Research

Publications

2024. Regime elites and civil society: Assessing the channels of pro-government mobilization in autocracies. Journal of Civil Society (with Sooyeon Kang)

2023. The Other Dark Side of Pro-Government Militias: Deterring Nonviolent Action and Spoiling Prospects for Peace During Civil Wars. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (with Phillip Nelson) [replication files]

2022. Is It All the Same? Repression of the Media and Civil Society Organizations as Determinants of Anti-Government Opposition. International Interactions, 48(5): 968-996 [preprint version]

2022. Research Assistants: Scientific Credit and Recognised Authorship. Learned Publishing (with Phillip Nelson)

2019. What Matters Is Who Supports You: Diaspora and Foreign States as External Supporters and Militants' Adoption of Nonviolence. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 63(9): 2155-2179 [preprint version]

— Covered by Peace Science Digest "Diaspora Support for Militant Groups Contributes to a Shift Towards Nonviolence"

2016. Research Findings on the Evolution of Peacekeeping, In Thompson, W. R, (ed.) Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press, Oxford (In Press) (with Ismene Gizelis and Han Dorussen)

Working Papers

Civil Society Organizations and Protests’ Escalation to Civil War
The Quest for Peace: Analysing the Effects of Nonviolent Action on Civil War Peace Processes (with Luke Abbs)
Civilian Action during Civil War: Doomed to fail or poised to succeed? (with Sooyeon Kang)

Dissertations

PhD dissertation

2019. The Role of State and Non-State Actors in Determining Violent and Nonviolent Tactics in Political Conflict, University of Essex.

MSc dissertation

2014. US Interests, Drone Strikes and Human Insecurity. How does the US counter-terrorism strategy affect stability and security in Yemen?, University of Oxford. [available upon request]