Andrew Cheon

Journal article European Journal of International Security · November 1, 2024 States and non-state actors conduct unclaimed coercive attacks, inflicting costs on adversaries to signal resolve to prevail in a dispute while refraining from claiming or denying responsibility. Analysts argue that targets often know who is responsible, w ... Full text Cite

Does plausible deniability work? Assessing the effectiveness of unclaimed coercive acts in the Ukraine war

Journal article Contemporary Security Policy · January 1, 2023 States conduct unclaimed coercive acts, imposing costs on adversaries to signal resolve but denying (or not claiming) responsibility. Some scholars posit that unclaimed acts have considerable potential to coerce targets, while containing escalation risks. ... Full text Cite

Determinants of Environmental Conflict: When Do Communities Mobilize against Fossil Fuel Production?

Journal article Journal of Conflict Resolution · August 1, 2021 When do indigenous and other negatively affected populations mobilize against fossil fuel companies? We revisit social movement theory and environmental literature to identify three factors that may plausibly shape mobilization decisions of negatively affe ... Full text Cite

Developing global champions: Why national oil companies expand abroad

Journal article Economics and Politics · November 1, 2019 National oil companies (NOCs) have invested hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign oil and gas assets. Why have some governments increased their NOC outward investments, while others have not? I argue that domestic structures can influence a government ... Full text Cite

Escaping Oil’s Stranglehold: When Do States Invest in Energy Security?

Journal article Journal of Conflict Resolution · September 13, 2015 Modern economies and militaries are fundamentally dependent on oil, but the study of energy security has fallen out of favor in the field of international relations. We develop and test a theory of when and how states invest in energy security. We argue th ... Full text Cite

Instruments of Political Control: National Oil Companies, Oil Prices, and Petroleum Subsidies

Journal article Comparative Political Studies · March 6, 2015 Global petroleum subsidies peaked at US$520 billion in the summer of 2008 and reached US$212 billion in 2011, carrying high fiscal and environmental costs. Why do some countries spend so much money to subsidize petroleum consumption? Previous studies sugge ... Full text Cite

How do Competing Interest Groups Influence Environmental Policy? The Case of Renewable Electricity in Industrialized Democracies, 1989-2007

Journal article Political Studies · December 1, 2013 In this article, we examine the effect of competing interest groups on environmental policy. We argue that the supporters of environmental policy should be the most influential in the absence of opposition, while the opposition's importance is maximized wh ... Full text Cite

Why do governments subsidize gasoline consumption? An empirical analysis of global gasoline prices, 2002-2009

Journal article Energy Policy · May 1, 2013 Governments spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually to subsidize the consumption of fossil fuels without understanding the environmental and economic problems this practice creates. To shed light on these problems, we examine the case of gasoline su ... Full text Cite

Oil prices and energy technology innovation: An empirical analysis

Journal article Global Environmental Change · May 1, 2012 To achieve environmental sustainability and reduce their vulnerability to oil shocks, countries can develop new energy technologies. Technological advances reduce the cost of structural changes in the energy economy, and thus also increase the political fe ... Full text Cite