I have authored, co-authored, or co-edited nine books as well as dozens of journal articles and chapters in edited volumes. Please see my cv for a complete list.

BOOKS

Cambridge World History of Genocide, Vol 3, Co-edited with Ben Kiernan, Wendy Lower, and Norman Naimark (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

International Studies: Global Forces, Interactions and Tensions (Sage/CQ Press, 2022), 2nd edition. Co-authored with Barry Driscoll.

Fundamentals of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016).

Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership and Genocide in Modern Africa (Cornell University Press, 2015).

The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and Its Discontents (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), co-edited with Steve Stern.

Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), co-edited with Lars Waldorf.

The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2006).

Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide (Zone/Princeton University Press, 2006), co-authored with Robert Lyons.

Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures (Lynne Rienner, 2003), co-authored with David Leonard.

JOURNAL ARTICLES (Selected)

Stathis Kalyvas and Scott Straus, “Stathis Kalyvas on 20 Years of Studying Political Violence,” Violence: An International Journal 1:2 (2020).

Scott Straus and Michel Wieviorka, “Introducing a New Journal: Violence,” Violence: An International Journal 1:1 (2020).

Fiona Terry, Helen Kinsella, and Scott Straus, “Fiona Terry of the International Committee of the Red Cross Talks about the Roots of Restraint in War and the Intersection of Research and Humanitarianism,” Violence: An International Journal 1:1 (2020), pp. 1-18

Scott Straus, “The Limits of a Genocide Lens: Violence against Rwandans in the 1990s,” Journal of Genocide Research 21:4 (2019), pp. 504-524.

Rachel Schwartz and Scott Straus, “What Drives Escalation in Atrocity Violence? Evidence from Guatemala,” Journal of Peace Research 55:2 (2018), pp. 222-235.

Scott Straus, “Studying Perpetrators: A Reflection,” Journal of Perpetrator Research 1:1 (2017), pp. 28-38.

Courtney Hillebrecht and Scott Straus, “Who Pursues the Perpetrators? State Cooperation with the ICC,” Human Rights Quarterly, 2017 39:1 (2017), pp. 162-188.

Charlie Taylor, Jon Pevehouse, and Scott Straus, “The Perils of Pluralism: Explaining African Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Journal of Peace Research 54:3 (2017), pp. 397-411.

André Guichaoua, Emmanuel Ntakarutimana, and Scott Straus, “Aspirations démocratiques et ‘démocraties autoritaires’ en Afrique centrale,” Revue Tiers Monde 228 (2016), pp. 9-21.

Scott Straus, “Triggers of Mass Atrocity,” Politics and Governance 3:3 (2015), pp. 5-15.

Andrew Kydd and Scott Straus, “The Road to Hell? Third-Party Intervention to Prevent Atrocities,” American Journal of Political Science 57:3 (2013), pp. 673-684.

Scott Straus, “Wars Do End! Changing Patterns of Political Violence in Africa,” African Affairs, 111:143 (2012), pp. 179-201.

Scott Straus, “Retreating from the Brink: Theorizing Mass Violence and the Dynamics of Restraint,” Perspectives on Politics 10:2 (2012), pp. 343-362.

Scott Straus, “’Destroy Them to Save Us’: Theories of Genocide and Logics of Political Violence,” Terrorism and Political Violence 24:4 (2012), pp. 544-560.

Evgeny Finkel and Scott Straus, “Macro, Meso, and Micro Research on Genocide: Gains, Shortcomings, and Future Areas of Inquiry,” Genocide Studies and Prevention 7:1 (2012), pp. 56-67.

Scott Straus, “’It’s Sheer Horror Here’: Patterns of Violence during the First Four Months of Côte d’Ivoire’s Post-Electoral Crisis,” African Affairs 110:440 (2011), pp. 481-489.

Thomas Bassett and Scott Straus, “Defending Democracy in Côte d’Ivoire: Africa Takes a Stand,” Foreign Affairs 90:4 (2011), pp. 130-140.

Scott Straus, “A Step Forward,” Genocide Studies and Prevention 4:2 (August 2009), pp. 185-190.

Scott Straus, “Second-Generation Comparative Research on Genocide,” World Politics 59:3 (April 2007), pp. 476-501.

Scott Straus, “What is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence? Reexamining Rwanda’s ‘Radio Machete,’” Politics & Society 35:4 (2007), pp. 609-637.

Scott Straus “Rwanda and Darfur: A Comparative Analysis,” Genocide Studies and Prevention 1:1 (2006), pp. 41-56.

Scott Straus, “Darfur and the Genocide Debate,” Foreign Affairs 84:1 (January/February 2005), pp. 123-133.

Scott Straus, “How Many Perpetrators Were There in the Rwandan Genocide? An Estimate,” Journal of Genocide Research 6:1 (2004), pp. 85-98.

