Associate Professor
Schar School of Policy & Government
George Mason University
Teaching, research, commentary, and global engagement
research
I am excited to announce the publication of this volume, edited with two of my former GMU PhD students. With a third GMU PhD student (!) I contribute a chapter on how the American marketplace of ideas, as flawed as it is, actually provides a much more robust defense against Russian election interference than most people understand.
Every summer I lead the International Security Studies Program, a six-credit, study abroad course to Fribourg, Switzerland. I think it’s the single best way to earn six credits at Mason, period.
If you’re looking to upgrade your academic and analytical writing, I have all sorts of resources to help.
According to a formal whistleblower complaint, President Donald Trump withheld Congressionally-appropriated aid from Ukraine in an attempt to pressure Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to
President Trump is at it again, taking to Twitter to announce that he had directed Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to ratchet up sanctions on Iran in the wake of the
Fuel to the Fire critiques the past 30 years of U.S. grand strategy, assesses Donald Trump’s worldview and foreign policy, and concludes with a proposal for
We have an article published in the latest edition of Survival critiquing America’s foreign policy of global interventionism and making the case for a grand strategy of restraint. September