Publications

“Wisdom Is Welcome Wherever It Comes from: War, Diffusion, and State Formation in Scandinavia” (with Eric Grynaviski). Forthcoming. International Organization.

“Rule Ambiguity, Institutional Clashes and Population Loss: How Wikipedia Became the Last Good Place on the Internet”. Forthcoming. American Political Science Review.

• Winner of the 2023 Best Paper Award in the International Communication Section of the International Studies Association.

“From Rebellious and Reluctant Allies to Reliant Partners: Denmark and Iceland in the Transatlantic Relationship” (with Anders Wivel and Baldur Thorhallsson) in Small States and Security in Europe, edited by Tom Weiss and Geoffrey Edwards (Routledge, 2021).

“Shelter Theory and Smallness in International Relations” (with Baldur Thorhallsson) in Iceland’s Shelter-Seeking Behavior: From Settlement to Republic (Cornell University Library, 2021).

“Nordic cooperation as a form of governance: Iceland’s sheltered society” (with Baldur Thorhallsson) in Handbook of Governance in Small States, edited by Lino Briguglio, Jessica Byron, Stefano Moncada, and Wouter Veenendaal (Routledge, 2020).

Several chapters in Small States and Shelter Theory: Iceland’s External Affairs, edited by Baldur Thorhallsson (Routledge, 2018):

• • “The Small State in International Relations” (with Baldur Thorhallsson and Thorsteinn Kristinsson) 

  • “A Theory of Shelter” (with Baldur Thorhallsson) 

  • “Shelter during the American Period” (with Baldur Thorhallsson, Thorsteinn Kristinsson and Daniel J. Devine) 

  • “Nordic Cooperation and Shelter Implications” (with Baldur Thorhallsson and Thorsteinn Kristinsson) 

  • “Iceland’s Shelter Options in the New Millennium” (with Baldur Thorhallsson)

“Do liberal ties pacify? A study of the Cod Wars.” 2018. Cooperation and Conflict 53(3): 339-355.

“American shelter: Iceland’s Foreign Policy 1940-2006” (with Baldur Thorhallsson and Þorsteinn Kristinsson) 2018. Scandinavian Journal of History 43(4): 539- 563.

“Neoclassical Realism in the North Atlantic: Explaining Behaviors and Outcomes in the Cod Wars.” 2017. Foreign Policy Analysis 13(3): 599-617. 

“Small State Foreign Policy” (with Baldur Thorhallsson). 2017. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (Oxford University Press).

“The Cod Wars - A re-analysis.” 2016. European Security 25(2): 256-275. 

Op-eds

“Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield finally got her Wikipedia page. Here’s why it took so long.” The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, 27 October 2020

“The Small-State Survival Guide to Foreign Policy Success.” The National Interest, 1 October 2017. 

“When tiny Iceland did beat England: Its time to brush up on the Cod Wars.” The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, 26 June 2016.