Allis Chalmers Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Political Science
Education
Ph.D., UC-San Diego, 2000
Courses Taught
- POSC 4376 National Security Policy
- POSC 4631 World Conflict & Security | Syllabus
- POSC 4931 Terrorism | Syllabus
Publications
Books
- Shaping Strategy: The Civil-Military Politics of Strategic Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2008)
- Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness (Stanford University Press, 2007) (co-edited with Elizabeth Stanley).
Articles and Book Chapters
- "Integrating the Civil-Military Relations Sub-Field" Annual Review of Political Science (forthcoming 2019).
- "Improving Strategic Assessment in the Executive Branch: Lessons from the Scholarly Literature" in Heidi B. Demarest and Erica D. Borghard, eds. U.S. National Security Reform: Reassessing the National Security Act of 1947 (Routledge, 2019).
- "Territorial Havens and the Risk of Complex Attacks in the United States," in Feisal al-Istrabadi and Sumit Ganguly, eds. The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications. (Brookings Institution Press, 2018).
