Institute for Security and Conflict Studies

at the Elliott School of International Affairs

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Books

Book cover of The Business of Armaments Armstrongs, Vickers and the International Arms Trade, 1855- 1955

The Business of Armaments Armstrongs, Vickers and the International Arms Trade, 1855- 1955

by Joanna Spear

Book cover for Inadvertent Expansion How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics

Inadvertent Expansion How Peripheral Agents Shape World Politics

by Nicholas Anderson

The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics

by Alexandra Délano Alonso and Harris Mylonas

Book cover for Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns

Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns

by Harris Mylonas and Scott Radnitz

Book Cover for Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities

Varieties of Nationalism: Communities, Narratives, Identities

by Harris Mylonas and Maya Tudor

Book cover for The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities

The Politics of Nation-Building: Making Co-Nationals, Refugees, and Minorities

by Harris Mylonas

Book cover for The False Promise of Superiority

The False Promise of Superiority

by James Lebovic

Book cover for The Gender and Security Agenda Strategies for the 21st Century

The Gender and Security Agenda Strategies for the 21st Century

Edited by Chantal De Jonge Oudraat and Michael Brown

Book cover for Security Studies An Introduction

Security Studies An Introduction

Edited By Paul D Williams and Matt McDonald

Book cover for Understanding Peacekeeping, 3rd Edition

Understanding Peacekeeping, 3rd Edition

by Paul D. Williams and Alex J. Bellamy

Book cover for The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs And the Origins of America’s First Pacific Empire

The Price of Empire: American Entrepreneurs And the Origins of America’s First Pacific Empire

by Miles M Evers and Eric Grynavisk

Book cover of Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong

Catastrophic Success: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Goes Wrong

by Alexander B. Downes

Fighting For Peace in Somalia

By Paul D. Williams

Security and Development in Global Politics: A Critical Comparison

by Joanna Spear (Editor), Paul D. Williams (Editor)

Crude Strategy: Rethinking the US Military Commitment to Defend Persian Gulf Oil

by Charles L. Glaser (Editor), Rosemary A. Kelanic (Editor)

Deterrence before Hiroshima

by George H. Quester

Empire of Humanity- A History of Humanitarianism

by Michael Barnett

Flying Blind- The Politics of the U.S. Strategic Bomber Program

by Michael E. Brown

War and Conflict in Africa

by Paul D. Williams

Leaders at War- How Presidents Shape Military Interventions

by Elizabeth N. Saunders

Rational Theory of International Politics- The Logic of Competition and Cooperation

by Charles L. Glaser

Targeting Civilians in War

by Alexander B. Downes

Tyranny of Consensus

by Janne E. Nolan

The Politics of Nation-Building- Making Co-Nationals, Refugees and Minorities

by Harris Mylonas

Flawed Logics- Strategic Nuclear Arms Control from Truman to Obama

by James H. Lebovic

Military Power- Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle

by Stephen Biddle

Articles

  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2017
  • 2016

Jo, E. A. (2022, November 23). Japan and South Korea Are Still Haunted by the Past. Foreign Affairs Magazine. Retrieved from https://www.foreignaffairs.com/japan/japan-and-south-korea-are-still-haunted-past.

Jo, E. (2022). Memory, Institutions, and the Domestic Politics of South Korean–Japanese Relations. International Organization, 76(4), 767-798. doi:10.1017/S0020818322000194

Hor, Amoz JY. “Analysis | NATO Was Founded to Protect ‘Civilized’ People. That Means White.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 12 Apr. 2022.

Downes, Alexander B. “Putin’s War against Ukrainian Civilians Is Not New – nor Will It Work.” The Hill, 26 Mar. 2022.

Downes, Alexander B., and Daniel Krcmaric. “Analysis | Biden Called Putin a ‘War Criminal.’ That’s Risky.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 24 Mar. 2022.

Downes, Alexander B. “Opinion: The Problem with Putin’s Endgame in Ukraine.” CNN, Cable News Network, 27 Feb. 2022.

