Papers

Books

• Competition, Terrorism, and the Outbidding Puzzle. With Justin Conrad. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.
• Bargaining over the Bomb: The Successes and Failures of Nuclear Negotiations. 2019. Cambridge University Press. [More]

Publications

• Shooting the Messenger: The Challenge of National Security Whistleblowing, with Michael Joseph and Michael Poznansky. Forthcoming, Journal of Politics. [More]
• Doubling Down: The Dangers of Disclosing Secret Actions, with Jacob Otto. Forthcoming, International Studies Quarterly. [More]
• Evaluating the Effects of Nonproliferation Agreements, with Brad Smith. Forthcoming, Journal of Peace Research. [More]
• High Valuations, Uncertainty, and War, with Iris Malone. Conditionally accepted, Research and Politics. [More]
• Stall Wars: When Do States Fight to Hold onto the Status Quo? With Peter Bils and Gleason Judd. Forthcoming, International Studies Quarterly. [More]
• Power Transfers, Military Uncertainty, and War. Forthcoming, Journal of Theoretical Politics [More]
• Bad-Faith Cooperation, with Michael Poznansky. Forthcoming, International Interactions. [More]
• Getting a Hand By Cutting Them Off: How Uncertainty over Political Corruption Affects Violence, with Paul Zachary. British Journal of Political Science 50 (2): 457-480. [More]
• Introducing 𝜈-CLEAR: A Latent Variable Approach to Measuring Nuclear Proficiency, with Brad Smith. Conflict Management and Peace Science 37 (2): 232-256. [More]
• The Uncertainty Tradeoff: Rexamining Opportunity Costs and War, with Iris Malone. 2019. International Studies Quarterly 63 (4): 1025-1034. [More]
• Militarized Disputes, Uncertainty, and Leader Tenure, with Brad Smith. Journal of Conflict Resolution 63 (5): 1222-1252. [More]
• Rational Overreaction to Terrorism. 2019. Journal of Conflict Resolution 63 (3): 786-810. [More]
• Credible Commitment in Covert Affairs, with Michael Poznansky. 2018. American Journal of Political Science 62 (3): 668-681. [More]
• Only Here to Help? Bargaining and the Perverse Incentives of International Institutions. 2018. International Studies Quarterly 62 (1), 14-22. [More]
• Terrorism, Signaling, and Delegation. 2018. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 13 (2): 147-172. [More]
• Slow to Learn: Bargaining, Uncertainty, and the Calculus of Conquest, with Peter Bils. 2018. Journal of Conflict Resolution 62 (4): 774-796. [More]
• Policy Bargaining and Militarized Conflict, with Peter Bils. 2017. Journal of Theoretical Politics 29 (4), 647-678. [More]
• How Uncertainty About Judicial Nominees Can Distort the Confirmation Process, with Maya Sen. 2017. Journal of Theoretical Politics 29 (1): 22-47. [More]
• Multi-Method Research: The Case for Formal Theory, with Hein Goemans. 2016. Security Studies 25 (1): 25-33. [More]
• Sanctions, Uncertainty, and Leader Tenure, with Brad Smith. 2015. International Studies Quarterly 59 (4): 735-749. [More]
• Arms Negotiations, War Exhaustion, and the Credibility of Preventive War. 2015. International Interactions 41 (5): 832-856. [More]

Papers Under Review, Revision, or Resubmission

• How Fast and How Expensive? Uncertainty and Incentives in Nuclear Negotiations [More]
• Outbidding as Deterrence: Endogenous Demands in the Shadow of Group Competition. [More]
• Power to the People: Credible Communication in the Quotidian Use of Authoritarian Institutions. With Iza Ding. [More]
• When Does Hawk Engagement Work? Conflict and Cooperation Under Uncertainty, with Iris Malone. [More]
• The Goldilocks Principle of Civil War Peacekeeping. With Burcu Savun and Dong Ju Lee [More]

Working Papers

• Atomic Uncertainty. Book manuscript with Rupal Mehta. Revise and resubmit, Oxford University Press.
• Why Give Nuclear Assistance to Would-Be Proliferators? [More]
• You Get What You Give: A Model of Nuclear Reversal. [More]
• Cornering the Market: Optimal Governmental Responses to Competitive Political Violence. [More]
• Bribery and Fair Representation on the United Nations Security Council. [More]
• Deterring Intervention: The Civil Origins of Nuclear Proliferation, with Zachary Taylor. [More]

Non-Political Science Peer Reviewed Publications

• Responsible Sourcing, Corporate Citizenship, and Baseball: A Framework for Labor Procurement Negotiations in the Talent Supply Chain, with Adrien Bouchet and Mike Troilo. Corporate Governance. [More]
• Breaking Balls with a Runner on Third: A Game Theoretical Analysis of Optimal Behavior. The Baseball Research Journal (SABR). [More]