Research

This page lists all my research. See also the sub-pages from the navigation icon for work clustered by topic.

Book

2022. Insurgent Terrorism: Intergroup Relationships and the Killing of Civilians. By Victor Asal, Brian J. Phillips, and R. Karl Rethemeyer. Oxford University Press.

Read more about the book here. Stata dataset on 140 rebel groups is here.  Do-file to replicate regression tables is here.

Peer-reviewed articles

Forthcoming. "Introducing ViNSAR: Dyadic Data on Violent Non-state Actor Rivalry." Journal of Conflict Resolution. Co-authored with Justin Conrad and Kevin T. Greene. The replication data is at JCR under supplementary information. The full dataset is at the Harvard Dataverse here.

Forthcoming. "Dogs and Cats Living Together? Explaining the Crime-Terror Nexus." Terrorism and Political Violence. Co-authored with Alexander Schiele.

Forthcoming. “Threat Perception, Policy Diffusion, and the Logic of Terrorist Group Designation.” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Co-authored with Mirna El Masri. 

2023. "How Did 9/11 Affect Terrorism Research? Examining Articles and Authors, 1970-2019." Terrorism and Political Violence 35 (2): 409-432. Stata replication data and do-file.

***Additional data used to create the above replication material: Data on the 6,880 articles used, with information about each article including abstract, title, authors, and self-coded discipline of journal, Stata and CSV. Data on the 1,723 authors, with information including gender, PhD status, MD status, discipline, institution, country, years active, and year of death if relevant. Stata and CSV.  Here is some documentation to describe the files. 

2023. “Organized Crime and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from Criminal Groups in Mexico.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 67 (9): 1675-1703. Co-authored with Ana Carolina Garriga.  Stata replication data and do-file.  The data contains new information on the number of criminal groups in each state from 2000-2018.

2022. “Where is Conflict Research? Western Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence.” International Studies Review 24 (3): 1-25 Co-authored with Kevin T. Greene. Stata replication data and do-file.

2021. Competition from Within: Ethnicity, Power, and Militant Group Rivalry. Defence and Peace Economics 32 (6), 757-772. Co-authored with Justin Conrad, Kevin T. Greene, and Samantha Daly. 

2020. "Narco-messages: Competition and public communication by criminal groups. Latin American Politics and Society 62 (1): 1-24. Co-authored with Viridiana Ríos. Paper.

2019. "Carrots, Sticks, and Insurgent Targeting of Civilians." Journal of Conflict Resolution 63 (7): 1710-1735. Co-authored with Victor Asal, R. Karl Rethemeyer, Corina Simonelli, and Joseph K. Young. Paper. Stata replication data and do-file.

2019. "Do 90 Percent of Terrorist Groups Last Less Than a Year? Updating the Conventional Wisdom." Terrorism and Political Violence 31 (6): 1255-1265. Paper.

2019. "Foreign Terrorist Organization Designation, International Cooperation, and Terrorism." International Interactions 45 (2): 316-343. Paper.

2019. "Terrorist Group Rivalries and Alliances: Testing Competing Explanations." Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 42(11): 997-1019. Paper. Data.

2018. "What Explains Ethnic Organizational Violence? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Russia." Conflict Management and Peace Science 35 (2): 111-131. Co-authored with Victor Asal. Paper. Stata replication data and do-file.

2018. "Terrorist Tactics by Criminal Organizations: The Mexican Case in Context." Perspectives on Terrorism 12 (1): 46-63. Paper.

2017. "Inequality and the Emergence of Vigilante Organizations: The Case of Mexican Autodefensas." Comparative Political Studies 50 (10): 1358-1389. Paper. Stata replication data and do-file. Online appendix with additional information.

2017. "Deadlier in the U.S.? On Lone Wolves, Terrorist Groups, and Attack Lethality." Terrorism and Political Violence 29 (3): 533-549. Paper.

2015. "Civil War, Spillover, and Neighbors' Military Spending." Conflict Management and Peace Science 32 (4): 425-442. Paper. Stata data (monadic and dyadic) and do-file.

2015. "How Does Leadership Decapitation Affect Violence? The Case of Drug Trafficking Organizations in Mexico." Journal of Politics 77 (2): 324-336. Paper. Stata replication data and do-file.

***Additional data used to create the Stata file above for the reported models: State-year data on geographic territory of drug-trafficking organizations 2006-2012, data on DTO leaders killed or arrested 2006-2012, and documentation describing these files. 

2015. "What is a Terrorist Group? Conceptual Issues and Empirical Implications." Terrorism and Political Violence 27 (2): 225-242. Paper. 

2015. "Enemies with Benefits? Violent Rivalry and Terrorist Group Longevity." Journal of Peace Research 52 (1): 62-75. Paper. Stata replication data and do-file. Runner-up, "Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR Article of the Year Award, 2015."

2014. "Terrorist Group Cooperation and Longevity." International Studies Quarterly 58 (2): 336-347. Paper. Stata 12 replication data and do-file.

2014. "Foreign Aid as a Signal to Investors: Predicting FDI in Post-Conflict Countries." 2014. Journal of Conflict Resolution 58 (2): 280-306. Co-authored with Ana Carolina Garriga. Paper. 

2012. "When Politicians Sell Drugs: Examining Why Middle East Ethnopolitical Organizations Are Involved in the Drug Trade." Terrorism and Political Violence 24 (2): 199-212.  Co-authored with Victor Asal and Kathleen Deloughery. Paper.

2009. "Democracy, Foreign Policy, and Terrorism." Journal of Conflict Resolution 53 (6): 878-904. Co-authored with Burcu Savun. Paper.  

Book chapters

2020. "Can Blacklisting Reduce Terrorist Attacks?"  In The Power of Global Performance Indicators (Judith Kelley and Beth Simmons, eds.), 271-299. Cambridge University Press. Co-authored with Hyeran Jo and Joshua K. Alley. Chapter, or at press website here.

2019. "Terrorist Organizational Dynamics," in The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism Studies (Erica Chenoweth, Richard English, Andreas Gofas, and Stathis N. Kalyvas, eds), 385-400. Oxford University Press. Chapter, or at press website here.

2018. "Terrorist group survival as a measure of effectiveness," in When Does Terrorism Work?, (Diego Muro, ed.) 52-70. Routledge. Chapter, or at press website here.

Working papers (selected)

"Gendered Targeting: Understanding Variation in Militant Groups' Attacks on Women." Co-authored with Ismene Gizelis and Sara Polo.

"Types of Repression and Insurgent Violence: Evidence from 1970s Argentina"

"Terrorist Proscription," several papers.

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