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, forthcoming (with Robert Ralston)
"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"
"China's Threat Perception: Evidence from Diplomatic Text Data" (with Paul MacDonald and Joseph Parent)
Work in progress
"Unifying Narratives: Information Warfare in World Politics"
"Fair Play: Backlash in Information Warfare"
“Status as Duty and Privilege in Global Governance” (with Averell Schmidt)
“Superiority vs. Solidarity: Competing Models of Soft Power” (with Rachel Hulvey)