I’m an associate professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar. I am an expert on U.S. foreign policy and international relations. I also write a newsletter, Systematic Hatreds, about political science, academia, and current events.
I research two questions: How do domestic institutions shape U.S. foreign policy? And how does U.S. foreign policy shape international order? The former shapes my dissertation (now being prepared as a book project) into the relationship between the emergence of political parties and the development of U.S. foreign policy. Separately, I investigate the relationship of global energy markets to domestic and international politics.
I have appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, al-Jazeera (Arabic and International), CBC, KCRW’s Press Play with Madeleine Brand, ABC’s (Australia) The World, BNN (Canada), Los Angeles’s KABC, WGBY’s Connecting Point, and Ottawa’s 1310 NewsTalk radio. I have been quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Guardian.
My non-peer-reviewed writing has appeared in outlets including the Washington Post , Foreign Policy, Cato Unbound, and Slate.
I received my Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University in D.C., an M.A. in Politics from University College Dublin, and a B.A. in Political Science and History from Indiana University-Bloomington.
More autobiographical details are available through my curriculum vitae.