Downes, Alexander B. “Analysis | Does Putin Really Want Regime Change in Ukraine?” The Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022.

Mylonas, H., & Whalley, N. (2022). Pandemic Nationalism. Nationalities Papers, 50(1), 3-12. doi:10.1017/nps.2021.105

Mylonas, Harris, and Caress Schenk. Introduction: Kazakhstan Articles from Nationalities Papers. Cambridge University Press.

Hor, A. (2021). The everyday emotional lives of aid workers: How humanitarian anxiety gets in the way of meaningful local participation. International Theory, 1-30. doi:10.1017/S1752971921000166

Downes, Alexander B. “Could U.S. actions topple Iran’s government?” The Washington Post (2020). Accessed January 13, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/11/could-us-actions-topple-irans-government/.

Cunningham, Fiona S. and M. Taylor Fravel. “Dangerous Confidence? Chinese Views on Nuclear Escalation.” International Security 44, no. 2 (2019): 61-109. Accessed December 16, 2019. https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00359.

Délano Alonso, Alexandra, and Harris Mylonas. “The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics: Unpacking the State and Disaggregating the Diaspora.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45, no. 4 (2019): 473-491. Accessed December 16, 2019. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1409160.

Elfversson, Emma, and Sara Lindberg Bromley, and Paul D. Williams. “Urban peacekeeping under siege: attacks on African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, 2007-2009.” Third World Thematics: A TWQ journal 4, no. 2-3 (2019): 158-178. Accessed December 16, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2019.1678399.

Glaser, Charles. “A Flawed Framework: Why the Liberal International Order Concept is Misguided.” International Security 43, no. 4 (2019): 51-87. Accessed December 3, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1162/isec_a_00343.

Kuo, Kendrick, and Harris Mylonas. “Nation-Building and the Role of Identity in Civil Wars.” Ethnopolitics (2019): 1-21. Accessed December 3, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2019.1684095.

Mylonas, Harris. “After a decade of crisis, Greek politics are turning normal and more technocratic.” The Washington Post.  July 14, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/14/greece-just-threw-out-its-leftist-government-voted-conservatives-heres-what-you-need-know/.

Mylonas, Harris. “Greece: Political Developments and Data in 2018.” European Journal of Politica Research (2019): 1-10. Accessed December 3, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/2047-8852.1224.

Mylonas, Harris. “Human Agency, System Polarity, Regional Integration, and Nested Security.” Nationalities Papers, 47, no. 4 (2019): 690-692. Accessed December 16, 2019. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/nationalities-papers/article/human-agency-system-polarity-regional-integration-and-nested-security/6B9CE8F3C13AEB12BCB7CD44F741C546/share/d0f56a428d2b85d5cf3a74a8c4d71ffef68b77d1.

Mylonas, Harris. “Nation-Building Policies in the Balkans: An Ottoman or a Manufactured Legacy?” Nations and Nationalism 25, no. 3 (2019): 866-887. Accessed December 16, 2019. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nana.12499.

Mylonas, Harris, and Ariel Ahram. “Hierarchy, Sovereignty, and Adaptation in the Eastern Mediterranean.” In The New Eastern Mediterranean: Theory, Politics and States in a Volatile Era, edited by Spyridon Litsas and Aristotle Tziampiris, 31-43.  Berlin:Springer, 2019

Mylonas, Harris. “The Geopolitics of De Facto States.” PONARS Eurasia. Policy Memo 577 (2019). Accessed December 16, 2019. http://www.ponarseurasia.org/memo/geopolitics-de-facto-states. 

Mylonas, Harris, and Marko Žilović. “Foreign Policy Priorities and Ethnic Return Migration Policies: Group-Level Variation in Greece and Serbia.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45, no.4 (2019): 613-635. Accessed December 16, 2019. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2017.1409174.

 

Talmadge, Caitlin. “Beijing’s Nuclear Option.” Foreign Affairs. November 6, 2018. Accessed November 6, 2018.

