The microsociology of diplomacy 
  • 2025. “Emotions and Interpersonal Diplomacy,” in Simon Koschut and Andrew A.G. Ross (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Emotions in International Relations (Oxford University Press).
  • 2025. “Face-to-face with a Madman,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 38(6): 944–964.
  • 2023. “Diplomatic Negotiations,” in Gesine Lenore Schiewer, Jeanette Altarriba, and Bee Chin Ng (eds.), Language and Emotion: An International Handbook Vol. 3 (De Gruyter Mouton): 1885-1905.
  • 2021. “Who Blinked? Performing Resolve (or Lack thereof) in Face-to-face Diplomacy,” Security Studies 30(3), 419-449.
  • 2021. “One-upmanship and Putdowns: The Aggressive Use of Interaction Rituals in Face-to-face Diplomacy,” International Theory 13(2), 341-71.
  • 2020. “Mapping the Repertoire of Emotions and their Communicative Functions in Face-to-face Diplomacy,” International Studies Review 22(1), 77-97.
  • 2019. “Stoics and Hotheads: Leaders’ Temperament, Anger, and the Expression of Resolve in Face-to-face Diplomacy,” Journal of Global Security Studies 4(2), 190-208.
  • 2016. “Emotions and the Communication of Intentions in Face-to-face Diplomacy,” European Journal of International Relations 22(1), 144-167.

Emotions in international politics
  • 2024. “Explaining the ‘Cult of Toughness’: In-group Fear, Kennedy’s Reputation for Weakness, and the Berlin Crisis of 1961,” International Politics 61, 761-783.

International politics of East Asia
  • 2024. “Audience Costs, Humiliation, and Social Creativity Strategies: How Beijing Boosts Citizens’ Esteem in International Conflicts,” European Journal of International Relations 30(3): 569-594.
  • 2023 (with Charles Fung). “Perils of the Orient: Hong Kong as a Battleground in the US-China Rivalry,” Asian Perspective 47(2): 209-227. Also in Brad Roberts and Hyun Ji Rim (eds.). 2003. US-China Strategic Competition: US Indo-Pacific Strategy and Foreign Policy Challenges (Routledge).
  • 2018 (with Hak Yin Li). “The Evolution of Chinese Public Diplomacy and the Rise of Think Tanks,” Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 14(1), 36-46.
  • 2006. “What’s in a Dumpling? The Chinese Fast Food Industry and the Spread of Indigenous Cultures under Globalization,” Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs 6(1), 25-32. Reprinted in Greta Uehling, ed. 2018. International Studies: Perspectives on a Rapidly Changing World (Cognella); and Joan T. Mims and Elizabeth M. Nollen. 2011. Mirror on America: Essays and Images from Popular Culture, 5th edition (Bedford/St. Martin's).
  • 2005. “Economic Statecraft across the Strait: Business Influence in Taiwan’s Mainland Policy,” Asian Perspective 29(2), 41-72.

Work in Progress
  • Diplomacy as Performance (book project)
  • Giving and Giving Off in Diplomacy (book project)
  • “Leaders as Mere Mortals in Face-to-face Diplomacy” (under review)
  • “Bringing Together the Two ‘Prima Donnas’: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Politics of Rituals at the 1941 Atlantic Conference” (under review)
  • “The Elephant in the Room: Words Not Spoken as Intentions in Diplomacy”
  • The Social Psychology of Propaganda

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