Research

Democracy and Deception

• Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2015).
• “The Deception Dividend: FDR’s Undeclared War,” International Security, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Spring 2010), pp. 133-165.
• “FDR, U.S. Entry into World War II, and Selection Effects Theory,” International Security, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Fall 2010), pp. 176-185.
• “Why Does Donald Trump Have So Much Trouble with the Truth?” H-Diplo│ISSF Policy Series, “America and the World – 2017 and Beyond” (February 2017), pp. 1-6.
  • “Why Does Donald Trump Have So Much Trouble with the Truth?” in Robert Jervis, Francis J. Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane N. Labrosse, editors, Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018), pp. 373-379.
  • “Why Does Donald Trump Have So Much Trouble with the Truth? A Brief Update,” HDiplo│ISSF Policy Series, “America and the World – The Effects of the Trump Presidency” (April 2021), pp. 1-2.

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Realism

• “A Realist Foreign Policy for the United States” (with Sebastian Rosato), Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 9, No. 4 (December 2011), pp. 803-819.
• “Should Realism Return to its Roots? A Review Essay,” International Studies Review, Vol. 12, No. 4 (December 2010), pp. 583-589.

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Geography and American Grand Strategy

• “Revisiting Insularity and Expansion: A Theory Note” (with Joshua Shifrinson and David Blagden), Perspectives on Politics, November 12, 2021.
• The Berlin Airlift and the Making of the Cold War (co-edited with Adam Seipp and Thomas Sullivan), forthcoming in Spring 2022 from Texas A&M University Press
• “The Shadow of Exit from NATO” (with Joshua Shifrinson), Strategic Studies Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Fall 2019), pp. 38-51.
• “Making Grand Strategy Grand Again” (with Joshua Shifrinson), The National Interest Online, July 25, 2018.