US Foreign Policy

Russia’s Warfare by War Crime and US ResponsibilityH-Diplo Essay 425, Commentary Series on Putin’s War, 29 March 2022.

Rejoining Iran nuclear deal is not easy, interview with Niloofar Adibnia, Iranian Labour News Agency, 18 March 2021.

More of the Same, and Worse: Revisiting Donald Trump and the Limits of International Law, H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series, America and the World—The Effects of the Trump Presidency, 2021-10, 4 March 2021.

Fakhrizadeh assassination deliberately intended to hinder return to JCPOA, interview with Mohammad Mazhari, Tehran Times, 8 December 2020.

Introduction to Forum 25 on the Importance of White House Presidential Tapes in Scholarship, H-Diplo/ISSF, 2 November 2020.

Only sympathy with the Iranian people not likely to succeed (sic), interview with Niloofar Adibnia, Iranian Labour News Agency, 5 October 2020.

Myron Taylor and the Bombing of Rome: The Limits of Law and Diplomacy, Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 31, no. 2 (June 2020).

Chechnya, Yeltsin, and Clinton: The Massacre at Samashki in April 1995 and the US Response to Russia’s War in Chechnya, introductory essay and summary of declassified documents, National Security Archive Briefing Book #702, edited with Svetlana Savranskaya, 15 April 2020.

Many of Trump’s actions are impulsive and ill-considered, interview with Niloofar Adibnia, Iranian Labour News Agency, 25 February 2020.

Illegal act that risks increasing conflict in Middle East, interview with Niloofar Adibnia, Iranian Labour News Agency, 11 January 2020.

Stati Uniti cinici, Europa divisa, vince il sovranismo, Corriere della Sera, 22 September 2019, discussion with Luigi Einaudi and Viviana Mazza.

EU is under considerable pressure from the United States regarding SPV, interview with Niloofar Adibnia, Iranian Labour News Agency, 29 January 2019.

Donald Trump and the Limits of International LawH-Diplo | ISSF POLICY Series, America and the World—2017 and Beyond, 24 May 2017.

On ‘Democracy,’ New York Times Book Review, 21 May 2017. 

Is War Too Easy? Perspectives on Politics, *vol. 14, no. 1 (March 2016).

How the end of the Cold War ended, in Uses of ‘the West’: Security and the Politics of Order, Gunther Hellman and Benjamin Herborth, eds. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

L’illegalità dei droni [The illegality of drones], Il Margine (Trento), vol. 33, no. 3 (2013), interview conducted by Mirco Elena.

A “War on Terror” by any other name…What did Obama change? Publication 2012-02, Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University (English version of the Epilogue to the ill-fated and ultimately non-existent Arabic translation of Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror), revised February 2013.

Nuclear Abolition or Nuclear Umbrella: Choices and Contradictions in US Proposals, in Getting to Zero: The Path to Nuclear Disarmament, Catherine McArdle Kelleher and Judith Reppy, eds. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011).

Coping with 9/11: Alternatives to the War Paradigm, report for Eisenhower Study Group project, Burdens of War, Brown University (July 2011).

Onu e diritti umani, oltre l’egemonia Usa [The UN and human rights, beyond US hegemony], Vita e Pensiero (Milan), no. 2 (March-April) 2007.

The Power of Precedent: Will American Practice Change the Norms of International Humanitarian Law? Crossroads, vol. 6, no. 1 (2006).

Wars without End, The Bookpress, vol. 13, no. 2 (March 2003).

Scofflaw Diplomacy, The Bookpress, vol. 12, no. 7 (November 2002).

The United States and Asian Security, Peace Studies Program Occasional Paper #26 (May 2002), co-editor with Judith Reppy.

Iraq and Beyond: The New U.S. National Security Strategy, Peace Studies Program Occasional Paper #27 (January 2003), with Maria Fanis, Barry Strauss, and Jonathan Kirshner.

Russia Looks West: The Myth of ‘Hostage Europe,’ The Nation, 7 May 1983.

Quando la tortura non è più un tabù: una riflessione dopo Abu Ghraib [When torture is no longer a tabu: a reflection after Abu Ghraib], Corriere del Mezzogiorno (Naples supplement to Corriere della Sera), 16 March 2006, interview conducted by Fabio Petito and Massimo Galluppi.

Il diritto bellico ai tempi del terrore [Law of war in a time of terror], Biblioteca della libertà (Turin), vol. 41, no. 182 (January-March 2006).

Why Russia Opposes Expansion: NATO Stay Away From My Door, The Nation, 5 June 1995.

The ‘Soviet Threat’: Intentions, Capabilities, and Context, Diplomatic History, vol. 22, no. 3 (Summer 1998).

Second-Guessing the Experts: Citizens’ Group Criticism of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Estimates of Soviet Military Policy, International History Review, vol. 19, no. 3 (August 1997).

Offense or Defense: A Tale of Two Commissions, World Policy Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (Fall 1983).

Cooperation Theory and Disarmament Negotiations in the 1950s, World Politics, vol. 42, no. 4 (July 1990).

Issue-Area and Foreign Policy RevisitedInternational Organization, vol. 43, no. 1 (Winter 1989).

Military Spending, Harvard Crimson, 19 March 1981, coauthor with Tim Gardner and Murray Gold.

Review of When Stars and Stripes Met Hammer and Sickle, by Ross Mackenzie, in Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 9, no. 2 (Spring 2007).

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