Research

My research has centered on three tactics of war-fighting used by rebel groups (what I have called "rebelcraft," as opposed to statecraft in international relations): 1) rebel governance; 2) rebel diplomacy; and 3) rebels' tactical use of religion. Exploring their links with important political outcomes such as democratization, statebuilding, and foreign policy, these projects offer implications for understanding violence and nonviolence, war and social mobilization, and the effects of international peacebuilding interventions.

Additionally, I am at work on new projects on rebel leaders' transnational social networks; the role of religious identity and ideology in foreign policy; and the element of surprise when former rebels perform well in their inaugural participation in electoral politics after violent conflict.

Book

The Wartime Origins of Democratization: Civil War, Rebel Governance, and Political Regimes. Problems of International Politics series. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Paperback forthcoming, August 2017
Replication files: see Rebel Governance Dataset

Peer-Reviewed Articles, Book Chapters, and Monographs

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"Rebel Diplomacy in Civil War," International Security 40.4 (2016).
Replication files Bonus photos
"Democratization after Civil War: A Brush-Clearing Exercise," International Studies Quarterly 56.4 (2012), with Page Fortna.
Replication files
"Counter-Terrorism and the Rule of Law," in A. Hurwitz with R. Huang eds., Civil War and the Rule of Law, Lynne Rienner (2008).
"The Nuts and Bolts of Capacity Building: Practicable Lessons from East Timor," Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 2.3 (2006), with Joseph Harris.
New Nation: United Nations Peacebuilding in East Timor, Nagasaki: Research Institute of Southeast Asia; and Macau (2004), with Geoffrey C. Gunn.
"Reconciliation as State-Building in East Timor," Lusotopie, Sciences Po Bordeaux (2004), with Geoffrey C. Gunn.

Book Reviews

Review of C. Crocker, F. Osler, and P. Aall, eds, Managing Conflict in a World Adrift, H-Diplo (2015).

Selected Op-Eds, Policy Reports

"The Islamic State as an Ordinary Insurgency," Monkey Cage Blog, The Washington Post, May 14, 2015. Also in Islam and International Order, POMEPS Studies Vol. 15 (2015). French translation at Orient XXI (June 2015).

Works in Progress