CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Publications
Books
Pirate Lands: Governance and Maritime Piracy (with Ursula Daxecker). 2021. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 97801290097394.
Recent Newspaper Articles/Blog Posts
(2023) “Tackling Maritime Security Requires a Revised Indo-Pacific Strategy.” War on the Rocks, June 22, 2023.
(2022) “What will keep ships—and people—safer in the Gulf of Guinea?” The MonkeyCage, Washington Post, June 9, 2022.
(2021) "Fights over Maritime Boundaries are Creating Safe Zones for Pirates." The MonkeyCage, Washington Post, August 5, 2021.
(2021) Interview with Morning Wave Radio in Busan, South Korea, 8 June 2021
(2021) Webinar: The Root Causes of Maritime Piracy -- SafeSeas Project.
(2021) "How History Predicts COVID-19’s Impact on Maritime Piracy." Homeland Security Today, February 13, 2021.
(2021) Republished by Dryad Global.
(2020) "Capacity Building must be a Focus as Sea-piracy Expands." Maritime Executive, September 19, 2020.
(2020) "Terrorists Target Civilians to Provoke Government Over-Reaction." Homeland Security Today, July 17, 2020.
(2020) "Piracy is on the Rise and Coronavirus May may it Worse." World Economic Forum, May 15, 2020.
(2020) “Global Sea Piracy Ticks Upward and the Coronavirus May Make it Worse.” TheConversation, May 5, 2020.
(2018) “Armed Peacekeepers do Protect Civilians-with One Big Exception.” MonkeyCage, Washington Post, June 14, 2018.
(2017) “Somali pirates just hijacked an oil tanker. Here’s what pirates want — and where they strike.” MonkeyCage, Washington Post.
(2002) “If the UN has Failed, America Must Step In? Times Picayune, October 7, 2002: p. B-5.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
(2024) “All Maritime Crimes are Local: Understanding the Causal Link Between Illegal Fishing and Maritime Piracy.” With Anup Phayal, Aaron Gold, Curie Maharani, Deng Palomares, Daniel Pauly, and Sayed Fauzan Riyadi. Political Geography, 109(March): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103069.
(2023) “The Unexpected Consequences of a Public Health Emergency: Comparing West African and Indo-Pacific Maritime Crime during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” With Anup Phayal and Aaron Gold. International Area Studies Review, 26(1): 7-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/22338659221151
(2023) “Generational effects of culture and digital media in former Soviet Republics.” With R. Alexander Bentley, Benjamin D. Horne, Natalie Rice, Catherine Luther, Damian Ruck, Joshua Borycz, Suzie Allard, Maureen Taylor, Michael Fitzgerald, and Oleg Manaev. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01670-6.
(2022) “Interstate Hostility and Maritime Crime: Evidence from South East Asia.” With Anup Phayal and Aaron Gold. Marine Policy, vol. 143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105134.
(2022) “Event-driven Dynamics of Social Media: A Case Study in Belarus.” Springer Nature Social Sciences. With Alex Bentley, Natalie Rice, Benjamin Horne, Catherine Luther, Joshua Borycz, Suzie Allard, Damian Ruck, Michael Fitzgerald, and Oleg Manaeva. 10.1007/s43545-022-00330-x(2021) “The US-South Korea Alliance: How the Patron Benefits from the Protégé.” With Krista Wiegand and Sojeong Lee. International Area Studies Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/22338659211018325
(2019) “Deploying to Protect: The Effect of Peacekeeping Troop Deployments on Violence Against Civilians.” With Anup Phayal. International Peacekeeping. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2019.1660166
(2019) “Fueling Rebellion: Maritime Piracy and the Duration of Civil War.” With Anup Phayal and Ursula Daxecker. International Area Studies Review. DOI: 10.1177/2233865919833975
(2018) “Domestic Terrorism in Democratic States: Understanding and Addressing Minority Grievances.” With Sam Ghatak and Aaron Gold. Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(2): 439-467. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002717734285
(2016) “When Political Gridlock Reigns in Presidential Foreign Policy: Policy Availability and the Role of Congress.” With Bryan Marshall. Special issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly on Presidential Use of Force, 46(4): 763-790.
