Research Areas: International Relations Theory, The Normative Dimension in International Relations, Peace Research, International Relations of Latin America, Globalization
List of main publications:
Peaceful Territorial Change (University of South Carolina Press: Columbia, SC, 1994).
"Explaining Zones of Peace: Democracies as Satisfied Powers?", Journal of Peace Research 33: 265-276.
Zones of Peace in the Third World: South America and West Africa in Comparative Perspective (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998).
"Regionalization, Globalization, and Nationalism: Convergent, Divergent, or Overlapping?", Alternatives 24: 527-556.
"Rashomon in Jerusalem: Mapping the Israeli Negotiators' Psotion in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, 1993-2001," International Studies Perspectives 6: 252-273.
Stable Peace among Nations [co-edited with Yaacov Bar-Siman Tov, Ole Elgstrom, and Magnus Jerneck] (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
The Impact of Norms in International Society: The Latin American Experience, 1881-2001 (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005).
"Global Governance, International Order, and World Order," in David Levi-Faur (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 686-698.
Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth: The Latin American Experience, 1982-2008 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security [co-edited with David Mares] (London: Routledge, 2016).
"Regional Security Governance" [with Galia Press-Bar-Nathan], in Tanja Boerjel and Thomas Risse (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
"Why Don't We Have Coherent Theories of International Relations about Globalization?", Global Governance 22 (2) [with Mor Mitrani]