Articles in refereed journals

• “Contestation in a World of Liberal Orders.” With Stacie E. Goddard, Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, and Berthold Rittberger. Global Studies Quarterly, forthcoming.

• “No Right to Be Wrong: What Americans Believe About Civil-Military Relations.” With Robert Ralston and Aaron Rapport. Perspectives on Politics 21:1 (June 2023): 606-624.

• “Patriotism or Paychecks: Who Believes What About Why Soldiers Serve.” With Robert Ralston. Armed Forces & Society 48:1 (January 2022): 25-48.

• “Why They Fight: How Perceived Motivations for Military Service Shape Support for the Use of Force.” With Robert Ralston and Aaron Rapport. International Studies Quarterly 65:4 (December 2021): 1012-1026.

• “Divided Priorities: Why and When Allies Differ Over Military Intervention.” With Jennifer Spindel. Security Studies 27:4 (October-December 2018): 575-606.

• “United They Fall: Why the International Community Should Not Promote Military Integration After Civil War.” With Roy Licklider. International Security 40:3 (winter 2015/2016): 93-138.

• “How Dominant Narratives Rise and Fall: Military Conflict, Politics, and the Cold War Consensus.” International Organization 69:4 (fall 2015): 809-845.

• “Rhetoric, Legitimation, and Grand Strategy.” With Stacie E. Goddard. Security Studies 24:1 (January-March 2015): 5-36.

• “Tell Me a Story: FDR, Narrative, and the Making of the Second World War.” Security Studies 24:1 (January-March 2015): 131-170.

• “International Relations and the Psychology of Time Horizons.” With Aaron Rapport. International Studies Quarterly 56:3(September 2012): 530-543.

• “Striking the Right Balance: Of High Walls and Divisions of Labor.” Perspectives on Politics 8:4 (December 2010): 1113-1116.

• “Talking about Terror: Counterterrorist Campaigns and the Logic of Representation.” With Arjun Chowdhury. European Journal of International Relations 16:1 (March 2010): 125-150.

• "The False Promise of the Nobel Peace Prize." Political Science Quarterly 124:4 (winter 2009-2010): 593-625.

• “Making and Mobilizing Moderates: Rhetorical Strategy, Political Networks, and Counterterrorism.” With Arjun Chowdhury. Security Studies 18:3 (fall 2009): 371-399.

• "The Citizen-Soldier Tradition in the United States: Has its Demise been Greatly Exaggerated?" Armed Forces & Society 36:1 (October 2009): 153-174.

• “In the Shadow of War: The Effects of Conflict on Liberal Democracy.” International Organization 63:1 (winter 2009): 177-210.

• “Fixing the Meaning of 9/11: Hegemony, Coercion, and the Road to War in Iraq.” With Jennifer K. Lobasz. Security Studies 16:3 (July-September 2007): 409-451.

• “Twisting Tongues and Twisting Arms: The Power of Political Rhetoric.” With Patrick T. Jackson. European Journal of International Relations 13:1 (March 2007): 35-66.

• “One Nation Under Arms? Military Participation Policy and the Politics of Identity.” Security Studies 14:3 (spring 2005): 529-564.

• “Correspondence: Selling the Market Short? The Marketplace of Ideas and the Iraq War.” International Security 29:4 (spring 2005): 196-202.

• “A School for the Nation? How Military Service Does Not Build Nations, and How It Might.” International Security 28:4 (spring 2004): 85-124. {summarized and reviewed in “Military Myths,” The Wilson Quarterly 28:4 (autumn 2004): 93-94.}

• “A Debate Miscast, or What Can We Learn From the Case of the EDC?” Security Studies 11:3 (spring 2002): 188-199.

• “Perverse Institutionalism: NATO and the Greco-Turkish Conflict.” International Organization 53:2 (spring 1999): 343-377.

• “Fuelling Aegean Fires: A Cautionary Tale for NATO Enlargement?” The Harriman Review 11:1-2 (1998): 12-20.

• “Liberation à la Finland : Reexamining Eisenhower Administration Objectives in Eastern Europe.” Journal of Strategic Studies 20:3 (September 1997): 1-26.

Essays in edited volumes

• “Communal Minorities and Casualty Sensitivity: Evidence from Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States.” With Robert Ralston, and with contributions from David Blagden, Aaron Rapport, and Shaul Shenhav. In Sarah E. Kreps and Douglas L. Kriner, eds., Checking the Costs of War: Sources of Accountability in US Foreign Policy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

• “Robert Jervis, Social Constructivist?” With Stacie E. Goddard. In Stacie E. Goddard, Richard H. Immerman, and Diane Labrosse, eds., The Jervis Effect. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming.

