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Corrupting the Cyber-Commons: Social Media as a Tool of Autocratic Resilience. Perspectives on Politics 13(1), Spring 2015. Lost in the Gray Zone: Competing Views of Democracy Measures in the Former Soviet Republics. In Ranking the World: The Emerging Politics of Ratings and Rankings, edited by Alex Cooley and Jack Snyder. Cambridge University Press, 2015. From Shocks to Waves: Hegemonic Transitions and Democratization in the Twentieth Century. International Organization 68(3), Summer 2014. Complexity and Theories of Change in International Politics. International Theory 5(1):35-63, Spring 2013.
From the Spring of Nations to the Arab Spring: Democratic Waves in Historical Perspective. Under review. Great Powers and Norm Cascades in Global Politics. Working Paper (rough draft). Occam's Rusty Razor: Competing Visions of Parsimony in IR Theory. Under review. American IR and Russian Foreign Policy. With Andrei Tsygankov. Under review.

BOOK REVIEWS

"The False Dawn of International Law." War on the Rocks, January 16, 2018. Review of The Internationalists by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro.

"The Lost Leviathan." The American Interest, August 24, 2017. Review of "The H-Word: The Peripateia of Hegemony" by Perry Anderson. [PDF]

"Expect Us: Online Communities and Political Mobilization" by Jessica L.
Beyer, Perspectives on Politics 13(3), October 2015, p. 878-9.

"How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace" by Charles A. Kupchan, H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable 4.4, October 2012.

“The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy” by Bruce Gilley, Political Science Quarterly 125.1, Spring 2010, p. 163-165. Longer (unedited) version.

“Insurance Against Poverty” by Stefan Dercon, ed., Journal of International Affairs 59.2, Spring 2006, p. 347-350.
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