Research Articles

• “The Astonishing Success of Peacekeepers,” (with Lise Morje Howard & Page Fortna), Foreign Affairs, November 2021.

• “Studying the Impact of ISIS Propaganda Campaigns,” (with Tamar Mitts & Gregoire Phillips), Journal of Politics, 2021.

• “The Extraordinary Relationship Between Peacekeeping and Peace,” (with Page Fortna, and Lise Morje Howard), British Journal of Political Science, November 2020.

• "A Real Plan to End the War in Yemen," (With Kenneth Pollack and Michael Knights) Foreign Affairs, May 2019.

• "Explaining the Number of Rebel Groups in Civil Wars," International Interactions. January 2019. Winner, Best Paper of the Year Award.

• "Why Moderates Support Extremist Groups: It's Not About Ideology," Foreign Affairs, June 2018.

• "The Jihadist Threat Won't End with ISIS' Defeat" Foreign Affairs, December 2017.

• "The Extremist's Advantage in Civil Wars," International Security, Fall 2017.

• "The New New Civil Wars," Annual Review of Political Science, Spring 2017.

• "Escaping the Conflict Trap in the Middle East," Washington Quarterly Journal, July 2015.

• “Why Bad Governance Leads to Repeat Civil War,” Journal of Conflict Resolution. Spring 2014.

• “Ethnicity and Civil War,” with Elaine Denny. Journal of Peace Research. Spring 2014.

• “The Gender Citation Gap in International Relations,” with Daniel Maliniak and Ryan Powers. International Organization. Fall 2013.

  • Top 5% of all articles as measured by Altmetric scores. Featured in:

    • The Economist. “Promotion and Self-Promotion: The Lamentable Lack of Female Professors,” August 31, 2013.

    • The Chronicle of Higher Education. August 30, 2013.

    • Inside Higher Ed. August 31, 2013.

    • The Monkey Cage. “The Gender Gap” Symposium. September 2013.

• “Civil Wars, Conflict Resolution and Bargaining Theory” Handbook of International Relations, Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons eds. (New York: Sage Publications, 2012).

• “Can Cheap Talk Deter? An Experimental Analysis,” (with Dustin Tingley), Journal of Conflict Resolution (December 2011).

• “Reputation Building in International Relations: An Experimental Approach.” (with Dustin Tingley) International Organization, (Spring 2011).

• “Bargaining Failures and Civil War,” Annual Review of Political Science, (Spring 2009).

• “The Strategies of Terrorism.” International Security. (with Andrew Kydd) (Summer 2006).

  • #3 most cited article in International Security (as of February 2016).

• “Building Reputation: Why Government Fight Some Separatists But Not Others.” American Journal of Political Science. (Spring 2006).

• “Information, Uncertainty and the Decision to Secede.” International Organization. Vol. 60, no. 1 (Winter 2006).

• “Does Conflict Beget Conflict? Explaining Recurring Civil War.” Journal of Peace Research. Vol. 41, no. 3 (May 2004).

• “Explaining the Intractability of Territorial Conflict,” International Studies Review. Vol. 5, no. 4 (December 2003).

• “Sabotaging the Peace: The Politics of Extremist Violence,” with Andrew Kydd. International Organization. Vol. 55, No. 2 (Spring 2002).

• “Reconceptualizing Conflict Resolution as a Three-Stage Process,” International Negotiation. Vol. 7, No. 3 (2002)

• “Designing Transitions from Civil War.” International Security. Vol. 24, No. 1 (Summer 1999).

• “The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement.” International Organization. Vol. 51, No. 3 (Summer 1997).

  • One of the top downloaded articles in International Organization.

Work in progress

Books

Competition and Predation in Civil Wars.  Book Project.

Articles

“Rebel Propaganda in an Internet Age,” (with Gregoire Philipps) (Revise & Resubmit)

“Propaganda and Radicalization in an Internet Age,”  (with Tamar Mitts & Gregoire Philipps).

“Why do Rebel Groups Produce Violent Videos?” (with Tamar Mitts & Gregoire Philipps).

“Ideological Polarization and the Costs of Participation,” (with Andrew Kydd)  Research Article.