Latest Publications

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2023

 

"The Divided Diplomat: Ralph Bunche and the Contradictions of Liberal Order." March/April 2023. Foreign Affairs. 

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2022:

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"The Du Bois Doctrine: Race and the American Empire." September/October 2022. Foreign Affairs.

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"Africa Holds Up a Mirror to India: An Interview with Shobana Shankar." September 2022. Africa's a Country.

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"Why is Sri Lanka in Turmoil?" July 2022. The Monkey Cage/ The Washington Post. 

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2021:
 

"Protests Are Taking Over the World. What’s Driving Them?" October 2021. The New York Times.

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"Why Did the Western Left Ignore Occupy Nigeria?" September 2021. Dissent.

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"The Promise of Africa’s “Youth Bulge.” July 2021. Foreign Affairs. 

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"Rebel Taxation. Between the Moral and Market Economy." In Rebel Economies: Warlords, Insurgents, Humanitarians. Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, DIdier Fassin and Clemence Pinaud. 

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"Racial Formations in Africa and the Middle East: A Transregional Approach." With Hisham Aidi and Marc Lynch. POMEPS Studies 44. 

"Protesting democracy in Africa: Popular movements and political transformation." 2021. In The Power of Populism and People: Resistance and Protest in the Modern World. Edited by Nathan Stoltzfus and Christopher Osmar.

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“A World of Protest.” March 2021. United Nations University-WIDER.

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"The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations: Research in Violent or Post-Conflict Settings." 2021. Perspectives on Politics. With Ana Arjona and Wendy Pearlman.

 

2020:

 

“A New Direction for U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa.” Dissent. October 2020. With Jason Stearns. 

 

“The Field is Everywhere.” 2020. In Szekely, Ora and Peter Krause. Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science. New York: Columbia University Press.

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“A Typology of Rebel Political Institutional Arrangements.” 2020. Journal of Conflict Resolution. With Megan A. Stewart.

 

“And the Twain Shall Meet: Connecting Africa and the Middle East.” 2020. Framing essay for the POMEPS Collection, Africa and the Middle East: Beyond the Divides. With Hisham Aidi and Marc Lynch.

 

“The Role of Civilians in Preventing and Mitigating Mass Atrocities.” 2020. The Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

 

​2019:

 

“Resistance and Repression under the Rule of Rebels: Women, Clergy and Civilian Agency in LTTE Governed Sri Lanka.” 2019. Journal of Comparative Politics. With Nimmi Gowrinathan. 

 

“After Bashir: How Sudan Can Heal From Decades of Dictatorship.” 2019. Foreign Affairs. 

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“Africa’s Road to Democracy.” 2019. Jacobin. With Adam Branch.