Research

Publications

Gilli, Andrea and Mauro Gilli. “Military-Technological Superiority: Systems Integration and the Challenges of Imitation, Reverse-Engineering and Cyber Espionage. International Security (forthcoming).
    Previous versions presented at ISA 2013 and 2016, MPSA 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016, and EISS 2017, Columbia 2016, Northwestern 2013 and 2014, Dartmouth 2015 and 2016,    
    Brookings Institution 2016, George Washington University 2017 and Stanford 2017, 

Gilli, Andrea and Mauro Gilli. "The Diffusion of Drone Warfare? Industrial, Infrastructural and Organizational Constraints." Security Studies Vol. 25, N. 1 (Winter 2016), pp. 50-84. 
   Previous versions presented at ISA 2013, APSA 2013, Columbia University 2013, MPSA 2014, University of Chicago 2015, ISA 2015).

Gilli, Andrea and Mauro Gilli. "The Spread of Military Innovations: Adoption-Capacity Theory, Tactical Incentives and the Case of Suicide Terrorism," Security Studies vol. 23, n. 3 (Summer 2014), pp. 513-547. Online appendix.
    Response: Michael Horowitz, "Adoption Capacity and the Spread of Suicide Bombing, A Response to Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli," H-Diplo ISSF (January 2015).
    Response: Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli, "A Response to Michael Horowitz," H-Diplo ISSF (June 2015).

Druckman, James N., Mauro Gilli, Samara Klar, and Joshua Robison. "The Role of Social Context in Shaping Student-Athlete Opinions Regarding Unionization and Pay for Play." Plus One (December 2014).

Druckman, James N., Mauro Gilli, Samara Klar, and Joshua Robison. "Drug and Alcohol Use among College Student-Athletes." Social Science Quarterly (October 2014).

Druckman, James N., Mauro Gilli, Samara Klar, and Joshua Robison. "Athlete Support for Title IX." The Sport Journal (May 2014).


Under Review


Work in Progress:

Gilli, Andrea and Mauro Gilli, "Goodbye Gerschenkron: Complexity and the Waning Advantages of Backwardness in Military Technology," (with Andrea Gilli) (to be presented at ISA 2016 and MPSA 2016).

Gilli, Andrea and  Mauro Gilli, " “Targeted Killings are the Norm: Tactical Incentives and Infrastructural Constraints. From Covert Assasinations through Special Operations Attacks to Drone Strikes." (scheduled at APSA 2015).


Gilli, Andrea and  Mauro Gilli, "Component Maker, Privilege Taker: Supply-chain Challenges in the Defense Industry and the Pursuit of Power and Wealth." Work in progress.

Freeland, Valerie, Andrea Gilli and Mauro Gilli. "The European Debt Crisis and IR Theories of Cooperation." (Presented at ISA 2013).

Gilli, Andrea, Mauro Gilli and Costantino Pischedda. "The Revenge of the Machines: The Effect of Mechanization on Counterinsurgency Outcomes." Work in progress.