Academic Articles

Scholarly Journals

• “Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy Change: The Gulf Model in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates,” Global Studies Quarterly 6, 2 (April 2026): 1-13.
• “Linkages between Domestic Society and Foreign Policy in Personalistic Autocracies” (with Sabine Mokry and Alexander Graef), Global Studies Quarterly 6, 2 (April 2026): 1-5.
• “The Politics of Anti-Corruption Crackdowns in Autocracies: Evidence from Jordan” (with Steve Monroe), Mediterranean Politics (2025): 1-30. Print edition forthcoming.
• “The Fortress State: Extreme Militarization in Jordan” (with Pete Moore), Middle East Law and Governance 16, 4 (2024): 371-386.
• “Reconceptualizing Security and Political Economy in the Modern Middle East” (with Pete Moore), Middle East Law and Governance 16, 4 (2024): 342-345.
• “Kuwait’s Democratic Promise,” Journal of Democracy 34, 3 (July 2023): 46-61.
• “Roles, Identity, and Security: Foreign Policy Contestation in Monarchical Kuwait,” European Journal of International Relations 26, 2 (June 2020): 569-593.
• “US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Logic of Hegemonic Retreat,” Global Policy Journal 11, 1 (February 2020): 75-83.
• “Analytic Transparency, Radical Honesty, and Strategic Incentives,” PS: Political Science and Politics 51, 3 (April 2018): 416-421.
• “Regimes, Identities, and Regional Order: Kuwait, Qatar, and the Gulf Cooperation Council,” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 14, 1 (2018): 67-94.
• “Jordan and Morocco: The Palace Gambit,” Journal of Democracy 28, 2 (April 2017): 132-146.
• “Comparative Politics and Area Specialization: The Hidden Costs of Analytic Transparency,” Chinese Political Science Review 1, 3 (Fall 2016): 489-505.
• “Understanding the Arab Spring: One Region, Several Puzzles, and Many Explanations,” Government and Opposition 50, 4 (October 2015), pp. 682-704.
• “The New Landscape of Jordanian Politics: Social Opposition, Fiscal Crisis, and the Arab Spring,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 42, 3 (Spring 2015): 284-300.
• “From Methodology to Practice: Inductive Iteration in Comparative Research,” Comparative Political Studies 48, 5 (April 2015): 616-644. Winner of 2016 GIGA Prize for Comparative Area Studies.
• “Authoritarian Monarchies as an Epistemic Community: Diffusion, Repression, and Survival during the Arab Spring,” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 10, 1 (2014): 43-62.
• “Tribal Politics in Contemporary Jordan: The Case of the Hirak Movement,” The Middle East Journal 68, 1 (Spring 2014): 229-247.
• “Jordan: The Ruse of Reform,” Journal of Democracy 24, 3 (July 2013): 127-139.  Reprinted in Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World, eds. Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), 351-363.
• “Resilient Royals: How Arab Monarchies Hang On,” Journal of Democracy 23, 4 (October 2012): 74-88 (with F. Gregory Gause III).  Reprinted in Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World, eds. Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), 112-127.
• “Oil, Coalitions, and Regime Durability: The Origins and Persistence of Popular Rentierism in Kuwait,” Studies in Comparative International Development 46, 2 (June 2011): 217-241.
• “Jordan: Ten More Years of Autocracy,” Journal of Democracy 20, 4 (October 2009): 151-166.
• “The International Dimensions of Authoritarian Regime Stability: Jordan in the Post-Cold War Era,” Arab Studies Quarterly 30, 1 (Winter 2007-8): 39-60.
• “Understanding the Durability of Authoritarianism in the Middle East,” Arab Studies Journal 13-14, 2,1 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006): 227-233.
• “Civil Society and Democratization in the Arab World: Critical Views from the Middle East,” Middle East Review of International Affairs 9, 4 (Winter 2005): 14-33.
• “The Endurance of Autocracy: Explaining Stable Authoritarianism in Arab States,” Global Development Studies 3, 3-4 (Spring 2004): 23-56.
• “Islam and Globalization: Secularism, Religion, and Radicalism,” Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft 5, 4 (Autumn 2002): 84-109.  Reprinted in Challenges of Globalization: New Trends in International Politics and Society, eds. Alfred Pfaller and Marika Lerch (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2005), 27-46.

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Chapters in Edited Volumes

• “The Jordanian Exception: Old and New Civil Society under Liberalized Autocracy,” in Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa, ed. James Sater (London: Routledge, 2026), 138-150.
• “Water, Stateness, and Tribalism in Jordan: The Case of the Disi Water Conveyance Project,” in Making Sense of the Arab State, eds. Steven Heydemann and Marc Lynch (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2024), 247-273.
• “US Security Assistance in Jordan: Militarized Politics and Elusive Metrics,” in Security Assistance in the Middle East: Challenges and the Need for Change, eds. Bob Springborg and Hicham Alaoui (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2023), 211-230.
• “Mobilization without Movement: Opposition and Youth Activism in Jordan,” in Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World: Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors after the Spring, eds. Lisa Blaydes, Amr Hamzawy, and Hesham Sallam (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2022), 148-174.
• “Authoritarianism Reconfigured: Evolving Forms of Political Control,” in The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research since the Arab Uprisings, eds. Marc Lynch, Jillian Schwedler, and Sean Yom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 35-61. (Co-authored with André Bank, Eva Bellin, Michael Herb, Lisa Wedeen, and Saloua Zerhouni)
• “Bread, Fear, and Coalitional Politics in Jordan: From Tribal Origins to Neoliberal Narrowing,” in Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability: Duration, Financial Control, and Institutions, ed. Victor Shih (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2020), 210-235.
• “Political Dynamics in the MENA Region: Democracy, Authoritarianism, and History,” and “The Context of Political Life: Geography, Economics, and Social Forces,” in The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa: Development, Democracy, and Dictatorship, 10th edition, ed. Sean Yom (London: Routledge, 2026), 1-48 and 49-96. Previously published in 9th edition, 1-38 and 39-78.
• “Bringing Society Back In,” and “The Youth Generation: Education and Transition,” in The Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Structures, Vulnerabilities, and Forces, 2nd edition, ed. Sean Yom (London: Routledge, 2021), 1-28 and 331-370. Previously published in 1st edition, 1-29 and 307-345.
• “Comparative Politics of the Middle East and North Africa,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, ed. Rick Valelly (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).  Revised 2015.
• “Washington in the Mideast: A Doctrine, A Dilemma, and Durable Despotism,” in Democratic Peace in Theory and Practice, ed. Steven W. Hook (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2010), 198-221.