Faculty Publications

Ali Banuazizi

  • “The Crossing Paths of Religion and Nationalism in Contemporary Iran.” In Nadim Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, eds.,When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 247-271.

Robert Bartlett

  • Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach us About the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy (University of California, 2020).
  • “On the Acharnians.” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. 45: 3 (2019): 365-82.
  • Aristotle’s "Art of Rhetoric". A New Translation with an Interpretive Essay, Notes and Glossary. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2019).
  • “On the Supremacy of Contemplation in Aristotle and Plato.” In Mastery of Nature. Ed. Svetozar Minkov and Bernhardt Trout. (University of Pennsylvania Press. 2018).
  • “On Xenophon’s Agesilaus” together with a new translation of the Agesilaus. In Xenophon, The Shorter Writings. Ed. Gregory McBrayer. (Cornell University Press. 2018).

Nasser Behnegar

  • “Liberalism and Christianity: Locke’s use of the Bible in the Second Treatise,” in Civil Religion and Modern Political Philosophy, edited by Steven Frankel and Martin Yaffe, Penn State University Press, 2020.

Timothy Crawford

  • “Arms Control as Wedge Strategy: How Arms Limitation Deals Divide Alliances,” (w/Khang Vu),International Security 46, no. 2 (Fall 2021): 91-129."How to Distance Russia from China,” Washington Quarterly 44, no. 3 (Fall 2021): 175-194.
  • The Power to Divide: Wedge Strategies in Great Power Competition, Cornell University Press, 2021.
  • “Intelligence Cooperation.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. 2019.
  • “The Strategy of Coercive Isolation.” In Kelly Greenhill and Peter Krause, eds., Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2018): 228-250.
  • Review of Diane Pfundstein Chamberlain, Cheap Threats: Why the United States Struggles to Coerce Weak States in H-Diplo/International Security Studies Forum, Roundtable, Vol. 10, no. 21 (2018): 5-13.

David Deese

  • Book, edited: A Research Agenda for International Political Economy: Most Promising Pathways and Directions, Edward Elgar, edited, 2022
  • Book chapter “Financial Crises and Trade Wars:  Has GlobalizationFailed to Deliver?,” in Research Handbook on Trade Wars, Ka Zeng and Wei Liang eds., Edward Elgar, July 2022
  • Book:  Demand and Response from Global Public Organizations:  Why They Failed to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Aviation and Shipping? Springer International, 2022

David DiPasquale

  • "Alfarabi’s Book of Dialectic (Kitab al-Jadal): On the Starting Point of Islamic Philosophy. (Cambridge University Press, December 2019).

Gerald M. Easter

  • Last Stand of the Raven Clan: When Russian Went to War in America (Pegasus Books forthcoming)
  • "Avoiding the Succession Trap: Leadership Change in Survivor Communist Regimes" in Postcommunist World in the 21st Century: How the Past Informs the Present (Rowman and Littlefied, 2022) 
  • The Tsarina's Lost Treasure: Catherine the Great, a Golden Age Masterpiece, and a Legendary Shipwreck (Pegasus Books: 2020)
  • "Policing Protest in Russia" Communist and Postcommunist Studies (December 2021)

Jennifer L. Erickson

  • “Arms Control.” In The Oxford Handbook of International Security, ed. A. Gheicu and W. Wohlforth. Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • “Leveling the Playing Field: Cost Diffusion and the Promotion of ‘Responsible’ Arms Export Norms.” International Studies Perspectives 18(3) (2017): 323-42.
  • Changing History?: Innovation and Continuity in Contemporary Arms Control. In Power in Uncertainty: Exploring the Unexpected in World Politics, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Lucia Seybert. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 2018.

Dennis Hale

  • “What is American Citizenship?” (with Marc Landy), Real Clear Politics/Public Affairs 
  • “A Riven USA: Still the Last, Best Hope?” Real Clear Politics, July 20, 2020
  • “Do We Need the Civil Jury? And What For?” Voir Dire 26, #1, Spring, 2019, pp. 8-11.
  • “Blame the Fathers” (with Marc Landy), a review of Patrick J. Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed (Yale University Press, 2108), The Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2018, pp. 42-45.
  • “The Jury System as a Cornerstone of Deliberative Democracy” (with John Gastil), in The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism, edited by Ron Levy, Hoi Kong, Graeme Orr and Jeff King (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 233-245.

Ryan Patrick Hanley

Books

  • The Political Philosophy of Fénelon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
  • Translator and Editor,Fénelon: Moral and Political Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
  • Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019).

