Books

• Safer Research in the Social Sciences: A Guide to Human and Digital Security in Hostile Environments, (London: SAGE), 2020; with Jannis Grimm, Ellen Lust, Ilyas Saliba, and Isabell Schierenbeck.

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  Reviews: Protestinstitut (in German), Journal of Peace Research.

  Podcasts: Governance Uncovered, WZB Democracy and Democratization (in German)

• Politischer Islam im Vorderen Orient: Zwischen Sozialbewegung, Opposition und Widerstand [Political Islam in the Middle East: Between Social Movement and Resistance], (Baden-Baden: Nomos), 2008 (in German); edited with Holger Albrecht.

Articles and Chapters

• 'Who fakes support for the military? Experimental evidence from Tunisia,' forthcoming in Democratization, (2022), with Sharan Grewal and Holger Albrecht.

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• 'Coup Agency and Prospects for Democracy,' forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly, (2021), with Holger Albrecht and Austin Schutz.

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• Governing the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Middle East and North Africa: Containment Measures as a Public Good forthcoming in Middle East Law and Governance (2021), with Jonah Schulhofer Wohl.

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• 'Popular support for military intervention and anti-establishment alternatives in Tunisia,' forthcoming in Mediterranean Politics, (2021), with Holger Albrecht, Dina Bishara, and Michael Bufano.

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  Attitudinal Foundations of Democratic Decline in Tunisia. short version publiushed in MENA Politics Newsletter 4(2): 32-35.

• 'Role Model or Role Expansion? Popular Perceptions of the Military in Tunisia,' forthcoming in Political Research Quarterly, (2021), with Holger Albrecht and Michael Bufano.

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• ‘Inheriting the Past: Trajectories of Single Parties in Arab Republics,’ in Cavatorta, Francesco and Lise Storm (eds.): Routledge Handbook on Political Parties in the Middle East and North Africa, (London: Routledge, 2021).

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• ‘Revolutions and the Military: Endgame Coups, Instability, and Prospects for Democracy,’ Armed Forces and Society 47(1): 148-176 (2021), with Holger Albrecht

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• 'Revolutionary Mass Uprisings in Authoritarian Regimes,' International Area Studies Review 23(2): 135-159 (2020), with Holger Albrecht.

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• 'Myths of Military Defection in Egypt and Tunisia,' Mediterranean Politics 25(1): 45-70 (2020), with Amy Austin Holmes.

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• ‘Projecting Stability to the South: NATO’s “New” Mission?’, in Cusumano, Eugenio and Stefan Hofmaier (eds.): Projecting Resilience Across the Mediterranean, (London: Palgrave, 2020), pp. 37-62 ; with Jeff Larsen.

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• ‘Going on the Run: What Drives Military Desertion in Violent Domestic Conflict?,’ Security Studies 27(2): 179-203 (2018), with Holger Albrecht.

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• ‘State and Regime Capacity in Authoritarian Elections: Egypt before the Arab Spring,’ International Political Science Review 39(1): 97-113 (2018).

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• ‘Ties to the Rest: Autocratic Linkage and Regime Survival,’ Comparative Political Studies 50(9): 1221-1254 (2017), with Oisín Tansey and Alexander Schmotz.

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• ‘Political Militaries in Popular Uprisings: A Comparative Perspective on the Arab Spring,’ International Political Science Review 38(3): 363-377 (2017).

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• ‘Officers and Regimes: The Historical Origins of Political-Military Relations in Middle Eastern Republics,’ in Holger Albrecht, Aurel Croissant and Fred Lawson (eds.): Armies and Insurgencies in the Arab Spring (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), pp. 34-53 .

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• ‘From Disaffection to Desertion: How Networks Facilitate Military Insubordination in the Syrian Conflict,’ Comparative Politics 48(4): 439-457 (2016), with Dorothy Ohl and Holger Albrecht.

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• ‘The 2011 Elections in Tunisia: Institutionalizing Uncertainty?’ in Khalil al-Anani and Mahmoud Hamad (eds.): Elections and Democratization in the Middle East, (Basingstroke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 9-34, with Jana Warkotsch.

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• ‘Zwischen Revolution und Religion: Die Parlamentswahlen und das entstehende Parteiensystem in Ägypten’ [Between Revolution and Religion: Parliamentary Elections and the Emerging Party System in Egypt], in: Holger Albrecht and Thomas Demmelhuber (eds.): Revolution und Regimewandel in Ägypten, (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp. 87-109 (in German, 2013).

