Select Publications

Global Jihad: A Brief History, Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2021. Link
The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State, Santa Monica: RAND, 2005. Link
Building a Successful Palestinian State, Santa Monica: RAND, 2005. Link
Building a Palestinian State: the Incomplete Revolution, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997. Link

“Homogenizing Trends in Islam under Globalization: Revisiting Clifford Geertz,” in progress
“The Four Waves of Global Jihad, 1979-2017,” Middle East Policy 24:3 (Fall 2017). Link
“Syria’s Long Civil War,” in Current History 111:749 (December 2012). Link PDF
“The Battle for Iraq: Islamic Insurgencies in Comparative Perspective,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2007). Link
“Being Yasir Arafat: A Portrait of Palestine’s President,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 82, No. 6 (November/December 2003). Link
“Israel and the Palestinians: The Bitter Fruits of Hegemonic Peace,” Current History Vol. 100, No. 642 (January 2001). Link
“Defensive Democratization in Jordan,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3 (August 1998). Link
“Elite Cohesion, Regime Succession and Political Instability in Syria,” Middle East Policy, Vol. V, No. 4 (January 1998). Link
“The Politics of Legal Reform in Palestine,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Autumn 1997). Link
“Can Islamists Be Democrats? The Case of Jordan,” The Middle East Journal, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Summer 1997). Link
“The Role of the Professional Middle Class in the Mobilization of Palestinian Society: The Medical and Agricultural Committees.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May 1993). Link

“The Death of the Two State Solution and the Revival of Palestinian Municipalities” in Robert O. Freedman, ed., Israel Under Netanyahu, New York: Routledge, 2020. Link
“US Strategy Toward Iran: Confrontation or Grand Bargain?” in William H. Natter III and Jason Brooks, eds., American Strategy and Purpose: Reflections on Foreign Policy and National Security in an Era of Change, Lexington MA: Council for Emerging National Security Affairs, 2014. Link
“The Middle East and North Africa,” in Masamichi Sasaki, et al, eds., Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014. Link
“Jihadi Information Strategy: Sources, Opportunities, and Vulnerabilities” in John Arquilla and Douglas Borer, eds., Information Strategy and Warfare: A Guide to Theory and Practice. New York and London: Routledge series on Contemporary Security Studies, 2007. Link
“Hamas as Social Movement” in Quintan Wiktorowicz, ed., Social Movement Theory and Islamic Fundamentalism, Indiana University Press, 2003. Link PDF
“The Palestinian ‘Intifada’ Revolt” in Jack A. Goldstone, Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative and Historical Studies. Thomson-Wadsworth, 3rd Edition, 2003. Link
“Islamists under Liberalization in Jordan” in Ahmad S. Moussalli, ed., Islamic Fundamentalism: Myths and Realities, London: Ithaca Press, 1998. Link