I am a Professor and the Giancarlo Elia Valori Chair in the Study of Peace and Regional Cooperation in the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I have received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University and had taught at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
My research agenda touches on the sources, design, and effects of international organizations and agreements. My book, Regional Economic Institutions and Conflict Mitigation: Design, Implementation, and the Promise of Peace (2012), explores the relationships between variation in regional economic organizations (REOs) and regional security. In other projects, I explore the relationships between crises and IOs, regime complexity, and the authority of IOs as well as the politics of global investment treaty regime. I have published peer-reviewed articles on these and other topics in such journals as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Review of International Organizations and the Review of International Political Economy.