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• ‘Zwischen Staatszerfall und Bürgerkrieg: Der Jemen im arabischen Frühling’ [Between Failed State and Civil War: Yemen in the Arab Spring], in: Der Bürger im Staat, Vol. 1-2/2012, pp. 48-55 (in German, 2012).

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• ‘Konzeptualisierungsstrategien, Regimetypologien und das Problem des Kontinuums [Strategies of Conceptualization, Regime Typologies, and the Continuum Problem], (with Jana Warkotsch) in: Holger Albrecht and Rolf Frankenberger (eds.): Autoritarismus Reloaded,(Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp. 61-77 (in German, 2010).
• ‘Yemen’de Siyasal Islam’ [Political Islam in Yemen], in: Ayşegül Komşuoglu and Gül M. Kortuoglu Eskişar (eds.): Siyasal Islam’ın Farklı Yüzleri, (Istanbul: Profil), pp. 55-75 (in Turkish, 2009).
• ‘Staat, Stämme und politischer Islam im Jemen: Die Islah Partei zwischen Regime und Opposition’ [The State, Tribes, and Political Islam in Yemen: The Islah Party Between Regime and Opposition], in: Holger Albrecht and Kevin Koehler (eds.): Politischer Islam im Vorderen Orient: Zwischen Sozialbewegung, Opposition und Widerstand, (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp. 165-182 (in German, 2008).
• ‘Dimensionen des politischen Islam im Vorderen Orient’ [Dimensions of Political Islam in the Middle East], (with Holger Albrecht) in: Holger Albrecht and Kevin Koehler (eds.): Politischer Islam im Vorderen Orient: Zwischen Sozialbewegung, Opposition und Widerstand, (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp. 11-30 (in German, 2008).
• ‘Authoritarian Elections in Egypt: Formal Institutions and Informal Mechanisms of Rule,’ Democratization 15(5): 974-990 (2008).

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Other Publications

• 'Factionalism in the Security Sector: The Dawn of a New Order?' Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale, Commentary (2020).
• 'Reluctant Power Europe' The Cairo Review of Global Affairs (2020).
• 'السياسة الخارجية للرئيس ترمب: أي دلالات لحلف شمال الأطلسي' [The Foreign Policy of President Trump: What Challenges for NATO?], Derasat 6(1): 59-73 (2019).

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• 'Military defections did not determine the Arab uprisings' The Washington Post, Monkey Cage (21 December 2018), with Amy Austin Holmes.
• ‘Putting the Horse Back Before the Cart: NATO’s Projecting Stability in the South,’ in Ian Hope (ed.): Projecting Stability: Elixir or Snake Oil?NDC Research Paper No. 1,(December 2018), pp. 41-51.

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• ‘Projecting Stability in Practice? NATO’s New Training Mission in Iraq,’ NDC Policy Brief No. 2, (October 2018).

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• ‘‘‘Don’t Listen to Anyone But Me!’’ Will al-Sisi Consolidate Military Rule in Egypt?’ Mediterranean Research Meeting (2016).

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• ‘Why it’s good for dictators to have dictator friends,’ The Washington Post, The Monkey Cage, (15 September 2016), with Oisìn Tansey and Alexander Schmotz.
• ‘For Money or Liberty? The Political Economy of Military Desertion and Rebel Recruitment in the Syrian Civil War,’ Carnegie Middle East Center Regional Insight, (24 November 2015), with Dorothy Ohl and Holger Albrecht.

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• ‘The Syrian military has thousands of deserters. New research tells us why they left,’ The Washington Post, The Monkey Cage, (17 December 2015), with Dorothy Ohl and Holger Albrecht.
• ‘Egypt: The Return of the Generals and the Future of Transition,’ OpenDemocracy, 12 July 2013.
• ‘Putting Institutions into Perspective: Two Waves of Authoritarianism Studies and the Arab Spring,’ ECPR General Conference, (August 2011), with Jana Warkotsch.

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• ‘All the King’s Men: the Emergence of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) in Morocco,’ IPRIS Maghreb Review No. 6, October/November 2010, pp. 1-2.

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• Egypt and North Africa: Political Islam and Regional Instability, Report commissioned by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Emergency and Technical Support Service, January 2009.

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• Authoritarian Institution Building Electoral Politics and Ruling Party Formation in Post-Revolutionary Kyrgyzstan, Working Paper, Bishkek: OSCE Academy, 2009.

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