The Effects of State Presence on the Mental Mapping of Security: Evidence from an Experiment in Kashmir” (with Christopher Mann), Journal of Peace Research (2024).

India as a Restorationist State: Implications for US-India Relations and South Asian Politics” (with Jared Schwartz and Samantha Hotz), International Politics (2023).

China’s Security Strategy in Pakistan: Lessons for Washington” (with Jared Schwartz and Farhan Zahid), Asian Security 19, No. 1 (2023): 43-58.

The Technologies and International Politics of Genetic Warfare,” Strategic Studies Quarterly (Fall 2021): 6-33.

When Militias Provide Welfare: Lessons from Pakistan and Nigeria” (with Megan Turnbull), Political Science Quarterly 133, no. 4 (Winter 2018-19): 695-727.

Self-Defense Militias, Death Squads, and State Outsourcing of Violence in India and Turkey,” Journal of Strategic Studies 41, no. 5 (2018): 751-781.

Genocidal Violence, Nation-Building, and the Bloody Birth of Bangladesh” (with Rachel Castellano), Asian Security 14, no. 2 (2018): 106-118.

How We Know What We Know About Pakistan: New York Times News Production, 1954-1971,” Modern Asian Studies 51, no. 5 (2017): 1598-1625.

Terrorist Prison Breaks” (with Trevor Cloen and Farhan Zahid), Perspectives on Terrorism 12, no. 1 (2018): 59-68.

Why Terrorists Target Children: Outbidding, Desperation, and Extremism in the Peshawar and Beslan School Massacres” (with Farhan Zahid), Terrorism and Political Violence 31, no. 2 (2019; online 2016): 169-184.

Channeling Islam: Religious Narratives on Pakistani Television and Their Influence on Pakistani Youth,” (with Sahar Gul and Feryaz Ocakli), Asian Affairs: An American Review 43, no. 3 (2016): 78-97.

One Shield, Two Responses: Anti-U.S. Missile Defense Shield Protests in the Czech Republic and Poland” (with Feryaz Ocakli), Politics & Policy 43, no. 2 (April 2015): 197-214.

The Politics of Diplomatic Service Reform in Post-Soviet Russia,” Political Science Quarterly 126, no. 4 (Winter 2011-12): 669-680.

Bureaucratic Partisanship and State Building: The Case of Ukrainian Foreign Ministry,” Problems of Post-Communism 58, no. 2 (March/April 2011): 17-27.

  • Awarded 2011 Millar Prize

“Assessing the Costs of Weak Diplomatic Institutions” (Ukrainian: «Оцінюючи Втрати Внаслідок Слабких Інститутів Дипломатії»), Academic Bulletin of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine (Науковий Вісник Дипломатичної Академії України) Vol. 15 (2010): 228-234.

“Political Science and the Rules of Causal Inference” (Russian: «Политология и правила выявления причинно-следственных отношений»), Polis 10, no. 6 (2009): 168-176.