Student 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. Note that some articles have co-authors who are not listed here.

2023 Publications

McDonald, Scott, "Sunzi, 'Shi' and Strategy: How to Read 'Art of War' the Way its Author Intended," The Conversation, May 16, 2023.
Anumol, Dipali, "Care Conversations," International Feminist Journal of Politics, February 15, 2023.
Spears, Kinsey, "Sex, Age (and More) Still Matter: Data Collection, Analysis, and Use in Humanitarian Practice," Care.org, March 23, 2013.
Sarkar, Aditya, “Thinking Politically About Money: The Changing Role of Political Finance in The Political (Un-)Settlements in Ethiopia and Sudan." Economic Research Forum, March 2023.
Sarkar, Aditya, “Decarbonization and Conflict Resolution: New Patterns of Peacemaking in Political Marketplace Systems and its Implications for the Clean Energy Transition,” PeaceRep, February 2023.
Miller, Jared, “Decarbonization and Conflict Resolution: New Patterns of Peacemaking in Political Marketplace Systems and its Implications for the Clean Energy Transition,” post on the World Peace Foundation blog, February 17, 2023.
Sarkar, Aditya, “Traumatic Decarbonization in Carbon-Based Political (Un)settlements,” World Peace Foundation working paper, February 2023.
Gopalakrishnan, Tarun and Jared Miller, “Energy Transition in Fragile States: A Critical Primer,” World Peace Foundation, January 2023.
Jones, Laura, “Lesson from a Year at War: In Contrast to the Russians, Ukrainians Master a Mix of High- and Low-End Technology on the Battlefield,” The Conversation, February 22, 2023.
Naimark-Rowse, Benjamin, ”Donors Leery of Supporting Grassroots Organizing Need to Rethink How They Approach Such Work,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, February 22, 2023.
Adzinbaia, Zviad, “Ukraine and Georgia: Together Will Prevail,” The Fletcher Forum, February 2023.
Anumol, Dipali, co-editor, Challenging Conceptions, Oxford University Press, January 2023.

2022 Publications

Miller, Jared, “The Politics and Profit of a Crisis: A Political Marketplace Analysis of the Humanitarian Crisis in Northeast Nigeria,” World Peace Foundation, 2022.
Sarkar, Aditya, co-author, “Social Cohesion and Forced Displacement : A Synthesis of New Research,” World Bank, 2022.
Spears, Kinsey, “Harmful Masculinities and the Threat to Force Readiness in the U.S. Military,” Newlines Institute, December 8, 2022.
Oh, Soyoung Oh, “COP27: How debt-for-climate swaps can help solve low-income countries’ crushing debt and environmental challenges at the same time,” The Conversation.com, October 31, 2022.
Tietjen, Bethany, “Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms the world’s poorest countries?,” The Conversation.com, November 3, 2022.
Sampson, Gary, “Make the MAGTF Ready for All-Domain Ops,” U.S. Naval Institute, November 2022.
McDonald, Scott, “Why China Feels Threatened by the Moral Authority of a 90-year-old Catholic Bishop,” The Conversation, September 19, 2022.
McAuliff, Alexandra, “Peace Negotiations as Sites of Gendered Power Hierarchies,” Brill.com, September 12, 2022.
Naimark-Rowse, Benjamin, “Dollars and Dissent,” International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, September 2022.
Spears, Kinsey, "The Global Consequences of America’s Anti-Abortion Agenda," New Lines Institute, August 9, 2022.
Ahmad, Lima, "'Afghan Women' Aren't Who You Think They Are," FP, August 14, 2022.
Spears, Kinsey, "Why U.S.-China Relations Need a Gender Analysis," New Lines Institute, March 3, 2022.
Anumol, Dipali, "Caring as Research, Researching with Care," Comparative Political Theory, February 23, 2022.
Feher, Zoltan, "Joseph Nye 85: From Integration Theory to Complex Interdependence to Soft Power," The Duck of Minerva, January 31, 2022.