Articles and chapters

  • “The Human Good and the Science of Man,” History of European Ideas (forthcoming).
  • “Tocqueville and the Philosophy of the Enlightenment,” Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America, ed. Richard Boyd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
  • “Distance Learning: The Political Education of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters,” Review of Politics 83 (2021): 533-54.
  • “‘The Happiest and Most Honourable Period of My Life’: Adam Smith’s Service to the University of Glasgow,” in The Scottish Enlightenment: Human Nature, Social Theory, and Moral Philosophy, ed. Robin Mills and Craig Smith (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2021), 115-131.
  • “L’éducation du prince selon Fénelon : de l’amour-propre à la justice,” Revue française d'histoire des idées politiques 53 (2021): 113-24.
  • “Justice and Politics in the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals,” in Hume’s ‘Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals’: A Critical Guide, ed. Wim Lemmens and Esther Kroeker (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 53-71.
  • “Rousseau’s Three Revolutions,” European Journal of Philosophy 29 (2021): 105-119.
  • “Reply to My Critics” (part of symposium on The Political Philosophy of Fénelon and Fénelon: Moral and Political Writings),European Journal of Political Theory 20 (2021): 599-604.
  • “Magnanimity and Modernity: Greatness of Soul and Greatness of Mind in the Enlightenment,” in The Measure of Greatness: Philosophers on Magnanimity, ed. Sophia Vasalou (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 176-96.
  • “Fénelon and Rousseau,” in The Rousseauian Mind, ed. Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly (London: Routledge, 2019), 87-97.
  • “Isaiah Berlin on the Nature and Purpose of the History of Ideas,” in Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin, ed. Joshua Cherniss and Steven B. Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 81-96.
  • “Smith, Rousseau, and Kant on Learning to Become Just,” in Justice, ed. Mark LeBar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 39-66.
  • “Freedom and Enlightenment,” in Oxford Handbook of Freedom, ed. David Schmidtz and Carmen Pavel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), 223-38.

Michael Hartney

  • “Teachers Unions and School Board Elections: A Reassessment,” Interest Groups and Advocacy, January 2022.
  • “Off-Cycle and Off-Center: Election Timing and Representation in Municipal Government” with Adam Dynes and Sam Hayes,American Political Science Review, Vol. 115, No. 3 (August 2021) pp. 1097-1103.
  • “Off-Cycle and Out of Sync: How Election Timing Influences Political Representation,” with Sam Hayes,State Politics and Policy Quarterly, March 2021.
  • “Politics, Markets, and Pandemics: Public Education’s Response to Covid-19,” with Leslie Finger,Perspectives on Politics, June 2021.
  • “Financial Solidarity: The Future of Labor Unions in the post-Janus Era,” with Leslie Finger,Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 19, No. 1 (March 2021) pp. 19-35.
  • “Closures and Consequences,” with Renu Mukherjee,City Journal, December 8, 2021.
  • “What determined if schools reopened? How many Trump voters were in a district,” with Leslie Finger,Washington Post, November 10, 2020.
  • School Reopening Decisions Linked to Trump Vote Share and Catholic School Presence,” with Leslie Finger,Education Next, October 29, 2020.
  • “Stop Playing Politics with School Re-openings,” Newsweek, October 16, 2020.
  • “Teachers Unions in the post-Janus World,” with Daniel DiSalvo,Education Next, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Fall 2020).

Lauren Honig

  • “Land and Legibility: When Do Citizens Expect Secure Property Rights in Weak States?” (with Karen E. Ferree, Ellen Lust and Melanie Phillips). American Political Science Review. forthcoming
  • “The Power of the Pen: Informal Property Rights Documents in Zambia.” African Affairs,121(482), 81-107. 2022.
  • “What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya.” (with Amy Erica Smith and Jaimie Bleck). Perspectives on Politics, 1-18. 2021.
  • “Traditional Leaders and Development in Africa.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. 2019.
  • “Elite Defection and Grassroots Democracy Under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Burkina Faso.” Democratization 26 (4), 626-644. (with Sarah Andrews). 2019

David A. Hopkins

  • “How Trump Changed the Republican Party—And the Democrats Too.” In Steven E. Schier and Todd E. Eberly, eds.,The Trump Effect: Disruption and Its Consequences in U.S. Politics and Government (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022),chapter 2.
  • “Placing Media in Conservative Culture” (with Matt Grossmann). In Sharon E. Jarvis,ed.,Conservative Political Communication: How Right-Wing Media and Messaging (Re)Made American Politics (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 9–25.
  • “What the Kamala Harris Pick Tells Us About Joe Biden.” New York Times, August 12,2020.
  • Presidential Elections: Strategies and Structures of American Politics (with Steven E. Schier and founding authors Nelson W. Polsby and Aaron Wildavsky), 15th edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020.
  • “The Party Goes On: U.S. Young Adults’ Partisanship and Political Engagement Across Age and Historical Time” (with Laura Wray-Lake and Erin H. Arruda). American Politics Research 47 (November 2019).
  • “The Democrats Don’t Have the Suburbs Sewn Up Yet.” New York Times, September 23, 2019.
  • “Financing the 2016 Presidential General Election.” In David B. Magleby, ed., Financing the 2016 Election (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2019).
  • “Why Trump Didn’t Build the Wall When Republicans Controlled Congress.” Washington Post, January 25, 2019.
  • “From Fox News to Viral Views: The Influence of Ideological Media in the 2018 Elections” (with Matt Grossmann). The Forum 16 (December 2018).
  • “Televised Debates in Presidential Primaries.” In Robert G. Boatright, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections (New York: Routledge, 2018).

