PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
2024. “How to Think About Risks in US Military Innovation.” Survival 66(1): 85–98.
2022. “Dangerous Changes: When Military Innovation Harms Combat Effectiveness.” International Security 47(2): 48–87.
2022. “Nation-Building and the Role of Identity in Civil Wars,” with Harris Mylonas, Ethnopolitics 21(1): 1–21.
2021. “Military Innovation and Technological Determinism: British and U.S. Ways of Carrier Warfare, 1919–1945,” Journal of Global Security Studies 6(3): 1–19.
Co-Winner of Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical International Relations in 2020
2012. “Revisiting the Salafi-Jihadist Threat in Xinjiang,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 32(4): 528–544.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2022. “The Geopolitics of ‘Fifth Column’ Framing in Xinjiang,” with Harris Mylonas, in Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns, edited by Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz. New York: Oxford University Press.
2018. “Nationalism and Foreign Policy,” with Harris Mylonas, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis, edited by Cameron G. Thies, 223–242. New York: Oxford University Press.
2015. “Institutional Path Dependence in Korean Trade Liberalization,” in U.S.-Korea Yearbook 2014 (Washington, DC: U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS), 45–62.
POLICY COMMENTARY
2024. “Preparing the U.S. Cyber Force for Extended Conflict,” with Jay Vogt and Dan Grobarcik, Proceedings 150(6): 24–29.
Second Prize Winner of the Naval Institute's 2023 Information Warfare Essay Contest
2014. “New rules for China’s war on terror?” East Asia Forum, October 25.
2014. “Conceptualizing Chinese Continentalism,” China in Central Asia, August 29.
2014. “Illegal Uighur Immigration in Southeast Asia,” cogitAsia, April 24.
2014. “Beijing Finds Neither ‘Iron-Fisted Rule’ Nor Development Bring Order to Xinjiang,” World Politics Review, March 28.
2014. “China’s Wild West: The Problem with Beijing’s Xinjiang Policy,” Foreign Affairs (online), January 26.
2013. “How China Develops Its Counterterrorism Capability,” The Diplomat, November 11.
2013. “Sino-American Cooperation in the Middle East,” China Policy Institute, October 2.
2013. “Insecurity Drives China’s Syria Policy,” The Diplomat, September 9.
2013. “Missed Opportunities Along the Silk Road: China and Russia Neglected,” Registan, August 5.
2011. “Energy Security in Afghanistan: The Energy Sector and its Importance for Stability,” Journal of International Peace Operations 7: 36–37.