My first book, tentatively titled Reliability and Alliance Interdependence: the U.S. and its Allies in Asia, 1949-1969, proposes and tests a new theory of how alliance commitments are interdependent.  I argue that deterrence and alliance theorists, as well as scholars sceptical of reputation, have incorrectly focussed on the idea of a loyalty reputation.  To the contrary, I show that states do not always want their ally to display a character trait of unalloyed loyalty.  

After outlining the theory, I test it against five case studies drawn from the first half of the Cold War in Asia. To inform my research, I conducted extensive archival research in the United States.  I collected thousands of documents from the National Archives and Records Administration (College Park, Maryland), the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (Abilene, Kansas), the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (Boston, Massachusetts), the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library (Yorba Linda, California) and the Seeley G. Mudd Library (Princeton, New Jersey).  Thus, the book advances our understanding of alliance politics, and also our knowledge of how the U.S. and its allies in Asia interacted during the first half of the Cold War.  
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The book is under contract, and is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2022.