2021 Publications

Spears, Kinsey, "Gender, Famine, and Mortality," World Peace Foundation, December 15, 2021.
Sobchak, Frank, “Israel’s Shift to CENTCOM: Big Things Come in Little Packages,” Miryam Institute, February 9, 2021.
Sobchak, Frank, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan,” Newsweek, June 11, 2021.
Anumol, Dipali and Roxani Krystalli, "Caring About Feminism, Caring as Feminists," for The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Ginn Library. March, 2021.
Anumol, Dipali, "Building an Ethics of Care in Research During COVID-19,"For King’s College London’s Feminist Perspectives series, January, 2021.
Lazetic, Marina, "Migration, Extremism, & Dangerous Blame Games: Developments & Dynamics in Serbia," United States Institute of Peace, RESOLVE Network, November 1, 2021.
Spears, Kinsey, "Culture, Gender, and Women in the Military," Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, October 2021.
Ahmad, Lima,"Running Through the Valley of Death to Give Life a Chance," TRT World, September 8, 2021.
Ahmad, Lima, "The US Can’t ‘Celebrate Democracy’ at Home as it Destroys it in Afghanistan," TRT World, August 16, 2021.
Sobchak, Frank, "The Afghans that Fought," Small Wars Journal, September 23, 2021.
Sobchak, Frank, "The Army Needs to Understand the Afghanistan Disaster," Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2021.
Sobchak, Frank, "Afghanistan is Our Generation's MS St. Louis Moment," Time, September 10, 2021.
Walther-Puri, Andrea, "Afghanistan: A Tragic Lesson of the US Military’s Flawed Approach to Capacity Building,"Just Security, September 6, 2021.
Beliakova, Polina, "Erosion by Deference: Civilian Control and the Military in Policymaking," Texas National Security Review, Summer 2021.
Tilney Burke, Frances, "Do We Really Want to Draft Our Daughters," Institute for Family Studies Blog, July 26, 2021.
Feher, Zoltan and Sobchak, Frank, “Games and Simulations in Teaching International Relations,” invited contribution to H-Diplo teaching roundtable on games and simulations, February 19, 2021.
Tilney Burke, Frances, “Let’s hope the Pentagon’s new military community and family policy appointee discards the ‘Army goggles,’” Military Times, February 12, 2021.
Tilney Burke, Frances and Shultz, Richard, "The Department of Homeland Security’s Epic ‘Intelligence Enterprise’ Failure," The National Interest, January 24, 2021.
Sobchak, Frank, "The Revolution Behind the Attempted Revolution ," Small Wars Journal, January 11, 2021.
McDonald, Scott D. "Autonomous Robots: China." In Examining Internet and Technology Around the World, edited by Laura M. Steckman, 263-268. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2021.

2021 Presentations

Sobchak, Frank, "Afghanistan: Is This the End or Just the New Beginning of a War?” The Global Masters of Arts Program, The Fletcher School, October 2021.
Sobchak, Frank, “Inflection Points in the Iraq War,” The Society for Military History, May 2021.
Sobchak, Frank, “Choosing the Harder Right: Facing Authority on Publication of the Iraq War Study,” The U.S. Army The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, February 2021.
Beliakova, Polina, “Erosion of Civilian Control in Democracies: A Comprehensive Framework for Comparative Analysis,” Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Beliakova, Polina, "Qualitative Analysis in Social Science: Process Tracing," Northeastern University, Boston, MA.
Beliakova, Polina, "Leading or Following: The Role of the Military in Democratic Backsliding," International Studies Association Annual Convention 2021.
Beliakova, Polina, "Erosion by Deference: Civilian Control and the Military in Policymaking," International Studies Association Annual Convention 2021.
Spears, Kinsey, Alex McAuliff, Dipali Anumol, “Research from my Parents' Basement: Junior Scholars on COVID-19's Implications for Feminist Methods.” International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP). February 18th, 2021.
Feher, Zoltan, “From the Tiananmen Square Massacre to Most Favored Nation Status: The China Strategy of the George H. W. Bush Administration,” American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, October 2, 2021.
Feher, Zoltan, “From the ‘Butchers of Beijing’ Slogan to Strategic Partnership: The China Strategy of the Clinton Administration,” American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Seattle, September 30, 2021.
Feher, Zoltan, “Restoring the Soul of America: Can Biden Realize the American Dream?” presentation at the National University of Public Service (Hungary), Budapest, April 21, 2021.
Feher, Zoltan, “From Tiananmen to MFN Status: The China Strategy of the George H. W. Bush Administration,” International Studies Association Convention 2021, April 8, 2021.
Feher, Zoltan, “The Sources of American Conduct: U.S. Grand Strategy and the Rise of China,” International Studies Association Convention 2021, April 7, 2021.
Feher, Zoltan, “U.S. Grand Strategy and World Order in Light of COVID-19” – roundtable with Joseph Nye, Monica Toft, Kori Schake, Peter Dombrowski, Emma Ashford, Kevin Narizny, Nina Silove, and Thomas Cavanna, International Studies Association (ISA) Convention 2021, April 7, 2021.
Anumol, Dipali, "LGBTQIA+ Lives and Rights in India," Department of English, Stella Maris College, Chennai, India. March, 2021.

