Publications
Balkan States
- “Operation Allied Force: Handmaiden of Independent Kosovo,” International Affairs, vol. 85(3): 461-476 (April 2009).
- Findings from Focus Group Research on Public Perceptions of the ICTY “Sudost Europa” 55 (January 2007), p. 107.
- "Slobodan Milosevic: Myth and Responsibility," Open Democracy (March 17, 2006).
- “Improving International Peacebuilding Efforts: The Example of Human Rights Culture" in Kosovo, Global Governance (Spring 2004).
- "The Learning Curve: Media Intervention in Kosovo" (with Mark Thompson) in Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space. Monroe E. Price and Mark Thompson, eds. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2002.
- “Legitimizing the Use of Force in Kosovo,” Ethics and International Affairs (Apr 1, 2001), p35.
- “Serbia: Reimagining Europe’s Outlaw Nation,” Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 54(2) (Spring 2001).
- “Understanding Kosovo,” Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 15, Number 1 (2001).
- "National Minorities Under the Dayton Accords: Lessons from History" from Neighbors at War: Anthropological Perspectives on Yugoslav Ethnicity, Culture, and History (Joel M. Halparn and David A. Kidackel, eds.) State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, p. 234.
- “Reconsidering the Legality of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from Kosovo,” 41 (5) William & Mary Law Review 1743 (2000).
- “Peacekeeping in Kosovo: Mission Impossible?” in Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions, William J. Buckley, ed. (New York: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2000).
- "Women in Kosovo: Contested Terrains," Gender Politics in the Western Balkans (Sabrina P. Ramet, ed.) Pennsylvania State University: 1999, p. 171.
- "The Dayton Peace Accords: Lessons from the Past and for the Future" from Minority Rights in the ‘New’ Europe, (Peter Cumper and Steven Wheatley, eds.) Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1999, p. 261.
- “Reassessing the Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention in the Wake of Kosovo,” 1(2) Human Rights Review 78 (1999).
- “The State and the Post-Cold War Refugee Regime,” 10(3) International Journal of Refugee Law 321 (1998).
- “Human Rights of Women in Central and Eastern Europe,” 6 American Journal of Gender and Law 369 (spring 1998).
- “Prospects for National Minorities Under the Dayton Accords.” Brooklyn Journal of International Law 23 (1997), p. 793.
- “Remember Kosovo” from Uncaptive Minds 8 (Fall-Winter 1995-1996), p. 65.
- “Nationalism and Nation-Building: Milosevic Turns to Montenegro and Kosovo,” 26 New York University Review of International Law & Policy 511 (1994).
Civil Society
- "When Civil Society Promotion Fails State-Building: The Inevitable Fault-Lines in Post-Conflict Reconstructions," from Subcontracting Peace: The Challenges of NGO Peacebuilding. (Oliver P. Richmond and Henry F. Carey, eds.) Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2005.
- “Raising Expectations? Civil Society's Influence on Human Rights and Foreign Policy,” Journal of Human Rights vol. 3, no. 1 (March 2004).
- “Considering Non-State Actors in the New Millennium: Toward Expanded Participation in Norm Generation and Norm Application,” 32 (2) New York University Review of International Law and Policy 537 (Special Millennium Issue) (2000) (article chosen based on survey of leading international law professors on the most important and original contributions by younger scholars).
- “Mapping Civil Society Transplants - A Preliminary Comparison of Eastern Europe and Latin America,” 53 University of Miami Law Journal 921 (1999).
- “Human Rights and the Promise of Transnational Civil Society,” in The Future of International Human Rights, Burns Weston and Stephen P. Marks, eds. (New York: Transaction, 1999).
- “The Liberal State vs. the National Soul: Mapping Civil Society Transplants” in Social & Legal Studies: An International Journal 8 (March 1999), p. 121.
- “From Legal Transplants to Transformative Justice: Human Rights and the Promise of Transnational Civil Society.” American University International Law Review 14.
- “Doing Democracy ‘Differently’: The Transformative Potential of Human Rights NGOs in Transnational Civil Society.” Third World Legal Studies (1998-1999), p. 205.
Human Rights and Wartime
- “Maintenance of own security as a critical decision,” in Surviving Field Research: Working in Violent and Difficult Situations, Chandra Lekha Sriram, John C. King, Julie A. Mertus, Olga Martin-Ortega, Johanna Herman, eds. (Routledge 2009).(Separate U.S. and U.K. printings).
- “Citizenship and Location in a World of Torture,” New York City Law Review, vol. 10(2) (2007). (co-author, with 2003 AU graduate Lisa Davis).
- "Human Rights and Civil Society in an Age of American Exceptionalism," in Richard Wilson, ed., Human Rights in the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press: London and New York, 2005).
- “The Human Rights Dimensions of the War in Iraq,” in Human Rights and Conflict. Julie Mertus and Jeffrey Helsing, eds. Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace 2003. (with Maia Carter, American University PhD student).
- “The Impact of Conflict on Women’s Rights,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Spring 2003.
