The award-winning College of International Studies faculty has wide-ranging expertise. During the past two academic years, College faculty have published books with Oxford University Press, New York University Press, University of Texas Press, Cambridge University Press, Syracuse University Press and others. See below a list of recent faculty publications and achievements.
Hannah Chapman, Dialogue with the Dictator: Authoritarian Legitimation and Information Management in Putin's Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Samer Shehata, ed., The Struggle to Reshape the Middle East in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2023)
Rachel Schwartz, Undermining the State from Within: The Institutional Legacies of Civil War in Central America (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Waleed Mahdi, Arab Americans in Film: From Hollywood and Egyptian Stereotypes to Self-Representation (Syracuse University Press, 2020)
Manata Hashemi, Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity (NYU Press, 2020)
Afshin Marashi, Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran (University of Texas Press, 2020)
Literary Black Power in the Caribbean: Fiction, Music and Film (Routledge, 2021) by Rita Keresztesi, Affiliate Faculty and Executive Board Member, African Studies Institute
Nationalism in a Transnational Age: Irrational Fears and the Strategic Abuse of Nationalist Pride (De Gruyter, 2021), co-edited by Carsten Schapkow (with Frank Jacob), Affiliate Faculty and Director, Center for the Study of Nationalism
Strategic Communications in Russia: Public Relations and Advertising (Taylor and Francis, 2021) by Katerina Tsetsura, Affiliate Faculty in IAS
Fabio de Sa e Silva in VRÜ/World Comparative Law, “Autocratic Legalism 2.0: Insights from a Global Collaborative Research Project”
Fabio de Sa e Silva in Law & Social Inquiry, “Good Bye, Liberal-Legal Democracy!”
Fabio de Sa e Silva in Nature Sustainability, "Forest conservation in Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon"
Fabio de Sa e Silva in Washington Brazil Office, "Public Safety and Brazil's Dilemma Heading into the 2022 Elections"
Fabio de Sa e Silva in the Journal of Law and Society, "From Car Wash to Bolsonaro: Law and Lawyers in Brazil's Illiberal Turn (2014–2018)"
John Emery in Peace Review, “Algorithms, AI, and Ethics of War”
John Emery (with Hadley Biggs) in Political Psychology, “Human, All Too Human: Drones, Ethics, and the Psychology of Military Technologies”
John Emery in Texas National Security Review, “Moral Choices Without Moral Language: 1950s Political-Military Wargaming at the RAND Corporation”
Manata Hashemi in Ethnography, "Sacrificial Heroes: Masculinity, Class, and Wastepicking in Iran"
Manata Hashemi in The Conversation, "How Iran's Millennials are Grappling with Crippling US Sanctions"
Eric Heinze in Ethics & International Affairs, "Limited Force and the Return of Reprisals in the Law of Armed Conflict"
Bo Kong (with Kevin P. Gallagher) in Energy Research & Social Science, "Inadequate Demand and Reluctant Supply: The Limits of Chinese Official Development Finance for Foreign Renewable Power"
Joshua Landis for Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, "U.S. Should Encourage Arab, Turkish Normalization with Syria"
Joshua Landis in Foreign Affairs, "The Pointless Cruelty of Trump’s New Syria Sanctions"
Joshua Landis in Foreign Affairs (co-authored), "How to Win the Influence Contest in the Middle East"
Natalie Letsa in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, "The Mechanisms of Direct and Indirect Rule: Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa"
Waleed Mahdi in the Journal of American Ethnic History, "Contemporary Modes of Yemeni American Agency Between Urgency and Emergence"
Waleed Mahdi, guest editor: special issue of Mashriq and Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, "MENA Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media"
Waleed Mahdi in American Quarterly, "Transmilitainment: Morocco’s Role in Hollywood’s War on Terror Films"
Waleed Mahdi, "Echoes of a Scream: US Drones and Articulations of the Houthi Sarkha Slogan in Yemen," in Eid Mohamed and Ayman A. El-Desouky, eds., Cultural Production and Social Movements after the Arab Spring Nationalism, Politics, and Transnational Identity(I.B. Tauris, 2021)
Afshin Marashi edited a special issue of Iranian Studies, "Parsis and Iranians in the Modern Period" (January 2023)
Afshin Marashi in Iranian Studies, “Rich Fields in Persia”: Parsi Capital and the Origins of Economic Development in Pahlavi Iran, 1925–1941"
Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva in International Review of Public Policy, "Policy dismantling by capacity manipulation in a context of democratic backsliding: The bureaucracy in disarray in Bolsonaro’s Brazil"
Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva in Third World Quarterly, "South–South cooperation resilience in Brazil: presidential leadership, institutions and bureaucracies."
Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva in Human Rights Quarterly, "Once Upon a Time, a Human Rights Ally: The State and its Bureaucracy in Right-Wing Populist Brazil"
Michelle Morais de Sa e Silva in Global Goverance, "An Intrastate Approach to the Withdrawal from International Organizations: The Case of Brazil and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights"
Mark Raymond in Contemporary Security Policy, "Authoritarian Multilateralism in the Global Cyber Regime Complex: The Double Transformation of an International Diplomatic Practice"
Rachel Schwartz, in Journal of Democracy, "How Guatemala Defied the Odds"
Samer Shehata in the Guardian, "The Real Reason Trump is Terrified of Losing the Presidency: Fear of Prosecution" and in Al Jazeera, "Trump is Inciting Domestic Terrorism"
Xiangming Xiao, Center for Brazil Studies Affiliate Faculty, in Nature Climate Change, "Carbon Loss from Forest Degradation Exceeds That from Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon" (PDF)
