Policy Research
Mainstreaming Hate: The Far-Right Fringe Origins of Islamophobic and Anti-Refugee Politics, with Samuel Davidoff-Gore, National Security Network, December 2015
Living with the Consequence: The Effects of Voting Down the Iran Nuclear Agreement, National Security Network, July 2015
The Limits of Iran's Regional Ambitions, National Security Network, July 2015
Confronting the Islamic State: An Assessment of U.S. Strategic Options, with Bill French, National Security Network, February 2015
Navigating an AUMF for the Islamic State: Toward a High-Standard Authorization, with Bill French, National Security Network, September 2014
Strategic Adaptation: Toward a New U.S. Strategy in the Middle East, with Bruce W. Jentleson, Andrew M. Exum, and Melissa G. Dalton, Center for a New American Security, June 2012
Selected Articles
Who Are You Calling a Great Power?, Lawfare, January 15, 2023
The New Network Literature, Lawfare, August 17, 2021
The State of Sovereignty, Lawfare, April 30, 2017
The Failed Islamic States Index, with Ellen Noble, Foreign Policy, August 7, 2014
The Case for Canamerica, Foreign Policy, October 3, 2013
Mapped: Every Protest on the Planet Since 1979, Foreign Policy, August 23, 2013
The Arab Spring's Second Bloom, The National Interest, June 19, 2012
Policing Reform and Reforming Police, with Andrew M. Exum, Sada, February 16, 2012
Syria and Other Wars Without End, The Atlantic, November 23, 2011
Selected Editorials and Commentary
The paranoid style in Islamophobic politics, The Hill, December 14, 2015
Dick Cheney Was for the Iran Deal Before He Was Against It, Foreign Policy, September 8, 2015
Iran Is Hardly On The March, with John Bradshaw, Defense One, July 15, 2015
A misguided effort against Islamic State, Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2015
The Costs of Losing Strategic Patience in Syria, RealClearWorld, November 22, 2014
'Could have prevented 9/11' is the new 'Hitler', Foreign Policy, June 14, 2013
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