Publications

Dissertations

The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Desecularization of American Foreign Policy, 1990-2012.
The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Desecularization of American Foreign Policy, 1990-2012.

Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (2012)

Selected recent publications

What do academic metrics do to political scientists? Theorizing their roots, locating their effects (with S. Baele).
What do academic metrics do to political scientists? Theorizing their roots, locating their effects (with S. Baele).

Politics, (2017)

Religion and International Relations.
Religion and International Relations.

Oxford Bibliographies (2016)

How do religious norms diffuse? Institutional translation and international change in a post-secular world society (with Filippo Dionigi).
How do religious norms diffuse? Institutional translation and international change in a post-secular world society (with Filippo Dionigi).

European Journal of International Relations 21:3 (2015)

Constructing civilisations: Embedding and reproducing the ‘Muslim world’ in American foreign policy practices and institutions since 9/11..
Constructing civilisations: Embedding and reproducing the ‘Muslim world’ in American foreign policy practices and institutions since 9/11..

Review of International Studies, 41:04 (2015)

Civilizational Analysis in International Relations: Mapping the Field and Advancing a ‘Civilizational Politics’ Line of Research..
Civilizational Analysis in International Relations: Mapping the Field and Advancing a ‘Civilizational Politics’ Line of Research..

International Studies Review, 16:1 (2014)

Religion and American Foreign Policy in the Context of the Postsecular Turn in World Politics and the Social Sciences.
Religion and American Foreign Policy in the Context of the Postsecular Turn in World Politics and the Social Sciences.

International Politics Reviews, 1:1 (2013)

Chapters

Post-secular Expertise and American Foreign Policy.
Post-secular Expertise and American Foreign Policy.

in Michael Rectenwald, Rochelle Almeida, and George Levine (eds.), Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age, Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, (2015).

Reviews

Review: Religion, Conflict and Military Intervention.
Review: Religion, Conflict and Military Intervention.

Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 39:3, (2011)

Review: Political Islam Observed.
Review: Political Islam Observed.

International Affairs, 86:6, (2010)

Review: Re-examining Soft Power in the Age of Obama.
Review: Re-examining Soft Power in the Age of Obama.

The International Spectator, 45:4, (2010) 

Online articles

10 Myths about the Arab Spring: A Secular Uprising?
10 Myths about the Arab Spring: A Secular Uprising?

The Majalla Magazine (2011)

Tea Time in Washington: The Tea Party in International Perspective.
Tea Time in Washington: The Tea Party in International Perspective.

LSE IDEAS Today, no. 6 (2010)

Obama’s Middle East Policy: Time to Decide (with Christopher Phillips)..
Obama’s Middle East Policy: Time to Decide (with Christopher Phillips)..

LSE IDEAS Special Report, no. 003 (2010)

Drifting or Rifting? America and Europe in the Age of Obama.
Drifting or Rifting? America and Europe in the Age of Obama.

LSE IDEAS Today, no. 3 (2010)

Web publications

Why (Clash of) Civilizations Discourses Just Won’t Go Away? Understanding the Civilizational Politics of Our Times. (with Fabio Petito).
Why (Clash of) Civilizations Discourses Just Won’t Go Away? Understanding the Civilizational Politics of Our Times. (with Fabio Petito).

E-IR (2018)

Should the United States attempt to reform Islam?
Should the United States attempt to reform Islam?

The Foreign Policy Centre (2015)

“After the Shipwreck”: Interpreting religion in international relations..
“After the Shipwreck”: Interpreting religion in international relations..

The Immanent Frame (2014)

Four Scenarios for Transatlantic Relations in Obama’s Second Term (with Emiliano Alessandri)..

LSE IDEAS Transatlantia Blog and Aspenia Online (2013)

Debating Decline, Sidelining Foreign Policy (with Emiliano Alessandri).

LSE IDEAS Transatlantia Blog and Aspenia Online (2012)

American Elections at a Time of Crisis: The Risks of Introspection (with Emiliano Alessandri).

LSE IDEAS Transatlantia Blog; The German Marshall Fund of the United States; and Il Sole 24 Ore/Aspenia Online (2012)

The Arab Spring: No Prediction Failure but a Lack of Sound Policy Analysis.

Aspenia Online (2011)

Liberal Interventionism R.I.P.

LSE IDEAS Transatlantia Blog (2010)

Obama’s Domestic Foreign Policy..

Aspenia Online (2010)

Britain: Undecided at Home, Uncertain Abroad.

Aspenia Online (2010)

Sanctioning Iranian Narcissism: Or Why Iran is Not A Rogue State.

The Majalla Magazine (2010)

A Trust Dilemma: Obama and Afghanistan.

Aspenia Online and The Majalla Magazine (2009)

Whose Rise and Decline? The G20 and the Post-European Era.

Aspenia Online (2009)

Working papers

Empty Signifier in Practice: Interrogating the 'Civilizations' of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.
Empty Signifier in Practice: Interrogating the 'Civilizations' of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.

ReligioWest Working Paper, RSCAS 2014/95, EUI (2014)

Beyond Constructivism’s Liberal Bias: Islamic Norm Entrepreneurs in a Post-Secular World Society (with Filippo Dionigi)..
Beyond Constructivism’s Liberal Bias: Islamic Norm Entrepreneurs in a Post-Secular World Society (with Filippo Dionigi)..

EUI Working Paper MWP, 10 (2014) 

The Social and Material Construction of Civilizations in International Relations: the ‘Muslim World’ in American Foreign Policy after 9/11 .
The Social and Material Construction of Civilizations in International Relations: the ‘Muslim World’ in American Foreign Policy after 9/11 .

EUI Working Paper MWP, 26 (2013) 

Islam is in the Eye of the Beholder: Explaining the Variance in American and European Discourses and Practices towards 'Islam' and 'Muslims' (with Christopher Phillips).

Unpublished paper (2012)

Conference reports

The Lessons of Northern Ireland (Guest-edited report with Nicholas Kitchen).
The Lessons of Northern Ireland (Guest-edited report with Nicholas Kitchen).

LSE IDEAS Special Report, no. 009 (2011)

Research and policy papers

West Bank and Gaza Village and Neighbourhood Development Project: Project Appraisal Document (with project team).
West Bank and Gaza Village and Neighbourhood Development Project: Project Appraisal Document (with project team).

World Bank, Washington D.C./Jerusalem (2008)

Mainstreaming Youth in Community Development Projects in the Context of Conflict Affected Countries: The Case of West Bank and Gaza (with Samia Al-Botmeh).
Mainstreaming Youth in Community Development Projects in the Context of Conflict Affected Countries: The Case of West Bank and Gaza (with Samia Al-Botmeh).

Social Development Report, World Bank, Washington D.C./Jerusalem (2008)

Youth an Undervalued Asset: Towards a New Agenda in the Middle East and North Africa (with report team).
Youth an Undervalued Asset: Towards a New Agenda in the Middle East and North Africa (with report team).

Economic and Sector Work, World Bank, Washington D.C./MENA (2007)

Local Development in West Bank and Gaza.
Local Development in West Bank and Gaza.

Project Working Paper, World Bank, Washington D.C./Jerusalem (2007)

Local Business, Local Peace: the Peace-building Potential of the Domestic Private Sector (with report team).
Local Business, Local Peace: the Peace-building Potential of the Domestic Private Sector (with report team).

International Alert, London (2006)

Other

From Berlusconismo to Grillismo? The irony and tragedy of Italian politics.

Asharq Al-Awsat (2013)