I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. My research examines issues of international security, focusing on strategy and statecraft on the brink of war. My interests include territorial conquest, the fait accompli, deterrence, coercion failure, nuclear proliferation, and the causes of war. My first book, Territorial Conquest Since 1945, is forthcoming with Cornell University Press. I am working on a second book: Challenging Deterrence: Gray Zone Competition and Limited Deterrence Failures. My research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Global Security Studies, the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Nonproliferation Review, and Security Studies. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center (Harvard) and the Dickey Center (Dartmouth) as well as a predoctoral fellow at CISAC (Stanford). I received my PhD in Political Science from MIT. 

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