Op-Eds and Blog Posts:
Kenneth Adu Amanfoh and Nate Allen. “Lessons From Ghana’s Multistakeholder Approach to Cyber Security.” Africa Center for Strategic Studies, January 4, 2023. link.
Nate Allen and Abdul Hakeem Ajijola. “African Lessons in Cyber Strategy.” Africa Center for Strategic Studies, March 8, 2022. link.
Nate Allen and Marian “Ify” Okpali. “Artificial Intelligence Creeps onto the African Battlefield.” Brookings Institution, February 2, 2022. link.
Nate Allen and Catherine Lena Kelly. “Deluge of Digital Repression Threatens African Security.” Africa Center for Strategic Studies. January 4, 2022. link.
Nate Allen and Matthew La Lime. “How Digital Tools Exacerbate Authoritarianism across Africa.” Brookings Institution, November 19, 2021. With Matthew La Lime. link.
Nate Allen and Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling. “How African Countries Should Address State-Sponsored Cyber Threats.” Brookings Institution, July 15, 2021. link.
Nate Allen. “The Promises and Perils of Africa’s Digital Revolution.” Brookings Institution, March 11, 2021. link.
Nate Allen. “Africa’s Evolving Cyber Threats.” Africa Center for Strategic Studies, January 19, 2021. link.
Nate Allen. “How Boko Haram Has Regained the Initiative and What Nigeria Should Do to Stop It.” War on the Rocks, December 24, 2019. link.
Nate Allen and Alex Noyes. “African Dictators Have Been Losing Power. Militaries Can Help Tip the Scales Toward Democracy.” The Washington Post, September 18, 2019. link.
Nate Allen and Sharan Grewal. “Can Sudan’s Military Be Convinced to Support Democracy?” War on the Rocks, June 25, 2019. link.
Nate Allen, Michael Marcusa and Larry Rubin. “How States Foster Violent Extremism and What to Do About It.” Lawfare, June 16, 2019. link.
Nate Allen and Rachel Kleinfeld. “Why Security Sector Governance Matters in Fragile States.” United States Institute of Peace, June 11, 2019. link.
Nate Allen, Philip McDaniel and Tommy Ross. “Beyond By, With and Through: Reforming America’s Security Partnerships,” The Hill, March 29, 2019. link.
Nate Allen and Landry Signé. “Trump’s Africa Policy Takes Form,” The Hill, March 19, 2018. link.
Nate Allen. “U.S. Military Assistance to Africa is Growing. But is it Succeeding?” World Politics Review, September 23, 2016. link.
Nate Allen. “Charting Boko Haram’s Rapid Decline.” War on the Rocks, September 22, 2016. link.
Nate Allen. “No Time for a Peacekeeper Exit in Liberia.” The Global Observatory, May 24, 2016. link.
Nate Allen. “Western Partners Can’t Provide Military Assistance to Fight Boko Haram. Here’s What They Can Do.” African Arguments, September 25, 2015. link.
Nate Allen and “Down, Not Out: How to Fight Back Against Boko Haram’s Newest Strategy.” Foreign Affairs. June 18, 2015. With Peter M. Lewis and Hilary Matfess. link.
Nate Allen. “The Islamic State, Boko Haram, and the Evolution of International Jihad.” The Washington Post, March 27, 2015. link.
Nate Allen, Peter M. Lewis and Hilary Matfess. “The Boko Haram Insurgency, by the Numbers.” The Washington Post, October 6, 2014. link.
Policy and Think Thank Reports:
The Downsides of Digital Revolution: Confronting Africa’s Evolving Cyber Threats. Global Initiative Against Transitional Organized Crime. December 2022. link.
“Cyberspace and Security Sector Governance in Africa.” Africa Center for Strategic Studies, September 2022. link.
“Cyberspace Security Priorities for Africa’s National Security Actors.” Africa Center for Strategic Studies, January 2022. link.
Preventing Extremism in Fragile States: A New Approach. Final Report of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States. link.
Beyond the Homeland: Protecting American From Extremism in Fragile States. Interim Report of the Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States, 2018. link.
Bridging Divides: Track II Diplomacy in the Middle East. With Princeton Policy Research Workshop led by former Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer). Woodrow Wilson School Policy Report, 2014. link.
Another Crossroads? Professional Military Education Two Decades After the Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Skelton Panel. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, U.S. House of Representatives, 2010. Research Assistance. link.