2020 Publications

Sobchak, Frank, “Iran’s Real Lesson from the Killing of Qassem Soleimani,” Jewish News Syndicate, January 23, 2020.
Sobchak, Frank, “Hidden Opportunities in Coalition Negotiations,” Miryam Institute, March 2, 2020.
Mohan Sukumar, Arun, Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India, Penguin. 2020.
McDonald, Scott, "戰略競爭?—Strategic Competition?," Routledge, December 15, 2020.
McDonald, Scott, "The Future of the United States-Australia Alliance," The Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, November 23, 2020.
Feher, Zoltan, “From Integration Theory to Soft Power: Engaging Practitioners with Harvard Professor Joseph Nye,” Elephants in the War Room Blog – Center for Strategic Studies, November 13, 2020.
Sobchak, Frank, "Who is responsible for the Abraham Accords?" The Jerusalem Post, November 2, 2020.
Feher, Zoltan, “The Transformation of World Order, U.S. Grand Strategy, and China’s Challenge in the 21st Century” in Csaba Káncz (ed.), Changing World Order: The Age of Uncertainty in World Politics (book chapter). Kossuth Publishing, Budapest, November 2020,
McDonald, Scott, "Philosophy and Policy: Why Ideas Will Drive the Indo-Pacific," Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, October, 2020.
Feher, Zoltan, “The Rise and Fall of U.S. Engagement toward China,” Elephants in the War Room Blog – Center for Strategic Studies, 17 August 2020.
Sobchak, Frank, "Six Days and the Forever War," Newsweek, June 2, 2020.
Tilney Burke, Frances, "Hong Kong Sanctions With Teeth," The New York Times, June 2, 2020.
Tilney Burke, Frances, "China’s Funding of U.S. University Scientists Requires a Watchdog," The National Interest, May 31, 2020.
Feher, Zoltan, “Realpolitik & Cooperation in the Age of COVID-19,” Global Security Review, May 26, 2020.
Tilney Burke, Frances, "What does an extended “Stop Movement” order mean for military families?," American Enterprise Institute, April 10, 2020.
Tilney Burke, Frances, "The ongoing tragedy at the Massachusetts soldiers’ home is a wake-up call," American Enterprise Institute, April 3, 2020
Ahmad, Lima. "Yet Another Lost Generation in Afghanistan." Medium, March 17, 2020.
Tilney Burke, Frances, "Can the Military Fix Base Housing?," The New York Times, February 21, 2020.
Tilney Burke, Frances, "Military Kids Change School Up to 9 Times. So Let’s Make It Easier," The New York Times, January 8, 2020.
Zollman, Julie, "Living on Little," Practical Action Publishing, 2020.

