• "Book Note [V. Ku'b'alakova and A.A. Cruickshank, Marxism and International Relations]," Ethics, Vol. 97, no. 2 (January 1987): 507-508.

Scholarly Reviews and Review Essays

• “Woodrow Wilson’s War,” The National Interest, No. 99 (January/February 2009): 97-96. [PDF]

• “Review of David M. Edelstein, Occupational Hazards: Success and Failure in Military Occupation,” Perspectives on Politics Vol6, No. 4 (December 2008): 864-5.

• “Review of Harold James, The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire,” The Independent Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Winter 2008): 459-62.

• “Civil-Militarism: The Origins of the New American Militarism,” Orbis Vol. 50, No. 3 (Summer 2006): 573-82.

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2000s

Books

• "Latin America and U.S. National Security: A Review Essay," Journal of Inter- American Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 31, no. 4 (Winter 1989): 209-223. 

• "Guarding the Red Guardians: Thinking About Soviet and Russian Civil- Military Relations," Security Studies, Vol. 4, no. 1 (Autumn 1994): 181-89. 

• "Why Ordinary Men Commit Extraordinary Crimes: The German Military, the War on the Eastern Front, and the Final Solution," Security Studies Vol. 3, no. 2 (Winter 1993/94): 359-68. 

• "Review of Douglass Macdonald, Adventures in Chaos: American Intervention for Reform in the Third World" American Political Science Review Vol. 87, no. 3 (September 1993): 815.

• "Review of Paul M. Kennedy, ed. Grand Strategies in War and Peace" Journal of Interdisciplinary History Vol. 23, no. 1 (Summer 1992): 213-15. 

Articles

Other Materials

• "America's Wounded Warriors and the Lessons of Vietnam," Orbis Vol. 42, No. 3 (Summer 1998): 473-79. [PDF]

• "Review of Stephen Walt's Revolution and War," Mershon International Studies Review Vol. 41 (1997): 125-26.

• "Isolationism Revisited: A Review of Eric Nordlinger's Isolationism Reconfigured," Centerpiece, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Autumn 1995): 2-3.

• "The State and the Monopolization of International Violence -- A Review of Janice E. Thomson, Mercenaries, Pirates and Sovereigns," Mershon International Studies Review, Vol. 39, Sup. 1 (April 1995): 149-51.
  

• “Review of Lawrence Freedman, Deterrence,” Perspectives on Politics Vol. 3, No. 3 (September 2005): 685-86. 

• “A ‘Final Solution” to a Recurrent Tragedy?” Security Studies, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Spring 2004): 145-59. 

• “Campaigning in the Balkans,” Joint Forces Quarterly No. 31 (Summer 2002): 117-18. 
  

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