RESEARCH

Published or forthcoming

“The Politics of International Peace and Security: Introducing a New Dataset on the Creation of United Nations Security Council Subsidiary Bodies.” (with Sloan Lansdale and Shannon Carcelli). International Studies Quarterly. 68,2 (2024), sqae060. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqae060

“Globaloney: The Origins of the “Globalist” Insult in Political Discourse” (with Zack Scott). Forthcoming at Political Research Quarterly.

“Globalization in Latin America: The Law, Politics, and Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements” (edited volume with Manfred Elsig and Rodrigo Polanco). In press at Cambridge University Press.

“Why is there not investor-state dispute settlement in RCEP? Bargaining and contestation in the investment regime.” (with Kirthana Ganeson, Manfred Elsig, Julien Chaisse, and Sufian Jusoh). Business and Politics. (2024):1-28. https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2024.8.

“Re-contracting International Organizations: Membership Change and the Creation of Linked Intergovernmental Organizations.” Review of International Organizations. (2024):1-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-024-09533-8

“Politicising pandemics: Evidence from US media coverage of the World Health Organisation.” (with Jeff King). Global policy. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13187

“Drafting Investment Law: Patterns of Influence in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).” (with Julien Chaisse, Manfred Elsig, and Sufian Jusoh). Journal of International Economic Law 25,1 (2022): 110-128. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgac006

“Conflicted Capital: Civil Conflict and Bilateral Investment Treaties.” (with Trey Billing). Journal of Conflict Resolution 63,2 (2019): 373-404.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002717729734 FULL TEXT

“The Ties between the World Trade Organization and Preferential Trade Agreements: A Textual Analysis.” (with Todd Allee and Manfred Elsig). Journal of International Economic Law 20, 2 (June 2017): 333-363. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgx009

“Is the European Union Trade Deal with Canada New or Recycled? A Text-as-data Approach.” (with Todd Allee and Manfred Elsig). Global Policy 8,2 (March 2017): 246-252. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/17585899.12420 FULL TEXT

“Who wrote the rules for the Trans-Pacific Partnership?." (with Todd Allee). Research & Politics 3,3 (2016). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168016658919 FULL TEXT

Other

“Short Overview of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).” (multiple authors). European Parliament, Policy Department for External Relations. (2021).

“Resilience in the Sahel Desk Assessment” (with John McCauley and Trey Billing). USAID (2017)

“U.S. negotiators made sure the TPP agreement reflected U.S. Interests. Here’s how we checked, line by line.” (with Todd Allee). The Monkey Cage. Washington Post, August 2016. LINK

“Armenia Second Community Agricultural Resource Management and Competitiveness Project, Implementation Support Mission Report.” World Bank (2016). (Prepared annex summarizing field visits to grant projects, Annex III)

“Armenia Community Agricultural Resource Management and Competitiveness Project, Final Implementation Support Mission Report.” World Bank (2016). (prepared annex summarizing field visits to grant projects, Annex XI)

“Lebanon Sustainable Agricultural Livelihoods in Marginal Areas Project, Identification Mission Report.” World Bank (2012). (Prepared initial draft project outline, Annex II)

“Lesotho Smallholder Development Project, Implementation Support Mission Report. World Bank (2012). (prepared section on small grants and annex summarizing field visits to grant projects, Annex IV)

Working papers and works in progress

“Recontracting Global Governance.” Book Project.”

“Connecting Regimes: Preferential Trade Agreements and the Management of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime.” (with Manfred Elsig, Soo Yeon Kim, and Jesslene Lee). Working paper.

“Cost or benefits? Competing frames and public support for multilateral peace operations.” (With Jared Oestman). Working paper.

“Do Preferential Trade Agreements Promote Democracy?” (with Manfred Elsig, Kirthana Ganeson, and Marine Roux). Working paper.

“Determining the Authorship of Preferential Trade Agreements: A New Technique Using a Supervised Author Topic Model.” (with Todd Allee, Manfred Elsig, and Neil Lund). FULL TEXT

“Do Powerful Countries Write Investment Rules? Model BITs as Templates for International Negotiations.” (with Todd Allee). FULL TEXT

“Hierarchy in Complexity: The Regime Complex in Intellectual Property Rights.” (with Manfred Elsig, Soo Yeon Kim, and Jesslene Lee).

“Autocratic Economics: The Design of Preferential Trade Agreements and Autocratic Survival.” (with Marine Roux).

“Recontracting the United Nations: Member Dissatisfaction and the Creation of UN-linked Organizations”

“Civil Conflict and the Initiation of Investor State Dispute Settlement Claims.” (with Jared Oestman). In preparation.

“Illiberal by Design? Assessing the effect of regime type on the design of international organizations.” (with Zachary Billot).