2020 Presentations

Beliakova, Polina, “Enemy-centric vs. Population-centric Strategies of Counterinsurgency: Learning from 'War and Peace',” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Belilakova, Polina, “Civil-Military Relations in Russia During the First Chechen War,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Feher, Zoltan, “From Tiananmen to the WTO: Why Did the U.S. Help China’s Rise in the Early Post-Cold War Period?” EPIIC Colloquium 2020-2021: "China and the World," October 2020
Feher, Zoltan, “From Tiananmen to the World Trade Organization: Why Did the United States Help China’s Rise in the Early Post-Cold War Period?” Cato Institute’s Junior Scholar Symposium, October 2020
Feher, Zoltan, “The Sources of American Conduct: U.S. Grand Strategy and the Rise of China – From Nixon to Trump,” University of Hong Kong, April 2020.

2019 Publications

Tilney Burke, Frances and Wolfowitz, Paul, "Switching Schools Shouldn't Be the Hard Part for Military Families," Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2019.
Krystalli, Roxani and Enloe, Cynthia, “Doing Feminism.” International Feminist Journal of Politics, November 7, 2019
Krystalli, Roxani, "Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains," International Feminist Journal of Politics, September 10, 2019.
Herbert, Matthew, “Terrorism in Tunisia: more than just foreign connections,” ISS-Today, Institute for Security Studies, July 2019.
Herbert, Matthew, "‘La Mal Vie’: The Routes, Drivers, and Politics of North African Irregular Migration,” Institute for Security Studies, May 2019.
Herbert, Matthew, "Less Than the Sum of its parts: European Fixation With Libyan Border Security," Policy Brief, Institute for Security Studies, May 2019
Sobchak, Frank, "What the Iraq War Tells us about Iran," The Hill, May 5, 2019.
Krystalli, Roxani, "Stories of Conflict and Love Blog," ISA Professional Resource Center, May 2, 2019.
Herbert, Matt, “The Maghreb’s Changing Politics of Migration,” ISS Today, Institute for Security Studies, February 4, 2019.
Chaturvedi, Ravi Shankar, "Which Countries are Leading the Data Economy?" Harvard Business Review, January 24, 2019.
Herbert, Matt, “States and Smugglers: The Ties that Bind and How they Fray,” in Transnational Organized Crime and Political Actors in the Maghreb and Sahel, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Mediterranean Dialogue Series no. 17, January 2019.
Rayburn, Joel and Sobchak, Frank, Eds. "The U.S. Army in the Iraq War." The United States Army War College, January 2019
Humphrey, Alex., Krishnan, Vaidehi., Krystalli, Roxani. (2019). The Currency of Connections: Why local support systems are integral to helping people recover in South Sudan. Washington, DC: Mercy Corps
McDonald, Scott D. and Michael C. Burgoyne. "China's Global Influence: Perspectives and Recommendations." (Honolulu, HI: Asia-PacificCenter for Security Studies, 2019)

2019 Presentations

Spears, Kinsey, “Climate and Gender.” Lecture. Climate Puzzles for Diplomats Series. The Fletcher School, Medford, MA. October 29, 2019.