- “Intervention and Human Rights Culture,” in Ethics and Humanitarian Intervention, Anthony Lang, ed. (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003).
- “The Legality of Information Intervention,” in Forging Peace: Intervention, Human Rights and the Management of Media Space, Monroe E. Price and Mark Thompson, eds (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2002).
- “Racism in Civil Conflict: Domestic and Global Dimensions,” in Transnational Legal Processes: Globalization and Power Disparities (Michael Likosky, ed.). New York and London: Butterworths, 2002.
- “The Impact of Intervention on Local Human Rights Culture,” The Global Journal of Ethnopolitics, vol. 1, no. 2 (December 2001), 21-36.
- “Beyond Borders,” Human Rights Review 1 (Jan- Mar 2000).
- “The State and the Post-Cold War Refugee Regime: New Models, New Questions.” Michigan Journal of International Law 20 (Fall 1998), p. 59.
Gender Rights/Feminism
- “The War on Terror Through a Feminist Lens,” in Human Rights in the 21st Century: Continuity and Change since 9/11, Michael Goodhart and Anja Mihr, eds. (Palgrave, 2011).
- “Road Blocks, Blind Spots, Speed Bumps: A Feminist Look at the Post 9/11 Landscape for NGOs,” in Feminist Perspectives on Contemporary International Law: Between Resistance and Compliance, Sari Kouvo and Zoe Pearson, eds. (Hart, 2011).
- “When Adding Women Matters: Women’s Participation in the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,” Seton Hall Law Review (2009).
- “Teaching Gender in International Relations,” International Studies Perspectives 8 (Aug 2007), p. 323.
- "Combating Trafficking: International Efforts and Their Ramifications." Human Trafficking, Human Security and the Balkans (H. Richard Friman and Simon Reich, eds.) University of Pennsylvania Publishers, 2007, p. 40.
- "Liberal Feminism: Local Narratives in a Gender Context." Making Sense of International Relations Theory. Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005, p. 252.
- “Liberal Feminist Approaches: Method and Normative Critique,” in Making Sense of International Relations Theory, Jennifer Sterling-Folker, ed. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2005).
- “When Adding Women Matters, The Making of Lieutenant Mikullovici,” European Anthropology Yearbook, 2005 (with Laurie Rosenberger).
- "Shouting from the Bottom of a Well,” International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2004.
- "Improving the Status of Women in the Wake of War: Overcoming Structural Obstacles.” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 41 (2003), p. 542.
- “The New Sovereignty and Refugee Women,” in Refugees and Forced Displacement: International Security, Human Vulnerability and the State, Edward Newman, ed. (Tokyo and New York: United Nations University Press, 2003).
- “Considering the Protection Concerns of Refugee and Displaced Women: The Use of a Gender Lens in a Security Framework,” Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 21 (2002) (special issue).
- “Grounds for Cautious Optimism,” International Feminist Journal of Politics. Vol. 2(1), April 2001.
- “Feminist Curiosity Unravels Militarism,” Berkley Women’s Law Journal 15 (2000).
- "Women in Kosovo: Contested Terrains," Gender Politics in the Western Balkans. Sabrina P. Ramet, ed. Pennsylvania State University: 1999, p. 171.
- “Women’s Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe,” in Women and International Human Rights, Kelly Askin and Dorean Koenig, eds. New York: Transaction Press, 1999.
- “Human Rights of Women in Central and Eastern Europe,” 6 American Journal of Gender and Law 369 (spring 1998).
- “Gender in the Service of National Identity: Gender Implications of Citizenship in Kosovar Society,” 3 (2/3) Social Politics, (summer/fall 1996).
- “ 'Woman’ in the Service of National Identity," Hastings Women’s Law Journal 5 (Winter 1994), p5.
- “A Perspective on Women and International Human Rights after the Vienna Declaration: The Inside/Outside Construct,” 26 New York University Review of International Law & Policy 201 (1994) (with Pamela Goldberg).
- “State Discriminatory Family Law and Customary Abuses,” in Women and Human Rights: An Agenda for Change. Julie Peters and Andrea Wolper, eds. New York: Routledge, 1994.
- “Beyond the Solitary Self: Voice, Community and Reproductive Freedom,” Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 3 (1992), p. 247.
Human Rights and the US
- “LGBT Rights as Human Rights in the U.S.,” in Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism, Shareen Hertel and Kathryn Libal, eds. (Cambridge, 2011).
- “Politics,” in International Human Rights Law, Daniel Moeckli, Sangeeta Shah, and Sandesh Sivakumaran and David Harris, eds. (Oxford 2010) (leading comprehensive book on subject by top academic press).
- “Applying the Gatekeeper Model of Human Rights Activism: The U.S.-Based Movement for LGBT Rights” in The International Struggle for New Human Rights (Clifford Bob, ed.)( University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009).
- “Crossing the Line: Insights from Foucault on the U.S. and Torture,” in Discipline and Punishment: Illusions of Control, Janie Leatherman, ed. (Palgrave 2008).
