Journal Articles
Nathaniel Allen and Risa Brooks. “Unpacking Stacking: Research Political Identity in Armed Forces.” Armed Forces and Society. February 2022. link
Nathaniel Allen and Luka Kuol. “Civil-Military Relations and Sudan’s Treacherous Path to Democracy,” Texas National Security Review Policy Roundtable (May 2021). link.
Nathaniel Allen. “Interrogating Ethnic Stacking: The Uses and Abuses of Security Force Ethnicity in Sudan.” Civil Wars 22:20 (2020). link. pre-publication pdf.
Nathaniel Allen. “Authoritarian Armies and Democratizing States: How the Military Influences African Transitional Politics.” Democratization 26:2 (2019). link. pre-publication pdf. Data file available upon request.
Winner of Democratization’s Frank Cass Award for best article by a young scholar
Nathaniel Allen. “A Transformative New Approach or a Repeat of Failures Past? Assessing a Decade of U.S. Military Strategy in Africa.” Orbis 62:4 (2018). link. pre-publication pdf.
Nathaniel Allen. “Unusual Lessons from an Unusual War: Boko Haram and Modern Insurgency.” The Washington Quarterly 40:4 (2018). pdf. pre-publication pdf.
Nathaniel Allen and Travis Sharp. “Process Peace: A New Evaluation Framework for International Diplomacy,” International Negotiation 22:1 (2017). link. pre-publication pdf.
Nathaniel Allen. “Misreading Mali’s Collapse: Foreign Aid, Governance and Political Instability in Emerging Democracies.” Journal of Public and International Affairs 24 (2013). pdf.
Research in Progress
“Critical Information Infrastructure Protection in Emerging Economies.” Academic working paper. With Ify Okpali and Sherif Hashem.
“New Media, Old Methods: Cyberspace and Strategic Competition in African International Relations.” With Matthew La Lime.
“Information Technology and Islamist Militancy in Africa.” Academic working paper.