Scott Straus, “Contested Meanings and Conflicting Imperatives: A Conceptual Analysis of Genocide,” Journal of Genocide Research 3:3 (2001), pp. 349-375.

Scott Straus, “Organic Purity and the Role of Anthropology in Cambodia and Rwanda,” Patterns of Prejudice 35:2 (2001), pp. 47-62.

CHAPTERS IN PEER-REVIEWED BOOK VOLUMES (SELECTED)

Rachel Jacobs and Scott Straus, “Meso-Level Dynamics of Mass Atrocities,” in Barbora Hola et al., Oxford Handbook of Mass Atrocities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Scott Straus, “Contemporary Violence and the Colonial Past: Illustrations from Rwanda,” in Jennifer Leaning, ed., Legacies of War: Enduring Memories, Persistent Patterns (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming).

Scott Straus, “Écrire l’histoire des violences durant les années 1990 au Rwanda,” in Laetitia Atlani, Jean-Hervé Bradol, Marc le Pape and Claudine Vidal, eds., Violences Extrêmes (Paris: Fondation maison des sciences de l’homme, forthcoming).

Kate Carter and Scott Straus, “Changing Patterns of Political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, online April 26, 2019.

Scott Straus et al., “The Uses and Misuses of Memory,” International Panel on Exiting Violence: Final Report (Paris: Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2019), 136-153 (French Version Listed)

Scott Straus, “Is a Comparative Theory of Perpetrators Possible,” in Timothy Williams and Susanne Buckley-Zistel, eds., Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivation, and Dynamics (New York: Routledge, 2018), pp. 204-210.

Scott Straus, “Muster von Genozid un Massengewakt in Subsahara-Afrika,” in Olaf Glöckner and Roy Knocke, eds., Das Zeitalter de Genozid: Ursprünge, Formen nd Folgen politischer Gewalt im 20. Jajrundert (Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 2017).

Scott Straus, “Ideology and Restraint: Genocide and Non-Genocide Cases in Comparative Perspective,” in Tobias Hof, ed. Empire, Ideology, Mass Violence: The Long 20^th Century in Comparative Perspective (Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2016), pp. 203-241.

Scott Straus, “Genocide and Human Rights,” in Michael Goodhart, ed., Human Rights: Politics and Practice, 3^rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 352-369. Fourth Edition under contract, 2021.

Scott Straus, “What Is Being Prevented? Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and Conceptual Ambiguity in the Anti-Atrocity Movement,” in Sheri Rosenberg, Tibi Galis, and Alex Zucker, eds., Reconstructing Atrocity Prevention (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 17-30.

Scott Straus and Charles Taylor, “Democratization and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-2008,” in Dorina Bekoe, ed., Voting in Fear: Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa (Washington, DC: United States Institute for Peace, 2012), pp. 15-38.

Scott Straus, “Mali and Its Sahelian Neighbors,” Peer-Reviewed Input Paper, World Development Report 2011, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2011, published at http://wdr2011.worldbank.org/Mali.

Scott Straus, “Genocide Studies and Political Science,” in Donald Bloxham, ed., Oxford Handbook on Genocide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 163-181.

Scott Straus, “The Promise and Limits of Comparison: Rwanda and the Holocaust,” in Alan Rosenbaum, ed., Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide 3^rd ed. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2009), pp. 245-257.

Scott Straus, “Order in Disorder: Commune-Level Dynamics in the Rwandan Genocide,” in Stathis Kalyvas, Ian Shapiro and Tarek Masoud, eds., Conflict, Order, and Violence (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 301-320.

Scott Straus, “Rwanda’s Security Trap and Participation in the 1994 Genocide,” in Jean-Pierre Chrétien with Richard Banégas, eds., The Recurring Great Lakes Crisis: Identity, Violence, and Sovereign States (London: Hurst Publishers, 2008), pp.168-179.

Scott Straus, “From ‘Rescue’ to Violence: Overcoming Local Opposition to Genocide in Rwanda,” translated as “L’échec de l’opposition locale au génocide rwandais,” in Jacques Sémelin, Sarah Gensburger, and Claire Andrieu, eds. La résistance aux genocides: De la pluralité des actes de sauvetage (Paris: Sciences Po University Press, 2008), pp. 345-360.

Scott Straus, “Historiography of the Rwandan Genocide,” in Dan Stone, ed., The Historiography of Genocide (New York: Palgrave-McMillan, 2008), 517-542.

Scott Straus, “Origins and Aftermaths: The Dynamics of Genocide in Rwanda and their Post-Crime Implications,” in Simon Chesterman, Béatrice Pouligny, and Albrecht Schnabel, eds., Mass Crimes and Post-Conflict Peace-Building (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2007), pp. 122-141.

Scott Straus, “Atrocity Statistics and other Lessons from Darfur,” in Samuel Totten and Eric Markusen, Genocide in Darfur: Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 189-195.