Research

Books

How States Pay for Wars. 2016. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Articles

“A Century of Coalitions in Battle: Incidence, Composition, and Performance, 1900-2003” (with Ryan Grauer). 2022. The Journal of Strategic Studies. 45(2): 177-185.

“Understanding Coalitions in Battle” (with Ryan Grauer). The Journal of Strategic Studies. 2022. The Journal of Strategic Studies. 45(2): 186-210.

“A Political Economy of Global Security Approach” (with Kaija Schilde and Norrin Ripsman). 2021. Journal of Global Security Studies. 6(1): 1-5.

“Supplying Allies: Political Economy of Coalition Warfare” (with Paul Poast). 2021. Journal of Global Security Studies. 6(1): 1-7.

“Organizing for Performance: Coalition Effectiveness on the Battlefield” (with Ryan Grauer). 2020. European Journal of International Relations. 26(4): 953-978

“Hatchet or Scalpel? Domestic Politics, International Threats, and US Military Spending Cuts, 1950-2014” (with Kaija Schilde). 2019. Security Studies. 28(4): 677-709.

“Self-Interest, Partisanship, and the Conditional Influence of War Taxation on Support for War in the United States” (with Douglass Kriner and Breanna Lechase). 2018. Conflict Management and Peace Science.35(1): 43-64.

“What Goes Up, Must Come Down? The Asymmetric Effects of International Threat and Economic Growth on Military Spending” (with Benjamin Fordham and Kaija Schilde). 2017. Journal of Peace Research. 54(6): 791-805.                 

Book Chapters                                                 

Financing Grand Strategy in Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy, edited by Ron Krebs and Thierry Balzacq (New York: Oxford University Press, Forthcoming).

European Military Power: Institutional Legacies and External Threat in EU Defense Cooperation (with Kaija Schilde) in European-Russian Power Relations in Turbulent Times, edited by Mai’a K. Davis Cross and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021).

War Finance and the Political Economy of War (with Paul Poast) in What do We Know about War, 3rd Edition, edited by Sara Mitchell and John Vasquez (Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield, 2o21).

Political Economy of Security in Oxford Handbook of US National Security (with Norrin Ripsman and Kaija Schilde), edited by Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas Gvosdev, and John A. Cloud (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

War Finance and Military Effectiveness in The Sword’s Other Edge: Tradeoffs in the Pursuit of Military Effectiveness, edited by Dan Reiter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Political Economy of National Security in Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, edited by Patrick James (New York: Oxford University Press. 2016).