(2017) “Financing Rebellion: Piracy as a Rebel Group Funding Strategy.” With Ursula Daxecker. Special issue of Journal of Peace Research on forecasting 54(2): 215-230.
(2017) “Managing Territorial Conflict: Introduction to Special Issue.” With Krista Wiegand, Sam Ghatak, and Aaron Gold. Conflict Management and Peace Science 34(2): 121-125.
(2017)“External Threat and the Limits of Democratic Pacifism.” With Aaron Gold and Sam Ghatak. Conflict Management and Peace Science 34(2): 141-159.
(2017) Enforcing Order: Territorial Reach and Maritime Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker. Conflict Management and Peace Science 34(4): 359-379.
(2017) “The Homegrown Threat: State Weakness, Grievance, and Domestic Terrorism.” With Sam Ghatak. International Interactions 43(2):217-242.
(2016) “The Politicization of Crime: Electoral Competition and the Supply of Maritime Piracy in Indonesia.” With Ursula Daxecker. Public Choice 169 (3-4): 375-393.
(2015) “Searching for Sanctuary: Government Power and the Location of Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker. International Interactions 41(4): 699-717.
(2015) “The New Barbary Wars: Forecasting Maritime Piracy." With Ursula Daxecker. Foreign Policy Analysis 11(1): 23-44.
(2015) “The Sources of Presidential Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Executive Experience and Militarized Conflict Onset.” With Costel Calin. International Journal of Peace Studies 20(2): .
(2014) "U.S Leadership in a Post 9/11 World: Comparing World Views and Foreign Policy Decisions of George W. Bush and Barak Obama." With Allan Wilford. Howard H. Baker Center, Jr. Center for Public Policy, Policy Brief 1:14.
(2014) “Terror on the Seas: Assessing the Threat of Modern Day Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker and Amanda Sanford. SAIS Review, 2014. Online at http://saisreview.org/2014/02/10/terror-on-the-seas-assessing-the-threat-of-modern-day-piracy/
(2013) “Political Stability and the Incidence of Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 57(6): 940-965.
(2011) “Power or Posturing? Congressional Influence on U.S. Presidential Decisions to Use Force.” With Bryan Marshall. Presidential Studies Quarterly 41(3): 521-545.
(2010) “How Democracies Keep the Peace: Contextual Factors that Influence Conflict Management Strategies.” With Glynn Ellis and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. Foreign Policy Analysis 6: 373-398.
(2010) “Territory, River, and Maritime Claims in the Western Hemisphere: Regime Type, Rivalry, and MIDS from 1901-2000.” With David Lektzian and Mark Souva. International Studies Quarterly 54(4): 1073-1098.
(2010) “Opportunities and Presidential Uses of Force: A Selection Model of Crisis Decision-Making.” With David Brule and Bryan W. Marshall. Conflict Management and Peace Science 27(5): 1-25.
(2010) “Interventions and Uses of Force Short of War.” In The International Studies Encyclopedia, Volume VII, edited by Robert A. Denemark. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
(2009) “Senate Influence or Presidential Unilateralism: An Examination of Treaties and Executive Agreements from Theodore Roosevelt and George W. Bush.” With Bryan Marshall. Conflict Management and Peace Science 26(2): 191-208.
(2008) “Taming the Leviathan: Examining the Impact of External Threat on State Strength.” With David Lektzian. Journal of Peace Research 45(5): 613-631.
(2008) “Committed to Peace: Liberal Institutions and the Termination of Rivalry.” With Ursula Daxecker. British Journal of Political Science 38(1): 17-43.
(2007) “Strategic Position Taking and Presidential Influence in Congress.” With Bryan Marshall. Legislative Studies Quarterly 32(2): 257-284.
