Books:

 

Understanding Battlefield Coalitions, London and New York: Routledge, 2023. (ed., with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) purchase.

 

Commanding Military Power: Organizing for Victory and Defeat on the Battlefield, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. purchase.

 

Articles:

 

"The Democratic Embargo: Regime Type and Proxy War," European Journal of International Relations 28, no. 2 (April, 2022): 444-470. (with Dominic Tierney) paper. appendix. data.

 

"Understanding Battlefield Coalitions," Journal of Strategic Studies 45, no. 2 (2022): 177-185. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper.

 

"A Century of Coalitions in Battle: Incidence, Composition, and Performance, 1900-2003," Journal of Strategic Studies 45, no. 2 (2022): 186-210. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper. appendix. codebook. data.

 

"Initiative and Military Effectiveness: Evidence from the Yom Kippur War," Journal of Global Security Studies 6, no. 2 (2021). (with Stephen Quackenbush) paper.

 

"Organizing for Performance: Coalition Effectiveness on the Battlefield," European Journal of International Relations 26, no. 4 (2020). (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper. appendices. data.

 

"The Arsenal of Insurrection: Explaining Rising External Support for Rebels," Security Studies 27, no. 2 (2018): 263-295. (with Dominic Tierney) paper.

 

"Uncertain Victory: Information Management and Military Power," Journal of Global Security Studies 2, no. 1 (2017): 18-38. paper.

 

"Moderating Diffusion: Military Bureaucratic Politics and the Implementation of German Doctrine in South America, 1885-1914," World Politics 67, no. 2 (2015): 268-312. paper.

 

"Why Do Soldiers Give Up? A Self-Preservation Theory of Surrender," Security Studies 23, no. 3 (2014): 622-655.  paper. data.

 

“What Determines Military Victory? Testing the Modern System,” Security Studies 21, no. 1 (2012): 83-112. (with  Michael C. Horowitz)  paper. appendices.data.

 

Book Chapters:

 

"Regime Type, War Aims, and Coalition Member Effort, in Understanding Battlefield Coalitions, eds. Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Ryan Grauer, New York: Routledge, forthcoming. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Alastair Smith)  purchase.

 

"Technology and War," in Strategy in the Contemporary World, 7th ed., eds. John Bayliss, James J. Wirtz, and Jeannie L. Johnson, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2022): 125-144. purchase.

 

"Conventional Interstate War," in The Handbook of European Defence Policies and Armed Forces, eds. Hugo Meijer and Martin Wyss, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018): 461-475.  purchase.

Review of Andrea Bartoletti, Escaping the Deadly Embrace: How Encirclement Causes Major Wars (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022). H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, July 2023. paper.

 

"Dataset Building by Qualitative Scholars," International History and Politics Section Newsletter 8, no. 2 (Fall, 2022): 8-10. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper.

 

"Practice Makes Perfect for Battlefield Coalitions," Military Strategy Magazine 8, no. 1 (Summer, 2022): 28-34. (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski)  paper.

 

Review of Lindsey O'Rourke, Covert Regime Change: America's Secret Cold War (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018). Reviewed as part of a roundtable in H-Diplo, Vol. XIII, no. 3 (2021). paper.

 

Introduction to roundtable on Jon R. Lindsay, Information Technology & Military Power (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020). Introduction as part of a roundtable in H-Diplo, Vol. XII, no. 9 (2021). paper.

 

"The Austin 'problematique'," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 17 December 2020. paper.

 

Review of the Special Issue, "Emerging Technologies and Strategic Stability," edited by Todd Sechser, Neil Narang, and Caitlin Talmadge, Journal of Strategic Studies 42, no. 6 (2019). Reviewed for H-Diplo, ISSF Article Review no. 137 (2020). paper.

 

Review of M. Taylor Fravel, Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019). Reviewed as part of a roundtable in H-Diplo, Vol. XI, no. 12 (2020). (with Rosella Cappella Zielinski) paper.

 

Review of Caitlin Talmadge, The Dictator’s Army: Effectiveness in Authoritarian Regimes (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015). Reviewed as part of a roundtable in H-Diplo, Vol. VIII, no. 17 (2016). paper.

 

Review of Antulio J. Echevarria II, Reconsidering the American Way of War: U.S. Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014), in Political Science Quarterly 130, no. 4 (2015-2016): 806-807. paper.

 

“Old Wine in New Bottles: The Nature of Conflict in the 21st Century,” The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations 14, no. 1 (2013): 9-23. paper.