Publications

"A Counterproductive Disdain." New York Times, August 31, 2011.

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With Lincoln Mitchell, "Engagement without Recognition: A New Strategy toward Abkhazia and Eurasia’s Unrecognized States." Washington Quarterly (October 2010).

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"Manas Hysteria: Why the United States can't keep buying off Kyrgyz leaders to keep its vital air base open." Foreign Policy (April 12, 2010).

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“Critical Dialogue: Review of Daniel Aldrich’s Site Fights and Response to Daniel Aldrich’s Review of Base Politics.” Perspectives on Politics (March 2009).

“The Five Lessons of the Great American Air Base Debate.” Eurasianet Commentary (February 12, 2009).

“The Price of Access: How the US Lost its Kyrgyzstan Air Base.” International Herald Tribune (February 11, 2009).

“Contested Contracts: Rationalist Theories of Institutions in American IPE.” The Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (IPE): IPE as a Global Conversation, ed. Mark Blyth (London and New York: Routledge, 2009).

With H. Spruyt, Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2009).

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“New Bases, Old Politics: The Rise and Decline of the US Military Presence in Central Asia.” Military Bases: Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Challenges. NATO Science for Peace and Security Studies, Vol. 51, ed. Luís Rodrigues and Sergiy Gleboc (Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2009).

“U.S. Bases and Democratization in Central Asia.” Orbis (Winter 2008).

“Will Sevastopol Survive? The Triangular Politics of Russia’s Naval Base in Crimea.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Eurasia Policy Memo Series No. 47 (December 2008).

With Borut Grgic, “A Way Out in the Caucasus.” Wall Street Journal (November 17, 2008).

“Principles in the Pipeline: Managing Transatlantic Values and Interests in Central Asia,” International Affairs (U.K) (November 2008).

“How the West Failed Georgia.” Current History (October 2008).

“Georgia: Examining Possible Sovereign Futures and the Internationalization Option.” Eurasianet Commentary (September 12, 2008).

“Kosovo’s Precedents: The Politics of Sovereign Emergence and its Alternatives.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Eurasia Policy Memo Series No. 7 (March 2008).

Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas (Cornell University Press, 2008).

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With Lincoln Mitchell, “No Way to Treat Our Friends: Recasting Recent U.S.-Georgia Relations.” Washington Quarterly (January 2008-09).

“Manas Matters: The Changing Politics of the U.S. Military Base in Kyrgyzstan.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Eurasia Policy Memo Series No. 423 (December 2006).

With Kimberly Marten, "Base Motives: The Political Economy of Okinawa's Antimilitarism.” Armed Forces & Society (July 2006).

“Globalization and National Security After Empire: The Former Soviet Space.” Globalization and National Security, ed. Jonathan Kirchner (New York: Routledge, 2006).

“Difficult Engagements: Political Lessons from the K2 Experience.” Program on    
New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Eurasia Policy Memo Series No. 400 (November 11, 2005).

"Base Politics." Foreign Affairs (November/December 2005).

“Democratization and the Contested Politics of U.S. Military Bases in Korea: Towards a Comparative Understanding.” IRI Review (Autumn 2005).

“Where was the West All that Time? [Kyrgyzstan’s Revolution].” International Herald Tribune (March 30, 2005).

“Depoliticizing Manas: The Domestic Consequences of the U.S. Military Presence in Kyrgyzstan.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS), Eurasia Policy Memo Series No. 362 (February 15, 2005).

With Kimberly Marten, “Permanent Military Bases Won’t Work.” International Herald Tribune (February 3, 2005).

Logics of Hierarchy:The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations (Cornell University Press, 2005).

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“Thinking Rationally about Hierarchy and Global Governance.” Review of International Political Economy [10th Anniversary Special Issue]. Vol. 10, No. 4 (November 2003), pp. 672-684.

“Western Conditions and Domestic Choices: The Influence of External Actors on the Post-Communist Transition.” Nations in Transit 2003: Democratization in East Central Europe and Eurasia (New York: FreedomHouse, 2003).

With Demetrios James Caraley, “September 11: An Overview.” September 11, Terrorist Attacks, and U.S. Foreign Policy, ed. Demetrios James Caraley (New York: The Academy of Political Science, 2002).

“Booms and Busts: Theorizing Institutional Formation and Change in Oil States.” Review of International Political Economy (Spring 2001).

“Imperial Wreckage: Property Rights, Sovereignty, and Security in the Post-Soviet Space.” International Security (Winter 2000/01).

“International Aid to the Former Soviet States: Agent of Change or Guardian of the Status Quo?” Problems of Post-Communism (July/August 2000).

“Western Values as Power Politics: The Struggle for Mastery in Eurasia.” Global Dialogue (Winter/Spring 2009).

“Behind the Central Asian Curtain: The Limits of Russia’s Resurgence.” Current History (October 2009).

“Turkmenistan: The Faltering Oil State,” Holding the Course: Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, 1998, ed. Peter Rutland (Armonk, New York: The East-West Institute and M.E. Sharpe, 1999).

“Transitioning Backwards: Concepts and Comparison in the Study of Central Asia’s Political Economy.” The Harriman Review (Fall 1998).

With Deepa Ollapally, “Identity Politics and the International System,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics (Winter 1996).