Publications

Book Chapters & Reference Book Entries

“Military Culture & Humanitarian Actions: Short-Term Gains & Long-Term Losses.” In Force and Tool: How Culture Shapes the Military and Military Operations. Ed. H.C. Breede. University of British Columbia Press, 2018. (With R. Rubinstein.)

“Civil-Military Relations from International Conflict Zones to the United States: Notes on Mutual Discontents and Disruptive Logics.” In Rethinking Civil-Military Relations: Anthropological Perspectives. Eds. B.R. Sørensen & E. Ben-Ari, Eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. (With R. Rubinstein.)

“Data-Driven Inquiry, Servicemembers’ Perspectives and Redefining Success.” In What’s Next for Student Veterans? Moving from Transition to Academic Success, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Ed. D. DiRamio (University of South Carolina, 2017).

“Adaptive Resilience & Critical Infrastructure Security: Emergent Challenges for Transportation & Cyberphysical Infrastructure.” In Securing Transportation Systems. Eds. Simon Hakim, Gila Albert, & Yoram Shiftan. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2016. (With Laura J. Steinberg.)

“Asymmetric Warfare.” In SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior. Ed. F. Moghaddam. Forthcoming, 2017.

“The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Politicizing Maritime Law in Asymmetric Contexts.” In Counterinsurgency Law: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare. Ed. William Banks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

“The Strategic Roots of Arab Federalism and Its Failure: Transnational Sovereign Power Issues, Military Rule, and Arab Identity.” In Defunct Federalisms: Critical Perspectives on Federal Failure. Eds. Emilian Kavalski & Magdalena Zolkos. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2008.

Humanizing Irregular Warfare: Framing Compliance for Nonstate Armed Groups at the Intersection of Security and Legal Analyses.” In New Battlefields/Old Laws: Critical Debates on Asymmetric Warfare. Ed. William C. Banks. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Articles & Blog Entries

“Terrorist Critical Infrastructures, Organizational Capacity, and Security Risk.” Safety Science (June 2018). (With L.J. Steinberg & M. Grabowski.)

“The Changing Role of Law in Security Governance: Post 9/11 ‘Gray Zones’ and Strategic Impacts.” Syracuse Law Review, 67 (2017). 

 “Is There Any Defense Against Low-Tech Terror?” Foreign Policy, Oct. 2, 2017.

“Supporting Post-9/11 Military Veterans in Higher Education.” Military Times, July 27, 2017. (C. Zoli, D. Fay, S. Ellington, & D. Segal.)

Justice in Post-Conflict Settings: Islamic Law and Muslim Communities as Stakeholders in Transition.” Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, 33 (2017). (With M.C. Bassiouni & H. Khan.) Forthcoming. 

The ‘God Gap’ in International Affairs: Missing Cross-Cultural Conversations in International Humanitarian Law and Islamic Jurisprudence.” Florida Journal of International Law, 28 (2016).

Lone-Wolf or Low-Tech Terrorism? Emergent Patterns of Global Terrorism in Recent French and European Attacks.” Lawfare (Aug. 17, 2016).

Islamic Contributions to International Humanitarian Law: Recalibrating TWAIL Approaches for Existing Contributions & Legacies.” AJIL Unbound: Symposium on TWAIL Perspectives on ICL, IHL, & Intervention (March 2016). 

What the Academy Doesn’t Know About the Vet: Exploring the Top Five Oversights.Foreign Policy (Nov. 23, 2015). (With Rosalinda Maury, Danny Fay, & Nick Armstrong.)

“In Search of Post-9/11 Veterans’ Missing Perspectives.” War on the Rocks (April 23, 2015). (With Rosalinda Maury & Danny Fay.)

“Armed Conflict & Compliance in Muslim States, 1947–2014: Does Conflict Look Different Under IHL?” North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation, 40:3 (Spring 2015). (With Emily Schneider & Courtney Schuster.)

Ten Recommendations for Obama’s CVE Summit.” Foreign Policy, Feb. 18, 2015. (With Emily Schneider.)

Why Iraq Must Stop Playing the Shari’a Card.” New America Foundation Weekly Wonk (Nov. 13, 2014). (With Emily Schneider & Alliya Anjum.)

How Islamic Is Pakistan’s Constitution?Foreign Policy (May 15, 2014). (With Emily Schnieder.)

What Egypt’s New Constitution Tells Us About Political Transition.Fletcher Forum on World Affairs, Tufts University (March 12, 2014). (With Courtney Schuster.)

Shari’a Strategy: Rule of Law Replacing the State.Syria in Crisis, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Jan. 4, 2014). (With Emily Schneider.)

“Shari’a Courts Move to the Battlefield: Jabhat al-Nusra Opens a Legal Front in the Syrian Civil War.” National Security Journal (Jan. 3, 2014). (With Emily Schneider.)

Privacy in Muslim Constitutions & the Bilateral Security Agreement.” The Washington Post (Jan. 2, 2014). (With Emily Schneider.)

Baton Rouge Post-Katrina: The Role of Critical Infrastructure Modeling in Promoting Resilience.” Homeland Security Affairs, 7 (February 2011). (With Laura Steinberg, SU LC Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, and Nicholas Armstrong, INSCT.)

Post 9/11 Stability Operations: How U.S. Army Doctrine is Shaping National Security Strategy.” PRISM, 2:1 (December 2010). (With Nicholas Armstrong, INSCT.)

Book Reviews

A Review of Militant Islam: A Sociology of Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences by Stephen Vertigans.” Journal of Shi’a Islamic Studies, 4:4 (2011).

Reports, White Papers, & Working Papers

“Review of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act for Human Rights and IHL Training Provided by the Departments of State and Defense to Security Forces of Foreign Nations.” US Government Accountability Office Teleconference. April 19, 2018.

Women in the Military: From Service to Civilian Life.” Institute for Veterans and Military Families, Syracuse University.  March 2018. (With R. Maury, D. Fay, N. Armstrong, N. Boldon, R.K. Linsner, and G. Cantor.)

Missing Perspectives: Servicemembers’ Transition from Service to Civilian Life.” Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) High Education Research Series (November 2015). (With Rosalinda Maury, Danny Fay, & Nick Armstrong.)

Understanding Global Opportunity: Exploring the Role of the US Department of State’s Office of Global Partnership in Public-Private  Partnership (P3) Development of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves. November 2015. C. Zoli, M. Hermann, C. Gerard, C. Page, & W. Wicker.

“Building Awareness of ETETE Careers, Pathways, and Academic Preparation for Service Members: Recommendations for Navigating Opportunities and Challenges” (2013) (With Laura Steinberg.)

The ‘God Gap’ in International Humanitarian Law: Lessons Learned from Islamic Jurisprudence.” INSCT Working Paper Series (Jan. 1, 2012).

Transition and Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Evolving US-Afghan Partnerships. Kabul International Visitor Leadership Program Report (January 2012). (With N. Armstrong.)

Patterns of Conduct: Libyan Regime Support for and Involvement in Acts of Terrorism.” UNHRC Commission of Inquiry into Human Rights Violations in Libya Report (April 2011). (With Shani Ross and Sahar Azar, INSCT.)

From Battlefield to Classroom: Finding Barriers and Pathways to Engineering for US Servicemembers” (2011). (With Laura J. Steinberg & Nick Armstrong.)