Publications
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Echoes of June 1941 in March 1969: Intelligence and Escalation on the (Far) Eastern Front” (forthcoming at Journal of Cold War Studies)
“You Don’t Know Khrushchev Well”: The Ouster of the Soviet Leader as a Challenge to Recent Scholarship on Authoritarian Politics,” Journal of Cold War Studies (2022) 24 (1): 78–115.
“A New Case for the Study of Individual Events in Political Science,” Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2021
“Historical Legacies and Leaders’ Worldviews: Communist Party History and Xi’s Learned (And Unlearned) Lessons” in China Perspectives, 2018/1-2
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Xi Jinping’s Russian Lessons,” in Foreign Affairs, June 24, 2024
“What Beijing’s Muted Response to Wagner Mutiny Tells us about China-Russia Relations—and What it Doesn’t,” in The Conversation, June 30, 2023
“Xi Jinping and Ideology,” Essays on China and US Policy, Wilson Center, 2021-2022 China Fellowship
“China’s Balancing Act on Russian Invasion of Ukraine Explained,” in The Conversation, March 10, 2022
“A Squabble About History Almost Killed Xi Jinping’s Father,” in Foreign Policy, November 25, 2021
Review of “The War Scare That Wasn’t: Able Archer 83 and the Myths of the Second Cold War” by Simon Miles in H-Diplo, March 2021
“China’s Nuclear Program Baffled Soviet Intelligence,” in Foreign Policy, October 21, 2020
“Xi Jinping’s Tiananmen Family Lessons,” in Foreign Policy, June 4, 2020
Review of Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy by Dmitry Adamsky in H-Diplo, April 2020
“What Xi Jinping Learned—And Didn’t Learn—From His Father About Xinjiang,” in The Diplomat, November 26, 2019
“Chinese Society amid Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution: The Roots and Nature of the Tragedy: Commentary by Joseph Torigian,” in Journal of Cold War Studies, 21:2, Spring 2019
“Elite Politics and Foreign Policy in China from Mao to Xi,” in Revolution or Evolution? Xi Jinping and the Future of China’s Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution, January 22, 2019.
“Don’t count on China to rein in North Korea. Here’s why” in Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, February 17, 2017
“The Shadow of Deng Xiaoping on Chinese Elite Politics” in War on the Rocks, January 30, 2017
“Khrushchev’s Fate and China’s Future” in The Diplomat, November 24, 2016
“Mass Atrocity Monday: Tiananmen Square” on Justice in Conflict blog, June 6, 2016