Research

Overview

My research exists at the intersection of international organizations and conflict and security studies. I am primarily interested in understanding the role and effectiveness of international organizations in conflict management, as well as the interaction of international and domestic factors in the causes and remediation of conflict. My broad research agenda seeks to answer three questions:

1) What determines how effective international organizations are at managing disputes within and between states?

2) How does strategic interaction between international organizations, states, and sub-state actors affect dispute processes and international treaty compliance?

3) How do states behave when tasked with creating the global public good of peace?

My current research focuses primarily on the resourcing of international organizations. A multi-article project co-authored with Megan Shannon (University of Colorado Boulder) and Jared Oestman (University of Nevada Las Vegas) addresses the problem of resource deficiency in UN peacekeeping. We investigate the determinants of shortfalls in both personnel and financial contributions by states to peacekeeping, and then consider their impact on the efficacy of missions. We collected original data measuring monthly personnel levels authorized by the UN Security Council, enabling us to identify shortfalls based on actual personnel deployments. We recently supplemented this with a second dataset collected over several years that measures actual financial payments made by states to peacekeeping missions relative to the contribution assessed to them by the UN.

Recently Published

"Populism’s Challenge to International Institutions: The Case of UN Peacekeeping", with Jared Oestman (forthcoming at International Studies Quarterly). 

“The Role of Foreign Aid in Procuring Civil War Party Consent to Peacekeeping” (2024), with Johannes Karreth and Jaroslav Tir. Foreign Policy Analysis 20(2).

“Reliable Contributors? Leadership Turnover, Regime Type, and Commitments to Peacekeeping" (2024), with Jared Oestman. Foreign Policy Analysis 20(1).

"Financial Contributions to United Nations Peacekeeping, 1990-2010: A New Dataset" (2023), with Megan Shannon and Morgan Nadeau. Conflict Management and Peace Science 40(1): 88-107.

"Consent in United Nations Peacekeeping," (2022). In Dorussen, Han (ed.) Elgar Handbook on Peacekeeping and International Relations. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

"Democratization and Troop Contributions to United Nations Peacekeeping," (2022). Armed Forces & Society 48(2): 274-301.

"United Nations Peacekeeping and Civil Conflict," (2020). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press.

"Rallying the Troops: Collective Action and Self-Interest in UN Peacekeeping Contributions," with Megan Shannon and Andrew F. Hart. (2018). Journal of Peace Research 55(3): 366-379.

Current Projects

“Withholding from International Organizations: UN Peacekeeping Funding as a Feature of Agency Theory” (under review).

“The Impact of Peacekeeping Deployment Speeds on Mandate Implementation” (in progress).

“Assessing the Determinants of Shortfalls in Financial Contributions to UN Peacekeeping,” with Megan Shannon and Jared Oestman (in progress).

“Measuring the success of institutional adaptation: The Case of UN Peacekeeping Funding,” with Megan Shannon (in progress).

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