Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
with Paul Diehl, Gary Goertz, Andrew Owsiak, Douglas Lemke, Kristian Gleditsch, Charles Butcher, Ryan Griffiths, Tanisha Fazal "Conceptualizing and Operationalizing the Interstate System," International Studies Review, 27, no. 4 (2025): 2-29.
with Juan Felipe Campos-Contreras and Camilo Nieto-Matiz "Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia," British Journal of Political Science, 55, no. 1 (2025): 1-25.
(lead author) with Gary Goertz, Paul Diehl, and Andy Owsiak "The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas," International Studies Quarterly, 68, no. 2 (2024). Honorable Mention, Outstanding Article Award, International Collaboration Section, American Political Science Association.
with Raul Madrid "Reining in Rebellion: The Decline of Political Violence in South America, 1830-1929," International Security, 48, no. 3 (2024): 129-167.
with Detlef Nolte "To Lead or Not to Lead: Regional Powers and Regional Leadership," International Politics, 61, no. 1 (2024): 40-59.
with Aníbal Pérez Liñán and Kelly Morrison "Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights," International Studies Review, 25, no. 1 (2023): 1-23.
(lead author) with Pedro Feliú, Dawisson Lopes and Guilherme Casarões"Myths of Multipolarity: The Sources of Brazil's Foreign Policy Overstretch," Foreign Policy Analysis, 18, no. 1 (2022): 1-22.
“Bringing War Back In: Victory and State Formation in Latin America,”American Journal of Political Science, 65, no. 2 (2021): 405-421. Best Paper Award, Political Institutions Section, Latin American Studies Association.
(lead author) with Gary Goertz, Paul Diehl, and Andy Owsiak “Settling Resistant Territorial Disputes: The Territorial Boundary Peace in Latin America,”International Studies Quarterly, 64, no. 1 (2020): 57-70. Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3, Appendix 4.
(lead author) with Jorge Battaglino and Sean Braniff “Was the Malvinas/Falklands a Diversionary War? A Prospect Theory Reinterpretation of Argentina's Decline,”Security Studies, 29, no. 1 (2020): 34-63. Appendix 1. Best Article Award, Defense, Security and Democracy Section, Latin American Studies Association.
with Federico Merke and Diego Reynoso “Foreign Policy Change in Latin America: Exploring a Middle Range Concept,”Latin American Research Review, 55, no. 3 (2020): 413-429.
with Camilo Nieto-Matiz "Backing Despots? Foreign Aid and the Survival of Autocratic Regimes,"Democracy and Security, 16, no. 1 (2020): 36-58.
(lead author) with Scott Mainwaring “US Hegemony and Regime Change in Latin America,”Democratization, 26, no. 2 (2019): 269-287. Appendix 1, Appendix 2, Appendix 3.
“The Argentina-Brazil Regional Power Transition,”Foreign Policy Analysis, 14, no. 4 (2018): 469-489.
“The Southern African unipolarity,”Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 36, no. 2 (2018): 207-228.
with Nicole Jenne and Francisco Urdinez “Of words and deeds: Latin American declaratory regionalism, 1994-2014,”Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 30, no. 2 (2017): 195-215.
“La Lógica Realista de la Unipolaridad Sudamericana,”Desarrollo Económico, 57, no. 222 (2017): 253-276.
“Subsystemic Unipolarities? Power Distribution and State Behaviour in South America and Southern Africa,”Strategic Analysis, 41, no. 1 (2017):74-86.
with Carlos Escude “Peripheral Realism Revisited,”Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 59, no. 1 (2016): 1-18.
with Francisco Urdinez, Fernando Mouron and Amâncio Oliveira “Chinese Economic Statecraft and US Hegemony in Latin America: An Empirical Analysis, 2003–2014,”Latin American Politics and Society, 58, no. 4 (2016): 3-30.