Books and Monographs
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
U.S. Civil-Military Relations
Journal Articles:
Book Chapters:
- “The Best they Could Do? Assessing U.S. Military Effectiveness in the Afghanistan War,” Armed Forces & Society (article commentary), first online, August 10, 2022. doi.org/10.1177%2F0095327X221116876
- “ 'Twice the Citizen': How Military Attitudes of Superiority Undermine Civilian Control in the United States” Journal of Conflict Resolution, first online, March 1, 2022. (with Sharan Grewal) https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027211065417
- “The Sources of Military Dissent: Why and How the U.S. Military Contests Decisions about the Use of Force” European Journal of International Security, 7, 1 (February 2022), 38-57. (with Peter M. Erickson) https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2021.34
- “What Makes a Military Professional? Evaluating Norm Socialization in West Point Cadets,” Armed Forces & Society (online first 20 June 2021). (with Michael Robinson and Heidi Urben) https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0095327X211026355
- “Crisis of Command: America’s Broken Civil-Military Relations Imperils National Security,” Foreign Affairs (May/June 2021), print edition, 64-75. (with Jim Golby and Heidi Urben)
- “Brooks, Golby and Urben Respond to their Critics,” Foreign Affairs (Sept./Oct. 2021), print edition, 235-238. (with Jim Golby and Heidi Urben)
- “Through the Looking Glass: Trump Era U.S. Civil-Military Relations in Comparative Perspective,” Strategic Studies Quarterly 15, 2 (May 2021), 69-98.
- “Beyond Huntington: Military Professionalism Today,” Parameters 51, 1 (Spring 2021), 65-77.
- “Paradoxes of Professionalism: Re-Thinking Civil-Military Relations in the United States” International Security 44, 4 (April 2020), 7-44.
- “Integrating the Civil-Military Relations Subfield,” Annual Review of Political Science 22 (May 2019), pp. 379-398.
- “The Perils of Politics: While Staying Apolitical is Good for Both the U.S. Military and for the Country,” Orbis 57, 414 (Spring 2013), 369-79.
- “The Military and Homeland Security,” Public Administration and Management 10, no. 2 (2005), 130-152.
Book Chapters:
- “Civil-Military Relations and Grand Strategy” in Thierry Balzacq and Ronald Krebs, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2022).
- “Huntington’s Paradoxes of Professionalism,” 17-40; “The Implications of Emerging Technology for Civil-Military Relations,” 221-244; and “Conclusion,” 283-298. In Lionel Beehner, Risa Brooks and Dan Mauer, eds., Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics and Modern War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).
- “Civil-Military Relations” in Derek Reveron, Nikolaus Gvosdev, and John Cloud, eds., The Oxford Handbook of U.S. National Security (Oxford University Press, 2018), 77-93.
- “Militaries and Political Activity in Democracies” Essay for inclusion in American Civil-Military Relations: The Soldier and the State in a New Era edited by Suzanne Nielson and Don Snider (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 213-238.
Comparative Civil-Military Relations
Journal Articles:
Book Chapters:
- “The Military before the March: Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and the Emergence of Mass Protest.” Journal of Peace Research, forthcoming. (with Peter White)
- “Slow Rolls, Shoulder-Taps and Coups: Building a Research Program in Military Dissent Across Regime Types,” Journal of Global Security Studies, forthcoming. (with David Pion-Berlin)
- “Beyond Defection: Explaining the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries’ Divergent Roles in the Arab Spring” Journal of Strategic Studies, first online, May 24, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2022.2073996
- “Oust the Leader, Keep the Regime?: Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and Coup-Behavior in the Tunisian and Egyptian Militaries during the 2011 Arab Spring,” Security Studies, first online, February 21, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2022.2040585 (with Peter B. White)
- “Unpacking ‘Stacking’: How Manipulating Identity in Security Forces Safeguards Regime Security” Armed Forces & Society, first online, February 8, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X211058765 (with Nate Allen)
- “Integrating the Civil-Military Relations Subfield,” Annual Review of Political Science 22 (May 2019), pp. 379-398.
- “Understanding Shifts in Egyptian Civil-Military Relations: Lessons from the Past and Present” Egypt Civil-Military Conference Series Paper 2, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, 2015. Online at: http://issat.dcaf.ch/content/download/94204/1653714/file/Understanding-Shifts-in-Egyptian-Civil-Military-Relations-Lessons-from-the-Past-and-Present.pdf
- “Abandoned at the Palace: Why the Tunisian Military Defected from the Ben Ali Regime in January 2011” Journal of Strategic Studies,36, no. 2 (2013), 205-220.
