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Publications

Current Research

My current research project investigates the professional schools of international affairs: their historical development and the diverse ways in which they mediate between the academic, policy, and financial worlds.

"Professional Schools of International Affairs in the United States: A Historical Sketch." Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 36/3 (2023): 328-51. [First published online in December 2020]. (pdf)

 

“US Foreign Wars, Mass Marketing, and the Development of Post-Truth Politics,” in Stephen McGlinchey, Leo Lin, Zeynep Selin Balci, and Patrick Vernon, eds., Global Politics in a Post-Truth Age (Bristol, UK: E-International Relations, 2022), pp. 43–56. (Free PDF of the book)

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“IR Ideas as Reflections and Weapons of US Foreign Policy,” in Andreas Gofas, Inanna Hamati-Ataya, and Nicholas Onuf, eds., The SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations (London: Sage, 2018), pp. 399–413. (pdf)

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“A Sociological Analysis of the Decline of American IR Theory.” International Studies Review, 18/4 (December 2016): 571-96. (pdf)

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“How Can We Make Political Science Less Techno-Centric? Widen Rather than Narrow its Distance from the Government.” Perspectives on Politics 13/2 (June 2015): 394–95.

 

Ido Oren and Ty Solomon, “WMD, WMD, WMD: Securitization through Ritualized Incantation of Ambiguous Phrases.” Review of International Studies 41/2 (April 2015): 313–36. (pdf)

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Ido Oren and Ty Solomon, “Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Career of a Concept.” New Political Science 35/1 (March 2013): 109–35. (pdf)

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“Why Has the United States Not Bombed Iran? The Domestic Politics of America’s Response to Iran’s Nuclear Program.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 24/3 (Dec. 2011): 659–84. (pdf)  

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"The Unrealism of Contemporary Realism: The Tension between Realist Theory and Realists' Practices." Perspectives on Politics 7/2 (June 2009): 283-301. (pdf)

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“Political Science As History: A Reflexive Approach,” in Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, eds., Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006), 215–27. Reprinted in the book's 2nd edition, 2014. (pdf)

 

“Can Political Science Emulate the Natural Sciences? The Problem of Self-Disconfirming Analysis,” Polity, 38/1 (January 2006): 72–100. (pdf)

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