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Published Articles

2022, "Shooting the Messenger: The Challenge of National Security Whistleblowing,"  with Michael Poznansky and William Spaniel. The Journal of Politics, accepted. Click here to download.  (War on the Rocks)

2021, "A Little Bit of Cheap Talk is a Dangerous Thing: States Can Communicate Intentions Persuasively and Raise the Risk of War.," The Journal of Politics, online first. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/709145

2018 "Media Technology, Covert Action, and the Politics of Exposure,'' with Michael Poznansky. Journal of Peace Research. Vol 55, issue 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343317731508

2018 "Are Coups Really Contagious? An Extreme Bounds Analysis of Political Diffusion," with Michael K. Miller and Dorothy Ohl.  Journal of Conflict Resolution. vol. 62, issue 2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002716649232

Book Project: Explaining peace and catastrophic competition during great power rivalries

Introduction (very rough - but gives you the idea).

Under Review

Domestic Sources of International Reputation (R & R, APSR) , with Michael Goldfien and Roseanne McManus. 

"Do different coercive strategies help or hurt deterrence success?"  (R & R, ISQ)

Rapid power shifts and peace: A theory of grand bargains (R & R IO)

Secret Innovation, with Michael Poznansky

Peacetime policy-making, containment and long-term nuclear proliferation trends

When Do Leader Attributes Matter? Evidence from the President's Daily Brief, with Michael Goldfien and Daniel Krcmaric

Leadership importance, institutional constraints and conflict: A document-based approach, with Michael Goldfien

Other Manuscripts

"Cross-Domain Signaling."  

"Explaining cooperation, credible costless communication, coordination and delayed competition
under the reassurance dilemma."