- “An Autocracy at War: Explaining Egypt’s (in)Effectiveness in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars” Security Studies 15, no. 3 (July-September 2006): 396-430.
- “Liberalization and Militancy in the Arab World” Orbis 26:4 (Fall 2002), 611-621.
Book Chapters:
- "Egypt and Tunisia: Political Control of the Military under Mubarak and Ben Ali" In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. R. August 31, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1890
- “Military Defection and the Arab Spring,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics (Feb. 27, 2017), 1-25.
- “The Tunisian Military and Democratic Control of the Armed Forces,” in Holger Albrecht, Aurel Crossaint and Fred Lawson, eds., Armies and Insurgencies in the Arab Spring (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), 203-224.
- “Subjecting the Military to the Rule of Law: Prospects for Democratic Control of the Armed Forces in Tunisia” in Eva Bellin, ed., Building Rule of Law in the Arab World – Lessons, Challenges, and Puzzles (Lynne Reiner Press, 2016), 109-130.
- “Civil-military Relations” in Nora Bensahel and Daniel Byman, eds. Security Trends in the Middle East and the Implications for the United States (RAND Corporation, 2004), 129-162.
Contentious Politics and Terrorism
Journal Articles:
- “The Military before the March: Autocratic Civil-Military Relations and the Emergence of Mass Protest.” Journal of Peace Research, forthcoming. (with Peter White)
- “Tying the Hands of Militants: Civilian Targeting and Societal Pressures in the Provisional IRA and Palestinian Hamas” Journal of Global Security Studies 7, issue 1 (March 2022).
- “Terrorist Behavior and Societal Tolerance for Violence: How Community Ties Influence Terrorist Targeting of Civilians,” National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) Research Brief (27,000 words) (2013). Overview of Research Brief: http://www.start.umd.edu/sites/default/files/publications/local_attachments/START_CSTAB_HowCommunityTiesInfluenceTerroristTargetingofCivilians_ResearchBrief_Nov2013.pdf
- “Muslim ‘Homegrown’ Terrorism: How Serious is the Threat in the United States?” International Security 36, no. 2 (Fall 2011), 7-47.
- “Researching Democracy and Terrorism: How Political Access affects Militant Activity” Security Studies 18:4 (December 2009), 756-788.
Book Chapters:
- “Explaining the Limited ISIS and Al-Qaeda Threat in the United States,” in Tom Smith and Kirsten Schulze, eds. Exporting Global Jihad: Critical Perspectives from the ‘Periphery; Asia & America Volume (IB Tauris, 2020), 139-155.
- “ISIS’s Territorial Sanctuary and the Risk of Terror Attacks in the United States,” in Feisal Istrabaldi and Sumit Ganguly, eds., The Future of ISIS (Brookings Institution Press, June 2018), 201-221.
- "Scrutinizing the Internet in Search of Homegrown Terrorism." In Joseph Soeters, Patricia M. Shields and Sebastiaan Rietjens, Routledge Handbook of Methods in Military Studies (Routledge Press, 2014), 165-176.
STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT AND MILITARY EFFECTIVENESS
Journal Articles:
Book Chapters:
- “The Best they Could Do? Assessing U.S. Military Effectiveness in the Afghanistan War,” Armed Forces & Society (article commentary), first online, August 10, 2022. doi.org/10.1177%2F0095327X221116876
- “An Autocracy at War: Explaining Egypt’s (in)Effectiveness in the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli Wars” Security Studies 15, no. 3 (July-September 2006): 396-430.
- “Making Military Might: Why Do States Fail and Succeed: A Review Essay” International Security 28, no. 2 (Fall 2003), 149-191. [reprinted in Do Democracies Win their Wars: An International Security Reader, Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté, Sean Lynn-Jones and Steven Miller, eds. MIT Press, June 2011.]
Book Chapters:
- “Beyond Huntington: Military Professionalism Today,” Parameters 51, 1 (Spring 2021), 65-77.
- “Paradoxes of Professionalism: Re-Thinking Civil-Military Relations in the United States” International Security 44, 4 (April 2020), 7-44.
- “What is ‘Good’ Strategic Assessment?” in Heidi B. Demarest and Erica D. Borghard, eds. US National Security Reform: Reassessing the National Security Act (New York: Routledge, 2018), 26-45.
- “The Implications of Emerging Technology for Civil-Military Relations,” 221-244; in Lionel Beehner, Risa Brooks and Dan Mauer, eds., Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics and Modern War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).
- “Donald Trump’s National Security Process: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy and International Relations” TRENDS Working Paper (July 2017), 1-20.
Sanctions
- “Sanctions and Regime Type: What Works and When?” Security Studies 11, no. 4 (Summer 2002), 1-50.