Books
Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics (Oxford 2025)
Cooley and Dukalskis show how authoritarian states have shifted from defense to offense, repurposing the institutions and networks of the liberal order to blunt democracy promotion and human-rights advocacy — a dynamic they call "authoritarian snapback."
Undermining American Hegemony: Goods Substitution in World Politics (Cambridge 2021)
Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford 2020)
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia (Yale 2017)
Ranking the World: Grading states as a Tool of Global Governance (Cambridge 2015)
Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia (Oxford 2015)
Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations (Princeton 2009)
Base Politics: Democratic Change and the U.S. Military Overseas (Cornell 2008)
Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and Military Occupations (Cornell 2005)