SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (for a full list please see my c.v.)

British India WWI recruitment poster in Urdu. 
"Who will take this uniform, money and rifle? The one who will join the army."
Source: Imperial War Museum

“Too Important to Be Left to the Admirals: The Need to Study Maritime Great Power Competition,” with Peter J. Dombrowski, Security Studies, 29, no. 4 (August 2020)

“Cruising for a Bruising: Maritime Competition in an Anti-Access Age,” with Peter J. Dombrowski, Security Studies, 29, no. 4 (August 2020)

“The Economics of War and Peace,” Oxford University Press Handbook of International Security, eds. Alexandra Gheciu and William Wohlforth (London: Oxford, 2018)

"Slowing the Proliferation of Major Conventional Weapons: The Virtues of an Uncompetitive Market." Ethics and International Affairs 31. no. 4 (Winter 2017) pp. 401-418.

"Military Technology and the Duration of Civil Conflict," with Todd Sechser. International Studies Quarterly, 1, no. 3 (September 2017), pp. 704-720.

“When human capital threatens the Capitol: Foreign aid in the form of military training and coups,” with Jesse Dillon Savage, Journal of Peace Research, 54, no. 4 (2017) pp. 542–557.                                                

• For the Gambia coup plan cited above, see: Lammin Sanneh, 2014. “Military Strategy for Operation Gambian Freedom,”  source:  Stuart A. Reid.

"Who's Arming Asia?" with Ethan Kapstein. Survival 58, no. 2 (April/May 2016) pp. 167-184

“Aiming at Doves: Experimental Evidence of Military Images' Political Effects,” with Yanna Krupnikov. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 61, no. 7  (2017) pp. 1482-1509

“Neoconservatism, Neoclassical Realism, and the Narcissism of Small Differences,” After Liberalism: The Future of Liberalism in International Relations, eds. Rebekka Friedman, Kevork Oskanian, and Ramon Pardo (London: Palgrave, 2013).

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

• Critical exchange: “Outgunned,” Foreign Affairs 92, no. 2 (March/April 2013), pp. 177-82. 

"Explaining U.S. Military Strategy in Vietnam: Thinking Clearly about Causation." International Security 35, no. 3 (Winter 2010/11), pp. 124-143.  

"Power and Democratic Weakness: Neoconservatism and Neoclassical Realism."  Millennium 38, no. 3 (May 2010), pp. 593-614. 

"The Myth of Military Myopia: Democracy, Small Wars, and Vietnam."  International Security 34, no. 3 (Winter 2009/10), 119-157.  

“United States Hegemony and the New Economics of Defense.”  Security Studies 16, no. 4 (October–December 2007), 597–613.