Op-Eds.
“Red-Pill Factories: A Troubling Visit to On-line Places of Radicalization,” Review, Times Literary Supplement, June 26, 2020.
“The Flood of On-Line Misinformation Around the George Floyd Protests,” Lawfare, June 22, 2020.
“My 48 Hours Alone with Radovan Karadzic,” New York Times, January 16, 2020.
“The World is Fighting More than ISIS,” New York Times, October 27, 2019.
“Trump’s Executive Order Will Make Us Less Safe,” Boston Globe, January 30, 2017
“How Terror Hardens Us,” New York Times, December 5, 2015.
“How ISIS and Other Jihadist Groups Lure Westerners,” Boston Globe, April 6, 2015.
“Iraq: Where Terrorists Go to School,” New York Times,March 19, 2013.
“The Invasion of Iraq Was an Engine of Terrorist Growth,” US News & World Report, March 19, 2013.
“The Double Standard of Sex Crimes,” Time Magazine, July 27, 2011.
“After Bin Laden,” Washington Post, May 8, 2011.
“Osama Death will Reopen America’s 9/11 Wounds,” Daily Beast, May 2, 2011.
“Arab Revolutions Don’t Mean the End for al Qaeda,” Boston Globe, April 20, 2011.
“The Military Must Take a Harder Line Against Sexual Assault,” Washington Post, February 18, 2011.
“Why Does Terrorism Fascinate Me? Because of the Terror of my Past,” Washington Post, June 20, 2010.
“Five Myths About Who Becomes a Terrorist,” Washington Post, January 10, 2010.
“Mind Over Martyr,” International Herald Tribune, December 21, 2009.
“Keep American Muslims on Our Side,” New York Times, September 10, 2006.
“Jihad: A Global Fad,” Boston Globe, 1 August 2006.
“Al Qaeda, American Style,” New York Times 16 July 2006.
With Jeffrey Frankel, “The Wrong Approach,” Baltimore Sun, Oct 29, 2004.
“Terrorists’ Own Words Can Help Us Stop Them,” USA Today, 24 June 2004.
“Militant Groups: Beneath Bombast and Bombs, a Caldron of Humiliation,” Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2004.
“How the War in Iraq Has Damaged the War on Terrorism,”Salon, 7 April 2004.
“Que significan los atentados del 11-M para Espana y el mundo?” El Pais, 27 March 2004.
“Errors in Fighting Al Qaeda Have Worsened the Danger,” Boston Globe, March 25, 2004.
“Explaining the Addiction to Jihad,” The Daily Star(Lebanon), February 5, 2004.
“When Women are Bombers,” Washington Post18 December 2003.
“Terrorism’s New Mecca,” Globe and Mail, 28November 2003.
“How America Created a Terrorist Haven,” New York Times, 20 August 2003.
“A Rational Response to Dirty Bombs,” Financial Times, 12 June 2002.
“Allies Split over Executing Terrorists,” Boston Globe, 28 May 2002.
“Get to the Roots of Terror: Trauma and Humiliation,” International Herald Tribune, 26 April 2002.
“How Terrorists Hijacked Islam,” USA Today, September 30, 2001.
“Being Feared Is Not Enough to Keep Us Safe,” Washington Post, September 15, 2001.
“Execute Terrorists at Our Own Risk,” New York Times, February 28, 2001.
“A Lethal Weapon We Must Learn to Recognize,” New York Times, October 16, 1999.
“Taking the Terror Out of Bioterrorism,” New York Times, April 8, 1998.
“U.S. Backs Wrong Nuke-Deterrence Efforts,” USA Today, September 17, 1997.
“Preventive Defense,” Washington Post, June 23, 1997.
“Ratify the Chemical Weapons Treaty,” Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1997.
“Terrorism Multiplied,” Washington Post, July 17, 1996.
“Preventing Portable Nukes,” New York Times, April 10, 1996.
Policy Articles.
With Megan McBride, “Three Factors Driving Rightwing Violence,” Time Magazine, May 19, 2022.
“What Reformed Extremists Taught me about Preventing Another Preventing Another Capitol Hill Insurrection,” Boston Globe Magazine, January 4, 2022.
With Karen Stenner, “How to Live with Authoritarians,” Foreign Policy, February 11, 2021.