Chris Kelly

  • The Rousseauian Mind, edited by Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly (London and New York: Routledge, 2019).
  • “Rousseau and Julie von Bondeli on the Moral Sense,” with Heather Pangle, Adam Smith Review, Vol. 11 (2018) pp. 7-20.
  • “Rousseau on Happiness” translated into Chinese by Zeng Yuming in Philosophical Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 6, December 2018, pp. 52-64.
  • “Sovereign versus Government: Rousseau’s Republicanism,” in Acta Politologica Vol. 10 No. 2 (2018) pp. 19-36.

Ken Kersch

  • American Political Thought: An Invitation (Polity, 2021).
  • “The Messianic Presidency in Conservative Constitutional Thought,” The Constitutionalist (April 30, 2021).
  • “Constitutional Arguments, Constitutional Stories,” The University Bookman (February 23, 2020). 
  • “Mapping the Terrain of Conservative Constitutionalism,” Law and Liberty (January 22, 2020).
  •  “The Overlooked Conservative Tradition That Embraces an Executive Like Donald Trump,” The Atlantic (October 25, 2019).
  • Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
  • The Distinctiveness of the Supreme Court: An Historical Institutionalist Perspective,” Constitutional Studies 4 (2019).

Jonathan Kirshner

  • An Unwritten Future: Realism, Uncertainty, and World Politics (Princeton University Press, 2022).
  • The Downfall of the American Order? (Cornell University Press, 2022,co-edited with Peter Katzenstein).
  • "Gone but not Forgotten: Trump's Long Shadow and the End of American Credibility," Foreign Affairs (March/April 2021).
  • “The Keynesian Revolution,” Boston Review, July 13, 2020.
  • “The Man Who Predicted Nazi Germany,” New York Times, December 7, 2019.
  • When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited (Cornell University Press, 2019, co-edited with Jon Lewis).
  • “Handle Him with Care: The Importance of Getting Thucydides Right,” Security Studies 28:1 (January – March 2019).
  • The Great Wall of Money: Power and Politics in China’s international Monetary Relations (edited volume, Co-editor with Eric Helleiner). Turkish Edition (Koc University Press, 2018).
  • ‘A man’s Got to know his Limitations’: The Cop Films from Nixon through Reagan,” in Lester Friedman and David Desser (eds.) Tough Ain’t Enough: New Perspectives on the Films of Clint Eastwood (Rutgers, 2018), pp. 55-74.
  • “Confessions of a Left-Conservative: Norman Mailer in the Library of America,” Los Angeles Review of Books, September 19, 2018.
  • “Scenes from a Marriage,” Cineaste 44:1 (Winter 2018), pp. 67-68.
  • “Adam Tooze’s Crashed: From the Global Financial Crisis to Know-Nothing Nativism,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 18, 2018.
  • “Elevator to the Gallows,” Cineaste 43:3 (Summer 2018), pp. 62-64.
  • Review of Alan Blinder, “Advice and Dissent,” Washington Post, April 6, 2018.
  • “Dark Undercurrents: Claude Chabrol’s Second Wave from Les Biches (1968) to Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975),” Bright Lights Film Journal (March 2018).

Peter Krause

  • “COVID-19 and Fieldwork: Challenges and Solutions” with Ora Szekely and 11 others, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 54, No. 2 (April 2021) pp. 264-269.
  • You Can’t Get There From Here: Biden Negotiating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Political Violence @ a Glance, March 2, 2021.
  • Stories From the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science, co-edited with Ora Szekely (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).
  • “Navigating Born and Chosen Identities in Fieldwork,” in Stories From the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science, Peter Krause and Ora Szekely (eds.) (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).
  • “The Dilemma for Rebel Leaders: Power or Victory?,” Manara, No. 3, Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum, December 2020.
  • “The Two Faces of Kurdistan: Nationalism vs. Communalism,” with Sam Biasi, Political Violence @ a Glance, August 20, 2020.
  • “Yemen’s Proxy Wars Explained,” with Tyler Parker, Political Violence @ a Glance, March 26, 2020.
  • “It Comes with the Territory: Why States Negotiate with Ethnopolitical Organizations,” with Victor Asal and Daniel Gustafson, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Vol. 42, No. 4 (April 2019) pp. 363-382.
  • Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics, co-edited with Kelly Greenhill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
  • “How Human Boundaries Become State Borders: Radical Flanks and Territorial Control in the Modern Era,” with Ehud Eiran, Comparative Politics, Vol. 50, No. 4 (July 2018) pp. 479-499.
  • “A State, an Insurgency, and a Revolution: Understanding and Defeating the Three Faces of ISIS,” in The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications, Sumit Ganguly and Feisal A.R. al-Istrabadi (eds.) (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2018).