(2006) “Enduring Rivals: Success and Support in the House of Representatives.” With Steven A. Shull. Congress and the Presidency 33(2):21-46.
(2006) “The Liberal Peace Revisited: The Role of Democracy, Dependence, and Development in Militarized Interstate Dispute Initiation, 1950-1999.” With Mark Souva. International Interactions, 32(2): 183-200.
(2005) “Interstate Rivalry and the Recurrence of Crises.” Armed Forces and Society, 31(3): 323-351.
(2004) “Rivalry and Diversionary Uses of Force.” With Sara Mitchell. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 48(6): 937-961.
(2003) “Democratic Politics and Dispute Challenges: Examining the Effects of Regime Type on Conflict Reciprocation, 1816-1992.” International Journal of Peace Studies 8(1): 61-84.
(2003) “Institutional Instability and the Credibility of Audience Costs: Examining the Impact of Political Participation on Interstate Crisis Bargaining.” Journal of Peace Research, 40(1): 67-84.
(2003) “The Pendulum of Congressional Power.” With Bryan Marshall. Legislative Research Report Abstract in Legislative Studies Quarterly, 28(2): 288-89.
(2002) “The Pendulum of Congressional Power: Agenda Change, Partisanship and the Demise of the Post-World War II Foreign Policy Consensus.” With Bryan W. Marshall. Congress and the Presidency, 29(2): 195-212.
(2002) “Rivalry and Diversionary Uses of Force.” With Sara Mitchell. Peace Research Abstracts 39 (5): 611-755.
(2001) “Congressional Support of the President: A Comparison of Foreign, Defense, and Domestic Policy Decision-making During and After the Cold War.” With Bryan Marshall. Presidential Studies Quarterly 31(4): 660-679.
(2001) “Domestic Politics and Interstate Disputes: Examining U.S. MID Involvement and Reciprocation, 1870-1992.” International Interactions 26(4): 411-438.
(2001) “Partisanship and the Purse: The Money Committees and Procedures in the Postreform Congress.” With Bryan Marshall and David Rohde. Politics and Policy, 29(1): 1-24.
(1999) “Beyond Territorial Contiguity: An Examination of the Issues Underlying Democratic Interstate Disputes.” With Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. International Studies Quarterly 43(1): 169-183.
(1999) “Institutional Constraints, Political Opposition, and the Escalation of Interstate Disputes: Evidence From Parliamentary Systems.” With Christopher Sprecher. Journal of Peace Research 36(2): 271-287.
(1999) “Fighting Fire With Water: Partisan Procedural Strategies and the Senate Appropriations Committee.” With Bryan Marshall and David Rohde. Congress and the Presidency 26(2): 113-132.
(1999) “Issue Domains, Conflict, and Committee Outliers: Evidence From the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.” With Bryan Marshall. American Review of Politics 20(4): 309-328.
(1999) “Theories of Legislative Organization: An Empirical Study of Committee Outliers in the Senate.” With Bryan Marshall and David W. Rohde. Legislative Research Report Abstract in Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1997, Vol. 22, no. 4, November: 591.
EDITED VOLUMES
(2017) “Maritime Piracy and Foreign Policy.” Oxford University Handbook of Foreign Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2014) “The Politics of Presidential Foreign Policy: Unilateral Authority and the Role of Congress.” In The American Election 2012, edited by R. Ward Holder and Peter B. Josephson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2011) “The Use of U.S. Military Force.” In Steven Hook and Christopher Jones (editors). The Handbook of American Foreign Policy published by Routledge Press in 2011. With Mark Souva.
(2006) “Domestic Veto Institutions, International Negotiations, and the Status Quo: A Spatial Model of Two-Level Games With Complete-Information.” With Thomas W. Hammond. In Robert Pahre (editor), Democratic Foreign Policy Making: Problems of Divided Government and International Cooperation. 2006. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press: pp. 21-82.
