2025. "State Repression and Elite Support for International Human Rights: Evidence from South Korean Legislators’ Democratization Experiences." Forthcoming at the Journal of Peace Research.
2025. “Socialization, Self-Selection, and the Life Experiences of World Leaders: Why Business Experience Influences Defense Spending.” (with Matthew Fuhrmann) Forthcoming at the Journal of Politics.
2025. “High-Level Leader Visits: A Promising Area of Study in IR.” (with Ali Balcı, Jonathan Moyer, Collin Meisel, Kylie McKee, Alexander Baturo, Byungwon Woo, Seulah Choi, Minseon Ku, Eric Van Rythoven, Marcus Holmes) Online First at International Studies Perspectives.
2024. “U.S. Diplomatic Visits and Allies' Military Spending.” Foreign Policy Analysis 20 (4).
2024. “Fear or Anger? Leaders' Childhood War Trauma and Interstate Conflict Initiation.” International Studies Quarterly 68 (2).
Winner of the 2024 Patricia Weitsman Award from the International Security Studies Section (ISSS), International Studies Association (ISA)
2024. “Travel to Allies or Adversaries? A Compositional Analysis of U.S. Diplomatic Visits.” (with Jonghoon Lee) Social Science Quarterly 105 (4).
2024. “Presidential Hawkishness, Domestic Popularity, and Diplomatic Normalization.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 54 (1).
2024. “The Long-run Impact of Childhood Wartime Violence on Preferences for Nuclear Proliferation.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 68 (1).
2022. “Nuclear Weapons and Low-Level Military Conflict.” (with Kyung Suk Lee, Hwalmin Jin, and Matthew Fuhrmann) International Studies Quarterly 66 (4).
"Casualties, the Partisanship and Culpability of the Government, and the Incumbent Vote Share."
"Presidential Presence: US Crisis Reassurance in Divided Government." (with Jonghoon Lee)
"Learning in Nuclear Proliferation."
"Military Service Experience and Foreign Policy Attitudes."
"Business Background of Leaders and Domestic Approval for Defense Cost-Sharing Negotiations: An Experimental Approach."
"Leaders’ Business Experience and Uses of Military Force." (with Matthew Fuhrmann)
"Private Financial Interests and Foreign Policy." (with Matthew Fuhrmann)
"Why Young South Koreans Are Cooling on the Bomb." Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), April 28, 2025.
"Upgrading U.S.-ROK Nuclear Deterrence: The Role of the Nuclear Consultative Group." National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), March 6, 2025.
"Dousing South Korea's nuclear desires." East Asia Forum, Apr 16, 2024.
"Why a South Korean nuclear program won’t deter North Korean provocations." NK News, Feb 13, 2023. (With Hwalmin Jin, Kyung Suk Lee, and Matthew Fuhrmann)