ARTICLES
selected journal articles
Sarah G. Phillips, “The Primacy of Domestic Politics and the Reproduction of Poverty and Insecurity” Australian Journal of International Affairs, 74:2 2020, 147-164.
Sarah Phillips, “Proximities of Violence: Civil Order Beyond Governance Institutions” International Studies Quarterly, 17 June 2019
Sarah Phillips, "Making al-Qa’ida legible: Counter-terrorism and the reproduction of terrorism" European Journal of International Relations, 3 April 2019, pdf ( Listen to Sarah discussing the article )
Sarah Phillips, “Order beyond the state: Explaining Somaliland’s avoidance of maritime piracy” (with Justin Hastings) Journal of Modern African Studies, 65:1, February 2018
Sarah Phillips, “Without Sultan Qaboos we would be Yemen’: The Renaissance Narrative and the political settlement in Oman” (with Jennifer Hunt) Journal of International Development, 29:5, 2017.
Sarah Phillips, “When less was more: External assistance and the political settlement in Somaliland” International Affairs 92:3, 2016, pp. 630-645.
Sarah Phillips, “Maritime Piracy Business Networks and Institutions in the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Guinea” (with Justin Hastings) African Affairs 114: 457, 2015, pp. 555-576.
Sarah Phillips, “Assisting al-Qaeda” Foreign Affairs, 30 August 2015.
Sarah Phillips, “Who Tried to Kill Ali Abdullah Saleh?” Foreign Policy, 13 June 2011.
Sarah Phillips, “Al-Qaeda and the Struggle for Yemen” Survival, 53 (1), February-March 2011, pp. 95-120.
Selected Book Chapters
Sarah Phillips, “The norm of state-monopolised violence from a Yemeni perspective” in Charlotte Epstein (Ed.) Against International Relations Norms: Postcolonial Perspectives, London: Routledge ‘Worlding Beyond the West’ Series, 2017.
Sarah Phillips, “Yemen” in Ellen Lust (ed.) The Middle East, 14th edition,(Thousand Oaks: CQ Press, 2016), pp. 895-916.
Sarah Phillips, "Questioning Failure, Stability and Risk in Yemen” in Mehran Kamrava (ed.) Fragile Politics: Weak States in the Greater Middle East (London: Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2016) p.53-80.
Sarah Phillips, “Yemen” in Ellen Lust (ed.) The Middle East, 13th edition (Thousand Oaks: CQ Press, 2014), pp.866-886.
Sarah Phillips, “Tracing the Cracks in the Yemeni System” in David A. McMurray and Amanda Ufheil-Somers (eds) The Arab Revolts: Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2013.
Sarah Phillips, “Good Governance and Air Strikes: America’s Awkward Toolkit in Yemen” in Shahram Akbarzadeh, James Piscatori, Benjamin MacQueen, Amin Saikal (eds). American Democracy Promotion in a Changing Middle East. London: Routledge, 2012.
Sarah Phillips, “Yemen” in David Coates (ed.) The Oxford Companion to American Politics. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Sarah Phillips, “What comes next in Yemen? Al-Qaeda, the Tribes and State-Building” in Yemen on the Brink, ed. Christopher Boucek and Marina Ottaway, Carnegie Endowment, Washington D.C., United States, 2010, pp. 75-89.
Sarah Phillips, “Yemen: The Centrality of Process,” Beyond the Façade: Political Reform in the Arab World (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2008) pp. 231-60.
Selected Policy Monographs
Sarah Phillips, “How Oman became a ‘Positive Outlier'”, The Developmental Leadership Program (with Jennifer Hunt) April 2017.
Sarah Phillips, Evidence submitted to the UK Parliamentary Committee on the Crisis in Yemen, 2016:
Sarah Phillips, “Political Settlements and State Formation: The Case of Somaliland”, The Developmental Leadership Program, Research Paper 23, December 2013.
“Could someone please clone Sarah Phillips? The University of Sydney political scientist has a great new Developmental Leadership Program (DLP) paper out on Somaliland, following her excellent paper a few years ago on Yemen. ‘Political Settlements and State Formation: The Case of Somaliland’ may not sound like much of a page turner, but it is brilliant. Her conclusions do not make comfortable reading, for they trample on any number of received wisdoms.””
Sarah Phillips, “Talib or Taliban? Indonesian students in Pakistan and Yemen”, (with Anthony Bubalo, and Samina Yasmeen) Lowy Institute for International Policy, September 2011.
Sarah Phillips, “Yemen: Developmental Dysfunction and Division in a Crisis State”, The Developmental Leadership Program, Research Paper 14, February 2011.