Research.

Publications by Topic

Development
​Cooperation

2025. "Neither Mimicry nor Substitution but Business as Usual: German Aid Attitudes in the Wake of the USAID Shutdown." Politics. Online first. With Sebastian Schneider, Helge Zille, and Alex Goedderz.

​2024. "Manipulating the Masses? Right-wing Populist Messages, Political Ideology, and Public Support for Foreign Aid in Germany, the U.S., and the UK."  Journal of International Development. 36(7):2705-2724. With Sebastian Schneider, Joerg Faust, and Catarina Thomson.

2022. "Ignoring the Messenger? Limits of Populist Rhetoric on Public Support for Foreign Development Aid." International Studies Quarterly. 66(1). With Catarina Thomson. 

2021. "The Logic of Negative Appeals: Graphic Imagery, Affective Empathy, and Foreign Development Aid." Global Studies Quarterly. 1(4). With Marcus Holmes.
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2019. “Feeling their Pain: Affective Empathy and Public Preferences for Foreign Aid.” European Journal of International Relations. 26(3): 820-850. With Marcus Holmes.
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2017 “Aiding Strangers: Generalized Trust and the Moral Basis of Public Support for Foreign Development Aid.” Foreign Policy Analysis. 13(1): 133-153. 
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2016 “Values and Prosocial Behavior in the Global Context: Why Values Predict Public Support for Aid to Developing Countries." Journal of Human Values. 22(2):93-106. 

Institutional
​Cooperation

2025. "Enforcement of International Human Rights Law: A Comparative Exploration of Alternative Public Opinion Channels." British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 27(4): 1385-1407. With Eric Keels and Efe Tokdemir. 

​2024. "Ideology, Local-Level Policymaking, and International Governmental Organizations." International Studies Quarterly. 68(3). With Daniel Sledge and Hershell Thomas.

2023. "Influencing Enforcement: The Application of International Law in Independent Judiciaries- The Case of the Alien Tort Statute." (2023). Political Research Quarterly. 76(4): 1959-1972. With Banks Miller.

2022. "Knowing How to Give: International Organization Funding Knowledge and Public Support for Aid Delivery Channels." The Journal of Politics. 84(4):1885–1898.
With Erin R. Graham. 

2021. "Who Trusts the WHO: Heuristics and Americans’ Trust in the World Health Organization During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Social Science Quarterly.102(5): 2312-2330. With Todd G. Shields. 

2017. “Due Deference: Cosmopolitan Social Identity and the Psychology of Legal Obligation.” International Organization. 71(S1) S137-S163. 
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2017 “Good Europeans: How European Identity and Costs Interact to Explain Politician Attitudes Toward Compliance with European Union Law.” Journal of European Public Policy. 24(1): 42-60.  
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2017. “Financing the United Nations: Explaining Variation in How Donors Provide Funding to the UN.” Review of International Organizations. 12:421-459. With Erin R. Graham. 
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2016. “On Legal Obligation in International Politics.” International Journal of Interdisciplinary Civic and Political Studies. 11(2): 1-18. 

Diplomatic
​Cooperation

2025 ."The Cost of Dehumanization: How Political Rhetoric Shapes Public Resistance to Cooperation with Adversaries." Cooperation and Conflict. 61(1):3-31. With Faten Ghosn.

2022. "How Women Promote Peace: Sex Composition, Duration, and Frames in Conflict Resolution." International Interactions. 48(6):1089-1120. With Vivian Ta and Eric Keels..

2019. “Diplomatic Chameleons: Linguistic Style Convergence and Agreement in International Negotiations.” Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. 12(1): 23–40. With Vivian Ta.
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2017. “The Choice for Integration: Multilateralism and German MPs Preferences over European Integration.” German Politics & Society. 35(1): 19-41.

Cosmopolitan
​Identity

2019. “Nationalist Cosmopolitanism: The Psychology of Cosmopolitanism, National Identity, and Going to War for Country.” Nations and Nationalism. 25(3):757-781.
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2015. “What Drives Modern Diogenes? Individual Values and Cosmopolitan Identity.” European Journal of International Relations 21(2):451-479

Methods 
​Papers

2020. “Measuring Common Knowledge: Latent Semantic Analysis, Linguistic Synchrony, and Common Knowledge in International Relations.” International Relations. 34(2): 180-203.  With Vivian Ta.
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2018. “Serious Subjects: A Test of the Seriousness Technique to Increase Participant Motivation in Political science Experiments.” Research and Politics. 5(2): 1-6.