Jillian Schwedler

Short Articles, Op-Eds, Blog Entries, and Symposia:
“Jordan detained a prince. The government’s determined to squash political dissent,” The Monkey Cage Blog of the Washington Post, April 5.
“Ethnography and Participant Observation” (with Erica Simmons and Nick Rush Smith), Perspectives on Politics 18, no 2. Part of the collection of the Qualitative and Data Analysis and Transparency (QDAT) project (peer-reviewed).
“Thinking Critically about Regional Uprisings,” Middle East Report, nos. 292/293 (Fall and Winter), pp. 24–29.
“Jordan’s Austerity Protests in Context,” MENA Source Blog of the Atlantic Council, June 8.
“Protecting Civilians: A Humanitarian Responsibility and Necessity for Ending Yemen’s War,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, November 28.
“US Strikes on Al-Qaeda in Yemen Not Separate from Ongoing Civil War,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, March 10.
“If Trump or Congress Decides the Muslim Brotherhood is a Terrorist Organization, Brace for the Blowback,” Lawfare Blog of the Brookings Institution, February 9.
“Will Increased US Attention on Yemen Help End the War?” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, September 9.
“Yemeni Parliamentarians Vote to Form a New Government,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, August 17.
“Yemen Peace Talks Stalled But Process to Restart Mid-July,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, June 29.
“New Pressure on Saudi Arabia is Changing the Logic of the Yemeni Peace Talks,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, June 7.
“Small Signs of Hope in the Yemeni Peace Process,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, May 25.
“Jordan Drops the Pretense of Democratic Reform,” Middle East Report Online, April 28.
“Keeping the Possibility of Peace in Yemen Alive,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, April 21.
“What the Yemen Cabinet Shakeup Means,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, April 5.
“Yemenis Express Resolve and Pride in Anti-Saudi Demonstrations,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, March 29.
“Is Saudi Arabia Backed into a Corner?” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, March 15.
“Is the Houthi-Saleh Alliance Cracking?” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, February 29.
“Three Things We Do Not Know About Yemen,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, February 4.
“Yemen’s Image Problem and the Ongoing Conflict,” MENASource Blog of the Atlantic Council, January 28.
“Is the U.S. drone program in Yemen working?” Lawfare Blog of the Brookings Institution, September 27.
“The Moral Economy of Distance in the Yemeni Crisis” (with Stacey Philbrick Yadav), Middle East Report Online, May 7.
“Why Academics Can’t Get Beyond Moderates and Radicals,” The Monkey Cage Blog of The Washington Post, February 12.
“Toward Transparency in the Ethics of Knowledge Production,” Symposium on Ethics in Research on the Middle East, Project on Middle East Political Science, June 24.
“Stay Off the Street,” Middle East Report Online, May 21.
“On Memes and Missing Girls,” Middle East Report Online, May 16.
“Beyond Islamist Groups: Suggestions for a New Research Agenda on Islamist Politics,” Symposium on Rethinking Islamist Politics, Project on Middle East Political Science, January 31. 
“Puzzle,” Symposium on Deconstructing Social Science Concepts, Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research newsletter 11, no. 2 (Fall): 27–30.
“Roundtable on the Future of Islamism,” Jadaliyya, November 14.
“Al-Qaeda’s Gift to Jordan’s King Abdullah,” Al-Jazeera English, October 29.
“What’s next for Yemen?” Al-Jazeera English, March 18.
“Dictator House: Season One,” Jadaliyya, March 8.
“What should political scientists be doing?” in Marc Lynch, ed., The Arab Uprisings: New Opportunities for Political Science, POMEPS Studies 1, Project on Middle East Political Science, George Washington University, pp. 5759.
“The Politics of Protest in Jordan,” Footnotes, an e-newsletter of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, March.
“Forget the first anniversary of the Arab Spring,” Al-Jazeera English, February 28.
“Le Kef is Still on Fire: A Mountaintop View of the Anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution” (with Laryssa Chomiak), Jadaliyya, January 19.
“Political Protests in Jordan: Law, Space, Spectacle,” in Revolutions in the Arab World: A Long View, an occasional paper collection published by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.
“The Radical Power of Just Showing Up,” Al-Jazeera English, October 25. 
“The End of Monarchical Exceptionalism,” Al-Jazeera English, June 22.
“Three Powerfully Wrong—and Wrongly Powerful—Narratives about the Arab Spring” (with Stacey Philbrick Yadav and Joshua Stacher), Jadaliyya, June 10.
“Global Insider: Protests and Reform in Jordan,” World Politics Review, May 16.
“Studying Political Islam,” Symposium on Political Islam moderated by Nathan Brown, International Journal of Middle East Studies 4, no. 1 (February): 135–137.
“Jordan’s Boycott and Tomato Woes” (with Josh Sowalsky), Middle East Channel, Foreign Policy, November 8.
“Jordan’s Islamists Lose Faith in Moderation,” Middle East Channel, Foreign Policy, July 1.
“Jordan’s Risky Business as Usual,” Middle East Report Online, June 30.
“Response to Joseph Braude, ‘Islam in the Crucible’,” Playboy Magazine, February.
“Islamist–Leftist Cooperation in the Arab World,” ISIM Review 18 (August): 10–11.
“Democracy: Rising Tide or Mirage?” Symposium with Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Marina Ottoway, and Shibley Telhami, Middle East Policy XII, no. 2 (Summer): 1–12.
“Middle East Reform: Right Idea, Wrong Plan” (with Maren Milligan), Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 20.
“Moderate Islamists and Regime Responses: Jordan and Yemen,” Middle East Policy 9, no. 4 (December): 92–93.
“Occupied Maan: Jordan’s Closed Military Zone,” Middle East Report Online, December 3.
“Don’t Blink: Jordan’s Democratic Opening and Closing,” Middle East Report Online, July 3.
“Transnational Islamist Debates about the Taliban,” ISIM Newsletter 7 (March): 14.
“On Democracy, Civil Society, and Institution-building in Yemen,” The Yemen Times, November 17, p. 6.