Policy Writing

One Size Fits None: The United States Needs a Grand Defense Industrial Strategy,” War on the Rock, November 21, 2023 (with Ethan Kapstein and Jennifer Kavanagh)

Commoditized Weapons in Ukraine: Are the Allies Getting Procurement Right?War on the Rocks, August 24, 2023 (with Ethan Kapstein) 

A Man-of-War is the Best Ambassador: European Naval Deployments as Costly and Useful Diplomatic Signals,” Europe in the Indo-Pacific, Hague Center for Strategic Studies, eds. Paul van Hooft and Alessandra Barrow, May 2023

The U.S. Should Head an Arms Cartel,” Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2023

"German Conventional Deterrence or Allied Integrated Deterrence: Pick One," Lawfare, April 17, 2022 (with Lucas F. Hellemeier)

"A Liberal Case for Seapower?War on the Rocks, February 26, 2021 (with Sara McLaughlin Mitchell) 

"Biden Must Base Arms Sales on U.S. Interests—Not U.S. Jobs,” Foreign Policy, February 26, 2021 (with Ethan B. Kapstein)

Introduction: A Bumpy Road to Normalcy,” Policy Roundtable: The Future of Japanese Security and Defense, Texas National Security Review, Oct 1, 2020 (with Peter J. Dombrowski)

F-35 Sales Are America’s Belt and Road,” Foreign Policy, July 13, 2019 (with Ethan B. Kapstein and Srdjan Vucetic)

Want to Punish Saudi Arabia? Cut Off Its Weapons Supply,”New York Times, October 12, 2018

​“America's Arms Sales Policy: Security Abroad, Not Jobs at Home,”War on the Rocks, April 6, 2018

A Good Cartel? Slowing the Proliferation of Major Conventional Weapons,”Ethics & International Affairs31, no. 4 (Winter 2017)

​ ​“​Training the Man on Horseback: The Connection between U.S. Training and Military Coups,” War on the Rocks, August 9, 2017 (with Jesse Dillon Savage)
 
"Sub-Optimal: The Pivot and Australia's New FleetForeign Affairs, March 14, 2016

Who’s Arming Asia?Survival 58, no. 2 (April/May 2016) pp. 167-184

When Peacekeepers Come Home,”New York Times, February 21, 2016

Paying for Israel’s Wars,”The Monkey Cage,July 28, 2014

Outgunned: A Debate Over the Shifting Global Arms Market,” with Ethan Kapstein.Foreign Affairs 92, no. 2 (March/April 2013), pp. 177-182

Arms Away: How Washington Squandered its Monopoly on Weapons Sales,” with Ethan Kapstein. Foreign Affairs 91, no. 5 (September/October 2012), pp. 125-132

Z. P. Nikolaki. “Hello! This is Liberty speaking.” 1918. Source: Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin