Publications
2025. "Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories.” Forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly (with Reyko Huang).
2025. "The Governance of Refugee Camps Through the Lens of Rebel Governance Scholarship." In Inside the Camp: Reimagining Refugee Governance for a Changing World, edited by Khaldoun AbouAssi, Jasmin L. Diab, and Tina Nabatchi, pp. 38-40. Policy and Working Paper Series, Institute for Migration Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University.
2025. "Rethinking Rebel Victory in Civil War." Review of International Studies (with Enrique W. Young).
2024. "The Supply and Demand of Rebel Governance." International Studies Review 26(1) (with Romain Malejacq).
2021. "Introducing the Armed Nonstate Actor Rivalry Dataset (ANARD)." Civil Wars 23(2): 177-206 (with Stephen R. Powell).
2020. "Rebel Governance in De Facto States." European Journal of International Relations 26(4): 1004-1031.
2019. "Opening the Black Box of Finance: North-South Investment, Political Risk, and U.S. Military Intervention." Political Studies 67(4): 872-894 (with Michael J. Lee and Nicolas Blarel).
2018. "Authority Contestation During and After Civil War." Perspectives on Politics 16(1): 149-155.
2018. "Spatial Rivalry and Coups Against Dictators." Security Studies 27(1): 1-26.
2017. "Theories of Civil War Onset: Promises and Pitfalls." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, edited by William R. Thompson.
2017. "De Facto States: Survival and Disappearance (1945-2011)." International Studies Quarterly 61(2): 337-351.
2014. “De Facto States in International Politics (1945-2011): A New Dataset.” International Interactions 40(5): 788-811.
2012. “Where Do We Go From Here? Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Gaps in the Large-N Civil War Research Program.” International Studies Review 14(1): 78-98.
2007. “Post Cold War U.S. Security Assistance to Romania and the Problem of the Double Security Guarantee.” In Security Assistance: U.S. and International Historical Perspectives, edited by Michael G. Brooks, pp. 545-565. Forth Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press.
In progress
"Temporal Dimensions of Rebel Legitimacy in Civil War" (with Sukanya Podder)
Dataset
De Facto States in International Politics (1945-2016)
Blog Posts
De Facto States Research Unit
Political Studies Association Blog
The Conversation and Newsweek
International Studies Quarterly Online Symposium on Bell and Wolford 2015.
Book Review
Review of Inside the Politics of Self-Determination, by Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Oxford University Press, 2014. Perspectives on Politics 13(4): 1206-1208.
2025. "Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories.” Forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly (with Reyko Huang).
2025. "The Governance of Refugee Camps Through the Lens of Rebel Governance Scholarship." In Inside the Camp: Reimagining Refugee Governance for a Changing World, edited by Khaldoun AbouAssi, Jasmin L. Diab, and Tina Nabatchi, pp. 38-40. Policy and Working Paper Series, Institute for Migration Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Lebanese American University.
2025. "Rethinking Rebel Victory in Civil War." Review of International Studies (with Enrique W. Young).
2024. "The Supply and Demand of Rebel Governance." International Studies Review 26(1) (with Romain Malejacq).
2021. "Introducing the Armed Nonstate Actor Rivalry Dataset (ANARD)." Civil Wars 23(2): 177-206 (with Stephen R. Powell).
2020. "Rebel Governance in De Facto States." European Journal of International Relations 26(4): 1004-1031.
2019. "Opening the Black Box of Finance: North-South Investment, Political Risk, and U.S. Military Intervention." Political Studies 67(4): 872-894 (with Michael J. Lee and Nicolas Blarel).
2018. "Authority Contestation During and After Civil War." Perspectives on Politics 16(1): 149-155.
2018. "Spatial Rivalry and Coups Against Dictators." Security Studies 27(1): 1-26.
2017. "Theories of Civil War Onset: Promises and Pitfalls." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theory, edited by William R. Thompson.
2017. "De Facto States: Survival and Disappearance (1945-2011)." International Studies Quarterly 61(2): 337-351.
2014. “De Facto States in International Politics (1945-2011): A New Dataset.” International Interactions 40(5): 788-811.
2012. “Where Do We Go From Here? Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Gaps in the Large-N Civil War Research Program.” International Studies Review 14(1): 78-98.
2007. “Post Cold War U.S. Security Assistance to Romania and the Problem of the Double Security Guarantee.” In Security Assistance: U.S. and International Historical Perspectives, edited by Michael G. Brooks, pp. 545-565. Forth Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press.
In progress
"Temporal Dimensions of Rebel Legitimacy in Civil War" (with Sukanya Podder)
Dataset
De Facto States in International Politics (1945-2016)
Blog Posts
De Facto States Research Unit
Political Studies Association Blog
The Conversation and Newsweek
International Studies Quarterly Online Symposium on Bell and Wolford 2015.
Book Review
Review of Inside the Politics of Self-Determination, by Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Oxford University Press, 2014. Perspectives on Politics 13(4): 1206-1208.
