Refereed Publications
Book Chapters
Working Papers
Think Tank Reports, Monographs, and Other Publications
Conference Participation
Dissertation
The Politics of Policing Political Violence (2019)
Committee: Joseph Young (Chair), Thomas Zeitzoff, Stephen Tankel, Fred Wehrey
War on the Rocks
As a senior editor at the web-magazine War on the Rocks, I publish shorter pieces semi-regularly. A full list of my articles can be found here.
- “Transnational Volunteers: American Foreign Fighters Combating the Islamic State,” Terrorism and Political Violence, 2017. (with Joseph K. Young)
Book Chapters
- “The Military Police as Police Advisors: A Potential Solution with Many Challenges” in (Stoker, Donald and Edward Westermann, eds.) Expeditionary Police Advising and Militarization: Building Security in a Fractured World. Solihull, England: Helion & Company, 2018. (with Robert Dillon)
- “U.S. Peacebuilding in Afghanistan” in (Toshiya, Hoshino and Weston S. Konishi, eds.) U.S.-Japan Peacebuilding Cooperation: Roles and Recommendations toward a Whole-of-Alliance Approach. Boston: Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, 2011.
Working Papers
- “Reanalysis: Militarization and Police Violence: The Case of the 1033 Program."
- “Police Militarization and Patriot Mobilization: The Role of Threats in Social Movement Mobilization."
- “Police Democratization and Two-Level Games: The Pressure of Intervention.”
- "Policing Foreign Fighters"
Think Tank Reports, Monographs, and Other Publications
- "For a Grander Army of the Republic: Better Names for Bases," War on the Rocks, 2020.
- "How to Get Started Rolling Back Police Militarization," War on the Rocks, 2020.
- "Contested Stabilization: Competing in Post-Conflict Spaces," Order from Chaos, The Brookings Institution, 2020. (with Patrick Quirk)
- "Why Troubled Libya Isn't a Lost Cause -- Yet," The National Interest, 2019. (with Michael O'Hanlon)
- "The Pitfalls of Seeking Security on the Cheap," Texas National Security Review, 2019.
- Empowered Decentralization: A City-Based Strategy for Rebuilding Libya, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2019. (with John Allen, Hady Amr, Daniel Byman, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jeffrey Feltman, Alice Friend, Adel Abdel Ghafar, Bruce Jones, Mara Karlin, Karim Mezran, Michael O’Hanlon, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Landry Signe, Arturo Varvelli, and Frederic Wehrey)
- Managing the New Threat Landscape: Adapting the Tools of International Peace and Security, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2018. (with Bruce Jones, Charles T. Call, and Daniel Toubolets)
- A 10-Degree Shift in Syria Strategy, Policy Brief, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2018. (with Ranj Alaaldin, Steven Heydemann, Bruce Jones, and Michael O’Hanlon)
- Stability Operations in Kosovo 1999-2000: A Case Study. Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, 2018.
- “Article Review 87 on “The ‘Hearts and Minds’ Fallacy: Violence, Coercion, and Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare.” The International Security Studies Forum, 2017. (with David Ucko)
- Islamic State vs. Al-Qaeda: Strategic Dimensions of a Patricidal Conflict. Washington, DC: New American Foundation, 2015. (with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Nathaniel Barr, and Bridget Moreng)
- Marine Corps Interim Publication 3-34.02 (Commander's Guide to Law Enforcement Professional Employment), U.S. Marine Corps Combat Development Center, 2011. (unlisted contributor)
- Capstone doctrine for the Department of Justice’s International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program, internal document, 2011. (unlisted contributor)
- Lessons Learned from U.S. Government Law Enforcement in International Operations. Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, 2010. (with Dilshika Jayamaha, Scott Brady, and Ben Fitzgerald)
- “Tribal Engagement at the Tactical Level,” Small Wars Journal, 2010. (with Andrew Exum)
- “Measuring Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare,” Armor Magazine, 117(3), May/June 2008, 36-39.
Conference Participation
- “Fighting ISIS: Why American Volunteers,” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 2018 (with Joseph K. Young).
- “Fighting ISIS: Why American Volunteers,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2018 (with Joseph K. Young).
- Discussant. Poster session, “Terrorism and Counterterrorism,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2018.
- “Police Democratization and Two-Level Games: The Pressure of Intervention,” Midwest Political Science Annual Meeting, 2018.
- “Police Democratization and Two-Level Games: The Pressure of Intervention,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2018.
- “Police Militarization and Patriot Mobilization: The Role of Threats in Social Movement Mobilization,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2017.
- “Pro-Government Foreign Fighters,” participant on the roundtable The Changing Nature of Foreign Fighters, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2017.
- “Transnational Volunteers: American Foreign Fighters Combating the Islamic State,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 2016. (with Joseph K. Young)
- “All Policing is Local? Identifying the Sources of Policing Legitimacy in Post-Conflict States,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2015.
Dissertation
The Politics of Policing Political Violence (2019)
Committee: Joseph Young (Chair), Thomas Zeitzoff, Stephen Tankel, Fred Wehrey
War on the Rocks
As a senior editor at the web-magazine War on the Rocks, I publish shorter pieces semi-regularly. A full list of my articles can be found here.