Dissertation
‘From Contraband to Conflict: Links between Smuggling and Violence in the Borderlands of Meso-America and North Africa.’ Doctoral Dissertation, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (April 2019).
Reports & Chapters
‘The “Non-Maghreb” and Transnational Clandestine Flows from the Sahel Region,’ in The Cost of the Non-Maghreb, Italian Institute for International Political Studies, November 2023. Available here.
‘Largely fleeting and hardly convergent: Libyas crime-terror nexus,’ authored with Mark Micallef. In The Nexus Between Organized Crime and Terrorism: Types and Responses, edited by Letizia Paoli, Cyrille Fijnaut and Jan Wouters (Elgar, Cheltanham: 2022). Available here.
‘A rising tide: Trends in production, trafficking and consumption of drugs in North Africa,’ The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (June 2020). Available here.
‘States and Smugglers: The Ties that Bind and How they Fray,’ in Transnational Organized Crime and Political Actors in the Maghreb and Sahel, Mediterranean Dialogue Series no. 17, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (January 2019). Available here.
‘Partisans, Profiteers, and Criminals: Syria's Illicit Economy,’ The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 38:1 (Winter 2014). Available here.
Book Reviews
‘Middle East Drugs Bazaar: Production, Prevention, and Consumption By Philip Robins,’ Bustan: The Middle East Book Review (Vol. 8, No. 2, 2017). Available here.
‘A Review of ‘Africa and the War on Drugs,’ African Arguments (April 2013).
Commentary
‘10 Years After the Arab Spring: Illicit Economies Evolve, Expand and Entrench,’ in Beyond the Arab Risings: What Kind of Future, NATO Foundation Defense College (October 2021).
‘Strange Days for Hashish Trafficking in Niger,’ The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (May 2021).
‘The Butcher’s Bill: Cocaine Trafficking in North Africa,’ The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (September 2018).
‘Behind Bars and Controlling the Barrio,’ The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (January 2014).
‘Somalia’s Innovating Pirates,’ Reinventing Peace, World Peace Foundation. Co-authored with David Knoll (November 2013).
‘The Somali Piracy Model: Coming to a Sea Near You,’ World Politics Review. Co-authored with Jamie De Coster (February 2012).
‘How M-Banking Can Reduce Laundering,’ Africa Business Daily (May 2009).
Videos & Podcasts
‘Video Presentation: Drug Trafficking and Use in Libya and North Africa,’ The U.S. Institute of Peace and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (August 2020).
‘Video: Women in Latin American Drug Trafficking Organizations,’ The Carr Center on Human Rights, Harvard University (December 2013).