• "How Religious are 'Religious' Conflicts?" with Reyko Huang, Kanchan Chandra, Evgeny Finkel, Richard Nielson, Mara Revkin, Manuel Vogt, and Elisabeth Wood, International Studies Review, vol. 25, no. 3, (2023).
• "Iran's War Within," Foreign Affairs, vol. 100, no. 5 (2021): 155-168.​
• "We Are All Coethnics: State Identities and Foreign Interventions in Violent Conflict," with Reyko Huang, Journal of Global Security Studies, vol. 6, no. 3 (2021). 
• “Religious Parties and Ideological Change," with A.Kadir Yildirim, Political Science Quarterly, vol. 135, no. 4 (2020): 697-723.
• ​“Factional Politics in the Iran-Iraq War.” Journal of Strategic Studies, ​vol. 42, no. 3-4 (2019): 480-506.​
• ​​“Causes of the U.S. Hostage Crisis in Iran: The Untold Account of the Communist Threat.” ​​Security Studies, vol. 26, no. 4 (2017): 665-697.   Reviewed in H-Diplo/International Security Studies Forum by Ambassador John Limbert (2017)
• ​​“Assessing (In)Security After the Arab Spring: The Case of Egypt.” PS: Political Science & Politics, vol. 46, no. 4 (2013): 727-735.
• ​​​“The Beloved Great Satan: The Portrayal of the US in the Iranian Media since 9/11.” Journal of the European Society for Iranian Studies, vol. 1, no. 1 (2006): 63-78.​  ​