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  1. Clients, Rivals, and Rogues

    Article • February 2026, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David S. Siroky

  2. “Tit-for-Tat:” Understanding Russia – NATO Interactions in Eastern Europe

    Article • Caucasus Survey, September 2023, De Gruyter

    Professor David S. Siroky

  3. The Return of Great Power Proxy Wars?

    Article • July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  4. The Lifecycle of Secession

    Article • January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  5. Blood Revenge in Civil War: Proof of Concept

    Article • Security Studies, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  6. Irredentism and Institutions

    Article • British Journal of Political Science, July 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David S. Siroky

  7. Purifying the Religion: An Analysis of Haram Targeting among Salafi Jihadi Groups

    Article • Comparative Politics, April 2022, Comparative Politics

    Professor David S. Siroky

  8. Defection Denied

    Article • March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Valery Dzutsati, Professor David S. Siroky

  9. Kin Killing: Why Governments Target Family Members in Insurgency, and When It Works

    Article • Security Studies, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  10. Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars

    Article • International Studies Review, November 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor David S. Siroky

  11. Technocratic Populism in Hybrid Regimes: Georgia on My Mind and in My Pocket

    Article • Politics and Governance, December 2020, Cogitatio

    Professor David S. Siroky

  12. Unilateral secession, international recognition, and great power contestation

    Article • Journal of Peace Research, December 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor David S. Siroky

  13. Containing Nationalism: Culture, Economics and Indirect Rule in Corsica

    Article • Comparative Political Studies, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Andre Fazi, Professor David S. Siroky

  14. International recognition, religion, and the status of Western Sahara

    Article • Acta Politica, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David S. Siroky

  15. Grievances and rebellion: Comparing relative deprivation and horizontal inequality

    Article • Conflict Management and Peace Science, March 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor David S. Siroky

  16. Predicting Partisan Responsiveness: A Probabilistic Text Mining Time-Series Approach

    Article • Political Analysis, June 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David S. Siroky

  17. Correction to: Frankenstein in Grozny: vertical and horizontal cracks in the foundation of Kadyrov’s rule

    Article • Asia Europe Journal, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David S. Siroky

  18. Neoclassical realism and small states: systemic constraints and domestic filters in Georgia’s foreign policy

    Article • East European Politics, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky, Giorgi Gvalia

  19. Ethnicity, class, and civil war: the role of hierarchy, segmentation, and cross-cutting cleavages

    Article • January 2019, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor David S. Siroky

  20. Seeing the Forest through the Trees

    Article • Political Analysis, December 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David S. Siroky

  21. Preferences for NATO and CSTO in the Caucasus

    Article • Caucasus Survey, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  22. Frankenstein in Grozny: vertical and horizontal cracks in the foundation of Kadyrov’s rule

    Article • Asia Europe Journal, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor David S. Siroky

  23. Conclusion: Center‐Periphery Bargaining in the Age of Democracy

    Article • Swiss Political Science Review, December 2016, Wiley

    Professor David S. Siroky

  24. Center‐Periphery Bargaining in the Age of Democracy

    Article • Swiss Political Science Review, November 2016, Wiley

    Professor David S. Siroky

  25. Inside Irredentism: A Global Empirical Analysis

    Article • American Journal of Political Science, November 2016, Wiley

    Christopher Hale, Professor David S. Siroky

  26. The sources of secessionist war: the interaction of local control and foreign forces in post-Soviet Georgia

    Article • Caucasus Survey, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  27. Random or Retributive?

    Article • World Politics, August 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David S. Siroky

  28. International Recognition and Religion: A Quantitative Analysis of Kosovo’s Contested Status

    Article • International Interactions, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  29. The Political Economy of Support for Sharia: Evidence from the Russian North Caucasus

    Article • Politics and Religion, May 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Valery Dzutsati, Professor David S. Siroky

  30. Judgement without justice: on the efficacy of the European human rights regime

    Article • Democratization, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  31. Ethnicity, class, and civil war: the role of hierarchy, segmentation, and cross-cutting cleavages

    Article • Civil Wars, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  32. Comparing Random Forest with Logistic Regression for Predicting Class-Imbalanced Civil War Onset Data

    Article • Political Analysis, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David S. Siroky, Jingrui He

  33. Separatism in Switzerland

    Article • European Political Science Review, December 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David S. Siroky

  34. E Pluribus Unum?

    Article • Problems of Post-Communism, December 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Ceyhun Mahmudlu, Professor David S. Siroky

  35. The Empire Strikes Back: Ethnicity, Terrain, and Indiscriminate Violence in Counterinsurgencies*

    Article • Social Science Quarterly, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor David S. Siroky, Valery Dzutsati

  36. Two States in the Holy Land?: International Recognition and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

    Article • Politics and Religion, April 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Nikola Mirilovic, Professor David S. Siroky

  37. Principle and Prudence: Rousseau on Private Property and Inequality

    Article • Polity, July 2014, University of Chicago Press

    Professor David S. Siroky

  38. Lost Autonomy, Nationalism and Separatism

    Article • Comparative Political Studies, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor David S. Siroky

  39. External Rebel Sponsorship and Civilian Abuse: A Principal-Agent Analysis of Wartime Atrocities

    Article • International Organization, January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David S. Siroky

  40. The differential demand for indirect rule: evidence from the North Caucasus

    Article • Post-Soviet Affairs, May 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Valery Dzutsati, Professor David S. Siroky

  41. Thinking Outside the Bloc: Explaining the Foreign Policies of Small States

    Article • Security Studies, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  42. Each Man For Himself? Rival Theories of Alliance Economics in The Early State System

    Article • Defence and Peace Economics, August 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  43. Rational or reckless? Georgia's zugzwang in the Caucasus

    Article • Nationalities Papers, May 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor David S. Siroky, Valery Dzutsati

  44. Prometheus Bound? Indigenous Forces and Third-party State-building

    Article • Ethnopolitics, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  45. Living with Heterogeneity

    Article • Comparative Sociology, January 2012, Brill

    Professor David S. Siroky

  46. Guns, roses and democratization: Huntington's secret admirer in the Caucasus

    Article • Democratization, December 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David S. Siroky

  47. Navigating Random Forests and related advances in algorithmic modeling

    Article • Statistics Surveys, January 2009, Institute of Mathematical Statistics

    Professor David S. Siroky