Books, Articles and other Writing
Books
Structuring Exclusion: Structuring Exclusion: Institutions, Grievances, and Ethnic State Capture in Iraq (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025).
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After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa, with Valentine Moghadam (New York: Cambridge University Press, July 2021).
State and Society in Iraq: Citizenship under Occupation, Dictatorship and Democratisation, editor with Benjamin Isakhan and Fadi Dawood (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017).
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Articles
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2024. "Afterward: Consociationalism and the State: Situating Lebanon and Iraq in a Global Perspective," Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 30 (1): 164-172.
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2023. "Critical Dialogue on the Arab Uprisings," Perspectives on Politics 21 (2).
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2023. "Divided Opposition, Fragmented Statebuilding: Elite Bargaining in Pre-and Post-2003 Iraq," International Peacekeeping 30 (5): 585-610.
2023. Editor, Special issue: Iraq 20 years since the invasion, MERIP
2022. "Foreign Intervention, Contingent Sovereignty, and Areas of Limited Statehood: the Case of Iraq's Disputed Territories," APSA-MENA Politics Symposium 5(1): 32-36.
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2022. "Exploiting Dissent: Foreign Military Interventions in the Arab Uprisings," International Politics, Vol. 59: 1139-1166 .
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2021. “Subverting Peace: the Origins and Legacies of de-Ba'athification in Iraq”, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 15(4): 476-493.
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2021. "Evaluating the Pitfalls of Liberal Statebuilding in Post-2003 Iraq (2003-2021)", Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 15 (4): 425-440.
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2012. “Cultural Genocide and Key International Instruments: Framing the Indigenous Experience,” International Journal of Minority and Group Rights, 19 (June): 175-194.
Works in Progress
“Ethnic Dominance in Iraq and Pakistan: a Comparative-Historical Approach,” with Wilfried Swenden. In progress.
“War, External Intervention, and Women’s Healthcare Outcomes in Post-2003 Iraq”, with Mahesh Kara. In progress.
Book Chapters
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“The Right of Return in Iraq: Conceptualizing Insecurity, State Fragility and Forced Displacement,” with Hannibal Travis in Transitional Justice and Forced Migration: Critical Perspectives from the Global South (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
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“Political Parties, Elections and the Transformation of Iraqi Politics since 2003,” w/Marc Lemieux in Iraq: Negotiating Citizenship under Occupation, Authoritarianism and Democratization, eds., Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako, and Fadi Dawood (London: I.B. Tauris. Winter 2017).
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“Conclusion,” with Benjamin Isakhan in Iraq: Negotiating Citizenship under Occupation, Authoritarianism and Democratization, eds., Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako, and Fadi Dawood (London: I.B. Tauris. 2017).
Other Publications
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"Negotiating Peace in Iraq's Disputed Territories: Modifying the Sinjar Agreement" Lawfareblog. January 17 2021.
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“Institutionalizing Exclusion: de-Baathification in Post-2003 Iraq” POMEPS Studies 35
October 2019
“The State of Higher Education in Iraq: Lessons from Eight Iraqi Fulbright Scholars,” Co-authored w/ Denis J. Sullivan, The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq, Fall 2014 Newsletter.
"International Response to Bahrain's Arab Spring," e-International Relations. July 2012.
“Saddam Hussein: a Political Biography,” The Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd edition. Ed. Richard C. Martin. 2 Vols (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, Spring 2016).
“Peshmerga Fighters,” Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East Wars. 2010.
Co-authored w/Sargon Donabed, “Colonialism in the Middle East,” World History Encyclopedia. 2010.
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