- “Human Rights and Human Insecurity: The Contributions of US Counterterrorism,” Journal of Human Rights, vol. 7, no. 1(January-March 2008) (co-author, with AU PhD student Tazreena Sajjad).
- “The Rejection of Human Rights Framings: The Case of LGBT Advocacy in the US,” published in Human Rights Quarterly (November 2007).
- "Human Rights Post-September 11," in Exploring International Human Rights: Essential Readings. Rhonda L. Callaway & Julie Harrelson-Stephens, eds. Lynne Reinner Publishing: 2007, p. 287.
- “The Human Rights Dimensions of the War in Iraq,” Peace and Change (with Maia Carter) vol. 30, no. 1 (2005).
- “The New US Human Rights Policy: A Radical Departure” International Studies Perspective 4: 371-384. 2003.
International Justice/War Crime Trials
- "Key Ethical Inquiries for Future Research," Born of War: Protecting Children of Sexual Violence Survivors in Conflict Zones. R. Charli Carpenter, ed. Kumarian, 2007.
- "Improving International Peacebuilding Efforts: The Example of Human Rights Culture" in Kosovo, Global Governance (Spring 2004).
- “Introductory Exercises for a Course in Human Rights and Justice,” in Active Learning Sourcebook on Ethics and Global Politics, April Morgan, ed. (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 2004) (with Nancy Flowers).
- “Teaching Truth Commissions,” in Active Learning Sourcebook on Ethics and Global Politics, April Morgan, ed. (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 2004) (with Nancy Flowers).
- “The Politics of Memory and International Trials For Wartime,” in Political Transitions: Politics and Cultures, Paul Gready, ed. New York and London, Pluto Press, 2003.
- “The Kitchen Table,” in Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance (Gender, Culture, and Global Politics), Marguerite R. Waller and Jennifer Rycenga, eds. New York: Garland, 2000, republished in paperback by Routledge, 2001.
- “Truth in a Box: the Limits of Justice Through Judicial Mechanisms,” in The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing and Social Justice, Abdullahi An-Na’im and Ifi Amadiume, eds. New York: Zed Books, 2000.
- “Faith and (In)tolerance of Minority Religions: a Comparative Analysis of Romania, Ukraine, and Poland,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 36 (Winter-Spring 1999).
- “Human Rights: Group Defamation, Freedom of Expression and the Law of Nations,” Houston Journal of International Law 21 (Spring 1999), p. 581.
- “Only a War Crimes Tribunal: Triumph of the International Community, Pain of Survivors,” in War Crime: The Legacy of Nuremberg, Belinda Cooper, ed. (New York: TV Books, 1999).
- “The State and the Post-Cold War Refugee Regime: New Models, New Questions,” The International Journal of Refugee Law 10 (Oct.1998), p. 321.
- “The War Crimes Tribunal: Triumph of the International Community, Pain of the Survivors,” 8(1) Mind and Human Interaction 47 (Winter/Spring 1997).
- “Proceedings from the 92nd Annual Meeting: The Challenge of Non-State Actors.”
Book Reviews
- "Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions," (book review) in Human Rights Quarterly Vol. 31, Issue 3 (2010).
- "International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for Cooperation," (book review) The Journal of Politics, 2010.
- "Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context: Colombia, Sierra Leone, Northern Ireland," (book review) Peace and Change, 2010.
- "Buying and Selling the Istrian Goat: Regionalism, Nationalism and EU Enlargement," (book review) Slavic Studies, 2010.
- "Kosovo Liberation Army: The Inside Story of an Insurgency," (book review) Journal of Military History, 2009.
- "Peace at any Price: How the World Failed Kosovo," Peace and Change. (2008)
- "The Myth of Greater Albania," Slavic Studies (2004).
- "Saving Strangers," American Journal of International Law (January 2003).
- "Louis Sell, Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia," Political Science Quarterly 118(2): 336 (Summer 2003).
- “Recent Books on International Law: Peace Agreements and Human Rights.” The American Journal of International Law 96 (January 2002), p. 282.
- “Ger Duijzings, ‘Religion, Politics and Identity in Kosovo,’” 60(3) Slavic Review (Fall 2001).
- "Degraded Capacity: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis,” Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Vol. 3, n. 2 (2001).
- “Feminist Curiosity Unravels Militarism: Why Method Matters,” 15 Berkeley Women’s Law Journal 338 (2000).
- “War Crimes Against Women,” 93 American Journal of International Law 740 (1999).
- “Human Rights: Group Defamation, Freedom of Expression and the Law of Nations: What International and Domestic Laws Can Teach the United States,” (book review) 21 Houston Journal of International Law 581 (1999).
Encyclopedia Articles
- “Human Rights,” in The Encyclopedia on Self-Determination (2010).
- “Humanitarian Law” and “Human Rights Watch” in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace: Global Conflict, Analysis, Transformation and Nonviolent Change (Nigel Young, ed.)(New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

