My research examines the role of the international system in shaping democracy and domestic reforms. I am especially interested in how global disruptions like hegemonic transitions and waves of diffusion create institutional change inside states. My other interests include social media and democracy, Russian foreign policy, and IR theory. 

You can find my current work in progress HERE. 

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS - LINKS AND PDFS  

Rival Visions of Parsimony. International Studies Quarterly 63(3): 707-16. September 2019. [PDF]

Seva Gunitsky and Andrei Tsygankov. The Wilsonian Bias in the Study of US Foreign Policy. Problems of Post-Communism 65.6:385-393. December 2018 [PDF]

Democratic Waves in Historical Perspective. Perspectives on Politics 16.3, September 2018, p. 634-651. [PDF]

Lost in the Grey Zone: Competing Measures of Democracy in the Former Soviet Republics. In Ranking the World: Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance, ed. by Alexander Cooley and Jack Snyder. Cambridge University Press, 2015. [PDF]

Corrupting the Cyber-Commons: Social Media as a Tool of Autocratic Resilience. Perspectives on Politics 13.1, March 2015, p. 42-54. [PDF]

From Shocks to Waves: Hegemonic Transitions and Democratization in the Twentieth Century. International Organization 68.3, July 2014, p. 561-97. [PDF]

Complexity and Theories of Change in International Politics. International Theory 5.1, March 2013, p. 35-63. [PDF]