Scholarly Journal Articles and Book Chapters

“Geopolitics and Security in the Changing Arctic,” chapter 2 in Climate Change, Conflict and (In)Security: Hot War, ed. Timothy Clack, Ziya Meral, and Louise Selisny (Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2023).

“NATO Enlargement: Evaluating Its Consequences in Russia,” in Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold-War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War, ed. James Goldgeier and Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). Updated version of an article by the same title, published in International Politics, 57, no. 3 (June 2020): 401-26.

“New Insights on NATO Enlargement” (invited Featured Review of M.A. Sarotte’s Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate), Russian Review 81, no. 4 (Oct. 2022): 747-51.

“Reckless Ambition: Moscow’s Policy toward the United States, 2016/17,” International Politics 56, no. 6 (Dec. 2019): 743-761. Republished as a chapter in Russia’s Role in World Politics: Power, Ideas, and Domestic Influence, ed. Elias Götz and Neil MacFarlane (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

“Russia’s Use of Semi-State Security Forces: The Case of the Wagner Group,” Post-Soviet Affairs 35, no. 3 (March 2019): 181-204.

“The Intelligence Agencies and Putin: Undermining Russia’s Security?” in The Routledge Handbook of Russian Security, ed. Roger Kanet (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2019), pp. 192-202.

“Reconsidering NATO Expansion: A Counterfactual Analysis of Russia and the West in the 1990s,” European Journal of International Security 3, no. 2 (June 2018): 135-161.

“The ‘KGB State’ and Russian Political and Foreign Policy Culture,” Journal of Slavic Military Studies 30, no. 2 (May 2017): 131-51.

“Debunking the Stationary Bandit Myth: Violence and Governance in Statebuilding History,” in Non-State Challenges in a Re-ordered World: The Jackals of Westphalia, ed. Stefano Ruzza, Anja P. Jakobi and Charles C. Geisler (New York: Routledge, 2015).

“Informal Political Networks and Putin’s Foreign Policy: The Examples of Iran and Syria,” Problems of Post-Communism 62, no. 2 (April 2015): 71-87.

“Reformed or Deformed? Patronage Politics, International Influence, and the Palestinian Authority Security Forces,” International Peacekeeping 21, no. 2 (June 2014): 181-97

“Warlords and Governance,” in The Transnational Governance of Violence and Crime: Non-State Actors in Security, ed. Anja P. Jakobi and Klaus Dieter Wolf (Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 23-29. Governance and Limited Statehood Series.

“Warlords,” in The Changing Character of War, ed. Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 302-14.

“Failing States and Conflict,” in The International Studies Encyclopedia (a peer-reviewed compendium of scholarly concepts in international relations, a project of the International Studies Association), ed. Robert A. Denemark (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

“From Kabul to Kandahar: The Canadian Forces and Change,” American Review of Canadian Studies 40, no. 2 (June 2010): 214-36.

“Correspondence: Misunderstanding Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas?” substantive response letter, International Security 33, no. 3 (Winter 2008/9): 180-85.

“Statebuilding and Force: The Proper Role of Foreign Militaries,” Journal of Intervention and State-Building 1, no. 2 (June 2007): 231-47. Reprinted in Statebuilding and Intervention: Policies, Practices and Paradigms, ed. David Chandler (New York: Routledge, 2009).

“Is Stability the Answer?” in Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, ed. Pamela Aall, Chester A. Crocker and Fen Osler Hampson (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007).

“Russian Efforts to Control Kazakhstan’s Oil: The Kumkol Case,” Post-Soviet Affairs 23, no. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 2007): 18-37.

“Warlordism in Comparative Perspective,” International Security 31, no. 3 (Winter 2006/7): 41-73.

“Lending Forces: Canada’s Military Peacekeeping,” in Handbook of Canadian Foreign Policy, ed. Patrick James, Nelson Michaud, and Marc O’Reilly (Lahnam, Md.: Lexington Books, 2006).

“Base Motives: The Political Economy of Okinawa’s Anti-Militarism” (co-author with Alexander Cooley), Armed Forces and Society 32, no. 4 (July 2006): 566-83.

“Bases for Reflection: The History and Politics of U.S. Military Bases in South Korea,” IRI Review (Seoul University) 10, no. 2 (Autumn 2005): 155-200.

“Japan’s United Nations Peacekeeping Dilemma,” Asia-Pacific Review 8, no. 1 (May 2001): 21-39.

“Institutional Decline in the Russian Military: Exit, Voice, and Corruption,” in Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder? ed. Victoria E. Bonnell and George W. Breslauer. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000.

“Contact Lenses: Explaining U.S.-Russian Military-to-Military Ties,” Armed Forces and Society 25, no. 4 (Summer 1999): 579-611.

“The Threat of the Soviet Decline: The CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the End of the Cold War,” in U.S. Foreign Policy after the Cold War, ed. James Lindsay and Randall Ripley. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

“Foreign Policy Preferences of Russian Defense Industrialists: Integration or Isolation?” in The Sources of Russian Foreign Policy after the Cold War, ed. Celeste Wallander. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.

“Arzamas-16: Economics and Security in a Closed Nuclear City,” Post-Soviet Affairs 11, no. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1995): 57-80.

“The Russian Military-Industrial Sector and Conversion: A Comment,” Post-Soviet Geography 35 (Nov. 1994): 522-5.

“Soviet Academic Theories on International Conflict and Negotiation: A Research Note,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 34 (Dec. 1990): 678-93.