(2005) “Portugal.” In Karl DeRouen and Uk Heo (editors), Defense and Security: A Compendium of National Armed Forces and Security Policies. 2005. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO: pp. 645-664
(2002) “Institutional Constraints, Political Opposition, and the Escalation of Interstate Disputes: Evidence From Parliamentary Systems.” With Christopher Sprecher. Reproduced in Stuart Nagel (Editor), Policymaking and Peace: A Multi-National Anthology. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books: pp. 335-358.
(2000) “Majority Party Leadership, Strategic Choice, and Committee Power: Appropriations in the House, 1995-98.” With Bryan W. Marshall and David W. Rohde. In William Bianco (editor), Congress on Display Congress at Work. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press: pp. 69-100.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
(2022) “Maritime Piracy and Foreign Policy.” Oxford University Handbook of Foreign Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. With Aaron Gold, Anup Phayal, and Ursula Daxecker. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.522
(2015) “Maritime Piracy Event and Location Data Project: Focus on Piracy in Bangladesh.” November 2015 Report.
(2014) “Terror on the Seas: Assessing the Threat of Modern Day Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker and Amanda Sanford. SAIS Review, 2014. Online at http://saisreview.org/2014/02/10/terror-on-the-seas-assessing-the-threat-of-modern-day-piracy/
(2014) “What Drives Maritime Piracy in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Published online at Piracy-Studies.org on November 11, 2014. http://piracy-studies.org
(2014) “Maritime Piracy Event and Location Dataset Project: Trends in Piracy, Comparing Piracy in Indonesia and the Philippines.” November 2014 Report.(2014) “Maritime Piracy Event and Location Dataset Project: Trends in Piracy, Sub-Saharan Africa.” June 2014 Report.
(2014) “U.S. Leadership in a Post 9/11 World: Comparing the World Views and Foreign Policy Decisions of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.” With Allan Wilford. Baker Center Policy Brief Series, 1:14.
(2013) “The New Barbary Wars: Assessing the Threat of Modern Day Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker and Amanda Sanford. Baker Center Policy Brief Series 3:13.
Pirate Lands: Governance and Maritime Piracy (with Ursula Daxecker). 2021. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 97801290097394.
Recent Newspaper Articles/Blog Posts
(2023) “Tackling Maritime Security Requires a Revised Indo-Pacific Strategy.” War on the Rocks, June 22, 2023.
(2022) “What will keep ships—and people—safer in the Gulf of Guinea?” The MonkeyCage, Washington Post, June 9, 2022.
(2021) "Fights over Maritime Boundaries are Creating Safe Zones for Pirates." The MonkeyCage, Washington Post, August 5, 2021.
(2021) Interview with Morning Wave Radio in Busan, South Korea, 8 June 2021
(2021) Webinar: The Root Causes of Maritime Piracy -- SafeSeas Project.
(2021) "How History Predicts COVID-19’s Impact on Maritime Piracy." Homeland Security Today, February 13, 2021.
(2021) Republished by Dryad Global.
(2020) "Capacity Building must be a Focus as Sea-piracy Expands." Maritime Executive, September 19, 2020.
(2020) "Terrorists Target Civilians to Provoke Government Over-Reaction." Homeland Security Today, July 17, 2020.
(2020) "Piracy is on the Rise and Coronavirus May may it Worse." World Economic Forum, May 15, 2020.
(2020) “Global Sea Piracy Ticks Upward and the Coronavirus May Make it Worse.” TheConversation, May 5, 2020.
(2018) “Armed Peacekeepers do Protect Civilians-with One Big Exception.” MonkeyCage, Washington Post, June 14, 2018.
(2017) “Somali pirates just hijacked an oil tanker. Here’s what pirates want — and where they strike.” MonkeyCage, Washington Post.
(2002) “If the UN has Failed, America Must Step In? Times Picayune, October 7, 2002: p. B-5.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
(2024) “All Maritime Crimes are Local: Understanding the Causal Link Between Illegal Fishing and Maritime Piracy.” With Anup Phayal, Aaron Gold, Curie Maharani, Deng Palomares, Daniel Pauly, and Sayed Fauzan Riyadi. Political Geography, 109(March): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103069.
