Not All Complexes Are Equal: Variation in Institutional Complexity and Policy Conflict
Research on regime complexes tends to treat all complexes as equal. In this paper, I argue that institutional complexes constituted by multiple intergovernme...
Working Papers
Diplomatic Signaling: How Change in the Network of Diplomatic Relations Affects the Onset of International Conflict
Bargaining theories of war emphasize private information as a cause of conflict. Leaders are uncertain about one another’s military strength, preferences, an...
Who Joins? Democracy and State Participation in Transnational Governance
I offer a systematic account of the effect of democracy on countries’ participation in transnational public-private governance initiatives (TGIs) in which st...
Preventing and Protecting: Reputation and the Design of International Cooperation
In collaboration with: Stefano Jud
Can’t Buy Me Love? Specific and Diffuse Reciprocity in International Relations
In collaboration with: Samuel Brazys, Adrian O’Hagan, and Diana Panke
The consequences of institutional complexity: How institutional overlap affects the creation and design of intergovernmental organizations
In collaboration with: Bernhard Reinsberg
Measuring Transnational Public-Private Governance Initiatives in World Politics: A New Dataset
This paper introduces a new dataset on transnational public-private governance initiatives (TGIs) in world politics. TGIs are institutions in which states an...
Multiplex Choices: Intra- and Inter-Network Dependencies and the Formation of Military Alliances
The formation, maintenance, and dissolution of military alliances is the result of strategic interaction among nations. In this paper, I argue that states’ a...
The Evolution of Transnational Governance Interactions: A Network Approach
Transnational public-private governance initiatives (TGIs) in which governments and/or formal intergovernmental organizations, business, and civil society or...
Measuring Transnational Networks: A Multiple-Sources and Multiple-Measurement Approach
In the last 15 years, there has been a surge of writing about new forms of transnational governance constituted by various mixtures of state and non-state ac...
War is in the Variance/Covariance Structure of the Error Terms: International Networks and the Bargaining Theory of War
In collaboration with: Erik Gartzke and Hugh Ward
Informal Governance, Networks and the Politics of Transnational Public-Private Security Governance
Transnational institutions in which states, firms, and NGOs cooperate to govern the negative externalities of global corporate conduct vary in their institut...