My publications beyond The Envoy

A running list of what I’ve published in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, and websites.

A newsstand. (Creative Commons)

2022

• “How Putin is Retreading Mussolini’s Path.” Lessons from History (Medium), May 2, 2022.
• “My 2021 Book List: New Records, More Thoughtfulness.” Books Are Our Superpower (Medium), January 13, 2022.

2020

• “Fighting the New-Business Deficit in the Time of Coronavirus.” HR&A Advisors blog (Medium), April 21, 2020.
• “How an 18th Century Explorer Can Help Us Understand the Algorithms Taking Over Our World.” Gizmodo, April 7, 2020.

2019

• “The Capital by Robert Menasse.” Necessary Fiction, September 30, 2019.
• “Mapping user journeys for a better workforce system in Massachusetts.” Massachusetts Digital Service blog (Medium), May 13, 2019.
• “How Amazon’s HQ2 could disrupt government IT, for the worse.” TechCrunch, May 3, 2019. (Republished on The Envoy with permission.)

2018

• “Se il premier deve dire Sì ai suoi due vicepremier” (“If the prime minister must say Yes to his deputies”). Giornale di Brescia, October 29, 2018. (Read it on The Envoy or in PDF.)
• “Mass.gov: Building a wicked awesome new website for Massachusetts.” Massachusetts Digital Service blog (Medium), July 30, 2018.
• “Andando a lezione da Starbucks” (“Going to school at Starbucks”). Giornale di Brescia, June 30, 2018. (Read it on The Envoy or in PDF.)
• “Le schede lenzuolo e i voti ‘sprecati’” (“Enormous ballots and ‘wasted’ votes”). Giornale di Brescia, April 24, 2018. (Read an extended version on The Envoy or the original in PDF.)
• “How Digital Services Interns Reshaped Mass.gov’s Content.” Massachusetts Digital Service blog (Medium), March 29, 2018.

2017

• “The next internment: Would Chinese in the U.S. be rounded up during a war?” Foreign Policy, June 29, 2017. (The essay appeared in Tom Ricks’ Best Defense blog. You can read an extended version on The Envoy.)

2016

• “Assessing United Nations Economic Sanctions: The Relationship Between Sanctions and Imports in 11 Targeted States from 1990 to 2014.” Asian Journal of Public Affairs 9, no. 1 (Summer 2016): 3–20.
• “Reforming Japan’s Security Policy: Historical Challenges, Modern Necessities.” Yonsei Journal of International Studies 8, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2016): 66–78.
• “Government debt thresholds in sovereign credit ratings: Identifying differential effects for the Big Three rating agencies.” Working paper from an Independent Study Module I conducted at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (Spring 2016).
• “Improving Interagency Collaboration and Public Participation in Planning in Reimagining Tampines: New Approaches for Local Development.” (With Arisa Ito.) Policy Analysis Exercise produced for the Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore (April 2016). Awarded the WyWy Gold Medal for Best Policy Analysis Exercise.

2013

• “Defense Retrenchment in Europe: The Advantages of a Collaborative Response to Relative Decline and Economic Crisis.” Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po 3 (November 2013).