(2023) “The Unexpected Consequences of a Public Health Emergency: Comparing West African and Indo-Pacific Maritime Crime during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” With Anup Phayal and Aaron Gold. International Area Studies Review, 26(1): 7-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/22338659221151
(2023) “Generational effects of culture and digital media in former Soviet Republics.” With R. Alexander Bentley, Benjamin D. Horne, Natalie Rice, Catherine Luther, Damian Ruck, Joshua Borycz, Suzie Allard, Maureen Taylor, Michael Fitzgerald, and Oleg Manaev. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01670-6.
(2022) “Interstate Hostility and Maritime Crime: Evidence from South East Asia.” With Anup Phayal and Aaron Gold. Marine Policy, vol. 143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105134.
(2022) “Event-driven Dynamics of Social Media: A Case Study in Belarus.” Springer Nature Social Sciences. With Alex Bentley, Natalie Rice, Benjamin Horne, Catherine Luther, Joshua Borycz, Suzie Allard, Damian Ruck, Michael Fitzgerald, and Oleg Manaeva. 10.1007/s43545-022-00330-x(2021) “The US-South Korea Alliance: How the Patron Benefits from the Protégé.” With Krista Wiegand and Sojeong Lee. International Area Studies Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/22338659211018325
(2019) “Deploying to Protect: The Effect of Peacekeeping Troop Deployments on Violence Against Civilians.” With Anup Phayal. International Peacekeeping. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2019.1660166
(2019) “Fueling Rebellion: Maritime Piracy and the Duration of Civil War.” With Anup Phayal and Ursula Daxecker. International Area Studies Review. DOI: 10.1177/2233865919833975
(2018) “Domestic Terrorism in Democratic States: Understanding and Addressing Minority Grievances.” With Sam Ghatak and Aaron Gold. Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(2): 439-467. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002717734285
(2016) “When Political Gridlock Reigns in Presidential Foreign Policy: Policy Availability and the Role of Congress.” With Bryan Marshall. Special issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly on Presidential Use of Force, 46(4): 763-790.
(2017) “Financing Rebellion: Piracy as a Rebel Group Funding Strategy.” With Ursula Daxecker. Special issue of Journal of Peace Research on forecasting 54(2): 215-230.
(2017) “Managing Territorial Conflict: Introduction to Special Issue.” With Krista Wiegand, Sam Ghatak, and Aaron Gold. Conflict Management and Peace Science 34(2): 121-125.
(2017)“External Threat and the Limits of Democratic Pacifism.” With Aaron Gold and Sam Ghatak. Conflict Management and Peace Science 34(2): 141-159.
(2017) Enforcing Order: Territorial Reach and Maritime Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker. Conflict Management and Peace Science 34(4): 359-379.
(2017) “The Homegrown Threat: State Weakness, Grievance, and Domestic Terrorism.” With Sam Ghatak. International Interactions 43(2):217-242.
(2016) “The Politicization of Crime: Electoral Competition and the Supply of Maritime Piracy in Indonesia.” With Ursula Daxecker. Public Choice 169 (3-4): 375-393.
(2015) “Searching for Sanctuary: Government Power and the Location of Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker. International Interactions 41(4): 699-717.
(2015) “The New Barbary Wars: Forecasting Maritime Piracy." With Ursula Daxecker. Foreign Policy Analysis 11(1): 23-44.
(2015) “The Sources of Presidential Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Executive Experience and Militarized Conflict Onset.” With Costel Calin. International Journal of Peace Studies 20(2): .
(2014) "U.S Leadership in a Post 9/11 World: Comparing World Views and Foreign Policy Decisions of George W. Bush and Barak Obama." With Allan Wilford. Howard H. Baker Center, Jr. Center for Public Policy, Policy Brief 1:14.
