Research and analysis

My research covers a range of areas, broadly focused on understanding the emerging security landscape, particularly in East Asia, and the implications for U.S. defense and nuclear strategy.

U.S. Deterrence Strategy and Chinese Strategic Posture

Emerging Technologies

Net Assessments

Nuclear Deterrence and Escalation

Outside Publications

• Managing U.S. Nuclear Operations in the 21st Century (With Charles L. Glaser and Austin Long), forthcoming from Brookings Institution Press, Spring 2022.

• Nuclear Decision-Making, Complexity, and Emerging and Disruptive Technologies: A Comprehensive Assessment (with Jacek Durkalec and Anna Peczeli), published by the European Leadership Network, Feburary 2022.

• “The Strategic Implications of the Evolving U.S.-China Nuclear Balance,” Published in The Washington Quarterly, Winter 2021.

• “Chinese Views of the Changing Nuclear Balance,” in War on the Rocks, October 22, 2021.

Center for Global Security Research

• “Multi-Domain Operations and the Deterrence Calculus” (with Jonathan Pearl), in Getting the Multi-Domain Challenge Right, CGSR Occasional paper, December 2021.