TRAVIS SHARP
Biographic Data
| ID | 5793490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | TRAVIS SHARP |
| GIVEN NAMES | TRAVIS |
| FAMILY NAME | SHARP |
| SIGNATURE | SHARP T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3554-0018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sources cited analysis: Balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence
Wars, presidents, and punctuated equilibriums in US defense spending
Hiding in Plain Sight: Political Effects of Cyber Operations
Cyber operations may not impose much physical destruction, but they can squeeze at least three political pressure points: money, leadership and secrecy
Process Peace: A New Evaluation Framework for Track ii Diplomacy
Track ii diplomacy, or unofficial interactions designed to produce ideas, build relationships, and change perceptions, has become a supplement – and sometimes an alternative – to traditional diplomacy. Yet practitioners and scholars still debate its effectiveness. Practitioners claim that Track ii diplomacy promotes peace but insist that its contributions are intangible and therefore difficult to assess empirically. Meanwhile, scholars maintain t…
Theorizing cyber coercion: The 2014 North Korean operation against Sony
This article challenges the conventional wisdom that cyber operations have limited coercive value. It theorizes that cyber operations contribute to coercion by imposing costs and destabilizing an opponent’s leadership. As costs mount and destabilization spreads, the expected utility of capitulation surpasses that of continued defiance, leading the opponent’s leaders to comply with the coercer’s demands. The article applies this ‘cost-destabilizat…
Pivot but Hedge: A Strategy for Pivoting to Asia While Hedging in the Middle East
Over-promising and under-delivering? Ambitions and risks in US defence strategy
Recent changes to US defence strategy, plans and forces have placed the United States at greater risk of over-promising and under-delivering on its global security ambitions. In 2012, the Obama administration released a new defence strategic guidance document to adapt to a shifting security environment and defence budget cuts. The guidance upholds the two long-standing American goals of global pre-eminence and global reach, but seeks to apply thi…
Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy
A s the war in Iraq drags into its sixth year and cumulative spending ap- proved by the Congress for the "global war on terrorism" surpasses $850 billion, both the American public and security experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the present and future direction of US defense spending. One proposal under consideration is to allocate the defense budget each year as a specific percentage of America's gross domestic product (GDP). Advoc…
Resource Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Constructing a grand theory of war is a difficult task. International Relations scholars such as Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, John Mearsheimer, and Samuel Huntington have relied on the principle
Peace Profile: The African Resistance Movement
After the Nationalist Party came to power in South Africa in 1948, it began institutionalizing white superiority by implementing apartheid, an unprecedented legal codification of racist ideology. M
Theorizing cyber coercion: The 2014 North Korean operation against Sony
This article challenges the conventional wisdom that cyber operations have limited coercive value. It theorizes that cyber operations contribute to coercion by imposing costs and destabilizing an opponent’s leadership. As costs mount and destabilization spreads, the expected utility of capitulation surpasses that of continued defiance, leading the opponent’s leaders to comply with the coercer’s demands. The article applies this ‘cost-destabilizat…
Wars, presidents, and punctuated equilibriums in US defense spending
Pivot but Hedge: A Strategy for Pivoting to Asia While Hedging in the Middle East
Process Peace: A New Evaluation Framework for Track ii Diplomacy
Track ii diplomacy, or unofficial interactions designed to produce ideas, build relationships, and change perceptions, has become a supplement – and sometimes an alternative – to traditional diplomacy. Yet practitioners and scholars still debate its effectiveness. Practitioners claim that Track ii diplomacy promotes peace but insist that its contributions are intangible and therefore difficult to assess empirically. Meanwhile, scholars maintain t…
Over-promising and under-delivering? Ambitions and risks in US defence strategy
Recent changes to US defence strategy, plans and forces have placed the United States at greater risk of over-promising and under-delivering on its global security ambitions. In 2012, the Obama administration released a new defence strategic guidance document to adapt to a shifting security environment and defence budget cuts. The guidance upholds the two long-standing American goals of global pre-eminence and global reach, but seeks to apply thi…
Hiding in Plain Sight: Political Effects of Cyber Operations
Cyber operations may not impose much physical destruction, but they can squeeze at least three political pressure points: money, leadership and secrecy
Resource Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Constructing a grand theory of war is a difficult task. International Relations scholars such as Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, John Mearsheimer, and Samuel Huntington have relied on the principle
Peace Profile: The African Resistance Movement
After the Nationalist Party came to power in South Africa in 1948, it began institutionalizing white superiority by implementing apartheid, an unprecedented legal codification of racist ideology. M
Resource Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Constructing a grand theory of war is a difficult task. International Relations scholars such as Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz, John Mearsheimer, and Samuel Huntington have relied on the principle
Tying US Defense Spending to GDP: Bad Logic, Bad Policy
A s the war in Iraq drags into its sixth year and cumulative spending ap- proved by the Congress for the "global war on terrorism" surpasses $850 billion, both the American public and security experts are becoming increasingly concerned about the present and future direction of US defense spending. One proposal under consideration is to allocate the defense budget each year as a specific percentage of America's gross domestic product (GDP). Advoc…
Pivot but Hedge: A Strategy for Pivoting to Asia While Hedging in the Middle East
Over-promising and under-delivering? Ambitions and risks in US defence strategy
Recent changes to US defence strategy, plans and forces have placed the United States at greater risk of over-promising and under-delivering on its global security ambitions. In 2012, the Obama administration released a new defence strategic guidance document to adapt to a shifting security environment and defence budget cuts. The guidance upholds the two long-standing American goals of global pre-eminence and global reach, but seeks to apply thi…
Process Peace: A New Evaluation Framework for Track ii Diplomacy
Track ii diplomacy, or unofficial interactions designed to produce ideas, build relationships, and change perceptions, has become a supplement – and sometimes an alternative – to traditional diplomacy. Yet practitioners and scholars still debate its effectiveness. Practitioners claim that Track ii diplomacy promotes peace but insist that its contributions are intangible and therefore difficult to assess empirically. Meanwhile, scholars maintain t…
Theorizing cyber coercion: The 2014 North Korean operation against Sony
This article challenges the conventional wisdom that cyber operations have limited coercive value. It theorizes that cyber operations contribute to coercion by imposing costs and destabilizing an opponent’s leadership. As costs mount and destabilization spreads, the expected utility of capitulation surpasses that of continued defiance, leading the opponent’s leaders to comply with the coercer’s demands. The article applies this ‘cost-destabilizat…
Hiding in Plain Sight: Political Effects of Cyber Operations
Cyber operations may not impose much physical destruction, but they can squeeze at least three political pressure points: money, leadership and secrecy
Wars, presidents, and punctuated equilibriums in US defense spending
Sources cited analysis: Balancing safety and transparency with confidential interview evidence
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