Public Policy

While studying public policy and public administration, I developed an interest in two theories: punctuated equilibrium theory (PET) developed by Baumgartner and Jones and multiple streams approach (MSA) developed by Kingdon.

In fulfilling my Master of Arts in public policy and administration from Northwestern, my thesis utilized punctuated equilibrium theory to explain changes in U.S. foreign policy.

September 20, 2021: A report I co-authored with Kolja Brockmann at SIPRI is out today! It discusses the overlapping sanctions environment on Iran and how the EU can better mitigate the humanitarian impacts of economic sanctions.

September 8, 2021: Now online --> Dr. Bryan Early and I contributed a chapter to the recently published The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy, edited by Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs.

April 6, 2021: My working paper on North Korea with Charmaine Willis is now available on SSRN. We will be presenting this paper at the ISA Annual Convention on April 9, 2021 at 11 AM.

February 23, 2021: View my recent commentary with Bryan R. Early at War on the Rocks on how U.S. economic sanctions have changed since the Trump Administration and where they are headed.

April 13, 2020: Check out my active learning exercise on institutional design at the Active Learning in Political Science blog.

March 19, 2020: My co-authored article with Bryan Early is out now in The Washington Quarterly. You can read it for free for a limited time by clicking here.

February 8, 2020: My first peer-reviewed article on sanctions enforcement and compliance co-authored with Dr. Bryan Early has been published in Security Studies.

August 26, 2019: I achieved candidacy today!