Publications & Works Under Review
Barbara Elias, How the U.S. Can Rein In Israel, Foreign Policy, February 16, 2024.
Barbara Elias, “H-Diplo Roundtable Review 15-20, Loch Johnson, The Third Option: Covert Action and American Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022,“ Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, H-Net Reviews, January 2, 2024. [Book Review]
Barbara Elias, “Local Partners Are Not Proxies: The Case for Rethinking Proxy War,” Irregular Warfare Initiative, (April 20, 2023).
Barbara Elias “Why Rebels Rely on Terrorists: The Persistence of the Taliban-al-Qaeda Battlefield Coalition in Afghanistan,” Journal of Strategic Studies, 45:2 (February 2022): 234-257.
Barbara Elias, “Why the Taliban Won’t Quit al Qaeda,” Foreign Policy, September 21, 2021, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/21/taliban-al-qaeda-afghanistan-ties-terrorism/
Barbara Elias, Why Allies Rebel: Defiant Local Partners in Counterinsurgency Wars, Cambridge University Press, 2020. Awarded the “Best Book” prize by the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA) for 2022 and “Best International Security Book by a Non-tenured Faculty Member” by the International Security Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), 2021.
Barbara Elias, “Coercing Local Counterinsurgency Allies – Lessons for Syria and Iraq After the Islamic State,” June 2021, submitted for review, revise and resubmit.
Barbara Elias and Alex Weisiger, “Influence Through Absence in U.S. Counterinsurgency Interventions? Coercing Local Allies Through Threats to Withdraw,” Civil Wars, (October 5, 2020).
Barbara Elias, “Elias on Coll, ‘Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan,'“ H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews, May 11, 2019. [Book Review]
Barbara Elias, “Local Minorities in Counterinsurgency: U.S. Approaches to Baghdad and Saigon Regarding Marginalized Populations,” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, (April 4, 2019): 1–17.
Barbara Elias, "The Big Problem of Small Allies: New Data and Theory on Defiant Local Counterinsurgency Partners in Afghanistan and Iraq," Security Studies, 27, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 233–62.
Barbara Elias, “The Likelihood of Local Allies Free-Riding: Testing Economic Theories of Alliances in US Counterinsurgency Interventions,” Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 52, No. 3 (September 1, 2017): 309–31.
Barbara Elias, “Antonio Giustozzi, The Army of Afghanistan: A Political History of a Fragile Institution,” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 52, No. 3 (July 1, 2017): 776–77. [Book Review]
Barbara Elias, “The Legend of Mullah Omar,” Foreign Affairs, September 1, 2015, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afghanistan/2015-09-01/legend-mullah-omar
Barbara Elias, "America’s Missing Leverage in Afghanistan and Pakistan: a Structural Analysis,” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 8, (September 20, 2013): pp. 1392-1408.
Barbara Elias, “The Pakistani Taliban’s Coming Divide,” Foreign Affairs, February 2, 2012, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afghanistan/2012-02-02/pakistani-talibans-coming-divide;
Barbara Elias, “Know Thine Enemy,” Foreign Affairs, November 2, 2009, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/pakistan/2009-11-02/know-thine-enemy.
