2026
Commentary
Selected analysis on conflict, political authority, peace and international affairs.
2025
Between Aftershocks & Airstrikes in Myanmar
Beyond Compliance
2025
Do Good Fences Actually Make Good Neighbors?
Foreign Policy
2023
New Research Centre on Armed Groups
Armed Groups and International Law
2022
Sahel insurgency: What policymakers need to do differently
The New Humanitarian
2022
The Tyranny of Color-Coded Maps: What We Get Wrong about Measuring Control during Armed Conflict
Irregular Warfare Initiative, Modern War Institute
2022
How to build (or lose) legitimacy during war
LSE International Development
2022
Why do armed groups tax? It’s not just about the money
International Centre for Tax and Development
2022
Smuggling: Image and Reality
Welternährung / Welthungerhilfe · also in German ↗
2021
Humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan in the light of a Taliban-controlled state
Centre for Humanitarian Action
2021
Afghanistan: a legitimacy failure
LSE International Development
2021
Lessons after 20 years of (failed) peacebuilding
Lessons for Peace (ODI)
2021
Afghanistan: Winning the War or Building a State?
Lessons for Peace (ODI)
2021
Kabul at War: The Widening Gap between the State and its Citizens
LSE Conflict Research Programme
2021
2021
Richter in eigener Sache: So regieren die Taliban
Zenith Magazin · in German
2021
Schmuggel im 21. Jahrhundert
Internationale Politik · in German
2019
Book Review: Crossed Swords — Pakistan, its Army and the Wars Within
South Asia @ LSE
2017
Building Legitimacy during Armed Conflict — Learning from the Taliban
Political Violence at a Glance