Political Science Faculty

“Kin Killing: Why Governments Target Family Members in Insurgency, and Why it Works” with David Siroky and Emil Aslan Souleimanov, Security Studies (May 2022)

“Knowing is Half the Battle: How Education Decreases the Fear of Terrorism” with Daniel Gustafson, Jordan Theriault, and Liane Young, Journal of Conflict Resolution (published online April 2022)

“The Strategies of Counter-Secession: How States Prevent Independence,” Nations and Nationalism (published online March 2022)

“Blowback Operations as Rebel Strategy: How Sectarian Violence Spread from Syria into Lebanon 2013-2014” with Nils Hägerdal, Terrorism and Political Violence (published online March 2022) 

“COVID-19 and Fieldwork: Challenges and Solutions” with Ora Szekely and 11 others, PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 54, No. 2 (April 2021) pp. 264-269

“You Can’t Get There From Here: Biden Negotiating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” Political Violence @ a Glance, March 2, 2021

Stories From the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science, co-edited with Ora Szekely (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020)

“Navigating Born and Chosen Identities in Fieldwork,” in Stories From the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science, Peter Krause and Ora Szekely (eds.) (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020)

“The Dilemma for Rebel Leaders: Power or Victory?,” Manara, No. 3, Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum, December 2020

“The Two Faces of Kurdistan: Nationalism vs. Communalism,” with Sam Biasi, Political Violence @ a Glance, August 20, 2020

“Yemen’s Proxy Wars Explained,” with Tyler Parker, Political Violence @ a Glance, March 26, 2020

“It Comes with the Territory: Why States Negotiate with Ethnopolitical Organizations,” with Victor Asal and Daniel Gustafson, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism Vol. 42, No. 4 (April 2019) pp. 363-382

Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics, with Kelly Greenhill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)

“How Human Boundaries Become State Borders: Radical Flanks and Territorial Control in the Modern Era,” with Ehud Eiran, Comparative Politics, Vol. 50, No. 4 (July 2018) pp. 479-499

“A State, an Insurgency, and a Revolution: Understanding and Defeating the Three Faces of ISIS,” in The Future of ISIS: Regional and International Implications, Sumit Ganguly and Feisal A.R. al-Istrabadi (eds.) (Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press, 2018)

“Old (Molotov) Cocktails in New Bottles? “Price-Tag” and Settler Violence in Israel and the West Bank,” with Ehud Eiran, Terrorism and Political Violence

Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win (Ithaca: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, Cornell University Press, 2017)

“Know Thy Enemy: Education About Terrorism Improves Social Attitudes Toward Terrorists,” with Jordan Theriault and Liane Young, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Vol. 146, No. 3 (March 2017) pp. 305-317