Research

You can find links to my publications, projects under review or revision, and working papers below. I also have several editor-reviewed publications. Please visit my book page for information about my forthcoming book, Armed Group Constellations in Multiparty Civil Wars.

Publications

The Bombing of Hospitals and Rebel Responses in Civil War. Evidence from Syria (with Werner Krause and Samer Massoud). The Journal of Conflict Resolution

The Internationalization of Intrastate Conflict: A Network Perspective on Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Explanations (with Frederik Schissler, Hanna Pfeifer, Constantin Ruhe, and Jonas Wolff). Cooperation and Conflict

Re-examining the State/Non-State Binary in the Study of (Civil) War (with Hanna Pfeifer). Civil Wars

Same Same but Dierent? Ideological Differentiation and Intra-jihadist Competition in the Syrian Civil War. Journal of Global Security Studies

Escalate or Negotiate? Constraint and Rebel Strategic Choices Towards Rivals in the Syrian Civil War. Terrorism and Political Violence

Insurgent Courts in Civil Wars: The Three Pathways of (Trans)formation in Today's Syria (2012-2017). Small Wars & Insurgencies

In Review or Revision

Ending Intrastate Conflict by Ending External Support? The Implications of Withdrawal for Conflict Duration (with Iris Volg) (under review).

Working Papers

The Internationalization of Armed Intrastate Conflict: A Systematic Assessment of the State of Research, Data, and Explanations (with Frederik Schissler, Felix Bethke, Hanna Pfeifer, Constantin Ruhe, and Jonas Wolff). TraCe Working Paper 7

The Bombing of Hospitals and Local Violence Dynamics in Civil Wars. Evidence from Syria (with Werner Krause and Samer Massoud). HiCN Working Paper 403

Editor Reviewed

Die Transformation des Krieges und Angriffe auf zivile Infrastruktur [The Transformation of War and the Targeting of Civilian Infrastructure]. Mittelweg 36

Competitive Rebel Governance in Syria. In: Rebel Governance in the Middle East (edited by Ibrahim Freihat and Abdalhadi Alijla)

Politicising the rebel governance paradigm. Critical appraisal and expansion of a research agenda (with Hanna Pfeifer). Small Wars & Insurgencies 

Who Owns the law? Logics of Insurgent Courts in the Syrian War (2012-2017) (with Samer Massoud). In: Actors and Dynamics in the Syrian Conflict's Middle Phase. Between Contentious Politics, Militarization and Regime Resilience (edited by Raymond Hinnebusch and Omar Imady)

Header photo: Beautiful Antakya which was unfortunately heavily destroyed by the 2023 earthquake (November 2017)