International Intervention

• “Stopping the Violence, Blocking the Peace: Dilemmas of Foreign-Imposed Nation-Building after Ethnic War” (with Kevin Russell). International Organization (forthcoming in 2021). https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0020818321000266
• “External Intervention, Polarization, and Civil War” (with Stergios Skaperdas and William Wohlforth). Comparative Political Studies 53 (14): 2155-2182 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414020912279
• “Outside Options: Power-Sharing in the Shadow of External Intervention after Civil War” (with Nils-Christian Bormann and Mark Toukan). Unpublished paper. November 2020.
• “Parochialism as a Central Challenge in Counterinsurgency” (with Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl and Moses Shayo). Science 336 (May 18, 2012): 805-808.
• “Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of United Nations Peace Operations.” World Bank Economic Review 22: 9-32 (2008). (Additional results) (Supplementary information).
• “No Easy Choices: Estimating the Effects of United Nations Peacekeeping” (with Michael Doyle). International Studies Quarterly 51: 217-226 (March 2007).
  • Supplement 1
  • Supplement 2
  • Additional results
  • Additional comments
  • Replication Folder
• “Evaluating Multilateral Interventions in Civil Wars: A Comparison of UN and Non-UN Peace Operations” (with Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl). In Dimitris Bourantonis, Kostas Ifantis and Panayotis Tsakonas, eds., Multilateralism and Security Institutions in the Era of Globalization (New York: Routledge, 2007).
• Making War and Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006).  Co-authored with Michael Doyle. (Supplement) (Additional results (Data, coding notes, and do-files for the book: replication folder)
• “How Strategic is UN Peacebuilding?” In Daniel Philpott and Gerard F. Powers, eds., Strategies of Peace: Transforming Conflict in a Violent World. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
• “The United Nations’ Record in Peacekeeping Operations,” (with Michael Doyle). In Thomas G. Weiss and Sam Daws, eds., Oxford Handbook on the United Nations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
• International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis” (with Michael Doyle). American Political Science Review 94 (4): 779-801 (December 2000).
• “Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature.” World Politics 52: 437-83 (July 2000).
• “Policies for Building Post-Conflict Peace” (with Betty Bigombe and Paul Collier). Journal of African Economies 9 (3): 322-47 (December 2000).
• “The UN Operation in Cyprus: A New Look at the Peacekeeping-Peacemaking Relationship.” International Peacekeeping 6 (1) (Summer 1999).
• “Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Programs and Civil War Recurrence: A Review” (with Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl). February 2010. Policy Paper prepared for the Folke Bernadotte Academy, Sweden.
• “United Nation-Building.” Keynote Address, International Symposium on Security, “New Trends in Peacekeeping: In Search for a New Direction.” National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS), Japan November 5-6, 2014.
• Research reports and proposals:
• “Conflict and Development in the Middle East and North Africa” (with Julia Choucair-Visozo). Background paper prepared for the World Bank MNA Flagship Study on Peace, Stability, and Development. September 2010.
• “A Review of the Design and Evaluation of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Programs.” Background paper prepared for the World Bank Development Research Group. October 2005.
• “Evaluating the Impact of Reintegration Assistance to Ex-Combatants: A Policy Research Proposal.” February 2006.
• “Preventing Violent Conflict: The Scope and Limits of Government Action.” Background Paper Prepared for the World Bank’s World Development Report. February 2002.

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