Publications

For a full list of Professor Conrad’s scholarly and policy publications, please see his CV.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• “Natural Resource Exploitation and Military Spending.” 2023. International Studies Quarterly 67(3).
• “Rebel Human Rights Abuses During Civil Wars: Introducing the Rebel Human Rights Dataset” (with James I. Walsh and Beth Elise Whitaker). 2023. Journal of Peace Research: 00223433221147940.
• “Revisiting Opportunism in Civil Conflict: Natural Resource Extraction and Healthcare Provision” (with Liana Eustacia Reyes and Megan Stewart). 2022. Journal of Conflict Resolution 66(1): 91-114.
• “Competition from Within: Ethnicity, Power, and Militant Group Rivalry” (with Brian Phillips, Kevin Greene and Samantha Daly). 2021. Defence and Peace Economics 32(6):757-772.
• “Natural Resource Exploitation and Sexual Violence by Rebel Groups” (with Beth Elise Whitaker and James I. Walsh). 2019. Journal of Politics 81(2): 702-706.
• “Rebel Natural Resource Exploitation and Conflict Duration’‘ (with Kevin T. Greene, James I. Walsh and Beth Elise Whitaker). 2019. Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(3): 591-616.
• “Funding Rebellion: The Rebel Contraband Dataset” (with James I. Walsh, Beth Elise Whitaker and Katelin Hudak). 2018. Journal of Peace Research 55(5): 699-707.
• “How Democratic Alliances Solve the Power Parity Problem.”  2017. British Journal of Political Science 47(4): 893-913. 
• “I Want You! The Determinants of Military Conscription” (with Victor Asal and Nathan Toronto). 2017. Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(7): 1432-1455. 
• “The Strategic Logic of Credit Claiming: A New Theory for Anonymous Terrorist Attacks.” (with Max Abrahms). 2017. Security Studies 26(2): 279-304. 
• “Who Tortures the Terrorists? Transnational Terrorism and Military Torture” (with Courtenay R. Conrad, James A. Piazza and James I. Walsh). 2017. Foreign Policy Analysis 13(4): 761-786.
• “Differentiation and the Severity of Terrorist Attacks” (with Kevin Greene). 2015. Journal of Politics 77(2): 546-561.
• “Going Abroad: Transnational Solicitation and Contention by Ethnopolitical Organizations” (with Victor Asal and Peter B. White). 2014. International Organization 68(4): 945-978.
• “Why Some Autocrats are Terrorized While Others are Not” (with Courtenay R. Conrad and Joseph K. Young). 2014. International Studies Quarterly 58(3): 539-549.
• “International Spoiling, Cooperation and Transnational Terrorism” (with James I. Walsh). 2014. International Interactions 40(4): 453-476.
• “Narrow Interests and Military Resource Allocations in Autocracies” (with Mark Souva and Hong-Cheol Kim). 2013. Journal of Peace Research 50(6): 739-752.
• “Unpacking the Connection Between Terror and Islam” (with Daniel Milton). 2013. Studies in Conflict and Terror. 36(4): 315-336.
• “Interstate Rivalry and Terrorism: An Unprobed Link.” 2011. Journal of Conflict Resolution 55(4): 529-555. 
• “Regime Similarity and Rivalry” (with Mark Souva). 2011. International Interactions 37(1): 1-28.