I will join the Department of Government as an Assistant Professor in July 2008. Beginning in the fall of 2008, I will be teaching classes on international security, international conflict and the laws of war, and the science and politics of WMD. My work focuses on international conflict and cooperation, alliance politics, and international institutions. Current projects include research on when states use force for counterproliferation and whether such strategies are effective, whether peacekeeping operations help keep the peace after civil war, and on institutional choice in the context of military interventions. My current book project focuses on the effect of power on decisions to use military force multilaterally or unilaterally.

My work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Security Studies, Political Science Quarterly, the International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, African Security Review, the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, and Parameters. My opinions have been featured in a series of media outlets including The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and Reuters tv.

Prior to coming to Cornell, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Institute for International Law and Politics.

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