David A. Peterson is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Ohio State University and an incoming postdoctoral fellow at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the social origins of international institutions, order, and cooperation with an eclectic methodological approach drawn from historical international relations alongside complexity and network science. His dissertation explores the relationship between histories of cooperation, dispositional beliefs among leaders, and demands for close political unions and incorporates agent-based modeling, qualitative case studies, network analysis, and text analysis. He has research forthcoming at the American Journal of Political Science. His research has been funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the National Science Foundation.