Selected papers, chapters & datasets

Reviews of Organizations at War:

• Perspectives on Politics

• Foreign Affairs

• Survival

• IJMES

• Choice

• Political Science Quarterly

• Joint Forces Quarterly

• Journal de l'Armée du Canada

• India's Telegraph

• International Studies Review

• Asian Politics

• African & Asian Politics

• Strategic Studies Quarterly

Review of Muslims in Western Politics:

• Ethnic & Racial Politics

Sinno, Abdulkader H. Organizations at War in Afghanistan and Beyond. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2008.

• Stata Replication Dataset 

• Dataset codebook

Four of my chapters in Muslims in Western Politics, edited by Abdulkader Sinno. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2009:

• “An institutional approach to the politics of Muslim minorities” (chapter 1)

• “Muslim representation in American Politics,” (chapter 5)

• "Muslims in UK institutions,” (chapter 7, with Eren Tatari)

• “Recommendations for Western policymakers and Muslim organizations,” (chapter 14)

Journal articles and chapters in collections:

• “Education, income and support for suicide bombings: Evidence from six Muslim countries” Journal of Conflict Resolution 54, No. 1, 146-178 (2010, with Najeeb Shafiq):

  • The paper I believe should have been published if it weren't for the vagaries of the peer review process

  • Datasets: civilians & Iraq

  • Do files: transformation of variables, analysis

  • Datasets: for the JCR paper civilians & Iraq        

  • Do file for the JCR paper                   

• “Toward Electability: Public Office and the Arab Vote” Forthcoming book chapter in Target of Opportunity: Arab Detroit in the Terror Decade (Edited by Nabeel Abraham, Sally Howell, and Andrew Shryock) (with Eren Tatari).

• “Opportunités et risques de la représentation des musulmans occidentaux dans les institutions élues,” in Minorités Visibles en Politique, edited by Esther Benbassa. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2011.

• “An experimental investigation of causal attributions for the political behavior of Muslim candidates: Can a Muslim represent you?” Politics and Religion, 2 (2009), 247–276 (with Eileen Braman).

•  “Of opportunities and organization: When do Islamist parties choose to compete electorally?” in Interpreting Islamic Political Parties, edited by Mohamed Salih.  New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2009 (with Ahmed Khanani).

• “Explaining the Taliban’s ability to mobilize the Pushtuns” in Decade of the Taliban, edited by Robert Crews and Amin Tarzi.  Boston: Harvard University Press, 2008.

• “The strategic use of Islam in Afghan politics” in Religion and politics in South Asia, edited by Ali Riaz. New York: Routledge, 2010.

• “Armed groups’ organizational structure and their strategic options,” International Review of the Red Cross 93, No. 882, June 2012

Symposia, policy papers, reviews:

• Contribution to a symposium on Jytte Klausen’s book The Cartoons that Shook the World. Perspectives on Politics, September 2011, Vol. 9, no. 3, 612-615.

• “The Muslim Within: Challenges to Representation of Muslim-Americans in Elected Office,” in Connections and Ruptures: America and the Middle East, Robert Myers, ed. The American University of Beirut Press, 2011.

• “Achieve counter-insurgency cooperation in Afghanistan by resolving the Indo-Pakistani rivalry,” NBR Analysis 19, Number 5, December 2008: 3-11.

• “Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West.” By Justin Gest. Columbia University Press, 2010. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 43, no. 4, 2011, 766-68.

• “Power, Islam, and Political Elite in Iran: A Study on the Iranian Political Elite from Khomeini to Ahmadinejad.” By Eva Patricia Rakel. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2009. African and Asian Studies 9 (2010): 198-200.

• “Logics of Hierarchy.” By Alexander Cooley. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005 and “War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe” by Victoria Tin-bor Hui. New York: Cambridge University Press. Perspectives on Politics, 5, no. 1 (2007): 186-187.

• “Conflict in Afghanistan: Studies in Asymmetric Warfare” by Martin Ewans. New York: Routledge, 2005. The Middle East Journal 60, no. 4 (2006): 370-371.

• “Revolution Unending, Afghanistan: 1979 to the present.” By Gilles Dorronsoro. Translated from French by John King. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2005. The Middle East Journal 59, no. 4 (2005): 667-668.

• “The Transformation of Central Asia: States and Societies from Soviet Rule to Independence.” Edited by Pauline Jones Luong. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2004. H-Gender-MidEast, December 2004.

• “Social Protests and Nation-Building in the Middle East and Central Asia.” Edited by Keiko Sakai. Chiba, Japan: Institute of Developing Economies JETRO, 2003. MESA Bulletin 38, no. 2 (2004): 288-290.