 

 

 


Dragu, Tiberiu and Lupu, Yonatan, Collective Action and Constraints on Repression at the Endgame (2017). Comparative Political Studies, Forthcoming. SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992622 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2992622)PDF


Jones, Z. M. and Lupu, Y. (2018), Is There More Violence in the Middle?. American Journal of Political Science, 62: 652-667. doi:10.1111/ajps.12373 PDF

 

 

 

Rutherford, Alex, Yonatan Lupu, Manuel Cebrian, Iyad Rahwan, Brad L. Leveck, and Manuel Garcia-Herranz. “Inferring Mechanisms for Global Constitutional Progress.” Nature Human Behaviour 2, no. 8 (2018): 592-99. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0382-8. PDF

 

 

Harris Mylonas and Ariel Ahram. 2019. “Hierarchy, Sovereignty, and Adaptation in the Eastern Mediterranean,” in Litsas, Spyridon and Tziampiris, Aristotle (eds.) The New Eastern Mediterranean: Theory, Politics and States in a Volatile Era, Springer, pp. 31-43.

 

 

Harris Mylonas and Kendrick Kuo. 2018. “Nationalism and Foreign Policy,” in CameronG. Thies (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis,Volume II. Oxford University Press, pp. 223-242.

 

 

 

Harris Mylonas. 2018. “The Political Consequences of the Crisis in Greece: Charismatic Leadership and Its Discontents,” in Evdoxios Doxiadis and Aimee Placas (eds.). LivingUnder Austerity: Greek Society in Crisis. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 46-66.

 

Correspondence

Su, Ruolin, Alexander B. Downes, and Lindsey A. O’Rourke. “Reconsidering the Outcomes of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change.” International Security 42, no. 3 (January 1, 2018):

172–77. https://doi.org/10.1162/ISEC_c_00309.

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Jems

Alexandra Délano Alonso and Harris Mylonas. 2017. “The Microfoundations of Diaspora Politics: Unpacking the State and Disaggregating the Diaspora,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Jems

Harris Mylonas and Marko Žilović. 2017. “Foreign Policy Priorities and Ethnic Return Migration Policies: Group-Level Variation in Greece and Serbia,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

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Friends, Foes, and Foreign-Imposed Regime Change, Michael Poznansky, Alexander B. Downes, and Lindsey A. O’Rourke, International Security 2017 42:2, 191-195.

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Lupu, Y.   (2017).  The networked peace: Intergovernmental organizations and international conflict. Journal of peace research. ,  54 (6), p. 833 – 848. (ISSN: 0022-3433)

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BJPS

Alexander B. Downes, “No Business Like FIRC Business: Foreign-Imposed Regime Change and Bilateral Trade,” British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 47, No. 4 (October 2017), pp. 749-782 (with Paul Zachary and Kathleen Deloughery).

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Blunder

Alexander B. Downes, “It’s a Crime, but Is It a Blunder? Investigating the Military Effectiveness of Civilian Victimization,” in Civilians and Warfare in World History, ed. Nicola Foote and Nadya Williams (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), pp. 288-312 (with Kathryn McNabb Cochran).

 

 

 


Limits

Charles Glaser “Correspondence: The Limits of Damage Limitation” International Security, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Summer 2017), pp. 193-207.

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International Organization

Saunders, E. (2017). No Substitute for Experience: Presidents, Advisers, and Information in Group Decision Making. International Organization, 71(S1), S219-S247. doi:10.1017/S002081831600045X

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ISQ61

Brian Greenhill, Yonatan Lupu; Clubs of Clubs: Fragmentation in the Network of Intergovernmental Organizations, International Studies Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 1, 1 March 2017, Pages 181–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqx001

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Continuity-and-Change-in-War-and-Conflict-in-Africa

Williams, P. D. (2017), Continuity and Change in War and Conflict in Africa. PRISM Vol.6, No. 4: 32–46. ISBN: 978-1-4422-3955-5

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SSRN

Dragu, Tiberiu and Lupu, Yonatan, Collective Action and Constraints on Repression at the Endgame (2017). Comparative Political Studies, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992622

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Caitlin Talmadge, “Would China Go Nuclear? Assessing the Risk of Chinese Nuclear Escalation in a Conventional War with the United States,” International Security, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Spring 2017), pp. 50-92.

