Books
The Democratic Disadvantage: How Populism Impedes Democracies and Galvanizes Authoritarianism in the Face of Disaster (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
The Democratization Disconnect: How Recent Democratic Revolutions Threaten the Future of Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016)
- 5-minute video synopsis available at: http://news.umbc.edu/in-new-book-brian-grodsky-argues-that-recent-democratic-revolutions-are-threatening-the-future-of-democracy/
Social Movements and the New State: The Fate of Pro-Democracy Organizations When Democracy is Won (Stanford University Press, 2012)
The Costs of Justice: How New Leaders Respond to Previous Rights Abuses (University of Notre Dame Press, 2010)
- 3-minute video synopsis available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDzNtKZPqCg
Peer Reviewed Publications
“Political Regimes and Climate Change: Learning from Past Civilizations," Global Environment 17(3) (2024): 614-649.
“Human Dignity and Democratic Revolution,” chapter in edited volume Revolutionary Transition (May 2018), Russian State University for the Humanities.
“From Lenin to Walesa: Communists, Anti-Communists and the Common Call for Human Dignity,” East European Politics and Societies 31(1)(February 2017): 115-136.
“Ties, Opportunities and Institutions: Explaining the Fate of Pro-Democracy Organizations after Democratic Breakthrough,” Government and Opposition 52(1)(January 2017): 1-23.
“Transitional Justice and Political Goods,” Chapter 1 in Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from 25 Years of Experience (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
“Transitional Justice in East-Central Europe,” (with Peter Rozic), Chapter 7 in Central and East European Politics (3rd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).
“Human Rights Activists and Transitional Justice: Explaining Silence Among the Outspoken,” Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 14(1)(January 2014): 1-21.
“Counter-Elites Swimming Up-Stream: The Challenge of Pursuing a Political Rights Agenda where Economic Rights Trump,” New Global Studies 6(3)(December 2012).
“Co-optation or Empowerment? The Fate of Pro-Democracy NGOs after the Rose Revolution,” Europe-Asia Studies 64(9) (November 2012): 1684-1708.
- Reprinted in Nino Kemoklidze, Cerwyn Moore, Jeremy Smith and Galina Yemelianova (ed.s), Many Faces of the Caucasus (Routledge, 2014)
“Genocide Campaigns: The Use and Abuse of Atrocities in the Quest for International Recognition,” Journal of Genocide Research 14(1) (January 2012): 1-21.
“Exploring the Schelling Conjecture in Reverse: ‘International Constraints’ and Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,” European Journal of International Relations 17(1) (March 2011): 121-143.
“Beyond Lustration: Truth-Seeking Efforts in the Post-Communist Space,” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 5(2) (December 2009): 21-44.
“International Prosecutions and Domestic Politics: The Use of Truth Commissions as Compromise Justice in Serbia and Croatia,” International Studies Review 11(4) (December 2009): 687-706.
“Re-Ordering Justice: Towards A New Methodological Approach to Studying Transitional Justice,” Journal of Peace Research 46(6) (November 2009): 819-837.
“From Neo-Corporatism to Delegative Corporatism? Empowerment of NGOs during Early Democratization,” Democratization 16(5) (October 2009): 898-921.
“On the Other Side of the Curtain: A Reassessment of Non-Elite Human Rights Experiences and Values in Poland,” Human Rights Review 10(2) (June 2009): 219-238.
“Lessons (Not) Learned: A New Look at Bureaucratic Politics and US Foreign Policy Making in the Post-Soviet Space,” Problems of Post-Communism 56(2) (March-April 2009): 43-57.
“Weighing the Costs of Accountability: The Role of Institutional Incentives in Pursuing Transitional Justice,” Journal of Human Rights 7(4) (Fall 2008): 353-375.
“Justice Without Transition: Truth Commissions in the Context of Repressive Rule,” Human Rights Review 9(3) (September 2008): 281-297.
“Looking for Solidarność in Central Asia: The Role of Human Rights Organizations in Political Change,” Slavic Review 66(3) (Fall 2007): 442-462.
“Producing Truth: The Politics of Investigating Past Human Rights Violations in Post-Communist States,” World Affairs 169(3) (Winter 2007): 125-133.
“Resource Dependency and Political Opportunity: Explaining the Transformation from Excluded Political Opposition Parties to Human Rights Organizations in Post-Communist Uzbekistan,” Government and Opposition 42(1) (Winter 2007): 96-120.
“Direct Pressures for Human Rights in Uzbekistan: Understanding the U.S. Bargaining Position,” Central Asian Survey 23(3) (December 2004): 327-344.
“The New Game in Central Asia: Comparative Uzbek and Kazakh Foreign Policy,” Journal of Central Asian Studies 5(2) (Spring/Summer, 2003): 16-31.
Book Review
Review of Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia, Richard Caplan (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005) in Comparative Political Studies 39 (December 2006): 1285-1287.