Professional Biography
I am an independent scholar and analyst in Washington, DC. I previously served on the political science and international relations faculty at Stanford University, at Oxford University (Nuffield College) where I was the John G. Winant Lecturer in American Foreign Policy, and at the Graduate Program in International Studies at Old Dominion University.
I have held fellowships from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where I was the Susan Louise Dyer Peace Fellow; from the Center for International Security and Cooperation, also at Stanford University; and from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where I was a Pew Faculty Fellow in International Affairs.
My undergraduate work was in economics at U.C. Berkeley. I have master's degrees in international law from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. My Ph.D. was earned in political science from Stanford University.
I have published three books: Elections and War (Stanford University Press, 1999, paperback 2002); A Survivor's Guide to R: An Introduction for the Uninitiated and the Unnerved (SAGE 2015); and Quantifying the Qualitative: Information Theory for Comparative Case Analysis (with Katya Drozdova)(SAGE 2016); as well as a number of articles in leading journals on international law and on the relationship between domestic politics and international relations.
I recently finished a draft for a book on the equality of women.
I am available for consulting and academic work.