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The Frontiers of American Grand Strategy: Settlers, Elites, and the Standing Army in America's Indian Wars
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Much work on U.S. grand strategy focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. If the United States did have a grand strategy before that, IR scholars often pay little attention to it, and when they do, they rarely ...
State (In)security: The Impact of Insurgencies on Economic Integration
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do we witness divergent levels of economic integration around the world? Predominant explanations focus on the dampening effect of inter-state conflict on integration. However, internal security considerations have ...
Governing the Militia: Insurgent Command and Control in the Levant
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do some insurgencies struggle to maintain a clear chain of command while other insurgencies do not? Although some conceptualize rebel groups as monolithic militant organizations, nearly all of these actors are formally ...
From No, to Yes, Maybe, and NIMBY: Explaining Variation in Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Adoption between the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps since 1993
(Georgetown University, 2020)
When millions of Americans watched on CNN as precision-guided munitions struck targets in Baghdad during the 1990-1991 Gulf War, the U.S. Air Force did not have a single operational remotely-piloted aircraft (RPA). At the ...
Playing the Generals' Game: Superpowers, Self-Limiting, and Strategic Emerging Technologies
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This dissertation explores how states make foreign policy decisions by focusing on superpowers and their decision calculus over strategic emerging technologies. It brings together work on arms control, advanced defense ...
Liberalism Outsourced: Why Oligarchs and Autocrats Fight in Foreign Courts
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Globalization allows business to arbitrage liberal institutions. Actors from the same emerging market can now adjudicate their domestic disputes abroad: Kazakh banks sue Kazakh billionaires, and Nigerian royals sue Nigerian ...
To Defend or Not to Defend: Understanding How States View Strong and Weak Reputations
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Why do states back down during crises despite the risk of harming their reputation for resolve? The existing literature contends that leaders believe, perhaps more than they should, that cultivating a strong reputation for ...
Overcoming the Hesitations of History: An Analysis of U.S.-India Ties
(Georgetown University, 2020)
U.S.-India relations have not progressed as far or as fast as advocates have hoped. There is little doubt as to India’s strategic importance to the United States, as well as the critical role it will undoubtedly play on ...
Legitimacy and the Maritime Border: China's Legitimation Strategy in the South China Sea
(Georgetown University, 2020)
Legitimacy, in constructivist international relations theory, is an asymmetric concept that can restrain or embolden rising powers. Sticking to foreign policy that is seen as illegitimate in the eyes of established norms ...
The Praetorian Bomb: How Nuclear Weapons Improve Political Durability
(Georgetown University, 2020)
This project examines the impact of nuclear proliferation on regime and leader survival, proposing two mechanisms for this interaction. First, a bomb program can generate internal legitimacy by rallying support among ...