Areas of Teaching and Research Interest

International relations theory; U. S. and comparative foreign policy; security studies; theories of social and political choice; political psychology.

Ongoing Research Projects

My research focuses on the political psychology of leadership in foreign policy decision making; US-Japan relations; and the role of identity politics in contemporary international relations. Recent publications include: Groupthink or Deadlock: When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors? (2002) and International Relations in a Constructed World (co-edited with Vendulka Kubalkova and Nicholas Onuf, 1998).

My ongoing research includes two book projects. One, supported by the Social Science Research Council and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, explores the causes, consequences, and limits of national identity in US-Japan relations. The other is a collaborative project with Professor Katja Weber (Georgia Institute of Technology) that examines a series of debates in German foreign policy from a constructivist perspective.