2018 Publications

Naimark-Rowse, Benjamin, "Liberating Insidious ‘Enemy’ in our Nation," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 4, 2018
Herbert, Matt, “The Butcher’s Bill: Cocaine Trafficking in North Africa,” The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, September 21, 2018.
Herbert, Matt and Gallien, Max, "Tunisia isn’t a migrant transit country – yet," ISS Today, Institute for Security Studies, August 29, 2018.
Herbert, Matt and Gallien, Max, "The Risks of Hardened Borders in North Africa," Sada, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, August 16, 2018.
Herbert, Matt, “Better Policing Can Help Combat Human Trafficking,” ISS Today, Institute for Security Studies (August 1, 2018).
Herbert, Matt, “The Insurgency in Tunisia’s Western Borderlands,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, June 28, 2018.
Burke, Frances Tilney, "U.S. Forces in South Korea: A seven-decade commitment," The Conversation, May 21, 2018.
Parameswaran, Prashanth, "Singapore's Challenges in Asia Go Beyond Hosting High-Stakes Diplomacy," World Politics Review, May 17, 2018.
Krystalli, Roxani, "Three Lessons from Victims' Day in Colombia," Political Violence @ A Glance, April 18, 2018.
Burke, Frances Tilney, "Remind us: What exactly is the National Guard?" The Conversation, April 9, 2018.
Bhandary, Rishikesh Ram, "When it Comes to Nepal, Personal Charm Cannot Drive India's Foreign Policy," The Wire, April 6, 2018.
Parameswaran, Prashanth, "What a Nixed Energy Project Reveals About Vietnam's South China Sea Calculus," World Politics Review, April 5, 2018.
Byrnes, Mike, Anderson, Cory, Blair, Dave, Chapa, Joe, Collazzo, Amanda, Cuomo, Scott, Garard, Olivia, Schuetz, Ariel M., and VanOort, Scott, "Trust, Troops, and Reapers: Getting 'Drone' Research Done Right," War on the Rocks, April 3, 2018.
Sukumar, Arun Mohan, "How India Lost Its Way in the Study and Use of International Law," The Wire, April 2, 2018.
Kim, Lami, "South Korea's Nuclear Hedging?" The Washington Quarterly, March 26, 2018.
Sampson, Gary, Review of The Marine Corps Way of War: The Evolution of the U.S. Marine Corps from Attrition to Maneuver Warfare in the Post-Vietnam Era, by Anthony J. Piscitelli, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 144 no. 3 (March 2018): 85.
Sukumar, Arun Mohan, "Four Years On, It is Clear that Modi's Foreign Policy is Merely a Blip in India's Timeline," The Wire, February 19, 2018.
Parameswaran, Prashanth, "The limits of minilateralism in Asean," The Straits Times, February 15, 2018.
De Alba, Ana, "Want to be president of Mexico? There's an app for that," The Conversation, January 31, 2018.
Spatz, Benjamin, "Liberia's Next Fight?" The New York Times, January 21, 2018.
Parameswaran, Prashanth, "S-E Asia-US ties: Beware slippery road ahead," The Straits Times, January 18, 2018.
Krystalli, Roxanne, Hawkins, Allyson and Wilson, Kim, "'I followed the flood': a gender analysis of the moral and financial economies of forced migration," Disasters, 42: S17–S39, January 2018.

2018 Presentations

Herbert, Matt, “The Erosion of Trust: Corruption and State Complicity with Organized Crime,” Old Paths, New Riders: Transnational Organized Crime in the Maghreb-Sahel Belt, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Tunis, December 2018.
Herbert, Matt, Kartas, Moncef, McKay, Leanne, “Fech Nestannew: What Are We Waiting For? Elections, inequality and injustice in Tunisia,” Knowledge Platform: Security and the Rule of Law Annual Conference, Den Hague, September 2018.
Herbert, Matt, “The Cross-Border Connection: Informal Trade and Social Stability on the Algerian-Tunisian Frontier,” 4th MENA Trade Workshop, Tunis Business School, Tunis, March 2018.
Feher, Zoltan, “Strategy and Political Risk: Public Affairs in the Age of Distrust” (panelist), Trust Summit 2018, Brussels, March 2018
Feher, Zoltan,“Challenging the Liberal Order: The Rise of Alternative Forms of Governance” (panelist), Tufts University EPIIC International Symposium 2018, “Is the Liberal World Order Ending?,” March 2018.

