SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
On Geopolitics
Was Sweden ever Neutral?
NATO Defense College Foundation
When Sweden finally does join NATO – which is likely to happen later this year, it will mean the end of over 200 years of supposed ‘neutrality’. But was Sweden ever really neutral?
AUKUS Represents the Future of Collective Deterrence
National Interest
AUKUS may be the most consequential step toward reasserting meaningful Anglosphere collaboration that could serve as a model for how to address common problems and hostile states.
No More Neutrality: NATO and the Twilight of Swedish Exceptionalism
National Interest
NATO membership signifies expedience at the expense of a self-aggrandizing national myth that has become increasingly difficult to sustain. The chaotic membership process for Sweden has been illustrative of the Global Enduring Disorder…
Think Tank Scholarship on Libya
Turning the Tide: How Turkey Won the War for Tripoli
Middle East Institute
The War for Tripoli, launched by Gen. Khalifa Hifter in April 2019, came to an abrupt end in June...
Kingdom of Militias: Libya’s Second War of Post-Qadhafi Succession
Institute for International Political Studies
In early April 2019, General Khalifa Haftar instructed the Libyan National Army (LNA) to take...
The Islamic State’s Revitalization in Libya and its Post-2016 War of Attrition
Combating Terrorism Center
Abstract: Following its territorial loss of Sirte in December 2016, the Islamic State in Libya has...
Scholarship on the Libyan Economy
An International Financial Commission is Libya’s Last Hope
Middle East Institute
For the last six years, the international community has tried a range of different approaches to...
The UN deliberately (albeit mistakenly) accorded sovereignty to post-Gadhafi Libya’s economic institutions
Middle East Institute
For many decades now, the United Nations has had a whole host of critics on the global right. Over...
How Libya’s economic structures enrich the militias
Middle East Institute
Largely overlooked in international policymaking toward Libya’s current conflict is the role of...
Cultural Commenatry
Sympathy for the Devil: Stalin in his Own Words
International Policy Digest
In his latest work, I, Stalin, Martin Van Creveld asks us to have sympathy for the devil…
How to Avoid the Second American Civil War
The National Interest
This November, a second American civil war could erupt when one side loses the elections and the...
The Hungary Model: Resurgent Nationalism
The National Interest
"As if by some undiscovered Newtonian law, today's attempts at humanitarian internationalism are...
On Wine
Our Shared Humanity, Middle Eastern Hospitality, and Authentic Georgian Wine Reinterpreted for Our Covid Christmas
The Middle East Institute
Newspaper op-eds and think tank blogs during the Christmas season are usually filled with abstract...
Serendipity in the Caucasus
Wine Sofa
The current craze for organic, natural and culturally authentic food products has a mirror in the...
A Tokaj Adventure Part I.
Wine Sofa
Like fine wine, a good anecdote should improve with age. The telling and retelling hones the...