Working Papers

Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict (with B. Crost and J. Felter), Under review.

Explaining the Duration of Counterinsurgency Campaigns (with B. Urlacher) Under review

Government Transfers and Civil Conflict: Experimental Evidence from the Philippine (with B. Crost and J. Felter) February 2011.

The Impact of U.S. Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan (with A. Sarbahi) January 2011.

How Much is a High-Value Target Really Worth? Evidence from U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan (with A. Sarbahi) December 2010.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Forthcoming. Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Decapitation in Counterinsurgency Campaigns. International Security.

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.