While most of my research has been on alliance behavior (including my dissertation), alliance behavior is only one component of my intended research program. I am mainly interested in how states strategize using cooperative institutions/policies to attain security related goals. I am particularly interested in how differences across states due to regime type or military capacity shape the strategies that states choose and the players with whom states interact. To that end, I see my dissertation research as providing a foundation for future research about how domestic political constraints (such as electoral concerns or existing security capacity) shape the strategies that states choose and the variety of institutions that states use to attain goals.
"Assessing the Temporal Nature of the Democratic Peace Among Democracies" (with David Clark and David Sobek) paper presented at the 2006 meeting of the International Studies Association.
"Freedom from Diversion: The Effect of a Free Press on the Diversionary Behavior of Leaders" (with David Clark and David Sobek) [Working Paper March 2006] in progress.