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Stephen Biddle, Julia Macdonald & Ryan Baker (2017): Small footprint, small payoff: The military effectiveness of security force assistance, Journal of Strategic Studies, DOI:10.1080/01402390.2017.1307745

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Erickson, A., Montgomery, E., Neuman, C., Biddle, S. and Oelrich, I. (2017). Correspondence: How Good Are China’s Antiaccess/Area-Denial Capabilities?. International Security, 41(4), pp.202-213.

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Glaser, Charles L., and Henry Farrel. “The Role of Effects, Saliences, and Norms in US Cyberwar Doctrine,” Journal of Cybersecurity. Vol. 3, No. 1 (2017), pp. 7-17.

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Chase, M., Garafola, C. and Beauchamp-Mustafaga, N. (2017). Chinese Perceptions of and Responses to US Conventional Military Power. Asian Security, pp.1-19.

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Goldgeier, James, and Saunders, Elizabeth N. “Good Foreign Policy Is Invisible.” Foreign Affairs, Snapshot. February 28, 2017.

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Methodological Challenges

Harris Mylonas and Nadav Shelef. 2017. “Methodological Challenges in the Study of Stateless Nationalist Territorial Claims,” Territory, Politics, Governance, Volume 5, Issue 2: 145- 157.

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Global

Williams, P. D. (2017), Global and Regional Peacekeepers: Trends, Opportunities, Risks and a Way Ahead. Glob Policy, 8: 124–129. doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12393

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Antonia Chayes and Janne Nolan. “What Comes Next“, Daedalus, Vol. 146, No. 1 (Winter 2017): 113–124

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gulf

Glaser, Charles L., and Rosemary A. Kelanic. “Getting Out of the Gulf.” Foreign Affairs. Vol. 96, No. 1 (January/February 2017).

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Get what you want

Alexander B. Downes and Lindsey A. O’Rourke. “You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Why Foreign-Imposed Regime Change Seldom Improves Interstate Relations.” International Security 41, no. 2 (Fall 2016): 43–89.

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Crude Strategy, edited by Charles L. Glaser and Rosemary A. Kelanic, explores whether the United States should continue to rely on its military to protect the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf; and, if its security commitment is strategically sound, whether the United States should revise its military posture.  Contributors delve into a range of vital economic and security issues: the economic costs of an oil supply disruption, whether or not an American withdrawal increases the probability of a disruption, the internal stability of Saudi Arabia, the budgetary costs of the U.S. military commitment to the Gulf, and the possibility of blunting the effects of disruptions with non-military investments.


Stephen Biddle and Ivan Oelrich. Future Warfare in the Western Pacific. International Security, Vol. 41, No.1 (Summer 2016), pp. 7-48.

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Charles Glaser and Steve Fetter. Should the United States Reject MAD? Damage Limitation and U.S. Nuclear Strategy toward China. International Security, Vol. 41, No.1 (Summer 2016), pp. 49-98.

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Biddle, S. and Oelrich, I. (2016). Future Warfare in the Western Pacific: Chinese Antiaccess/Area Denial, U.S. AirSea Battle, and Command of the Commons in East Asia. International Security, 41(1), pp.7-48.

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IAGS

Levinger, Matthew (2016) “Why the U.S. Government Failed to Anticipate the Rwandan Genocide of 1994: Lessons for Early Warning and Prevention,” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 9: Iss. 3: 33-58.

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Correspondence

Charles L. Glaser, Andrew H. Kydd, Mark L. Haas, John M. Owen IV, Sebastian Rosato. Correspondence: Can Great Powers Discern Intentions?, International Security, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Winter 2015/16), pp. 197-215.

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assuring

Fiona S. Cunningham and M. Taylor Fravel. “Assuring Assured Retaliation: China’s Nuclear Posture and U.S.-China Strategic Stability.” International Security 40, no. 2 (Fall 2015): 7-50.

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