• “United States: A (Mostly) Hands-Off Superpower.” With Drew A. Hogan. In Sumit Ganguly and Klaus Brummer, eds., States and their Nationals Abroad: Support, Co-opt, Repress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

• “Legitimating Primacy After the Cold War: How Liberal Talk Shaped US Foreign Policy.” With Stacie E. Goddard. In Nuno Monteiro and Fritz Bartel, eds., Before and After the Fall: World Politics and the End of the Cold War, 132-150. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

• “The Enduring Appeal of Grand Strategy.” With Thierry Balzacq. In Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy, 1-21. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

• “Pluralism, Populism, and the Impossibility of Grand Strategy.” In Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy, 673-689. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

• “Constructivism and the Logic of Legitimation.” With Stacie E. Goddard. In Mariano Bertucci, Jarrod Hayes, and Patrick James, eds., Constructivism Reconsidered: Past, Present, and Future, 67-85. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.

• “Democracy in the Crucible of Conflict.” With Robert Ralston. In William R. Thompson, ed., Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. New York: Oxford University Press. Posted October 2018.

• “The Politics of National Security.” In Alexandra Gheciu and William C. Wohlforth, eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Security, 259-273. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

• “The Binding of Isaac and the Arts of Resistance.” In Beth Kissileff, ed., Reading Genesis: Beginnings, 131-147. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.

• “Armed Forces and the Polity through the Prism of Power.” In Elisheva Rosman-Stollman and Aharon Kampinsky, eds., Civil-Military Relations in Israel: Essays in Honor of Stuart A. Cohen, 1-28. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014.

• “Military Dis-Integration: Canary in the Coal Mine?” In Roy Licklider, ed., New Armies from Old: Merging Competing Militaries after Civil War, 245-257. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2014.

• “The Rise, Persistence, and Fall of the War on Terror.” In James Burk, ed., How 9/11 Changed Our Ways of War, 56-85. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013.

• “International Conflict and the Constitutional Balance: Executive Authority After War.” In Elizabeth Kier and Ronald R. Krebs, eds., In War’s Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy, 187-210. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

• “Introduction: War and Democracy in Comparative Perspective.” With Elizabeth Kier. In Elizabeth Kier and Ronald R. Krebs, eds., In War’s Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy, 1-20. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

• “Living in Alternate Universes: Divergent Narratives and the Challenge of US-Russian Relations Since the Cold War.” In Timothy Colton, Tim Frye, and Robert Legvold, eds., The Policy World Meets Academia: Designing U.S. Policy Toward Russia, 20-36. Cambridge: American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2010.

• “The Enduring Citizen-Soldier Tradition in the United States.” In Stuart A. Cohen, ed., The New Citizen Armies: Israel’s Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective, 7-31. Oxford: Routledge, 2010.

• “The Sound of Silence: Rhetorical Coercion, Democratic Acquiescence, and the Iraq War.” With Jennifer K. Lobasz. In Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall, eds., American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation Since 9/11, 117-134. Oxford: Routledge, 2009.

• “Demographic Change and the Sources of International Conflict.” With Jack S. Levy. In Myron Weiner and Sharon Stanton Russell, eds., Moving Targets: Demography and Security, 62-105. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001.

• “The Limits of Alliance: Conflict, Cooperation, and Collective Identity.” In Anthony Lake and David Ochmanek, eds., The Real and the Ideal: Essays on International Relations in Honor of Richard H. Ullman, 207-235. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield/Council on Foreign Relations, 2001.

Other Scholarly Writing

• “Introducing the Special Issue on ‘Race and Security.’” Security Studies 32:4/5 (September-December 2023): 589-592, doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2023.2250231.

• “Robert Jervis, Social Constructivist?” With Stacie E. Goddard. Contribution to H-Diplo/ISSF Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis, 25 August 2022.

• “Statement from the New Editor-in-Chief.” Security Studies 30:1 (January-March 2021): 1-4, doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2021.1882128.

• Interview, APSA International History and Politics Section Newsletter 2:2 (winter 2017): 17-18.

• “National Security and the 2016 Election: Is Trump the Exception that Proves the Rule? Or Business as Usual?” Part of The Cambridge Guide to Election 2016, 21 April 2016.

• “Misplaced Faith in Military Integration After Civil War.” With Roy Licklider. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, JFK School of Government, Harvard University, Policy Brief, March 2016.

• “The Transatlantic Divide: Why Securitization has not Secured a Place in American IR, Why It Should, and How It Can.” With Stacie E. Goddard. Invited contribution to Jarrod Hayes and Eric van Rythoven, eds., Securitization Forum, hosted at the Duck of Minerva, 18 September 2015.

• “Minerva: Unclipping the Owl’s Wings.” Invited contribution to “The Minerva Controversy,” a Social Science Research Council online forum, 19 November 2008.

• “Cuban Missile Crisis.” In Peter Karsten, ed., Encyclopedia of War and American Society (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2005): 199-203.

• “Racial Integration in the U.S. Armed Forces.” In Peter Karsten, ed., Encyclopedia of War and American Society (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2005): 693-699.