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ARTICLES and BOOKS

Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill (New York: Ecco-HarperCollins, August 2003).

“The Protean Enemy," Foreign Affairs, vol. 82, no. 4 (July/August 2003) pp. 27 et seq.

“Dreaded Risks and the Control of Biological Weapons," International Security, vol. 27, no. 3 (Winter 2002/03), pp. 89-123.

“A rational response to dirty bombs,” Financial Times, June 12, 2002.

“Allies split over executing terrorists,” Boston Globe, May 28, 2002.

“Confronting Biological Terrorism,” Harvard International Review, Spring 2001.

“Meeting with the Muj,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (January/February 2001).

“Pakistan’s Jihad Culture,” Foreign Affairs (November 2000).

“Terrorist Motivations and Unconventional Weapons,” for Peter Lavoy, Scott Sagan, and Jim Wirtz, ed., Planning the Unthinkable, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000).

“The Public Health Consequences of Terrorism” in C. Everett Koop, ed., Global Health in the 21st Century (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2000).

“The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord” and “Larry Wayne Harris” in Jonathan Tucker, ed., Toxic Terror (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000).

The Ultimate Terrorists (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999).

“Apocalypse Never, but the Threat is Real,” Survival (Winter 1998).

“The Prospect of Domestic Bioterrorism,” Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Journal of the Center for Disease Control, vol. 5, no. 4 (July-August 1999.).

“U.S. Assistance Programs for Improving MPC&A in the Former Soviet Union,” Nonproliferation Review (Winter, 1996). Also published as “Cooperative Activities to Improve Material Protection, Control, and Accountability in the Former Soviet Union,” in Bill Potter and John Shields, The Nunn-Lugar Program: Donor and Recipient Country Perspectives ( MIT Press, 1997.)

“Weapons of Mass Impact: A Growing and Worrisome Danger,” Politics and the Life Sciences, 1996.

"Cooperative Security and the CWC: A Comparison of the Chemical and Nuclear Weapons Regimes," Contemporary Security Policy, Fall 1994.

"Strategic Decision Making, Alliances, and the Chemical Weapons Convention," Security Studies, Summer 1994.

"Lethal Compounds: The New Chemical Weapons Ban," Brookings Review, Summer 1994.

"Russia's Crisis of Evolving Statehood: The Impact of the New Constitution and of the Parliamentary Elections," in Stephen J. Blank, ed., Does Russian Democracy Have a Future? (Carlisle Barracks, Penn.: U.S. Army War College, 1994). Also published in Carol Timko, ed., Russia After the Elections (Berkeley: Berkeley-Stanford Program on Post Soviet Studies, 1994).

"Moscow Meltdown: Can Russia Survive?" International Security, Spring 1994. Also published in Russian by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

"Stalking Two Varieties of Poisonous Snakes: A Comparison of the Chemical and Nuclear Anti-Proliferation Regimes," in J. B. Poole and R. Guthrie, eds., Verification Report 1994: Yearbook on Arms Control and Environmental Agreements (London: Pergamon Brassey, 1994).

"The Case of Thiodiglycol," review, Politics and the Life Sciences, August 1993.

"Will Terrorists Turn to Poison?" Orbis, Summer 1993.

"All's Well That Ends Well: Verification and the CWC," in J.B. Poole and R. Guthrie, eds., Verification Report 1993: Yearbook on Arms Control and Environmental Agreements (London: Pergamon Brassey, 1993.)

"Sanctions Against Violators of the CWC," in Benoit Morel and Kyle Olson, eds., The Chemical Weapons Convention: The Shadow and the Substance (Boulder: Westview, 1993).

"Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Third World," (with Marie I. Chevrier), Boston College Third World Law Journal Winter 1991.

Op-eds

"The Wrong Approach." Baltimore Sun, October 29, 2004.

"Forum: Caliphate of Terror." Harvard Magazine July/August 2004.

"Terrorists' Own Words Can Help Us Stop Them." USA Today, June 24, 2004.

"Beneath Bombast and Bombs, a Caldron of Humiliation," Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2004.
 

"How the War in Iraq Has Damaged the War on Terrorism." Salon, April 7, 2004.

"Errors in Fighting Al Qaeda Have Worsened the Danger," The Boston Globe, March 25, 2004.

"Explaining the Addiction to Jihad," The Daily Star (Lebanon), February 5, 2004.

"When Bombers Are Women," The Washington Post, December 18, 2003.

"Terrorism's new Mecca," The Globe and Mail (Toronto), November 28, 2003.

"How America Created A Terrorist Haven," The New York Times, August 20, 2003.

"A rational response to dirty bombs," The Financial Times, June 12, 2002.

"Get to the Roots of Terror: Trauma and Humiliation." International Herald Tribune, April 26, 2002.

"Understanding Terrorism: A Harvard Magazine Roundtable, " Harvard Magazine January-February 2002: 36-49.

How Terrorists Hijacked Islam," USA Today, September 30, 2001.

"Being Feared Is Not Enough To Keep Us Safe," Washington Post, September 15, 2001.

"Execute Terrorists at Our Own Risk," New York Times, February 28, 2001.

"A Lethal Weapon We Must Learn to Recognize," New York Times, October 16, 1999.

"Taking the Terror Out of Bioterrorism," New York Times, April 8, 1998.

"U.S. Backs Wrong Nuke-Deterrence Efforts," USA Today, September 17, 1997.

"Preventive Defense," Washington Post, June 23, 1997.

"Ratify the Chemical Weapons Treaty," Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1997.

"Terrorism Multiplied," Washington Post, July 17, 1996.

"Nuclear Smuggling: Facts, Fiction, and Security Concerns," Chicago Tribune, April 30, 1996.

"Preventing Portable Nukes," New York Times, April 10, 1996.

"At Last, A Treaty as Strong as the Poison Gas Threat," Los Angeles Times 2 September 1992.