E. Perkoski / Political Science / UConn evan.perkoski@uconn.edu  ·  Storrs, CT
Research

Publications.

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Book
2022
Divided Not Conquered: How Rebels Fracture and Splinters Behave
Oxford University Press · Finalist, Conflict Research Society Book of the Year, 2023 · Reviewed in Armed Forces & Society, Perspectives on Politics, and Choice.
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Peer-reviewed articles
2025
The Bureaucratic Politics of Cyber Strategy
with Nadiya Kostyuk & Michael Poznansky · Journal of Global Security Studies 10(3)
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2025
Veterans, Novices, and Patterns of Rebel Recruitment
with Alec Worsnop · Security Studies 34(1): 59–93
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2022
Honor Among Thieves: Understanding Rhetorical and Material Cooperation Among Violent Nonstate Actors
with Blair, Chenoweth, Horowitz & Potter · International Organization 76(1): 164–203
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2019
Internal Politics and the Fragmentation of Armed Groups
International Studies Quarterly 63(4): 876–889
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2018
Rethinking Secrecy in Cyberspace: The Politics of Voluntary Attribution
with Michael Poznansky · Journal of Global Security Studies 3(4): 402–416
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2018
Tactical Diversity in Militant Violence
with Michael C. Horowitz & Philip B. K. Potter · International Organization 72(1): 139–171
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2017
State Repression and Nonviolent Resistance
with Erica Chenoweth & Sooyeon Kang · Journal of Conflict Resolution 61(9): 1950–1969
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Book chapters
2027
Political Violence
with Meredith Loken · in Comparative Politics is for Everybody: An Introduction to Comparative Politics, ed. Amy L. Atchison (University of Toronto Press), forthcoming
2019
Terrorist Technological Innovation
in Oxford Handbook of Terrorism, eds. Chenoweth, English, Gofas & Kalyvas (OUP), pp. 401–414
2018
Offensive and Defensive Cyber Operations
with Michael Poznansky · in Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower (Georgetown UP)
2015
Regression Discontinuity Design
with Marc Meredith · in Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Wiley)
Revise and resubmit
Double Agents: Branch Leaders and the Onset of Conflict between al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
with Barak Mendelsohn · Security Studies
Under review
Amplifying Exclusion: Civil Society, Discrimination, and Mass Killings
with Erica Chenoweth
Works in progress
Between War and Peace: The Strategic Logic of Violence during Negotiations
with Allard Duursma
Organizational Lineage and the Diffusion of Information between Armed Groups
Introducing the Armed Group Composition (ARC) Data
with Meredith Loken & Alec Worsnop