Recent Working Papers

Legitimating Power: The Domestic Politics of U.S. International Hierarchy. Revised March 2012. Original version: The Domestic Politics of International Hierarchy: Indirect Rule in the American System. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, August 31-4, 2011.

Crisis Politics: Uncertainty, Relative Prices and Political Change (with Jeffry A. Frieden, Michael Nicholson, and Aditya Ranganath. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Political Economy Society, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 11-12, 2011.

Dominance and Subordination in World Politics: Authority, Liberalism, and Stability in the Modern International Order. Prepared for the Author's Workshop on the 30th Anniversary of Robert Gilpin's War and Change in World Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, October 27-29, 2011.

Domestic Structures Revisited: Public and Private Authority in a Globalizing Economy. Prepared for the PK-Fest, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 14-15, 2011.

Authority, Coercion and Power in International Relations. Revised December 2010.

Authority, Status, and the End of the American Century. Revised February 2012.

Organizations and the Evolution of Cooperation (with Danielle Jung). Prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Sept. 1-5, 2010, Washington, DC.

America's Imperial Dilemma: Political Order v. Global Insurgency. September 2009.

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

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.