Interests

Civil-military relations, coups d’état, revolutions & regime change, political violence, democratization, authoritarian persistence

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Book Project

Politicians at Arms: Civilian Coup Advocacy in the Post-Colonial Middle East, revise & resubmit, Cambridge University Press.

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Peer Reviewed

“What’s In a Name? Experimental Evidence of the Coup Taboo,” with Sharan Grewal (College of William & Mary). Democratization, March 2022.

“Trump-World on Horseback: Conservative Coup Advocacy in the United States,” forum essay, eds. Jonathan Powell and Erica De Bruin, International Studies Review 24, no. 1 (2022): 13-18.
“Civilian Coup Advocacy,” chapter in Encyclopedia of Military Politics, Oxford University Press (eds. Hicham Bou Nassif, Claremont McKenna College,  William Thompson, Indiana University).

“Sharing Saddles: Oligarchs and Officers on Horseback in Tunisia and Egypt,” International Studies Quarterly 65, no. 2 (2021): 512–527.
“Politicians at Arms: Civilian Recruitment of Soldiers for Middle East Coups,” Armed Forces & Society 45, 4 (2019): 681-701.
“Civilian Actors in the Turkish Military Drama of July 2016,” Eastern Mediterranean Policy Note. September 19, 2016.

In Progress 
“The Coup Taboo: Normative Effects of Stigmatized Coup Politics in the Middle East and Beyond”

“Debating Revolution, Gambling on Coups: Party Debates over the Role of Soldiers in Syrian and Iraqi Revolution”

“Imagining Regime Security: The Role of Ideology in Security Structure Design” with Max Margulies (West Point)

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Reviews

“Watermelon Democracy: Egypt's Turbulent Transition by Joshua Stacher,” The Middle East Journal. 2020.

“Revolts and the Military in the Arab Spring: Popular Uprisings and the Politics of Repression by Sean Burns,” Review of Middle East Studies. 2019.
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Other Essays

“Learning from the Banality of Bolivia’s Coup,” War on the Rocks. February 26, 2020.

“A Pyrrhic Victory? Expectations and Reality in the Wake of Tunisia’s Elections,” Democracy & Society. October 23, 2019.

“What the history of coups in the Middle East tells us about Venezuela,” The Washington Post. May 2, 2019.

“The Invisible Line: Soldiers and Civilians in the Middle East,” Jadaliyya. July 17, 2018.