(2014) “Terror on the Seas: Assessing the Threat of Modern Day Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker and Amanda Sanford. SAIS Review, 2014. Online at http://saisreview.org/2014/02/10/terror-on-the-seas-assessing-the-threat-of-modern-day-piracy/
(2013) “Political Stability and the Incidence of Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 57(6): 940-965.
(2011) “Power or Posturing? Congressional Influence on U.S. Presidential Decisions to Use Force.” With Bryan Marshall. Presidential Studies Quarterly 41(3): 521-545.
(2010) “How Democracies Keep the Peace: Contextual Factors that Influence Conflict Management Strategies.” With Glynn Ellis and Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. Foreign Policy Analysis 6: 373-398.
(2010) “Territory, River, and Maritime Claims in the Western Hemisphere: Regime Type, Rivalry, and MIDS from 1901-2000.” With David Lektzian and Mark Souva. International Studies Quarterly 54(4): 1073-1098.
(2010) “Opportunities and Presidential Uses of Force: A Selection Model of Crisis Decision-Making.” With David Brule and Bryan W. Marshall. Conflict Management and Peace Science 27(5): 1-25.
(2010) “Interventions and Uses of Force Short of War.” In The International Studies Encyclopedia, Volume VII, edited by Robert A. Denemark. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
(2009) “Senate Influence or Presidential Unilateralism: An Examination of Treaties and Executive Agreements from Theodore Roosevelt and George W. Bush.” With Bryan Marshall. Conflict Management and Peace Science 26(2): 191-208.
(2008) “Taming the Leviathan: Examining the Impact of External Threat on State Strength.” With David Lektzian. Journal of Peace Research 45(5): 613-631.
(2008) “Committed to Peace: Liberal Institutions and the Termination of Rivalry.” With Ursula Daxecker. British Journal of Political Science 38(1): 17-43.
(2007) “Strategic Position Taking and Presidential Influence in Congress.” With Bryan Marshall. Legislative Studies Quarterly 32(2): 257-284.
(2006) “Enduring Rivals: Success and Support in the House of Representatives.” With Steven A. Shull. Congress and the Presidency 33(2):21-46.
(2006) “The Liberal Peace Revisited: The Role of Democracy, Dependence, and Development in Militarized Interstate Dispute Initiation, 1950-1999.” With Mark Souva. International Interactions, 32(2): 183-200.
(2005) “Interstate Rivalry and the Recurrence of Crises.” Armed Forces and Society, 31(3): 323-351.
(2004) “Rivalry and Diversionary Uses of Force.” With Sara Mitchell. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 48(6): 937-961.
(2003) “Democratic Politics and Dispute Challenges: Examining the Effects of Regime Type on Conflict Reciprocation, 1816-1992.” International Journal of Peace Studies 8(1): 61-84.
(2003) “Institutional Instability and the Credibility of Audience Costs: Examining the Impact of Political Participation on Interstate Crisis Bargaining.” Journal of Peace Research, 40(1): 67-84.
(2003) “The Pendulum of Congressional Power.” With Bryan Marshall. Legislative Research Report Abstract in Legislative Studies Quarterly, 28(2): 288-89.
(2002) “The Pendulum of Congressional Power: Agenda Change, Partisanship and the Demise of the Post-World War II Foreign Policy Consensus.” With Bryan W. Marshall. Congress and the Presidency, 29(2): 195-212.
(2002) “Rivalry and Diversionary Uses of Force.” With Sara Mitchell. Peace Research Abstracts 39 (5): 611-755.
(2001) “Congressional Support of the President: A Comparison of Foreign, Defense, and Domestic Policy Decision-making During and After the Cold War.” With Bryan Marshall. Presidential Studies Quarterly 31(4): 660-679.
(2001) “Domestic Politics and Interstate Disputes: Examining U.S. MID Involvement and Reciprocation, 1870-1992.” International Interactions 26(4): 411-438.
(2001) “Partisanship and the Purse: The Money Committees and Procedures in the Postreform Congress.” With Bryan Marshall and David Rohde. Politics and Policy, 29(1): 1-24.
