Comparative Politics​

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• Working Paper: “Stabilizing Instability: The Meaning and Practice of Sovereignty for the World's Weakest States.”

• “Secessionist Conflicts and New States,” in Africa’s Insurgents: Navigating an Evolving Landscape, edited by Morten Boas and Kevin C. Dunn (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007), pp. 61-78.

• Review of Rebuilding War-Torn States: The Challenges of Post-Conflict Economic Reconstruction, by Graciana del Castillo, in The Journal of Military History Vol. 81, No. 2 (April, 2017): pp. 611-13.

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Political Philosophy

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Working Papers:

• "The Crib and the Cosmos in Plato's Laws"

• "Aristotle and Kant on Knowing the Good and the Meaning of Human Happiness"

• "Machiavelli and the Ancients: The Good, The Republic, and the Great Man"

• "Nothing to Talk About: The Problem of Discourse in Advanced Modernity according to Martin Heidegger"

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