Research
Research
“A New Cold War? A Comparative Computational Analysis of Congressional Discourse on U.S.
Rivals”, with Gi-wook Shin (R&R at APSR)
"Volatile Nationalism: Measuring Baseline Nationalism with Social Media Data from Vietnam and the Philippines"
"Playing with Firecrackers: When and Why Nationalist Protests at Home Affect Crisis Bargaining Abroad?"
"Regime vs. State Survival in the Shadow of Unipole"
Ma, Xinru, and David Kang. Beyond Power Transition: The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations. In production with Columbia University Press.
"Why Vietnam is not balancing China: Vietnamese security priorities and the dynamics in the Sino-Vietnam relations," with David Kang. Journal of East Asian Studies.
"Toward Measuring Free-Riding: Counterfactuals, Alliances, and U.S.- Philippine Relations," with David Kang. Journal of Global Security Studies.
“Power Transitions: Thucydides Didn’t Live in East Asia,” with David Kang. The Washington Quarterly 41.1 (2018): 137-154.
“EU Crises and Integrational Panic: the Role of the Media,” with Mai’a Cross. Journal of European Public Policy 22.8 (2015): 1053-1070.
“Reforming toward a Calmer Sea? The Source of China-Involved Incidents in the South China Sea,” with Mengxiao “Phoebe” Tang (USC) and Yu-Ting Lin (USC).
“Modern Economic Democracy” with Andrew Coe (Vanderbilt University)