Publications

Published Work

Academic Publications

"Letting Sleeping Bears Lie: Ukraine's Cautious Approach to Uncertainty Before the War." Contemporary Security Policy 44, no. 4 (2023): 530-543. [link]

“The Predictable Hazards of Unpredictability: Why Madman Behavior Doesn’t Work.” The Washington Quarterly. 43:3 (2020), 31-46. With Caitlin Talmadge. [link]


Policy Publications

“Leveraging Alliances for Strategic Effect: The Value of Defense Specialization.” MOD Expert Briefing Paper for the Integrated Review Refresh. MOD Whitehall, 2023.

The Future of the King of Battle: Defining Discrete Missions for Army Long Range Precision Fires, RR-A1801-1. RAND Corporation, 2022. With Jonathan Wong and Joslyn Fleming.

 

Popular Writings

"Wargaming Taiwan." U.S.-China Perception Monitor. September 30, 2022. https://uscnpm.org/2022/09/30/wargaming-taiwan-how-to-understand-recent-findings/.

"How to Prevent a US-China Nuclear Confrontation." U.S.-China Perception Monitor. June 27, 2022. https://uscnpm.org/2022/06/27/how-to-prevent-us-china-nuclear-confrontation/.

“The Peaceable Pacific: Why Sino-American Conflict is not Inevitable.” The Realist Review. April 25, 2019. https://realistreview.org/2019/04/25/essay-contest-ii-the-peaceable-pacific-why-sino-american-conflict-is-not-inevitable/.

·       Received an honorable mention in the 2019 John Quincy Adams Society Student Foreign Policy Essay Contest

"Pushing Against the Populist Tide.” Foreign Affairs. November/December 2017. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2017-12-11/pushing-against-populist-tide.

·       Winner of the 2017 Foreign Affairs Student Essay Competition


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