Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Empathy, Risk-Taking, and Concession-Making: Gorbachev’s Bold Proposals at Reykjavik to End the US-Soviet Arms Race,” Security Studies Vol. 32, No. 2 (2023): 306-337. 
“Sadat and the Road to Jerusalem: Bold Gestures and Risk Acceptance in the Search for Peace,” International Security Vol. 45, No. 1 (Summer 2020): 127-163.
“Consumers and the Case for Labeling Genfoods,” Journal of Research for Consumers, Issue 13 (2007).

Working Papers

(under review) “Reassuring Israel after the 1973 War: Sadat’s Empathic Signaling and Its Effects on Israel’s Decision-makers”
“On the Brink: Egypt, Israel, and the War Scares of 1977”

(With Lt. Col. Colby Broadwater) “SOF Power: How Green Berets Can Generate Indigenous Mass in an Age of Great Power Competition”

Book Project

Between War and Peace: Anwar Sadat and the Strategic Transformation of Egyptian-Israeli Relations, 1973-1979 

Book Reviews

(w/ Lt. Col. Colby Broadwater) Book Review of Training for Victory: U.S. Special Forces Advisory Operations from El Salvador to Afghanistan by Frank K. Sobchak. Small Wars and Insurgencies Vol. 36, No. 7 (2025): 1426-1431.

Other Writings

“Why Israel’s security doctrine won’t help it achieve strategic stability in the Middle East,” the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 5, 2025. 

Editor and Annotator (with translations provided by Yara Malshy) of “Israeli Defense Force General Staff Discussions regarding Sadat’s visit to Israel,” US Naval War College Archives, May 2025.

“Keeping the Middle East on Edge: Why Iran Threatens to Retaliate Against Israel – And Why It Has Not Yet Done So,” The Modern War Institute at West Point, August 20, 2024.

“Stepping back from the Brink: A Clausewitzian Explanation of Israel’s Restraint Toward Iran” (with Vanya Eftimova Bellinger), The Modern War Institute at West Point, May 3, 2024.

“Clausewitz, the Culminating Point of Victory, and Israel’s Perilous Rafah Operation” (with Vanya Eftimova Bellinger), The Modern War Institute at West Point, March 22, 2024.

“Arms Alone Cannot Win the Peace in Ukraine,” The National Interest, August 2, 2022.

“Jimmy Carter’s Role in Securing Middle East Peace,” E-International Relations, April 21, 2016.

Endorsement written for History, Politics, and Diplomacy of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Source Document Reader, ed. Kenneth W. Stein, March 2015.