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I am a researcher and author on  military interventions, peacekeeping, and European security and defense policy. I currently work as Professor of International Relations at the Hertie School (Berlin, Germany) and  Northwestern University (Chicago, USA).
 
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MY AcADEMIC WORK

My current research focuses on military coalition-building, intervention decision-making and U.S. and European Grand Strategy.  

My academic work has been published in International Security, Security Studies, International Studies Quarterly, International Peacekeeping, Providing for Peacekeeping, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and Conflict Management and Peace Science among others. 

I am also the author of Constructing Allied Cooperation: Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Military Coalitions (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019)
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PHOTOGRAPHY

In my free time, I am an ardent traveler and photographer. Please visit the photography section of this website so see a small selection of photographs I have taken around the world.