Recent Publications

Check out the latest research and commentary from our affiliates.

Books & Edited Volumes

• Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
  Susan Colbourn
• Africa’s New Global Politics: Regionalism in International Relations
  Rita Kiki Edozie and Moses Khisa
• The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s
  Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles, eds.
• Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in Africa: Beyond the Coup d’État
  Moses Khisa and Christopher Day, eds.
• Dictators and Autocrats: Securing Power Across Global Politics
  Klaus Larres, ed.
• Terrorism and Transatlantic Relations: Threats and Challenges
  Klaus Larres and Tobias Hof, eds.
• Uncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Threat of a United Europe
  Klaus Larres
• The Other Face of Battle: America’s Forgotten Wars and the Experience of Combat
  Wayne E. Lee, Anthony E. Carlson, David L. Preston, and David Silbey

Journal Articles

• “Policing Ethnicity: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence on Discrimination, Cooperation, and Ethnic Balancing in the Liberian National Police”
  Robert Blair, Sabrina Karim, Michael Gilligan, and Kyle Beardsley
• “More Gas, More Crime: A Geospatial Examination of Gas Stations and Predatory Crime”
  Hunter M. Boehme, Rakesh Malhotra, and Timothy Mulrooney
• “The Difficulty of Easy Projects”
  Wioletta Dziuda, Arda Gitmez, and Mehdi Shadmehr
• “Civil-Military Relations in the United States: What Senior Leaders Need to Know (and Usually Don’t)”
  Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn
• “The Future of Democracy: National Security Begins at Home”
  Peter D. Feaver
• “What Not to Worry About in the Policy-Academy Gap Debate: A Contrarian Take”
  Peter D. Feaver
• “The Logistics of Grass: How Steppe Nomads Invented the Operational Level of War”
  Wayne E. Lee
• “The Problems of Perestroika: The KGB and Mikhail Gorbachev’s Reforms”
  Simon Miles
• “Making Sense of Human Rights Diplomacy: Evidence from a U.S. Campaign to Free Political Prisoners”
  Rachel Myrick and Jeremy Weinstein
• “Reflections on Using Annotation for Transparent Inquiry in Mixed-Methods Research”
  Rachel Myrick
• “The Reputational Impacts of Polarization for American Foreign Policy”
  Rachel Myrick
• “Towards a Unified Approach to Research on Democratic Backsliding”
  Rachel Myrick, Haemin Jee, and Hans Lueders
• “Coordination and Innovation in Judiciaries: Correct Law vs. Consistent Law”
  Mehdi Shadmehr, Sepehr Shahshahani, and Charles Cameron
• “International Pressure, State Repression and the Spread of Protest”
  Mehdi Shadmehr and Raphael Boleslavsky
• “Transparency and Stability”
  Mehdi Shadmehr and Dan Bernhardt
• “Briefing: Contextualizing the Bibi Wine Factor in Uganda’s 2021 Elections”
  Sam Wilkins, Richard Vokes, and Moses Khisa

Book Chapters

• “The Fulcrum of Fragility: Command and Control in Regional Nuclear Powers”
  Giles David Arceneaux and Peter D. Feaver
• “Getting Grand Strategy Right”
  Hal Brands and Peter D. Feaver
• “Collecting Teeth for Peace: The Voice of Women, the Baby Tooth Survey, and the Search for Security in the Atomic Age”
  Susan Colbourn
• “Once More, With Feeling: Transatlantic Relations in the Reagan Years”
  Susan Colbourn and Mathias Haeussler
• “Countering COVID-19 in Uganda: The Role of the Military”
  Moses Khisa
• “Countering Partisanship and Threat Inflation in U.S.-China Policy”
  Rachel Myrick, Catherine Eng, and Zoe Weinberg

Opinion & Commentary

• “The Myth of American Militarism”
  Hal Brands and Peter D. Feaver
• “Authoritarian Challengers and the Conduct of Canadian Foreign Policy”
  Susan Colbourn
• “Putin’s Aggression Toward Ukraine May Boost NATO”
  Susan Colbourn
• “Did 9/11 Change the United States? State Power Swelled – and Not Just the Military”
  Peter D. Feaver
• “Masters and Commanders: Are Civil-Military Relations in Crisis? A Stormy But Durable Marriage”
  Peter D. Feaver
• “KGB Archives Show How Chrystia Freeland Drew the Ire (and Respect) of Soviet Intelligence Services”
  Simon Miles
• “Justin Trudeau Should Stand with Ukrainians by Flying to Ukraine”
  Simon Miles
• “Ronald Reagan Offers a Blueprint for Dealing with Russia after Ukraine”
  Simon Miles
• “Canada in a Shifting Geopolitical Context”
  Michael Cotey Morgan
• “Canadians Will Be Glad to Know”
  Timothy Andrews Sayle and Susan Colbourn
• “Does Security Assistance Work? Why It May Not Be the Answer for Fragile States”
  Patricia Sullivan
• “The Consequential Chairman: How Colin Powell Changed Civil-Military Relations”
  Heidi Urben and Peter D. Feaver