Other Materials

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2010s

• “Civilians, Soldiers, and the Iraq Surge Decision,” International Security Vol. 36, No. 3 (Winter 2011/12): 180-91. 

• “Benevolent Cant? Kant’s Liberal Imperialism,” The Review of Politics Vol. 73, No. 4 (Fall 2011): 649-56. ​

Articles

1990s

• “Isms and Schisms: Culturalism versus Realism in Security Studies,” International Security Vol. 24, no. 1 (Summer 1999): 156-80. 
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• “A Historian’s Fallacies: A Reply to Bacevich,” Armed Forces and Society, Vol. 24, no. 4 (Summer 1998): 589-94. 

• "Is There a Logic of the West?" World Policy Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1 (March 1994): 120-22. 

Books

Scholarly Correspondence and Exchanges

2000s

• “Salute and Disobey? The Civil-Military Balance, Before Iraq and After,” Foreign Affairs Vol. 86, No. 5 (September/October 2007): 153-56. 

• “Abusing the Holocaust Analogy?” Security Studies Vol. 15, No. 4 (October- December 2006):713-17. 

• “Democratic Victory Reconsidered,” International Security Vol. 28, no. 1 (Summer 2003): 142-94.Type your paragraph here.