Research and Scholarship

Book

Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

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• – roundtable review in H-Diplo’s International Security Studies Forum (with William Wohlforth, Anne Clunan, Xiaoyu Pu, and Kanti Bajpai)

• – reviewed in Rising Powers Quarterly (by Axel Dessein)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“The Tripwire Effect: Experimental Evidence Regarding U.S. Public Opinion” (with Paul Musgrave) (Foreign Policy Analysis, 2023)

• – related MonkeyCage post

“Hierarchy, Revisionism, and Subordinate Actors: The TPNW and the Subversion of the Nuclear Order” (with Naomi Egel) (European Journal of International Relations, 2022)

“Decline and Disintegration: National Status Loss and Domestic Conflict in Post-Disaster Spain” (International Security, 2022)

“Status from Fighting? Reassessing the Relationship between Conflict Involvement and Diplomatic Rank” (International Interactions, 2020)

“Status, Stratified Rights, and Accommodation in International Relations” (Journal of Global Security Studies, 2020)

“Revising order or Challenging the Balance of Military Power? An Alternative Typology of Revisionist and Status-Quo States” (with Alex Cooley and Daniel Nexon) (Review of International Studies, 2019)

“Logics of Stratified Identity Management in World Politics” (International Theory, 2019)

“Lost in Translation: Social Identity Theory and the Study of Status in World Politics” (International Studies Quarterly, 2017)

“Race, Status, and Japanese Revisionism in the Early 1930s” (Security Studies, 2013)

• – related MonkeyCage post

Book Reviews

Review of Larson and Shevchenko, Quest for Status: Chinese and Russian Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2019) in Political Science Quarterly (Winter 2019)

Review of Pu, Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order (Stanford University Press, 2019) in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (Autumn 2019)

Review of Grynaviski, Constructive Illusions: Misperceiving the Origins of International Cooperation (Cornell University Press, 2014) for an H-Diplo/ISSF roundtable (March 2017)

Research in Progress (please email me for updated working papers)

“Greening for Status? An Experimental Exploration of the Relationship Between Great Power Competition and Climate Mitigation” (working paper with Paul Musgrave)

“The Origins and Evolution of Tripwire Theory” (working paper with Paul Musgrave)

“What Drives Status Comparisons? An Experimental Study of Status Attribution in the Field of Space Exploration” (working paper with Paul Musgrave)

“International Status and National Pride” (manuscript in progress)

Status and the Politics of National Decline (book project)

Tripwires and American Foreign Policy (book project with Paul Musgrave)