Books
Structuring Exclusion: Structuring Exclusion: Institutions, Grievances, and Ethnic State Capture in Iraq (Oxford University Press, forthcoming Fall 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).
Reviewed in: Perspectives on Politics; Democratization; Middle East Journal; Critical Sociology; Contemporary Sociology.
Endorsements: Jack Goldstone, Jillian Schwedler, Jason Brownlee, Suad Joseph.
State and Society in Iraq: Citizenship under Occupation, Dictatorship and Democratisation, editor with Benjamin Isakhan and Fadi Dawood (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017).
Endorsements: Peter Sluglett, Joseph Sassoon and Orit Bashkin
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
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2024 "Afterward: Consociationalism and the State: Situating Lebanon and Iraq in a Global Perspective," co-authored with Allison McCulloch, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 30 (1): 164-172.​​
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2023 "Divided Opposition, Fragmented Statebuilding: Elite Bargaining in Pre-and Post-2003 Iraq," International Peacekeeping 30 (5): 585-610.
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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)", with Allisair D. Edgar, 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.
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Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
2026 “Arrested History: Hierarchized Knowledge Production and Iraq’s Ba‘th Party Archives” (co-authored with Marsin Alshamary), in Ba‘thist Iraq through Archives: Reflections, Explorations, and Opportunities edited by Lisa Blaydes and Samuel Helfont, Stanford University Press, forthcoming 2026.
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2019 “The Right of Return in Iraq: Conceptualizing Insecurity, State Fragility and Forced Displacement,” (co-authored with Hannibal Travis) in Transitional Justice and Forced Migration: Critical Perspectives from the Global South, pp. 158-189. New York: Cambridge University Press.
2017 “Political Parties, Elections and the Transformation of Iraqi Politics since 2003,” (co-authored with Marc Lemieux) in State and Society in Iraq: Negotiating Citizenship under Occupation, Authoritarianism and Democratization, eds., Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako, and Fadi Dawood, 238-259. London: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Publishers.
2017 “Conclusion,” (co-authored with Benjamin Isakhan), in State and Society in Iraq: Negotiating Citizenship under Occupation, Authoritarianism and Democratization, eds., Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako, and Fadi Dawood, 280-288. London: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Publishers.
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Book Reviews
2023 Critical Dialogue between After the Arab Uprisings: Progress and Stagnation in the Middle East and North Africa by Shamiran Mako and Valentine Moghadam and The Age of Counter-Revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East, by Jamie Allison (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022) in Perspectives on Politics 21, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592723 000737
2023 Marketing Democracy: the Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East by Erin A. Snider, Political Science Quarterly 138 (3): 435-36.
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​Other Publications
2023 Special Issue, “The State of Iraq 20 Years After the Invasion,” (co-edited with Marsin Alshamary, Nabil al-Tikriti, and Lisa Hajjar), Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), Issue No. 306. https://merip.org/magazine/306/
2022 “Foreign Intervention, Contingent Sovereignty, and Areas of Limited Statehood: the Case of Iraq’s Disputed Territories,” APSA-MENA Newsletter 5, no. 1. https://apsamena.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/APSA_MENA_Spring-2022_V4.pdf
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2021 “Negotiating Peace in Iraq’s Disputed Territories: Modifying the Baghdad-Erbil Sinjar Agreement,” Lawfare.
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2019 “Institutionalizing Exclusion: de-Baathification in Post-2003 Iraq” Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) Studies 35.
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2014 “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.
2012 "International Response to Bahrain's Arab Spring," e-International Relations.
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2016 “Saddam Hussein: a Political Biography,” The Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd edition. Ed. Richard C. Martin. 2 Vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference.
2010 “Peshmerga Fighters,” Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East Wars-ABC-CLIO.
2010 “Colonialism in the Middle East,” World History Encyclopedia-ABC-CLIO.
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Works in Progress
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Power-Sharing in Practice: Discursive Institutionalism and Ethnic Elite Competition and Collaboration in Divided Societies
(Data collection phase with anticipated fieldwork in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Lebanon, and Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Articles
“War, external intervention, and women’s healthcare outcomes in post-2003 Iraq,” co-authored with Mahesh Karra, in preparation for review.
“Exclusionary by design: ethnic elite preferentialism and British colonial statebuilding in Iraq,” in preparation for review.
“Institutions, ethnic dominance, and British colonial policies: evidence from Iraq and Pakistan” co-authored with Wilfried Swenden, in preparation for review.
“Exiled Elites and Regime Change: Iraq and Cuba Dissident Opposition Groups Compared,” data collection phase.
“Can education counter authoritarian nostalgia? Evidence from post-Ba‘thist Iraq,” co-authored with Marsin Alshamary and Raed Aldulaimi, data collection phase, fieldwork in Iraq ongoing.
“Diaspora ethnic solidarity networks, humanitarian coordination and collective action: evidence from the First Gulf War in Iraq,” co-authored with Andreas Önver Cetrez, data collection phase, with fieldwork in Iraq, Turkey, Sweden, and Germany.
"Census Policies and Ethnic Exclusion in in Divided Post-Colonial Societies,” data collection phase, dataset being compiled.
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