2017 Publications

Herbert, Matt, “Middle East Drugs Bazaar: Production, Prevention, and Consumption by Philip Robins,” Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, vol. 8, no. 2, 2017.
Parameswaran, Prashanth, "Can the 'Golden Age' of Ties Between the Philippines and Japan Last Under Duterte?" World Politics Review, December 28, 2017.
Parameswaran, Prashanth, "Questions remain over Moon's new Southern Policy," The Straits Times, December 9. 2017.
Sukumar, Arun Mohan, "Recognise the technology constraints," The Hindu, December 6, 2017.
Sampson, Gary, Review of Tarnished: Toxic Leadership in the U.S. Military, by George E. Reed, Marine Corps History 3 no. 2 (Winter 2017): 120-3.
Herbert, Matt and Gallien, Max, "Out of the Streets and Into the Boats: Tunisia's Irregular Migration Surge," The Atlantic Council, November 27, 2017.
Naimark-Rowse, Benjamin, "Surviving Success: Nonviolent Rebellion in Sudan," Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, November 2017.
Feher, Zoltan, “Transoceanic Control: Rethinking American Strategy,” Elephants in the War Room – Center for Strategic Studies, October 24, 2017.
Sukumar, Arun Mohan, "Blade Runner 2049 is Required Viewing for India's Foreign Policy Planners," The Wire, October 20, 2017.
Parameswaran, Prashanth, "Questions on policy linger as Trump heads east," The Straits Times, October 12, 2017.
Chakravorti, Bhaskar and Chaturvedi, Ravi Shankar, "The 'Smart Society' of the Future Doesn't Look Like Science Fiction," Harvard Business Review, October 5, 2017.
Potter, A. Bradley, Allen, Nathaniel and Taussig, Torrey, "Thinking About a Policy-Oriented PhD in International Relations?" War on the Rocks, October 5, 2017.
Wallsh, David, "Timeless Lessons From The October 1973 Arab-Israeli War," Modern War Institute at West Point, October 4, 2017.
Parameswaran, Prashanth, "The Limits to U.S.-Malaysia Ties Under Trump and Najib," World Politics Review, October 2, 2017.
Herbert, Matthew and Harchaoui, Jalel, "Italy claims it's found a solution to Europe's migrant problem. Here's why Italy's wrong," Washington Post, September 26, 2017.
Sukumar, Arun Mohan, "In Myanmar, India Has Got the Diplomatic Plot All Wrong," The Wire, September 19, 2017.
Binnendijk, Hans and Bell, Robert, "US should consider no-fly zone for North Korea missile tests," Defense News, August 17, 2017.
Baskin, Michael, "Negotiating Afghanistan: The New US Strategy and the Pursuit of a Deal," Modern War Institute at West Point, September 1, 2017.
Guliford, Meg K. and Leklem, Erik J., "Looking for a Gender Gap in the Army? Try the Army Chief Of Staff's Reading List," Task and Purpose, August 30, 2017.
Taussig, Torrey, "NATO at a crossroads: Experts offer bold ideas for enhancing Eastern European security," The Brookings Institution, August 15, 2017.
Kim, Lami, "Malaysia's VX Incident: Six Months Later," The Stimson Center, August 3, 2017.
Singh, Kartikeya, "Financing for Whom by Whom? Complexities of Advancing Energy Access in India," Center for Global Development, July 26, 2017.
Chakravorti, Bhaskar and Chaturvedi, Ravi Shankar, "60 Countries' Digital Competitiveness, Indexed," Harvard Business Review, July 12, 2017.
Kim, Lami, "Has South Korea renounced 'nuclear hedging'?" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 27, 2017.
Kim, Lami, "THAAD Illuminates Problems in South Korea's Civil-Military Relations," The Diplomat, June 16, 2017.
Singh, Kartikeya, "Networks and the Diffusion of Off-Grid Solar Technologies," Scientific Research, June 2017.
Golov, Avner, "A New Approach to Iran: Huddle, Block, and Tackle," War on the Rocks, April 12, 2017.
Feher, Zoltan, “Does the Trump Administration Have A Strategy for Asia?” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, April 6, 2017.
Taussig, Torrey and Netesova, Yulia, "Trump and Putin: Populists of a Feather," The National Interest, March 28, 2017.
Kim, Lami, "South Koreans Checked the Retreat of Democracy. Now It's Time for the Americans," Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, March 17, 2017.
Taussig, Torrey, "The Rise of Personalist Rule," Order From Chaos, Brookings Institution, March 23, 2017.
Feher, Zoltan, “Neorealist Trump: A New Grand Strategy?” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, March 4, 2017.
Yadlin, Amos and Golov, Avner, "A Threefold Challenge for Trump against Iran," Institute for National Security Studies, INSS Insight No. 896, February 14, 2017.
Yadlin, Amos and Golov, Avner, "Don't tear up the Iran deal, make it better," USA Today, January 12, 2017.
Naimark-Rowse, Benjamin R. "Nonviolent Resistance," The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, January 2017.

