Books
History’s Dead-Hand Grip: Politics, Statecraft, and “Lessons” of the Past, Co-editor with Daniel Sargent (Hoover Institution Press, Forthcoming on November 1, 2026)
Of Scandal and Power: A History of the Iran-Contra Affair (Forthcoming, 2027)
Essays and Reports
“Trump’s Venezuela Playbook May Falter in Havana,” Engelsberg Ideas, April 7, 2026.
“Trump’s Bid for Hemispheric Supremacy,” Engelsberg Ideas, January 9, 2026.
“A New Age in US-Mexican Interdependence,” Engelsberg Ideas, November 27, 2025.
Americas First: Reorienting US Foreign Policy, Hoover Institution Press, October 2024.
Articles
“Trump’s Western Hemisphere Pivot is Real,” Foreign Policy, December 19, 2025. Co-authored with Ryan C. Berg.
“Partner of First Strategic Choice,” The Caravan, December 17, 2025. Co-authored with Jesse Weinberg.
“Hemispheric Defense is Back,” Defining Ideas, October 21, 2025. Co-authored with Ryan C. Berg.
“Security Begins at Home,” Hoover Digest, Spring 2025.
“First the Americas, Then the World,” RealClearDefense, March 13, 2025.
“Trump’s Americas Doctrine Starts at the Canal,” Defining Ideas, February 12, 2025.
“Caribbean Catastrophe: Avoiding the Haiti Fallout,” Defining Ideas, January 23, 2025.
On “The Manner In Which American Democracy Conducts Foreign Affairs” in The Genius of America – A Journey Into Our Republic: A Study on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy In America, Constituting America, December 12, 2024.
“America Must Put the ‘Americas First’,” Defining Ideas, December 9, 2024.
“Vexed by Venezuela: The Maduro Problem,” Defining Ideas, November 13, 2024.
“Foreign Policy Starts in Your Own Neighborhood.” RealClearDefense, May 1, 2024.
“Whither the Monroe Doctrine?,” The National Interest, March 18, 2024.
“Be Skeptical of Reagan’s ‘October Surprise’,” War on the Rocks, April 10, 2023. Co-authored with William Inboden.
Congressional Testimony
Advancing American Interests in the Western Hemisphere, Hearing before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, March 5, 2025.
Interviews
On the American Strikes in Venezuela, Le Figaro, January 3, 2026.
A New Era in US Foreign Policy? The Past, Present and Future of US political strategy in the Americas, UK Forum on a Multipolar World, July 30, 2025.
Reviews
Review of To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power, by Sergey Radchenko, Defense & Security Analysis (May 2025).
Review of Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition, by Christian Nikolaus Braun, Defense & Security Analysis 40, No. 1 (2024): 162-164.
“Peace Through Strength and Strategy,” in Roundtable Review of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink, by William Inboden, Not Even Past, May 3, 2023.
“Sex, Drugs, and Mind Control,” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 35, No. 1 (Spring 2022): 173-178.
Review of Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics since 1900, by David A. Smith, South Dakota History 51, No. 4 (Winter 2021): 388-389.
Review of Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean War to the Present, by Donald Stoker, H-War, H-Net Reviews, August 2020.
Review of The Mayaguez Crisis, Mission Command, and Civil-Military Relations, by Christopher J. Lamb, Journal of Military History 84, No. 2 (April 2020): 652-653.
Press – Featured In
“Is Trump’s Indefinite Ceasefire with Iran the Prelude to Peace?,” The Straits Times, April 22, 2026.
“Trump’s Prime-time Speech shows a President torn between Escalation and Exit,” The Straits Times, April 2, 2026.
“Killing Iran’s leader, ‘Appointing’ New One: Is Everything Fair in War?,” The Straits Times, March 6, 2026.
“Trump’s Lack of Clarity Over Iran Strategy Could Backfire,” The Straits Times, March 3, 2026.
“It was Not an Invasion, Not Illegal and Not About Oil: Marco Rubio on Capture of Venezuela’s Maduro,” The Straits Times, January 5, 2026.
“Trump’s Maduro Capture is About Drugs, Immigrants and China,” The Straits Times, January 4, 2026.
“Trump: ‘Donroe Doctrine’ with Gaze Persistently Pinned to China,” Kathimerini, November 26, 2025.
“Donald Trump Revives Gunboat Diplomacy in Venezuela Stand-off,” Financial Times, October 23, 2025.
“Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Aims to Dominate the Americas,” Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2025.
“3 More Members of Chinese Criminal Organization Plead Guilty to Laundering Millions in Illicit Drug Proceeds,” The Epoch Times, July 8, 2025.
“Beyond Panama Canal, Trump Stares at China’s Growing Influence in Latin America,” The Straits Times, March 7, 2025.
“Trump is Not in the White House Yet but It Feels Like He is Already in Charge,” The Straits Times, December 4, 2024.
