I am an expert on U.S. politics and foreign relations with a broad range of experience in writing for popular audiences as well as academic writing. I excel at explaining my subject expertise to a broad audience. I am currently writing a U.S. politics textbook and also leading an academic research project on U.S. foreign policy under Trump. I also write a newsletter titled America Explained.

My articles for a popular audience have appeared in venues such as World Politics Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, Asia Times, The National Interest, Stars and Stripes, The New Statesman, Idenskab (Denmark), Gulf News (Dubai), Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg), The Huffington Post UK, The Diplomat (Tokyo), Australian Outlook, The Africa Times, The Scranton Times Tribune (Pennsylvania), The Intelligencer (Pennsylvania), The Wapakoneta Daily News (Ohio), The Press of Atlantic City (New Jersey), The St. Paul Pioneer Press (Minnesota), The Peninsula (Qatar), Yahoo! News. My articles have been translated into Vietnamese, Greek, Turkish, French, Spanish, Albanian and Portuguese.

I currently work at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Previously I was a research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a teaching fellow at the UK Defence Academy, and a civil servant in the UK Cabinet Office.