RESEARCH - Eric Grynaviski

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Books

Forthcoming. The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America’s First Pacific Empire. With Miles Evers (Cambridge University Press.

2018. America's Middlemen: Power at the Edge of Empire. Cambridge University Press.

Winner 2018 Best Book in Diplomatic Studies,

International Studies Association.

2014. Constructive Illusions: Misperceiving the Origins of International Cooperation. Cornell University Press.

Winner of APSA's 2015 Jervis-Schroeder Award for

Best Book in International History and Politics

Reviewed in Foreign Affairs (capsule), Perspectives on Politics,

and the subject of a Roundtable in H-Diplo.

Papers

2023. "Wisdom Is Welcome Wherever It Comes From: War, Diffusion, and State Formation in Scandinavia." With Sverrir Steinsson. International Organization. 77 (2), 294-323

2018. "Reciprocity, Hierarchy, and Obligation: From Kula to Potlach." With John G. Oates. Journal of International Political Theory. (Special Issue)

2016. "Intending War Rightly: Right intentions, public intentions, and consent." Review of International Studies. 42 (4), 634-653.

2015. “Hierarchy and Judicial Institutions: Arbitration and Ideology in the Hellenistic World.” With Amy Hsieh. International Organization. 69 (3), 697-729.

2015. “Brokering Cooperation: Intermediaries to US Non-State Allies, 1776-1945.” European Journal of International Relations. 21(3), 691-717.

2013. “Causes, Contrasts, and Counterfactuals.”European Journal of International Relations. 19 (4), 823-846.

2013. “The Bloodstained Spear: Public Reason and Declarations of War.” International Theory, 5 (2). 238-272.

2010. “Necessary Illusions: Misperception, Cooperation, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.” Security Studies, 19 (3), 376-406.

Reviews and Other Writings

2017 Review of Richard Moss’s Nixon’s Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Détente. H-Diplo, December.

2016. “Uncommon Effects and Uncommon Causes.” International Studies Review. 18(2). 409-411. [Review of Lebow’s Constructing Cause in International Relations.]

2016 “Thinking Holistically about Transparency.” International History and Politics Newsletter. 1 (2), 7-9.

2015. Review of Brian C. Rathbun’s Diplomacy’s Value. In Perspectives on Politics. 13 (3), 920-922.

2010. “Do Our Philosophical Commitments Matter?” Qualitative & Multi-Method Research. 8: 4-9.

[Review of Patrick Thaddeus Jackson’s The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations.]

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