He is the author of "From Resilience to Revolution: How Foreign Interventions Destabilize the Middle East" (Columbia University Press, 2016) and most recently "Jordan: Politics in An Accidental Crucible" (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025). He has contributed to many academic journals, including Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Studies in Comparative International Development and the Journal of Democracy, and written for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and The Washington Post's Monkey Cage, among other outlets.