(1999) “Beyond Territorial Contiguity: An Examination of the Issues Underlying Democratic Interstate Disputes.” With Sara McLaughlin Mitchell. International Studies Quarterly 43(1): 169-183.
(1999) “Institutional Constraints, Political Opposition, and the Escalation of Interstate Disputes: Evidence From Parliamentary Systems.” With Christopher Sprecher. Journal of Peace Research 36(2): 271-287.
(1999) “Fighting Fire With Water: Partisan Procedural Strategies and the Senate Appropriations Committee.” With Bryan Marshall and David Rohde. Congress and the Presidency 26(2): 113-132.
(1999) “Issue Domains, Conflict, and Committee Outliers: Evidence From the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.” With Bryan Marshall. American Review of Politics 20(4): 309-328.
(1999) “Theories of Legislative Organization: An Empirical Study of Committee Outliers in the Senate.” With Bryan Marshall and David W. Rohde. Legislative Research Report Abstract in Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1997, Vol. 22, no. 4, November: 591.
EDITED VOLUMES
(2017) “Maritime Piracy and Foreign Policy.” Oxford University Handbook of Foreign Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2014) “The Politics of Presidential Foreign Policy: Unilateral Authority and the Role of Congress.” In The American Election 2012, edited by R. Ward Holder and Peter B. Josephson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2011) “The Use of U.S. Military Force.” In Steven Hook and Christopher Jones (editors). The Handbook of American Foreign Policy published by Routledge Press in 2011. With Mark Souva.
(2006) “Domestic Veto Institutions, International Negotiations, and the Status Quo: A Spatial Model of Two-Level Games With Complete-Information.” With Thomas W. Hammond. In Robert Pahre (editor), Democratic Foreign Policy Making: Problems of Divided Government and International Cooperation. 2006. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press: pp. 21-82.
(2005) “Portugal.” In Karl DeRouen and Uk Heo (editors), Defense and Security: A Compendium of National Armed Forces and Security Policies. 2005. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO: pp. 645-664
(2002) “Institutional Constraints, Political Opposition, and the Escalation of Interstate Disputes: Evidence From Parliamentary Systems.” With Christopher Sprecher. Reproduced in Stuart Nagel (Editor), Policymaking and Peace: A Multi-National Anthology. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books: pp. 335-358.
(2000) “Majority Party Leadership, Strategic Choice, and Committee Power: Appropriations in the House, 1995-98.” With Bryan W. Marshall and David W. Rohde. In William Bianco (editor), Congress on Display Congress at Work. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press: pp. 69-100.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
(2022) “Maritime Piracy and Foreign Policy.” Oxford University Handbook of Foreign Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. With Aaron Gold, Anup Phayal, and Ursula Daxecker. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.522
(2015) “Maritime Piracy Event and Location Data Project: Focus on Piracy in Bangladesh.” November 2015 Report.
(2014) “Terror on the Seas: Assessing the Threat of Modern Day Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker and Amanda Sanford. SAIS Review, 2014. Online at http://saisreview.org/2014/02/10/terror-on-the-seas-assessing-the-threat-of-modern-day-piracy/
(2014) “What Drives Maritime Piracy in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Published online at Piracy-Studies.org on November 11, 2014. http://piracy-studies.org
(2014) “Maritime Piracy Event and Location Dataset Project: Trends in Piracy, Comparing Piracy in Indonesia and the Philippines.” November 2014 Report.(2014) “Maritime Piracy Event and Location Dataset Project: Trends in Piracy, Sub-Saharan Africa.” June 2014 Report.
(2014) “U.S. Leadership in a Post 9/11 World: Comparing the World Views and Foreign Policy Decisions of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.” With Allan Wilford. Baker Center Policy Brief Series, 1:14.
(2013) “The New Barbary Wars: Assessing the Threat of Modern Day Piracy.” With Ursula Daxecker and Amanda Sanford. Baker Center Policy Brief Series 3:13.