2017 Presentations

Herbert, Matt, “In Search of a Future: Irregular Migration from the Maghreb,” Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Geneva, December 2017.
Feher, Zoltan, “Post-Cold War U.S. Grand Strategy," Tufts University EPIIC International Symposium 2017, “The World of Tomorrow: Order and Chaos,” Tufts University, February 2017.

2016 Publications

Andrea Walther-Puri, "Are U.S. Efforts Successfully Countering Terrorism in Africa?," Council on Foreign Relations, June 29, 2016.
Herbert, Matt, “At the Edge: Trends and Routes of North African Clandestine Migrants,” Institute for Security Studies and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime, December 2, 2016.
Kim, Lami. "Would South Korea Really Go Nuclear?" The Diplomat, December 30, 2016.
Al Kli, Shahla. "The Kurdistan Region - A Case for Independence," Rudaw-English, October 29, 2016.
Tapscott, Rebecca. "Local security and the (un)making of public authority in Gulu, northern Uganda," African Affairs (forthcoming, January 2017).
Golov, Avner. "The Nuclear Agreement with Iran, One Year On: An Assessment and a Strategy for the Future," INSS Insight No. 835, Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, July 17, 2016. Co-Authored with Amos Yadlin.
Taussig, Torrey. "Midnight in Moscow: What Does Putin's Authoritarianism Mean for Russia's Foreign Policy?" Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, June 7, 2016.
Golov, Avner. "Israeli Deterrence in the 21st Century," Arms Control and Strategic Stability in the Middle East and Europe, INSS Memorandum No. 155, Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, June 2016.
Chakravorti, Bhaskar and Chaturvedi, Ravi Shankar, "The Countries That Would Profit Most from a Cashless World," Harvard Business Review, May 31, 2016.
Tirrell, Andrew. "Does conflict at the party convention matter?" Vox, May 25, 2016.
Naimark-Rowse, Benjamin. "Cuba's people will some day decide its future," Orlando Sentinel, March 31, 2016.
Chakravorti, Bhaskar and Chaturvedi, Ravi Shankar, "How Benchmarking Can Help Countries Become More Digital," Harvard Business Review, March 8, 2016.
Donnelly, Phoebe. Review of I am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord's Resistance Army. African Studies Quarterly 16:2, 90-92 (March 2016).
Naimark-Rowse, Benjamin. "The Peace Frequency: Episode 32," United States Institute of Peace, February 25, 2016.
Krystalli, Roxanne. "Why free love in the FARC isn't so free. (You wouldn't know it from reading the New York Times)," Washington Post, March 24, 2016.
Donnelly, Phoebe. "Sexual violence in in conflict", Crisis Response Journal 11:3, 34-36 (March 2016). Co-Authored with Professor Dyan Mazurana.
Singh, Kartikeya, "Business innovation and diffusion of off-grid solar technologies in India," ScienceDirect, February, 2016.

2016 Presentations

Herbert, Matt, “At the Edge: Migration and the Maghreb,” Dynamic Markets: Human Smuggling from Africa to Europe, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Geneva, December 2016.
Herbert, Matt, “Participatory Border Management in the Maghreb and Sahel,” Building Community Resilience against Organized Crime: Prevention, People and Places, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, December 2016.
Feher, Zoltan, “Grand Strategy and Eurasia’s Geopolitical Volatility," Tufts University EPIIC Colloquium 2016-2017, "Order & Chaos: Diplomacy & Force in a Changing World," Tufts University, November 2016.
Feher, Zoltan, “The State of Democracy in the World," Academic Conference, Bard College, “Democracy at a Crossroads," October 2016.