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Peer-Reviewed Articles
2025.   Gender in International Bureaucracies: Evidence from UN Field Missions (with J. Fawcett-Weiner, K. Coleman and K. Oksamytna), International Studies Quarterly ​(forthcoming)

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2025.   Bad Signals? Foreign Aid and Tax Morale across Sub-Saharan Africa (with A. Belmonte and V. Bove and L. Elia), World Development (forthcoming)
2025.   Introducing the UNCIPPO (UN Civilian Posts in Peacekeeping Operations) Dataset (with K. Colemand and K. Oksamytna), International Studies Quarterly.
2024.   Economic Sanctions and Trade Flows in the Neighborhood (with V. Bove and R. Nisticó), Journal of Law and Economics.
2023. Mothers at Peace: International peacebuilding and post-conflict fertility (with V. Bove, L. Elia and R. Nisticò) Journal of Development Economics.​
2023. Do UN Peace Operations Help Forcibly Displaced People? (with S. Costalli and A. Ruggeri) Journal of Peace Research.
2023. Keeping or Building Peace? (with S. P. Campbell) American Journal of Political Science.
2023. UN Peacekeeping and Democratization in Conflict-Affected Countries (with Rob Blair and Hannah Smidt), American Political Science Review.
2022. Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions (with Sara Polo and Andrea Ruggeri), European Journal of International Relations.

2022. Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset (with Magnus Lundgren, Kseniya Oksamytna and Hannah M. Smidt), Journal of Conflict Resolution.

​2021. When do UN Peacekeeping Operations implement their mandates? (with Robert Blair and Hannah M. Smidt), American Journal of Political Science.

​2021. UN peacekeeping and households’ well-being in civil wars (with Vincenzo Bove and Leandro Elia), American Journal of Political Science.​

​2021. Introducing the PeaceKeeping Operations Corpus (PKOC) (with Elio Amicarelli), Journal of Peace Research. 

​2020. Tangled Up in Blue: The Effect of UN Peacekeeping on Nonviolent Protests in Post-Civil War Countries (with Margherita Belgioioso and Jonathan Pinckney), International Studies Quarterly.

2020. The Withdrawal of UN Peace Operations and State Capacity: Descriptive Trends and Research Challenges (with Andrea Ruggeri), International Peacekeeping. 

2019. Peacekeepers against Criminal Violence - Unintended effects of peacekeeping operations?. American Journal of Political Science, 63(4): 840-858.

2019. Fraud Is What People Make of It: Election Fraud, Perceived Fraud and Protesting in Nigeria (with Ursula Daxecker and Andrea Ruggeri), Journal of Conflict Resolution, 63(9): 2098-2127.

2018. Does Criminal Violence Spread? Contagion and Counter-contagion Mechanisms of Piracy. Political Geography, 66:14-33.

2018. Obstacle to peace? Ethnic Geography and Effectiveness of Peacekeeping, British Journal of Political Science, 50(3):1089-1109

2016. Inherently vulnerable? Ethnic geography and the intensity of violence in Bosnian civil war, Political Geography, 51:1-14.
Book Chapters

2022. Peacekeeping and Post-War Violence, in “Handbook on Peacekeeping and International Relations”, ed. Han  Dorussen, Edward Elgar Publishing.

2017. The Effectiveness of Peacekeeping Operations (with Andrea Ruggeri in “The Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical International Relations Theories”, ed. William R. Thompson, Oxford University Press).