| Title | Publication | Date |
| Dissident Watch: Tariq Biasi | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2009 |
| Syria Can't Be Flipped | Forbes.com | November 12, 2008 |
| An Israeli Watershed: Strike on Syria | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2008 |
| Where Is Bashar al-Assad Heading? | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2008 |
| Has Hezbollah's Rise Come at Syria's Expense? | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2007 |
| Dissident Watch: Kamal al-Labwani | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2007 |
| Specter, colleagues travel abroad, but bid for dialogue yields little | Philadelphia Inquirer | December 28, 2006 |
| Bashar al-Assad's Gamble | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2006 |
| Syria after Lebanon: Hooked on Lebanon | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2005 |
| Syria after Lebanon: The Growing Syrian Missile Threat | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2005 |
| Bashar al-Assad's Lebanon Gamble | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2005 |
| Dissident Watch: Aktham Naisse | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2005 |
| Syrian Reform: What Lies Beneath | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2005 |
| When Rogues Defy Reason: Bashar's Syria | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2003 |
| Syria and the United States: Bad Habits Die Hard | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2003 |
| Does Bashar al-Assad Rule Syria? | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2003 |
| Poisoned Missiles: Syria's Doomsday Deterrent | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2002 |
| Guile, Gas and Germs: Syria's Ultimate Weapons | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2002 |
| Iraq and Syria: The Dilemma of Dynasty | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2002 |
| Is Syria Losing Control of Lebanon? | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2001 |
| Syria and Iraq – Repression | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2001 |
| Syria: Back to the Future? | Middle East Quarterly | December 2000 |
| "All Syrian Forces Must Leave Lebanon" | Middle East Quarterly | September 2000 |
| "We Don't Need Syria in Lebanon" | Middle East Quarterly | September 2000 |
| Will Bashshar al-Asad Rule? | Middle East Quarterly | September 2000 |
| "We Are Not a Syrian Province" | Middle East Quarterly | June 2000 |
| The Collapsing Syrian Economy | Middle East Quarterly | September 1999 |
| Kisses across the Golan Heights | Middle East Quarterly | September 1999 |
| A Solution to Syrian Terrorism | Middle East Quarterly | June 1999 |
| Hafiz al-Asad Discovers Islam | Middle East Quarterly | March 1999 |
| Lebanon, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary | Middle East Quarterly | March 1998 |
| Is There Still a Lebanon? | Middle East Quarterly | December 1997 |
| Syria's Troubled Economic Future | Middle East Quarterly | June 1997 |
| On the Road: In Asad's Damascus | Middle East Quarterly | December 1996 |
| The Inner Logic of Israel's Negotiations: Flatter Asad | Middle East Quarterly | March 1996 |
| The Succession Struggle in Damascus | Middle East Quarterly | September 1995 |
| Opinion Poll: American Troops on the Golan Heights? | Middle East Quarterly | March 1995 |
| Understanding Asad | Middle East Quarterly | December 1994 |
| Asad Inches toward Peace | Middle East Quarterly | September 1994 |
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Book Reviews |
| Review of: Cooperating Rivals: The Riparian Politics of the Jordan River Basin | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2008 |
| Review of: Syria, the United States, and the War on Terror in the Middle East | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2007 |
| Review of: Lebanon: The Politics of Frustration | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2006 |
| Review of: Syria's Terrorist War on Lebanon and the Peace Process | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2004 |
| Review of: Syria and the Palestinians | Middle East Quarterly | Winter 2003 |
| Review of: Asad's Legacy: Syria in Transition | Middle East Quarterly | Summer 2001 |
| Review of: Ambiguities of Domination | Middle East Quarterly | Spring 2001 |
| Review of: Revisiting the Yom Kippur War | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2000 |
| Review of: Syrische Religionspolitik unter Asad | Middle East Quarterly | Fall 2000 |
| Review of: The Schools of Ba'athism | Middle East Quarterly | June 2000 |
| Review of: The Israeli-Syrian Dialogue | Middle East Quarterly | June 2000 |
| Review of: Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics | Middle East Quarterly | December 1999 |
| Review of: Le Moyen-Orient entre Guerre et Paix | Middle East Quarterly | September 1999 |
| Review of: The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations | Middle East Quarterly | March 1999 |
| Review of: The Damascus Affair | Middle East Quarterly | September 1998 |
| Review of: Between Damascus and Jerusalem | Middle East Quarterly | March 1998 |
| Review of: Syria beyond the Peace Process | Middle East Quarterly | December 1997 |
| Review of: Historical Dictionary of Syria | Middle East Quarterly | December 1996 |
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