PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Books
2024. Ori Swed, Aria Stiefelmaier, Sasha Hanchukova. "Motivated to Fight: Diverse Motivations of Foreign Fighters in the Russia–Ukraine War" Armed Forces & Society
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2024. Ori Swed, and Alessandro Arduino. "Do mercenaries perform better than states? Evaluating the Wagner group’s impact on Central African Republic" Small Wars & Insurgencies
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2024. Ori Swed, Jester Daniel, and Mary Adami. "Dividing the Nation: The Weaponization of “Terrorism” in Russian Influence Operations in the USA" Society
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2024. Ori Swed, Ridwan Muhammad. "The Ideology That Binds Us: Homophily in Ideology and Terrorists Collaborations" Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
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2024. Ori Swed, Sachith Dassanayaka, Dimitri Volchenkov. "Keeping it Authentic: the Social Footprint of the Trolls’ Network" Social Network Analysis and Mining
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2023. Kerry Chavez, Ori Swed. "Emulating underdogs: Tactical drones in the Russia-Ukraine war" Contemporary Security Policy
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2023. Swed, Ori. The Afghanistan War’s legacy: The reimagining of the outsourcing of war and security. Armed Forces & Society.
2023. Kerry Chavez, Ori Swed. "The Empirical Determinants of Violent Nonstate Actor Drone Adoption" Armed Forces & Society
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2023. Payne Corey, Ori Swed. "Disentangling the US military's climate change paradox: An institutional approach" Sociology Compass
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2023. Swed Ori, Sachit Dassanayaka, Dimitri Volchenkov "Mapping the Russian Internet Troll Network on Twitter using a Predictive Model" Journal of Vibration Testing and System Dynamics
2023. Swed, Ori. “Where the bombs fell: Measuring compliance with humanitarian treaties” Social Science Research.
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2022. Jaster, Daniel, Ori, Swed, and Bruno Frere. “The critical masses: the rise of contemporary populism and its relation to solidarity, systems, and lifeworlds” Society.
2022. Swed Ori. “The Afghanistan War’s Legacy: The Reimagining of the Outsourcing of War and Security” Armed Forces and Society.
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2021. Swed, Ori. "Implausible sovereigns and their organizational logic: violent non-state actors’ response to COVID-19" Small Wars & Insurgencies, https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2021.1956091
2021. Swed Ori and Adam Materne. "No Accounting for Bad Contracting: Private Military and Security Contracts and Ineffective Regulation in Conflict Areas" Studies in Comparative International Development, 1-27
2021. Swed Ori, and Daniel Burland. “Cyber Mercenaries: Review of the Cyber and Intelligence PMSC Market” Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, the United Nations. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Mercenaries/WGMercenaries/Pages/Report-Cyber-Mercenaries-2021.aspx
2021. Swed, Ori. "Learning the Lessons of Modern War" Contemporary Sociology, 50, 5: 430.
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2021. Chavez Kerry, and Ori Swed. "The proliferation of drones to violent nonstate actors". Defence Studies.
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2020. Chavez Kerry, and Ori Swed. "Off the Shelf: The violent nonstate actor drone threat". Air & Space Power Journal. 34, 1.
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2020. Swed Ori, and Daniel Burland. “The Global Expansion of PMSCs: Trends, Opportunities, and Risks” Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination.
2020. Swed, Ori. "Breaking the Order: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Countersurveillance on the West Bank." Surveillance & Society 18, no. 1 (2020): 48-60.
2020. Swed, Ori; Burland, Daniel. "Outsourcing War and Security". Oxford Encyclopedia of the Military in Politics. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.ORE_POL-01925.R1
2020. Swed, Ori. The path to outsourcing security in Southeast Asia. NYU SPS CGA Working Paper No. 2/2020.
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2020. Swed, Ori, and Daniel Burland. 2020. “Contractors in Iraq: Exploited Class or an Exclusive Club?” Armed Forces & Society.
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2019. Swed Ori.“Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring” Contemporary Sociology. Vol 48, Issue 5
2018. Swed Ori, Jae Kwon, Bryan Feldscher, and Thomas Crosbie. “The Corporate War Dead: New Perspectives on the Demographics of American and British Contractors” Armed Forces & Society.
2018. Swed Ori, Connor McDevitt Sheehan, and John S. Butler. “The Digital Divide and Veterans’ Health: Differences in Self-Reported Health by Internet Usage.” Armed Forces & Society.
