Welcome

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of International Affairs and Co-Director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

My research thus far has been clustered in three areas: democracy and deception, realism, and geography and American grand strategy. My book, Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy, was published by Cornell University Press in 2015. My work has also appeared in International Security, International Studies Review, Perspectives on Politics, St. Antony’s International Review, Strategic Studies Quarterly, and White House Studies. I regularly contribute commentary and reviews to H-Diplo.

I am currently working on my second book manuscript, tentatively titled An Ambivalent Balancer, which argues that the stopping power of water has made the United States ambivalent, at best, about upholding the balance of power abroad. Other ongoing research, with co-authors, examines how geographic insularity aids and abets expansion via spheres of influence; maps out the varieties of restraint; and charts out a grand strategy for close to home that is centered on the Western Hemisphere.

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