Commentary 

• Peacekeeping Bosses Should Be Chosen by the UN and Not the Paymasters (with Kseniya Oksamytna & Magnus Lundgen), PassBlue, 2020

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• Terrorism Boosts Military Involvement in Politics (And Why It Matters for Democracy) (with Mauricio Rivera & Chiara Ruffa), Political Violence @ a Glance, 2019

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• Quando l'insicurezza percepita supera quella reale (with Leandro Elia & Massimiliano Ferraresi), Lavoce.info, 2019

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• Immigration, fear, and public spending on security (with Leandro Elia & Massimiliano Ferraresi), VoxEU.org, 2019

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• Politicians blame refugees for violence. But refugees are more likely to be its victims (with Tobias Böhmelt & Kristian Gleditsch), The Monkey Cage, 2018

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• How the arms trade is used to secure access to oil, The Conversation, 2018

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• Cultural heterogeneity and economic development (with Leandro Elia), VoxEU.org, 2016

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• Culture and Interstate Dispute (with Gunes Gokmen), Free Policy Network Brief Series, 2016

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• Fueling Conflict: The Role of Oil in Foreign Interventions (with Petros Sekeris), International Peace Institute Global Observatory, 2015

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• Are crude conspiracies right? Research shows nations really do go to war over oil (with Petros Sekeris), The Conversation and The Washington Post, 2015

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• Electoral cycles in fiscal policy: Cameron’s pre-election pledges are aimed at solidifying support (with Georgios Efthyvoulou), British Politics and Policy - LSE Blog, 2015

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• Illegal small arms trade requires a global response (with Giacomo Persi Paoli), The Conversation, 2014

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• En Afghanistan, les talibans sont riches d'opium, L'EXPRESS, 2013

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• The Political Economy of Opium in Afghanistan, Institute for Democracy & Conflict Resolution – Briefing Paper (IDCR-BP-10/2011)