2018. Swed Ori. “Promoting Human Rights Under Fire: INGOs’ mitigating effect on human rights violations during armed conflict .” Social Science Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.07.007
2017. Swed Ori and Thomas Crosbie. “Private Security and Military Contractors: A Troubling Oversight.” Sociology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12512 (doi:10.1111/soc4.12512)
2018. Edited Volume. Swed Ori and Thomas Crosbie. The Sociology of Privatized Security . Palgrave-Macmillan
Book Chapters
2024. Kerry Chavez, and Ori Swed "Violent Nonstate Exploitation of Commercial Drones" De Gruyter Handbook of Drone Warfare. De Gruyer.
2023. Swed Ori, Maria Cparini, Sorcha Macleod. "Private military and security companies in armed conflict" SIPRI Yearbook.
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2021. Ori Swed, and Andrew Paul Davis. “The profile of the American domestic terrorist” Terrorism inside American Borders. Rowman and Littlefield.
2021. Swed Ori, and Kerry Chavez. "Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Threat of Democratized Artificial Intelligence" Towards an International Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence. Springer.
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2020. Swed Ori. When Ideology Replace the Market: Gentrification in East Jerusalem. Gentrification around the World: Gentrifiers and the Displaced. Palgrave-Macmillan.
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2020. Book Chapter. Swed Ori. “War and Terrorism”. Investigating Social Problems. Sage.
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2020. Swed Ori, and Samuel Fletcher S. “Resisting or Appropriating: Two approaches in the study of aid, violent nonstate actors, and governance”. Hybrid Governance in the Middle East and Africa. Routladge.
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2020. Andrew Paul Davis, and Ori Swed. “Hate Crimes and the LGBTQ+ Community” Dimensions of Crime as a Social Problem. Carolina Academic Press.
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2018. Thomas Crosbie and Ori Swed. “Sociology and the Privatization of Security and Military Affairs” The Sociology of Privatized Security . Palgrave-Macmillan.
2018. Swed Ori and Thomas Crosbie. “Trendlines: Privatization and the Future of War and Security”. The Sociology of Privatized Security. Palgrave-Macmillan.
2018. Butler S. John, Bryan Stephens, Ori Swed. “Who are the Private Military and Security Contractors? A window to a new profession ”. The Sociology of Privatized Security. Palgrave-Macmillan.
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2018. Book Chapter. Swed Ori. “War and Terrorism”. Investigating Social Problems. Sage.
Other Publications and Book Reviews
2024. Ori Swed, and Alessandro Arduino. "Certains régimes africains continuent d’employer les mercenaires russes malgré leur mauvaise réputation : une étude en explique les raisons" The Conversation
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2024. Ori Swed. "Antisemitism from the Right, Antisemitism from the Left" Conflict(ed)
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2024. Ori Swed, and Alessandro Arduino. "Russian mercenaries have a bad reputation but some African regimes still employ them: study explores why" The Conversation
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2023. Kerry Chavez and Ori Swed. A case study on integrating tactical drones: Israel. Modern War Institute.
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2023. Kerry Chavez and Ori Swed. How Hamas innovated with drones to operate like an army. Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists.
2023. Swed, Ori. “Fighting Someone Else’s War” Footnotes. 51(1)
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2022. Kerry Chavez and Ori Swed. “Weak States and Loose Arms: Lessons and Warnings from Afghanistan to Ukraine” War on the Rocks
2022. Swed, Ori. “Activism: Helping Ukraine” Conflict(ed).
2021. Swed, Ori. “Did the Taliban Change? Women’s Rights and the Pursuit of Legitimacy” Conflict(ed).
2021. Swed, Ori. “Outsourcing Security, Outsourcing Sacrifice” Conflict(ed).
2021. Swed, Ori. “War as a Social Phenomenon” Conflict(ed).
2020. Chavez Kerry, and Ori Swed. "An Allegory of the Cave: Terrorist Drones and the Offense-Defense Dialectic” United States Army War College: War Room.
2020. Swed, Ori. “In Favor of an Indirect Approach” Blink the blog of ‘surveillance & society.
2019. Swed, Ori, and Thomas Crosbie. "Who are the private contractors fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan? An inside look at this invisible military force" The Conversation.
2017. Book Review. Swed Ori. “Human Rights.” Journal of Global Analysis.
2014. Book Review. Swed Ori. "How 9/11 Changed our Ways of War" in Res Militaris. Vol 4.2: 295-298.
2014. Swed Ori. “NGOs in Conflict: A ‘Third Actor’ and its Effects on Human Rights” in Israel Institute Vol. 1: 16-18
2010. Book Review. Swed Ori. “Renan and Sand: Literature Review on Nationality and Jewish Identity.” Pikpuk- The Sociology Journal of the Hebrew University. Vol. 16. (February): 14-17 (in Hebrew).