2004. The Enlargement of the EU and NATO: Ordering From the Menu in Central Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 paperback edition.
2000. Imitation and Politics: Redesigning Modern Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001 paperback edition. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book for 2000.
"Side Payments Over Solidarity: Financing the Poor Cousins in Germany and the EU" German Politics 17(4), Dec 2008, pp.470-487.
"The EU Battle Groups in Sweden and the Czech Republic: What National Defense Reforms Tell Us about European Rapid Reaction Capabilities" (With Christopher Jones). European Security 17(2-3), June-Sept 2008, pp. 315-338.
"Minority Traditions and Postcommunist Politics: How Do IGO's Matter" In Mitchel Orenstein, Stephen Bloom and Nicole Lindstrom (eds), Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008, pp. 56-76."Yielding Sovereignty to International Institutions: Bringing System Structure Back In" (with Scott Cooper, Darren Hawkins and Daniel Nielson). International Studies Review 10, 2008, pp. 501–524
"Modernization, Identity and Integration: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Islam in Europe" (With Hakan Yavuz). Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 28(1), April 2008, pp. 1-6.
"Agent Permeability, Principal Delegation and the European Court of Human Rights" Review of International Organizations 8, 2008, pp. 1-28.
“Is the New Europe a Good Substitute for the Old One?” International Studies Review 8, 2006, pp. 175-188.“How Agents Matter” (with Darren Hawkins). In Darren Hawkins, David Lake, Daniel Nielson, and Michael Tierney (eds), Delegation and Agency in International Organizations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 199-228.
“Inspiration, Coalition, and Substitution: External Influences on Postcommunist Transformations.” World Politics 58(4), July 2006, pp. 623-651.
“German Transatlanticism Between Narcissism and Nostalgia.” In John Baylis and Jon Roper (eds). Disunited States?: America and Europe Beyond the Neo-Conservative Divide. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. 55-71.
“External Incentives and Lesson-Drawing in Regional Policy and Health Care.” In Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier (eds), The Europeanization of Eastern Europe: Evaluating the Conditionality Model.
“Military Competence or Policy Loyalty? Central Europe and Transatlantic Relations.” In David Andrews (ed), The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress: US-European Relations After Iraq. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 232-255.
“Institutional Transfer: Can Semisovereignty be Transferred? The Political Economy of Eastern Germany.” In Simon Green and William Patterson (eds), Governance in Germany: The Semisovereign State Revisited. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 21-45.
“Patch-work Solidarity: Describing and Explaining US and European Labour Internationalism” (with Brian Burgoon). Review of International Political Economy 11(4), 2004, pp. 849-879.
“Tax Reforms and Modell Deutschland: Lessons from Four Years of Red-Green Tax Policy” (with Achim Truger). In James Sperling (ed), Germany at Fifty-Five: Berlin is not Bonn? Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 387-410.
“The Rise of Experimentalism in German Collective Bargaining” (with Martin Behrens). British Journal of Industrial Relations 42(1), 2004, pp. 95-123.
“Amerikanische Gewerkschaften und Einwanderung: Eine schwierige Umarmung” (with Brian Burgoon). WSI-Mitteilungen, Special Issue. October 2002, pp. 2-16.
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2005, pp. 91-111.
“Der Wettlauf nach Europa: die Bedeutung der Osterweiterung fur makrookonomische Fragestellungen.” WSI-Mitteilungen. May 2002, pp. 292-99.
“The EU’s Pivotal Role in the Creation of Czech Regional Policy” (with Pavel Černoch). In Ronald Linden (ed). Norms and Nannies: The Impact of International Organizations on the Central and East European States. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, pp. 317-40.
“Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: The Cultural and Institutional Effects of Western Models.” In Frank Bönker, Klaus Müller and Andreas Pickel (eds), Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, pp. 129-52.
“Experimentalism as a Tool of Economic Innovation in Germany” (with Martin Behrens). German Politics and Society 19(3), Fall 2001, pp. 1-33.
“Tutors and Pupils: International Organizations, Central European Elites, and Western Models.” Governance 14(2), 2001, pp. 169-200.
“The Imitation-Innovation Trade Off: Does ‘Borrowing Dull the Edge of Husbandry?" Comparative Political Studies 34(3), 2001, pp. 263-293.“Priest and Penitent: The EU as a Force in the Domestic Politics of Eastern Europe.” East European Constitutional Review 8(1-2), 1999, pp. 62-67. Reprinted in Christian Soe (ed), Annual Editions: Comparative Politics, 2000-2001. Guilford, CT: Dushkin/McGraw Hill, 2000.
“The Dilemmas of Diffusion: Social Embeddedness and the Problems of Institutional Change in Eastern Germany” (with Richard Locke). Politics and Society 25(1), 1997, pp. 34-65.
“Exemplars, Analogies, and Menus: Eastern Europe in Cross-Regional Comparisons.” Governance 12(3), 1997, pp. 455-78.