Richard Maass

Research Interests

Dr. Maass' research interests include U.S. foreign policy, international security, international law, grand strategy, race and foreign policy, and diplomatic history.

Articles

Maass, R. (2025). Legal Deterrence By Denial: Strategic Initiative and International Law in the Gray Zone. Texas National Security Review 8 (3) , pp. 54-73.

Maass, R. (2024). Whitewashing American Exceptionalism: Racialized Subject-Positioning and US Foreign Policy. International Studies Quarterly 68 (3) , pp. sqae085.

Maass, R. (2023). DiploSim: A Flexible Framework for Diplomatic Simulations in International Relations. International Studies Perspectives 24 (1) , pp. 20-38.

Maass, R. (2023). Racialization and International Security. International Security 48 (2) , pp. 91-126.

Maass, R. (2021). Salami Tactics: Faits Accomplis and International Expansion in the Shadow of Major War. Texas National Security Review 5 (1) , pp. 33-54.

Maass, R. (2015). “Difficult to Relinquish Territory Which Had Been Conquered”: Expansionism and the War of 1812. Diplomatic History 39 (1) , pp. 70-97.

Tsintsadze-Maass, E. and Maass, R. (2014). Groupthink and Terrorist Radicalization. Terrorism and Political Violence 26 (5) , pp. 735-58.

Maass, R. (2012). Political Society and Cicero's Ideal State. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 45 (2).

Books

Karp, R. and Maass, R. (2024). Alliances and Partnerships in a Complex and Challenging Security Environment. NATO Allied Command Transformation.

García Iommi, L. and Maass, R. (2022). The United States and International Law: Paradoxes of Support across Contemporary Issues. University of Michigan Press.

Maass, R. (2020). The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion. Cornell University Press.