Alumni Publications & Presentations

Students and alumni of The Fletcher School’s PhD program publish widely, from articles in journals or mainstream media to books. The following list includes a sample of their published work and conference presentations in recent years.

2022 Publications

• Herbert, Matthew, "Fragile States and Resilient Criminal Ecosystems - Human Smuggling and Trafficking Trends in North Africa and the Sahel," Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, August 2022.
• Herbert, Matthew, “Tunisia - Strengthening of Security Force Unions Blunts Internal Control,” ISPI, August 23, 2022.

2020 Publications

• Prah Ruger, Jennifer. "Social justice as a foundation for democracy and health." The British Medical Journal. October 23, 2020.
• Abbas, Hassan. "Policing the Pandemic Worldwide: Best Practices for Law Enforcement Agencies." Center for a Global Policy. July 16, 2020.
• Kurzer, A., Wiriyaphanich, T., Cienfuegos, C., Spang, E., & Guinard, J.-X. "Exploring fruit’s role in dessert: The Dessert Flip and its impact on university student acceptance and food waste." Food Quality and Preference, 83 (October 2019), 103917. July 2020.
• Risner, D., Marco, M. L., Pace, S. A., & Spang, E. S. (2020). "The Potential Production of the Bioactive Compound Pinene Using Whey Permeate." Processes, 8(3), 263. February 14, 2020.
• Winans, K., Marvinney, E., Gillman, A., & Spang, E. "An Evaluation of On-Farm Food Loss Accounting in Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Four California Specialty Crops". 4(February), 1–14. February 14, 2020.
• Porse, E., Mika, K. B., Escriva-Bou, A., Fournier, E. D., Sanders, K. T., Spang, E., … Pincetl, S. "Energy use for urban water management by utilities and households in Los Angeles." Environmental Research Communications, 2(1), 015003. January 10, 2020

2019 Publications

• Reifsnyder, Daniel. "Planning for a warmer world." Science Magazine, December 13, 2019.
• Cassidy, Robert. "What Happens When Tactics Take Primacy Over Strategy." Modern War Institute, November 26, 2019.
• Baker, G., Calvin, L., Gillman, A., Kitinoja, L., Osland, T., Pearson, P., … Tooley, J. B. "Tomato tales: Comparing loss-reduction driver and opportunities across U.S. fresh tomato supply chains." In T. Minor, S. Thornsbury, & A. K. Mishra (Eds.), The Economics of Food Loss in the Produce Industry (Vol. 53). Routledge.
• Abonga, Francis, Raphael Kerali, Holly Porter, and Rebecca Tapscott. "Naked bodies and collective action: repertoires of protest in Uganda’smilitarised, authoritarian regime." Civil Wars, November 12, 2019.
• Gillman, A., Campbell, D. C., & Spang, E. S. "Does on-farm food loss prevent waste? Insights from California produce growers." Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 150(November 2018), 104408. November 2019.
• Herbert, Matt, "Libya's war becomes a tech battleground," ISS Today, Institute for Security Studies, October 8, 2019.
• Herbert, Matt, (Co-authored with Clare Profous) “Morality should drive Europe’s new migration policies with Africa," ISS Today, Institute for Security Studies, August 29, 2019.
• Spang, E. S., Moreno, L. C., Pace, S. A., Achmon, Y., Donis-Gonzalez, I., Gosliner, W. A., … Tomich, T. P. "Food Loss and Waste: Measurement, Drivers, and Solutions." Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 44(1), 117–156. August 12, 2019
• Herbert, Matt, “Changing the migration horizon from North Africa to Europe," ISS Today, Institute for Security Studies, August 7, 2019.
• Herbert, Matt, “Where to from here in Algeria?," ISS Today, Institute for Security Studies, July 26, 2019.
• Herbert, Matt, "Reform of Libya’s security sector must not fail again," ISS Today, Institute for Security Studies, July 11, 2019.
• Prasad, Neeraj, "Inequality and voting among deprived ethnic groups: evidence from India," Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, June 4, 2019.
• Tapscott, Rebecca, "Conceptualizing Militias in Africa," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, March, 2019.
• Kendall, A., & Spang, E. S. "The role of industrial ecology in food and agriculture’s adaptation to climate change." Journal of Industrial Ecology, 1–5. April 1, 2019
• Cassidy, Robert. "A Looming Peace for Afghanistan's Long Hard War?" E-International Relations, February 26, 2019.

2018 Publications

• Spang, E., & Stevens, B. "Estimating the Blue Water Footprint of In-Field Crop Losses: A Case Study of U.S. Potato Cultivation." Sustainability, 10(8), 2854. July 15, 2018.
• Cassidy, Robert, "No, the war in Afghanistan isn't a hopeless stalemate," The Conversation, May 2018.
• Taussig, Torrey and Jones, Bruce, "Democracy in the new geopolitics," The Brookings Institution, March 22, 2018. 
• Taussig, Torrey, "The Succession Dilemma," The American Interest, March 14, 2018.
• Hassan Abbas, "Pakistan's Nuclear Bomb: A Story of Defiance, Deterrence and Deviance," Oxford University Press, March 2018.
• Cassidy, Robert, "Pakistan: Graveyard of Strategy," Modern Warfare Institute, January 2018. 
• Cassidy, Robert, "The Illusion of Strategy in Afghanistan: No Change in Pakistan's Malice," The Globalist, January 2018. 
• Cominola, A., Spang, E., Giuliani, M., Castelletti, A., Lund, J., & Loge, F. "Segmentation analysis of residential water-electricity demand for customized demand-side management programs." Journal of Cleaner Production, 172, 1607–1619. January 20, 2018.
• Spang, E. S., Holguin, A. J., & Loge, F. J. "The estimated impact of California’s urban water conservation mandate on electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions." Environmental Research Letters, 13(1), 014016. January 12, 2018.

2017 Publications

• Cassidy, Robert, "America's Afghanistan Strategy," Real Clear Defense, September 2017.
• Cassidy, Robert, "Ending Pakistan's Support of Jihadists: the Key to Win in Afghanistan," The Globalist, August 2017.
• Cassidy, Robert and Tame, Jacqueline, "The Wages of War without Strategy, Part III: Beyond the Present - A Call to Clausewitz and to Conscience," Strategy Bridge, August 2017.
• Tapscott, Rebecca, "The Government Has Long Hands: Institutionalized Arbitrariness and Local Security Initiatives in Northern Uganda," Development and Change, March 6, 2017.
• Tapscott, Rebecca, "Where the wild things are not: crime preventers and the 2016 Ugandan elections," Journal of Eastern African Studies, February 1, 2017.
• Tapscott, Rebecca, "Local security and the (un)making of public authority in Gulu, Northern Uganda," African Affairs, January 1, 2017. 
• Alison Lawlor Russell, "Strategic A2/AD in Cyberspace," Cambridge University Press. 2017.

2016 Publications

• Karen Engle, Zinaida Miller, and D.M. Davis, eds., *Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda *(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016).

2015 Publications

• Fung, Courtney J., "Global South Solidarity? China, Regional Organisations and Intervention in the Libyan and Syrian Civil Wars," *Third World Quarterly*, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1078230.
• Ilan Goldenberg, Elizabeth Rosenberg, Avner Golov, Nicholas Heras, Ellie Maruyama, After the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: A Game Plan for the United States, CNAS Report (October, 2015)
• Kim, Jina. "Sources and Objectives of North Korea Foreign Policy: Identity, Values and Negotiating Behavior," in Utpal Vyas, Ching-Chang Chen and Denny Roy eds., The North Korea Crisis and Regional Responses (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2015), pp. 3-19.