Books
Why Democracies Fight Dictators. Oxford University Press, 2025.
Tip-toeing through the Tulips with Congress: How Congressional Attention Constrains Covert Action. With Dani Nedal. Cambridge University Press, Elements Series in International Relations, 2025.
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
“Mapping the International Supply and Demand Side of Women’s Political Leadership in Crises.” With Alexandra Stark and Caitlin McCullouch. International Studies Review 28.1 (2026).
“‘Back to the Kitchen:’ Corruption Charges Against Women Heads of Government.” With Loriana Crasnic and Alexandra Stark. Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2024: 1-28.
“As Inscrutable as the Sphinx, but Far More Dangerous: The Origins of Democratic-Personalist Conflict,”
Journal of Global Security Studies, Volume 8, Isuue 1, March 2023.“Diversity and Political Inclusion in Post-Conflict States,” With President Antifete Jahjaga, Minister Zainab Bangura,and Teuta Avdimetaj. Untapped Power: Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Conflict and Development, Oxford University Press (2022).
“Peacemakers or Iron Ladies? A Cross National Analysis of Gender and Conflict,” With Alexandra Stark. Security Studies 2020: 1-34.
“Pugnacious Presidents: Democratic Constitutional Systems and International Conflict.” With Matthew Kroenig. Political Science Quarterly 136.2, 2021: 249-275.
Ongoing Research and Working Papers
“Cybersecurity, Health Pandemics, and the Climate Emergency: Threat Abstraction and the Future of Warfare.”
“Appointing Women: Gender, Ambivalence, and Attribution in International Security” (SSHRC IDG Funded Research).
“Gender and Decision-making in the First Gulf War.”
Reports and Reviews
Report “Great Power Competition: Hastening America’s Decline?” Issue Brief, Security and Strategy. Reimagining Grand Strategy Program, Stimson Center. August 2024.
Review of Deploying Feminism: The Role of Gender in NATO Military Operations. By Stéfanie von Hlatky. Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum Roundtable Review 15-21. H-Diplo. 8 January 2024.
Review of Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong. By Alexander B. Downes.
Perspectives on Politics, December 2022Review of Suez Deconstructed: An Interactive Study in Crisis, War, and Peacemaking. By Philip Zelikow and Ernest May. Texas National Security Review, April 2019
Selected Commentary
“How Regime Change in Iran Could Backfire on the US,” The National Interest, July 2025
Contributor, “How Effective is US Strategic Deterrence?” Adults in the Room, Inkstick, November 2024
Contributor, “Stuck in Our Ways: US Intervention,” Adults in the Room, Inkstick, September 2023.
Contributor, “Twenty Years of the Global War on Terror,” Adults in the Room, Inkstick, October 2021
“Do Quotas Actually Help Women in Politics?” Ms. Magazine, January 2019
“How Women’s Small Acts of Resistance Threaten the Iranian Government,” CFR.org, December 2018
“Why Regime Change in Iran Wouldn’t Work,” Foreign Affairs, July 2017 (With Ariane Tabatabai)
"Writing Women Back In,” Duck of Minerva, May 2017 (With Anjali K. Dayal and Alexandra M. Stark)
“We’re Having the Wrong Conversation About Iran,” The Atlantic, February 2012
“Hey America, Iran still Isn’t Threat No. 1,” Christian Science Monitor, October 2011