Recent Working Papers

The Practice and Theory of U.S. Statebuilding: Loyalty, Legitimacy, and Regime Change. Draft. June 2009.

Making America Safe for the World: Multilateralism and the Rehabilitation of U.S. Authority. Under review. May 2009.

Iraq and the Bargaining Theory of War. Under review. May 2009.

Anarchy. Prepared for the IPSA Encyclopedia of Political Science. January 2009.

Markets, Hierarchies, and Networks: An Agent-Based Organizational Ecology (with Danielle Jung). Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, 2008, Boston, MA. Revised January 2009.

State Building after Civil Wars. Prepared for Enforcing Peace: How Non-State Actors Contribute to Stability in Deeply Divided Societies, edited by Caroline Hartzell and Matthew Hoddie.

Relational Authority in the Modern World: Towards a Positive Theory of Legitimacy. Paper prepared for the workshop on Legitimacy in the Modern World, University of California, San Diego, December 7-8, 2006.

Building Legitimate States After Civil Wars: Order, Authority, and Institutions. Paper prepared for the workshop on Building Peace in Fragile States, University of California, San Diego, December 1-2, 2006. Revised April 27, 2007.

Democracy, Federalism, and the Size of States (with Michael J. Hiscox). Last revised April 2003.