Publications

2026 Trump’s Year of Anarchy: The Unconstrained Presidency and the End of American Primacy Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs (online) — 2025 Does DOGE Pose a National Security Risk? Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs (online) — 2025 Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs (online) — 2025 The Elusive Role of Public Opinion Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Inside the Situation Room: The Theory and Practice of Crisis Decision Making 0 2025 The Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for U.S. Global Leadership Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · International Organization 4 2024 Politics Can’t Stop at the Water’s Edge: The Right Way to Fight Over Foreign Policy Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs — 2024 The Imperial Presidency Unleashed Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs (online) — 2024 The Insiders’ Game: How Elites Make War and Peace Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Princeton University Press, Princeton Studies in International History and Politics Series · needs review — 2022 Elites in the Making and Breaking of Foreign Policy Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Annual Review of Political Science 115 2022 Follow the Leader Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Journal of Democracy 1 2021 A Cynical Ploy Like Hawley and Cruz’s Looks Harmless. Until It Isn’t. Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Washington Post Outlook — 2021 Introduction to forum on Robert Jervis, “Liberalism, the Blob, and American Foreign Policy: Evidence and Methodology” Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · H-Diplo/ISSF — 2020 Essay in roundtable on “The Importance of White House Presidential Tapes in Scholarship” Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · H-Diplo/ISSF — 2020 Introduction to Roundtable Review of Nicholas Miller, Stopping the Bomb: The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · H-Diplo/ISSF — 2020 Recapturing Regime Type in International Relations: Leaders, Institutions, and Agency Space Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · International Organization 132 2020 The Imperial Presidency is Alive and Well Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs (online) — 2020 The Suffragist Peace Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · International Organization 49 2020 Trump Didn’t Break Our Democracy. But Did He Fatally Weaken It? Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · New York Times Opinion — 2020 Women’s Suffrage and the Democratic Peace Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs (online) — 2019 The Domestic Politics of Nuclear Choices – A Review Essay Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · International Security 63 2019 Trump Doesn’t Like Traveling. That’s Bad for Diplomacy Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs 0 2018 Is Trump a Normal Foreign-Policy President? What We Know After One Year Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs 3 2018 Leaders, Advisers, and the Political Origins of Elite Support for War Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Journal of Conflict Resolution 81 2018 The Ratification Premium: Hawks, Doves, and Arms Control Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · World Politics 77 2018 The Unconstrained Presidency: Checks and Balances Eroded Long Before Trump Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs 5 2017 Good Foreign Policy Is Invisible: Why Boring Is Better Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Foreign Affairs (online) — 2017 Introduction to Roundtable Review of Matthew Baum and Philip Potter, War and Democratic Constraint Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · H-Diplo/ISSF — 2017 Mapping the Boundaries of Elite Cues: How Elites Shape Mass Opinion Across International Issues Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · International Studies Quarterly 342 2017 No Substitute for Experience: Presidents, Advisers, and Information in Group Decision Making Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · International Organization 200 2016 Review of Jonathan Caverley, Democratic Militarism Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · H-Diplo/ISSF — 2016 Review of Michael Horowitz, Allan Stam, and Cali Ellis, Why Leaders Fight Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · H-Diplo — 2016 The Diplomatic Core: The Determinants of High-Level U.S. Diplomatic Visits, 1946- 2010 Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · International Studies Quarterly 145 2015 War and the Inner Circle: Democratic Elites and the Politics of Using Force Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Security Studies 143 2014 Good Democratic Leadership in Foreign Affairs: An Elite-Centered Approach Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Good Democratic Leadership 19 2014 Transparency without Tears: A Pragmatic Approach to Transparent Security Studies Research Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Security Studies 18 2013 Contribution to “Ideology, Realpolitik, and US Foreign Policy: A Discussion of Frank P. Harvey’s Explaining the Iraq War.” Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Perspectives on Politics 1 2012 Author’s Response, H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Review of Leaders at War Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · H-Diplo/ISSF — 2012 Unleashing Presidential Power Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · PS Political Science & Politics 11 2011 Leaders at War: How Presidents Shape Military Interventions Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Cornell University Press, Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series 101 2010 The Army You Have: The Determinants of Military Mechanization, 1979-2001 Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · International Studies Quarterly 45 2009 Transformative Choices: Leaders and the Origins of Intervention Strategy Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · International Security 89 2006 A New Electorate? Comparing Preferences and Partisanship between Immigrants and Natives Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · American Journal of Political Science 201 2006 Setting Boundaries: Can International Society Exclude ‘Rogue States’? Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · International Studies Review 58 2000 Structures of the Linear Silicon Carbides SiC4 and SiC6: Isotopic Substitution and Ab Initio Theory Elizabeth Nathan Saunders · Journal of Chemical Physics —