Terrorism and Democracy

• Why Democracy Encourages Terrorism (book manuscript under contract with Columbia University Press).
  • Link to manuscript precis.
  • This book extends the findings in my doctoral dissertation (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007).
• “Democratic Competition and Terrorist Activity,” The Journal of Politics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 16-30.
  • Replication data.
  • Supplementary materials.
• “Democratic Pieces: Democratization and the Origins of Terrorism,” in William R. Thompson and Rafael Reuveny, eds., Coping with Terrorism: Origins, Escalation, Counter-Strategies, and Responses (Buffalo: SUNY Press, November 2010).
• “The Inadvertent Effects of Democracy on Terrorist Group Emergence,” BCSIA Discussion Paper 2006-06 (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, November 2006).
• “Instability and Opportunity: The Origins of Terrorism in Weak and Failed States,” in James Forest, ed. The Making of a Terrorist, Vol. 3 (Westport: Praeger, 2005).

Terrorism and Non-State Political Violence

• Rethinking Violence: State and Non-State Actors in Conflict, co-editor with Adria Lawrence (MIT Press, August 2010).

• “War Initiation and Transnational Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?” Center for International Peace and Security Studies (CIPSS) Working Paper 29, McGill University, October 2009.
• “What Makes Terrorists Tick?” International Security, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Spring 2009), co-author with Nicholas Miller and Elizabeth McClellan.
  • For the extended version of our article, click here.
  • For Max Abrahms’s original article, click here.
  • For Paul Staniland’s additional comments on the exchange, click here.
  • The entire correspondence is reprinted in Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Sean Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller, eds., Contending with Terrorism: Roots, Strategies, and Responses (MIT Press, 2010).
• “To Bribe or To Bomb? Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together?” in Robert I. Rotberg, ed. Corruption, Global Security, and World Order (Brookings Institution Press, 2009), co-author with Jessica C. Teets.
  • Replication data.

Strategic Nonviolent Resistance

• Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, co-author with Maria J. Stephan (Columbia University Press, August 2011).
  • Web Appendix (pdf; 184 pages).
  • Replication Archive (Zip File containing Stata 11 .dta and .do files).
  • Assorted public commentary based on this research.
  • Errata (pdf; 1 page).

• “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict,” International Security, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Summer 2008), co-author with Maria J. Stephan.
  • Data.
  • Supplementary materials.
  • Click here to see coverage of our research in The Economist.
  • Click here to download the Spanish translation.
    

• “The Effects of Tactical Choices on Strategic Outcomes: Evaluating Nonviolent and Violent Insurgencies.”

State Response to Terrorism and Insurgency

• “All Terrorism is Local: Constructing Urban Coalitions for Homeland Security in the American Federal System,” Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3 (September 2010), co-author with Susan E. Clarke.
  • Replication data.
  • Supplementary materials.

• “The Politics of Vulnerability: Constructing Local Performance Regimes for Homeland Security,” Review of Policy Research, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 2006), co-author with Susan E. Clarke.

• “A Contested Threat: The Politics of Security Collaboration for Combating Terrorism,” in Isaiah Wilson III and James Forest, eds. Handbook of Defence Politics: International and Comparative Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2009).

• “Italy and the Red Brigades: The Success of Repentance Policy in Counterterrorism,” in James Forest, ed. Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century (Westport: Praeger, 2007).

• “Open Source for Counterterrorism: Facilitating Inter-Agency Communication and Open Source Intelligence,” in James Forest, ed. Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century (Westport: Praeger, 2007), co-author with Orion A. Lewis.

• “Vulnerabilities and Resilience in America’s Financial Services,” in James Forest, ed. Homeland Security: Protecting America’s Targets, Vol. 3 (Westport: Praeger, 2006).

• “Dealing with the Devil: When Bargaining with Terrorists Works,” co-PI with Laura Dugan.

Researching Terrorism and Political Violence

• “On Classifying Terrorism: A Potential Contribution of Cluster Analysis for Academics and Policymakers,” Defense and Security Analysis, Vol. 23, No. 4 (December 2007), co-author with Elizabeth Lowham.
  • Data.

For more details, please click on CV.  To look at some of my recent working papers, visit my page on the Social Science Research Network.