Masha Krupenkin

  • Co-author with S. Iyengar, “The Strengthening of Partisan Affect.” Political Psychology 39 (2018): 201-18.
  • Co-author with D. Rothschild, S. Hil and E. Yom-Tovl, “President Trump Stress Disorder: Partisanship, Ethnicity, and Expressive Reporting of Mental Distress After the 2016 Election.” SAGE Open 9(1) (2019): 1-14.
  • Co-author with G. Huberman, T. Konitzer, D. Rothschild and S. Hill, “Economic Expectations, Voting, and Economic Decisions around Elections.” AEA Papers and Proceedings 108 (2018): 597-602

Mark Landy

  • “The Presidency in  History, Leading from the the Eye of the Storm.”(S. Milkis co-author) In The Presidency and the Political System, Michael Nelson ed. ,12 edition, CQ Press, 2020
  • American Government: Enduring Principles, Critical Choices(Cambridge University Press. 4th edition, 2019)
  • “Taking Federalism Seriously.” Real Clear Public Affairs – American Civics, February, 2021 
  • “What is American Citizenship? Real Clear Public Affairs – American Civics, July 2021 
  • “Why is the Constitution Not Democratic?”, (Dennis Hale Co-Author), Real Clear Public Affairs - American Civics Spring 2020 
  • “Presidents and the Lessons of Emergency,” Real Clear Politics, February 1, 2019 
  • “Deneen and the Founders.” Review Essay, Claremont Review of Books, Volume 18, no. 3, Summer 2018

Jonathan Laurence

  • Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism and the Modern State, Princeton University Press. Forthcoming, 2021.

Thibaud Marcesse

  • “Public Policy Reform and Informal Institutions: The Political Articulation of the Demand for Work in Rural India.” World Development 103 (2018): 284-96.

R. Shep Melnick

  • “Desegregation, Then and Now,” National Affairs, Winter, 2020.
  • “Analyzing the Department of Education’s final Title IX rules on sexual misconduct,” Brookings Report, June 11, 2020.
  • “The Title IX Spotlight Shifts from the Campus to the Schoolhouse,” Education Next, May 27, 2020.
  • “The Mismeasure of ‘Enforcement,’” Education Next Blog, February, 2020.
  • “The Department of Education’s Proposed Sexual Harassment Rules: Looking Beyond the Rhetoric,” Brookings Brief, January, 2019.
  • “Rethinking Federal Regulation of Sexual Harassment: The Need for Debate,not Demagoguery in the Age of Trump,” Education Next, Winter, 2018.
  • “Sexual Harassment and the Evolving Civil Rights State,” in Lynda Dodd, ed., The Rights Revolution Revisited: Institutional Perspectives on the Private Enforcement of Civil Rights in the U.S. (Cambridge, 2018).
  • “Scalia’s Dilemmas as a Conservative Jurist,” in Paul E. Peterson and Michael W. McConnell, eds., Scalia’s Constitution: Essays on Law and Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
  • “Rethinking Federal Regulation of Sexual Harassment: The Need for Debate, not Demagoguery in the Age of Trump,” Education Next, Winter, 2018.
  • The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education. Brookings, 2018.
  • “The Strange Evolution of Title IX.” National Affairs 39 (2018): 19-35.

Lindsey O’Rourke

  • Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War. Cornell University Press, 2018.

Robert Ross

  • “China Looks at the Korean Peninsula: The 'Two Transitions,’” Survival, vol. 63, no. 6 (October 2021).
  • US-China Foreign Relations: Power Transition and its Implications for Europe and Asia, co-edited with Øystein Tunsjø and Wang Dong (London: Routledge, 2021).
  • “Learning From Foreign Colleagues: Research In China,” in Peter Krause and Ora Szekely, eds. The Unorthodox Guide to Fieldwork (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020).
  • “Beyond Theoretical Determinism: Exploring The Complexity of Power Transitions” (review essay), Journal of East Asian Studies, vol. 20, no. 2 (2020).
  • “It’s Not a Cold War: Competition and Cooperation in U.S.-China Relations,” China International Strategy Review, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020).
  • Published in Chinese in Zhongguo Guoji Zhanlue Pinglun (China international strategy review), no. 6, 2020.
  • “The Changing East Asian Balanc