Her recent article, “The Petroleum Paradox: Oil, Coercive Vulnerability, and Great Power Behavior” (Security Studies, June 2016), which she is revising into a book, explains why great powers adopt radically different strategies to secure oil access in case of emergency or war. Kelanic also recently published Crude Strategy: Rethinking the U.S. Military Commitment to Defend Persian Gulf Oil (Georgetown University Press, 2016), a book co-edited with Charles Glaser, which argues that the United States may no longer need to station military forces in the Gulf to protect the flow of oil.