Research

Peer reviewed publications

• Erica De Bruin, "Policing Insurgency: Are More Militarized Police More Effective?,” Small Wars & Insurgencies 33, no. 4-5, Special Issue on Global Counterinsurgency and the Police-Military Continuum (2022): 742-766. Accepted version (free access).
• Erica De Bruin and Zachary Zarabatak, “Militarized Policing in the Middle East and North Africa,” The Journal of the Middle East and Africa 13, no. 1 (2022): 93-110.  Accepted version (free access).
• Erica De Bruin. "Mapping Coercive Institutions: A New Data Set of State Security Forces, 1960-2010." Journal of Peace Research 58, no. 2 (2021): 315-325. Accepted version (free access).

Work in progress

• "Introducing the Global Police Militarization Dataset (GPMD), 1946-2024." Paper prepared for the 2024 International Studies Annual Convention, April 3-6, 2024, San Francisco, CA.

Other publications

• “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.
• “International Trends in Militarized Policing: New Data and Puzzles.” Political Violence at a Glance, July 23, 2020.