“Obama and Terrorism: Like it or not, the War Goes On,” Foreign Affairs September/October 2015.
“An Amended Front Page Rule: The Imperative to Protect Institutions,” Defining Ideas, Hoover Institution, January 29, 2014.
“The War Against Terror Must be Fought with Words Too,” Time Magazine, December 16, 2013.
“We Need to Worry About Somali Terrorists,” Time Magazine, September 26, 2013.
With John Horgan, “Terrorism Research Has Not Stagnated,” Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2013.
“Brief Interviews with Hideous Terrorists,” Foreign Policy, April 25, 2013. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/25/what_its_like_to_talk_to_a_terrorist
“Terrorism After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq,” with Megan McBride, March 19, 2013. For “Costs of War” project of Brown University’s Watson Institute. http://costsofwar.org
“Can Google Make Non-Violence Cool?” Defining Ideas, August 25, 2011.
“Terror and Mortality,” Journal of Democracy, September 2011.
“Muslims in America,” National Interest, May/June 2011, 38-46.
“Mind Over Martyr,” Foreign Affairs, January 2010.
“Holy Avengers,” Financial Times Weekend Magazine,12 June 2004.
“Forum: Caliphate of Terror,”Harvard MagazineJuly-August 2004.
“Al Qaeda: The Protean Enemy,” Foreign Affairs(July/August 2003). Also published in James Hoge and Gideon Rose, editors, Understanding the War on Terror(Foreign Affairs books: 2005).
“Preparing for a War on Terrorism,”Current History(November 2001).
“Confronting Biological Terrorism,” Harvard International Review, Spring 2001.
“Meeting with the Muj,”Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (January/February, 2001).
“Pakistan’s Jihad Culture,”Foreign Affairs(November/December 2000).
“Lethal Compounds: The New Chemical Weapons Ban,” Brookings Review, Summer 1994.
“Will Terrorists Turn to Poison?“Orbis, Summer 1993.
Refereed Articles & Chapters.
With Megan K. McBride, Jessa Mellea & Elena Savoia, “Practices and Needs in Reintegration Programs for Violent Extremist Offenders in the United States: The Extremists’ Perspective,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2023.
With Megan K. McBride, Adam Baker, Marley Carroll & Elena Savoia, “Practices and Needs in Reintegration Programs for Violent Extremist Offenders in the United States: The Probation Officer Perspective,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2023.
With Elena Savoia et al, “Assessing the Impact of the Boston CVE Pilot Program: A Developmental Evaluation Approach,” Homeland Security Affairs 16, Article 6 (April 2020). www.hsaj.org/articles/16166
“Creatively Collecting Data and Evidence,” in Peter Krause and Ora Szekely, eds. Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science(New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2020).
“Prison-Based Deradicalization” in Stian Lid and Stig Jarle Hansen, eds. Routledge Handbook of Deradicalisation and Disengagement (Abington, U.K: Routledge, 2020).
“ISIL and the Goal of Organizational Survival,” in Hilary Matfess and Michael Miklaucic, eds. Beyond Convergence: World Without Order (Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 2017.)
“Radicalization to Extremism and Mobilization to Violent Extremism,” in Richard Clarke, Rand Beers, Emilian Papadopoulos, and Paul Salem, eds., The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,November 2016, 102-117.
With Heidi Ellis et al, “Relation of Psychosocial Factors to Diverse Behaviors and Attitudes Among Somali Refugees,”American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2015.
“Response to Marc Sageman’s ‘The Stagnation in Terrorism Research,’” Terrorism and Political Violence, 2014.
“X: A Case Study of a Swedish Neo-Nazi and His Reintegration into Swedish Society,” Behavioral Science and the Law, Spring 2014.
“PTSD: Policy Issues,” Psychoanalytic Psychology, Spring 2014.
With Jonathan B. Wiener, “Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction,” in Jonathan B. Wiener, Michael D. Rogers, James K. Hammitt, and Peter H. Sand, eds., The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe(Washington DC: Resources for the Future Press, 2011.)
With Dalia Mogahedand Tom Pyszczynski, “Religious Engagement and Violence,” in Chad Meistec, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity (London: Oxford University Press, 2010).
