regional Order Reconfigured: China, Japan, and the United States in the Evolving Asia Pacific." Asia Pacific Bulletin, August 2017 (first author, with Saori N. Katada) [link]
Under review/ manuscripts available upon request
"Moving Ideas Beyond Material Suboptimality"
"Misinformation and Misperception: The Political Logic of Security Dilemmas"
"Strategic Empathy in US-China Relations"
"US-China Information War"
“Soft Power through Solidarity” (with Rachel Hulvey)
"China's Threat Perception: Evidence from Diplomatic Text Data" (with Haemin Jee, Paul MacDonald, and Joseph Parent)
Work in progress
"Unifying Narratives: Information Warfare in World Politics"
“Status as Duty and Privilege in Global Governance” (with Averell Schmidt)