Outside Publications

Southeast Asia’s military modernization over the last half decade has been impressive. Defense expenditures across the region have risen, on average, by nine percent each year since 2009, but the region’s countries have not been uniform in their approaches....

Abstract Based on extensive archival research with newly available Iraqi state and Ba‘th Party documents, this article attempts to shed light on the Saddam Husayn regime’s relationship with Islamists and Islamism, arguing that it instrumentalized Islam in its foreign...

Home-Grown Terrorism – Russia’s Ticking Bomb. Published in: ISN Zurich. July 8, 2014.  By: Maia Otarashvili and Aleksandr Fisher ...

Sarah Bush, “Are We Repeating Democracy Promotion Mistakes in Tunisia?” The Middle East Channel of Foreign Policy (2012). Link: https://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/07/09/are_we_repeating_democracy_promotion_mistakes  ...

Sarah Bush, “Confront or Conform? Rethinking U.S. Democracy Assistance,” Policy Brief, Project on Middle East Democracy (2013). Link: https://pomed.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/POMED-Policy-Brief-Bush.pdf...

Sarah Bush, “International Politics and the Spread of Quotas for Women in Legislatures,” International Organization (2011). Link: https://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8036782...

Ukraine: Foreign Students Beware By Melinda Haring, Transitions Online, July 29, 2008...

Moldova: The Example of Gagauz-Yeri As An ‘Unfrozen Conflict’ Region By Melinda Haring and Emmet Tuohy, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, April 5, 2007...

The Right to Change One’s Religion: Apostasy as the Litmus Test for Religious Freedom in Iraq and Afghanistan’s Constitutions, Boston College’s Politics of Human Rights Conference, 2010  ...

Who Cares How Many Women Are in Parliament? By Melinda Haring and Joshua Foust, Foreign Policy, June 25, 2012  ...