“Overview: Terrorism,” in Mark Green and Michele Jolin, eds., Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44thPresident (New York: Basic Books, 2009).
Co-Editor with Gary LaFree of Homeland Security and Terrorism and author of editorial conclusion, “Strengths and Limits of Criminological Research on Terrorism,” 661-665; Special issue of Criminology and Public Policy, August 2009.
With Amit Modi, “Organizational Forms of Terrorism,” in Thomas Biersteker and Sue Eckert, eds.,Countering theFinancing of Terrorism, (New York: Routledge, 2008.)
“The Dangers and Demands of Cosmopolitan Law,” 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 322 (2007).
“Precaution Against Terrorism,” with Jonathan Wiener, Journal of Risk Research (June 2006): 393-447.
“The Protean Enemy,” in Robert Art and Robert Jervis, eds., International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, 7th ed. (Longman: 2005). Originally published in Foreign Affairs.
“Dreaded Risks and the Control of Biological Weapons,” in New Global Dangers, an International Security reader, MIT Press, July 2004. Originally published in International Security.
“Fearing Evil,”Social ResearchVol. 71, Number 3, (Fall 2004).
“Dreaded Risks and the Control of Biological Weapons,” International Security(Winter 2003).
“Controlling Biological Weapons: A Risk-Tradeoff Analysis for a ‘Dreaded Risk’” in Janne Nolan The Transformation of Nonproliferation (The Century Foundation/Georgetown University, 2003).
“Terrorist Motivations and Unconventional Weapons,” in Peter Lavoy, Scott Sagan, and Jim Wirtz, ed., Planning the Unthinkable, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000).
“The Public Health Consequences of Terrorism” in C. Everett Koop, ed., Global Health in the 21stCentury(Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000).
“The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord,” in Jonathan Tucker, ed., Toxic Terror (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).
“Larry Wayne Harris,” in Jonathan Tucker, ed., Toxic Terror, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).
“The Prospects for Domestic Bioterror,” Emerging Infectious Diseases(July-August, 1999).
“Apocalypse Never, Poison Possible,” Survival(Winter 1999).
“U.S. Assistance Programs for Improving MPC&A in the Former Soviet Union,” Nonproliferation ReviewWinter, 1996. Also published as “Cooperative Activities to Improve Material Protection, Control, and Accountability in the Former Soviet Union,” in Bill Potter and John Shields, The Nunn-Lugar Program: Donor and Recipient Country Perspectives (MIT Press, 1997.)
“Weapons of Mass Impact,” Politics and the Life Sciences, 1996.
“Moscow Meltdown: Can Russia Survive?” International Security, Spring 1994. Also published in Russian by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“Cooperative Security and the CWC: A Comparison of the Chemical and Nuclear Weapons Regimes,” Contemporary Security Policy, Fall 1994.
“Strategic Decision Making, Alliances, and the Chemical Weapons Convention,” Security Studies, Summer 1994.
“Russia’s Crisis of Evolving Statehood: The Impact of the New Constitution and of the Parliamentary Elections,” in Stephen J. Blank, ed., Does Russian Democracy Have a Future?(Carlisle Barracks, Penn.: U.S. Army War College, 1994). Also published in Carol Timko, ed., Russia After the Elections (Berkeley: Berkeley-Stanford Program on Post Soviet Studies, 1994).
“Stalking Two Varieties of Poisonous Snakes: A Comparison of the Chemical and Nuclear Anti-Proliferation Regimes,” in J. B. Poole and R. Guthrie, eds., Verification Report 1994: Yearbook on Arms Control and Environmental Agreements(London: Pergamon Brassey, 1994).
“All’s Well That Ends Well: Verification and the CWC,” in J.B. Poole and R. Guthrie, eds., Verification Report 1993: Yearbook on Arms Control and Environmental Agreements(London: Pergamon Brassey, 1993.)
“Sanctions Against Violators of the CWC,” in Benoit Morel and Kyle Olson, eds., The Chemical Weapons Convention: The Shadow and the Substance (Boulder: Westview, 1993.)
“The Case of Thiodiglycol,” review, Politics and the Life Sciences, August 1993.
“Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Third World,” (with Marie I. Chevrier), Boston College Third World Law Journal Winter 1991.