Book
- 2015: Latin America Confronts the United States: Asymmetry and Influence (New York/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
- A 2016 Foreign Affairs Book of the Year
- Now in paperback!
- Reviews:
- Luis Schenoni in International Studies Review
- Russell Crandall in Survival
- Richard Feinberg for Foreign Affairs
- Oliver Stuenkel for International Journal
- Sean Burges for International Affairs
- Greg Weeks on Two Weeks Notice
- Gavin O’Toole for Latin American Review of Books
- Leandro Morgenfeld for Observatorio Latinoamericano y Caribeño
- H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable (Richard Feinberg, Juan Pablo Scarfi, Laura Macdonald, Gian Luca Gardini, and Dustin Walcher)
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
- 2018: “The US, Brazil, and Latin America: The dynamics of asymmetrical regionalism,” Contemporary Politics, Vol. 24, No. 1 , pp. 113-129.
- In the special issue, Major Powers in Shared Neighbourhoods
- 2017: “Small states, great power? Gaining influence through intrinsic, derivative, and collective power,” International Studies Review, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 185-205
- 2017: “It’s Not the Size, It’s the Relationship: From ‘Small States’ to Asymmetry,” International Politics, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 144-160 (March 2017)
- 2017: “Coloso fragmentado: la agenda ‘interméstica’ y la política exterior latinoamericana,” Foro Internacional, No. 227 (vol. LVII-1, enero marzo de 2017)
- 2016: “The United States in Latin America: The overstated decline of a superpower,” The Latin Americanist, Vol. 60, No. 4 (December 2016)
- 2015: “Soft Balancing in the Americas: Latin American Opposition to U.S. Intervention, 1898-1936,” International Security, Vol. 40, No. 1 , pp. 120-156. With Max Paul Friedman.
- H-Diplo review by Christopher Darnton
- H-Diplo reply by Friedman and Long
- 2014: “Putting the canal on the map: Panamanian Agenda-setting and the 1973 Security Council Meetings,” Diplomatic History, Vol 38, No. 2: pp. 431-455.
- H-Diplo review by Andrew Kirkendall
Book chapters (peer-reviewed)
- 2018: “Latin America: Asymmetry and the problem of influence,” in Robert Jervis, Francis Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse, eds, Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the 21st Century (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming). With Max Paul Friedman.
- 2017: “Regional public goods in North America,” in Louis W. Goodman and Antoni Estevadeordal, eds., 21st Century Cooperation: Regional Public Goods, Global Governance, and Sustainable Development, (Routledge, 2017). With Manuel Suarez-Mier.
Essays and reports (non-peer reviewed)
- 2018: “There is no map: International Relations in the Americas,” Latin American Research Review, (review essay, accepted and forthcoming, n.d.)
- 2018: “La relación entre Estados Unidos y América Latina y el Caribe en la era Trump,” Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior, no. 114 (forthcoming, November 2018)
- “Why U.S. Leaders Don’t Need to Fear Latin American ‘Soft Balancers,‘” The National Interest, August 18, 2015. With Max Paul Friedman.
- “Trump and Latin America: Asymmetry and the problem of influence,” in Robert Jervis, Francis Gavin, Joshua Rovner, and Diane Labrosse, eds. America and the World—2017 and Beyond, H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series. With Max Paul Friedman. May 2017.
- 2014: “Echoes of 1992: The NAFTA negotiations and North America now,” Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
- 2010: “The Cold War and its aftermath in the Americas: The Search for a Synthetic Interpretation of U.S. Policy,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 261-273. With Robert A. Pastor.
Under review
- “Latin America and the liberal international order: An agenda for research”
- “Historical antecedents and post-WWII regionalism in the Americas”
- “The Larreta Doctrine and the promise of precommitment” with Max Paul Friedman
- “Domestic contestation and presidential prerogative in Latin American foreign policy: Theory and evidence from Colombia,” with Sebastián Bitar and Gabriel Jiménez
- A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics, book proposal, Bridging the Gap Book Series at Oxford University Press (under contract)
Reviews
- Of Robert A. Karl, Forgotten Peace: Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia, University of California Press, 2017, in International Affairs, March 2018.
- Of Joseph S. Tulchin, Latin America in International Politics, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2016, in Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 50, no. 2, May 2018.
- Of Juan Pablo Scarfi, The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas, New York: Cambridge, 2017, in International Affairs (January 2018)
- Of Hal Brands, Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016, in Political Science Quarterly, vol. 132, no. 3, Fall 2017
- Of Robert A. Karl, “Reading the Cuban revolution from Bogotá, 1957–62.” Cold War History 16:4, (Fall 2016): 337-358, in H-Diplo Article Review no. 692, April 26, 2017.
- Of Christopher Darnton, Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014, in Foro Internacional, LV, 4 (222), 2015
Projects in progress
- “The Hirschman Effect,” workshop and project led by Jonathan Kirshner and G. John Ikenberry; Princeton and Cornell
- “Middle Power Regionalism in the Americas,” project funded by British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant, 2016-2017. Research contributing to an ongoing article and a longer-term book project.
- “Truman in Rio,” project funded by Truman Library Institute, 2016-2017, contributing to the projects above.
- “Colombian foreign policy in the post-conflict era,” project funded by British Council’s Researcher Links, with Sebastian Bitar of Universidad de los Andes. Co-authored article in progress.
- “Agency under asymmetry: A framework for weaker-state foreign policy” (under revision)
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