COMPARATIVE

 
2009. ’Leaving Security in Safe Hands: Identity, legitimacy and cohesion in the new Afghan and Iraqi armies’. Third World Quarterly 30(8): 1483-1501.

2007. ‘Building ‘National’ Armies – Building Nations? Determinants of Success for Post-Intervention Integration Efforts‘. Armed Forces and Society 33(4): 571–590. 

2005. ‘Addressing Ethnic Divisions in Post-Conflict Institution-Building: Lessons from Recent Cases‘. Security Dialogue 36(3): 297–318.

AFGHANISTAN 
2004. ‘Ethnicizing Afghanistan? Inclusion and Exclusion in Post-Bonn Institution-Building‘. Third World Quarterly 25(4): 707–729.

EAST TIMOR

2009. ’The role of East Timor’s security institutions in national integration – and disintegration‘. The Pacific Review 22(5): 575–596.

2008. ‘Identitad desde la violencia: La nueva división este-oeste en Timor Oriental’ [Identity After Violence: East Timor’s New East-West Divide], Revista Académica de Relaciones Internacionales 4(9): 1–14. 

2008. ‘Øst-Timors tilbageslag’ [East Timor’s Setbacks], Udenrigs 63(2): 106–108.

2006. ‘The Authoritarian Temptation in East Timor: Nationbuilding and the Need for Inclusive Governance‘. Asian Survey 46(4): 575–596.

2005. ‘Språket splittrar Östtimor’ [East Timor’s Divisive Language Politics], Internationella Studier(3): 16–19, hösten.

 
2005. ‘Reconstruyendo tradiciones. Una política lingüística divisoria en Timor Oriental’ [Reconstructing Traditions: East Timor’s Divisive Language Politics]. El Fingidor – revista de cultura 6(25): 50–51, June.

KOSOVO

 
2004. ‘Nationbuilding as Peacebuilding: Racing to Define the Kosovar‘. International Peacekeeping 11(2): 289–311.

RUSSIA

2005. ‘Between Minority Rights and Civil Liberties: Russia’s Discourse Over “Nationality” Registration and the Internal Passport’. Nationalities Papers 33(2): 211–229.

2003. ‘Presidenter og demokrater i Russland’ [Presidents and Democrats in Russia]. Internasjonal Politikk 61(1): 77–91.

2002. ‘Pains of Partition. Nationalism, National Identity, and the Military in Post-Soviet Russia‘. University of Oslo, Faculty of Social Sciences (doctoral dissertation)

2002. ‘Russisk nasjonalisme i imperiets aftenstund: Høyre-ideologiske svar på en revolusjonær situasjon’ [Russian nationalism in the twilight of the empire: right-wing responses to a revolutionary situation] (on the Octobrists and the Union of the Russian People). Nordisk Østforum 4: 397–416.

2001. ‘Marching to a Different Drum? Political orientations and nationalism in Russia’s armed forces’. Journal of Communist Studies & Transition Politics 17(1): 41–64.

 
2001. ‘Nationalism in the Russian political spectrum: Locating and evaluating the extremes‘. Journal of Political Ideologies 6(3): 263–288.

 
2001. ‘Compatriot games. Explaining the ‘diaspora linkage’ in Russia’s military withdrawal from the Baltic states‘. Europe-Asia Studies 53(5): 771–792.

2000. ‘You Take Your Oath Only Once. Crimea, the Black Sea Fleet, and National Identity Among Russian Officers‘. Nationalities Papers 28(2): 289–316.

2000. ‘Putin’s Leadership Style: Ethnocentric Patriotism’. Security Dialogue31(3): 377–380. 

1999. ‘Inheriting the Soviet Policy Toolbox: Russia’s Dilemma Over Ascriptive Nationality‘. Europe-Asia Studies 51(6): 1069–87. 

1998. ‘Who is Afraid of his Nationality?’, CSEES Newsletter (Center for Slavic and East European Studies, University of California at Berkley)(1): 9–12.

1998. ‘Rokhlin Enters the Political Fray‘. Jane’s Intelligence Review 10(1): 14–17.

1997. ‘The Terek Cossacks: A Loose Cannon in the North Caucasus’. War Report: 14.

 
1997. ‘Förnuft och känsla i Ryssland’ [NATO Enlargement: Sense and Sensibility in Russia]. Internationella Studier(2): 3–8.

 
1997. ‘Rybkin: Yeltsin’s Softer Option’. Jane’s Intelligence Review 9(6): 251–253.

 
1996. ‘Raising ‘The Russian Question’: Ethnicity and Statehood – Russkie and Rossiya’ Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 2(1): 91–110.

1996. ‘Aleksandr Barkashov and Russian National Unity: Blackshirt Friends of the Nation’. Nationalities Papers 24(4).

 
1996. ‘Russia’s Northern Fleet in Heavy Sea’. Slavic Military Studies 8(4).

 
1995. ‘Genosse Konsens. Porträt des russischen Duma-Präsidenten Iwan P. Rybkin’ [’Comrade Consensus: A Portrait of the Russian Duma Speaker, Ivan P. Rybkin]. Osteuropa 45(12): 1144–1154.

1995. ‘Going His Own Way. A Profile of Gen. Aleksandr Lebed’. Journal of Slavic Military Studies 8(3): 528–546.

 
1995. ‘Gennadiy Zyuganov: Leading the Communists Through the ’90s’. Transition 1(12): 60–64.

1995. ‘Mangesidig opposisjon mobiliserer mot Jeltsin’ [Multi-faceted Opposition Mobilising Against Yeltsin]. Internasjonal Politikk 53(4): 483–499. 

1996. Politics and Personalities: Key Actors in the Russian Opposition. Oslo: PRIO. 217 pp.

OTHER

 
1997. Conflicts in the OSCE Area. Edited By S. G. Simonsen. Oslo: PRIO. 210 pp.

A collection of 19 survey articles; contributions on Chechnya, Tajikistan and Belarus written by Sven G. Simonsen.