Publications

2008. The Geography of Insurgent Organization and its Consequences for Civil Wars: Evidence from Liberia and Sierra Leone. Security Studies17(1): 107-237.

2007. Negotiated Settlements and Government Strategy in Civil Wars: Evidence from Darfur. Civil Wars 9 (4): 359-377.

2007. International Norms, Commerce, and the Political Economy of Insecurity in Sierra Leone. Canadian Journal of African Studies 41(1): 66-94.

2004. Timber Booms, State Busts: The Political Economy of Liberian Timber. Review of African Political Economy 101: 441-456.

Working Papers

Development Aid and Civil Conflict (with Benjamin Crost)

Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Decapitation in Counterinsurgency

Explaining the Duration of Counterinsurgency Campaigns (with Brian Urlacher)

Manipulating the Peace: Government Strategy and Spoiler Problems in the Sudanese Peace Processes

In Progress

The Impact of Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan (with Anoop Sarbahi)

Conditional Cash Transfers and Civil Conflict (with Benjamin Crost)