Research Interests: International Security, Public Opinion, Revenge and Revanchism, Leaders, Domestic Politics of International Relations, US foreign policy, Experimental Method
Working Papers:
- Belligerent Cosmopolitans: How Pre-Office Foreign Experience Influences the Conflict Behavior of Leaders
- Introducing the Cosmopolitan Leaders Dataset (CLD)
- Cosmopolitan Leaders and Treaty Ties: How Pre-Office Foreign Experience Shapes International Cooperation
- Under False Flag: Motivated Reasoning and the Believability of Disinformation in International Conflict
Anger Management: the reassuring and backfire effects of elite foreign policy cues
Work in Progress:
- Concentrate or Disperse? resource allocation in great power competition
- Analogical Reasoning as Confirmation Bias: a study of the Soviet Collapse Analogy
- The manipulation of uncertainty: does “leave something to chance” really work?
- You are being paranoid: the effect of gaslighting on the threat perception of foreign audience.
Other Projects:
Predicting Terrorist and Insurgent Violence with Machine Learning: Division-Month Data for Pakistan
Does female integration in military reduce sexual violence? a natural experiment in Soviet-Occupied Berlin. With Cathryn Grothe, 2017
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