Coups d'etat
"Forum: A Coup at the Capitol? Conceptualizing Coups and Other Anti-Democratic Actions," International Studies Review 24, no. 1 (2022), doi.10.1093/isr/viab062 . Co-authored with Jonathan Powell, Salah Ben Hammou, Amy Erica Smith, Lucas Borba, Drew Holland Kinney, and Mwita Chacha.
“Counterbalancing and Coups d’état.” In William R. Thompson and Hicham Bou Nassif, eds., Oxford Research Encyclopedia of the Military in Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
"Will There Be Blood? The Determinants of Violence During Coups d’état." Journal of Peace Research 56, no. 6 (2019): 797-811.
"Preventing Coups d’état: How Counterbalancing Works." Journal of Conflict Resolution 6, no. 2 (2018): 1433-1458
How This Wave of African Coups Differs From Previous Ones." Washington Post, The Monkey Cage, February 25, 2022. Co-authored with Maggie Dwyer.
Policing & security forces
“Militarized Policing in the Middle East and North Africa,” The Journal of the Middle East and Africa 13, no. 1 (2022), doi.10.1080/21520844.2021.1996816. Co-authored with Zachary Karabatak.
“Policing Insurgency: Are More Militarized Police More Effective?,” Small Wars & Insurgencies, Special Issue on Global Counterinsurgency and the Police-Military Continuum, OnlineFirst (2021), doi.10.1080/09592318.2021.1980186.
“Militarized Policing in the Trump Era and Beyond,” H-Diplo | ISSF, Policy Series 2021: America and the World—The Effects of the Trump Presidency, Essay No. 61 , 2022.
“Police Militarization and its Political Consequences.” CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association, Volume XXXI, Issue 1 (Spring): 103-111, 2021.
"Mapping Coercive Institutions: A New Data Set of State Security Forces, 1960-2010." Journal of Peace Research 58, no. 2 (2020): 315-325.
Contact
Erica De Bruin
Associate Professor
Government Department
Hamilton College
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323