Publications

Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States (Cornell University Press, 2012).

"Patronage vs. Professionalism in New Security Institutions." Prism 2, no. 4 (National Defense University Center for Complex Operations: September 2011): 83–98.

"Warlords." In The Changing Character of War, edited by Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

“Warlords, Sovereignty, and State Failure. Chapter Three: Lessons from Post-Soviet Georgia.”  (Saltzman Working Paper No. 12, November 2009).

“The Same Old Mistake.” International Herald Tribune (September 4, 2009).

Contributing author to FATA—A Most Dangerous Place: Meeting the Challenge of Militancy and Terror in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, Principal Author Shuja Nawaz (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2009).

“Correspondence: Misunderstanding Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas?” International Security (Winter 2008/09).

“Economic Lures and Ungoverned Territories: Overcoming Warlordism.” Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia) Policy Memo No. 39.  Washington, DC: Georgetown University Eurasian Strategy Project, September 2008.

“Is Stability the Answer?” 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 (January-March 2007).

“Warlordism in Comparative Perspective.” International Security 31, no. 3 (Winter 2006/2007).

“Disrupting the Balance: Russian Efforts to Control Kazakhstan’s Oil.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 428, Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 2006.

With Alexander Cooley, “Base Motives: The Political Economy of Okinawa’s Anti-Militarism.” Armed Forces and Society (July 2006).

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

“Understanding the Impact of the K-2 Closure.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 311, Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 2005.

“Bases for Reflection: The History and Politics of U.S. Military Bases in South Korea.” IRI Review (Seoul University) (Autumn 2005).

“In Building Nations, Establish Security, Then Democracy.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 18, 2005).

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

“Central Asia: Military Modernization and the Great Game.” Strategic Asia 2005-06: Military Modernization in an Era of Uncertainty, ed. Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2005). 

Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past (Columbia University Press, 2004)

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“Warlords as Stakeholders.” letter to the editor, Foreign Affairs (July/August 2004).

“Getting It Right in Haiti This Time Around.” International Herald Tribune (March 26, 2004).

“Emerging Security Threats in Post-Soviet Central Asia and the Caspian.”  Contract #DASW01-02-P-0797, Director of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Pentagon,  March 2004. 

“U.S. Military Bases in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Economic Lessons from Okinawa.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 311, December 2003.

“Stabilizing Iraq: Why America Needs the UN.” International Herald Tribune (April 26, 2003).

“U.S. and Russia: Working on Their Postures.” The New Jersey Star-Ledger (March 30, 2003).

“Defending against Anarchy: From War to Peacekeeping in Afghanistan.” The Washington Quarterly (Winter 2002/3).

“Small Steps for U.S. Security Interests in Kyrgyzstan.” PONARS Policy Memo No. 264, October 2002.

“The Russian Military in 2025: Alternative Futures.” Contract # DASW01-00-P-3583, Director of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense, United States Pentagon.  November 2001.

“Why Peace Operations in Afghanistan Should Heed Soviet Lessons Learned.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 209, November 2001.

“Japan’s United Nations Peacekeeping Dilemma.” Asia-Pacific Review (May 2001).

“The New Bush Administration and the UN: A Strategy of Great Power Consensus?” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 189, May 2001.

“Putin and the Russian Military.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 155, October 2000.

“Human Rights Violations in Chechnya: Implications for Western Assistance to Russia.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 142, April 2000.

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

“Making and Keeping the Peace.” Sections 1-6 of A Global Agenda: Issues before the 55th General Assembly of the United Nations, 2000-2001 Edition, ed. John Tessitore and Susan Woolfson (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

“The Dissonant Concert: US-Russian Relations in the UN Security Council.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 71, October 1999.

“Institutional Decline in the Russian Military: Exit, Voice, and Corruption.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 67, September 1999.

“Contact Lenses: Explaining U.S.-Russian Military-to-Military Ties.” Armed Forces and Society (Summer 1999).

“The Political Costs of Western Investment in Russian Spin-off Companies.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 49, November 1998.

“Why Military Dissatisfaction is Not a Threat to the Russian State.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 34, September 1998.

“Contact Lenses: Transparency and US-Russian Military Ties.” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security (PONARS) Policy Memo No. 7, October 1997.

Weapons, Culture, and Self-Interest: Soviet Defense Managers in the New Russia (Columbia University Press, 1997)

“The Threat of the Soviet Decline: The CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the End of the Cold War.” 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?” 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 (January-March 1995).

“The Russian Military-Industrial Sector and Conversion: A Comment.” Post-Soviet Geography (November 1994).

Engaging the Enemy: Organization Theory and Soviet Military Innovation, 1955-1991 (Princeton University Press, 1993)

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“Soviet Academic Theories on International Conflict and Negotiation: A Research Note.” Journal of Conflict Resolution (December 1990).