Her research interests include U.S. foreign policy and democracy promotion. She has studied the effectiveness of democracy promotion and the protection of human rights in “ U. S. Democracy Promotion: The Clinton and Bush Administrations” in Global Society (forthcoming) and “ U.S. Foreign Policy and Enlarging the Democratic Community,” in Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 22 (4). Additional scholarly work which looks at religion and international affairs includes “Religion and Nationalism: Understanding the consequences of a complex relationship,” in Ethnicities Vol. 3(2) and “Religion, Ethics and Reality: A Study of Javier Perez de Cuellar,” forthcoming in Kent Kille (ed.) Religion and Morality: A Study of the Secretaries-General.