Books
Beth Elise Whitaker and John F. Clark. 2018. Africa’s International Relations: Balancing Domestic and Global Interests. Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Wolfgang Reinicke and Francis Deng with Jan Martin Witte, Thorsten Benner, Beth Whitaker, and John Gershman. 2000. Critical Choices: The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global Governance. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre.
Journal Articles
Beth Elise Whitaker and Elizabeth Iams Wellman. 2024. “Voice Through Votes and Remittances: Diaspora Efforts to Influence Elections.” International Migration Review 58(3): 1306-1320.
James Igoe Walsh, Justin M. Conrad, and Beth Elise Whitaker. 2024. “Rebel Human Rights Abuses During Civil Wars: Introducing the Rebel Human Rights Violations Dataset.” Journal of Peace Research 61(3): 477-488. [Dataset]
Beth Elise Whitaker and John Andrew Doces. 2023. “Naturalize or Deport? The Distinct Logics of Support for Different Immigration Outcomes.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49(7): 1898-1918.
Beth Elise Whitaker and Jason Giersch. 2021. “Strategic Calculations? Partisan Differences in Support for Puerto Rican Migration to the Mainland United States.” Migration Studies 9(3): 534-555.
Elizabeth Iams Wellman and Beth Elise Whitaker. 2021. “Diaspora Voting in Kenya: A Promise Denied.” African Affairs 120(479): 199-217.
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2020. “Refugees, Foreign Nationals, and Wageni: Comparing African Responses to Somali Migration.” African Studies Review 63(1): 18-42.
Roos van der Haer, Christopher Faulkner, and Beth Elise Whitaker. 2020. “Rebel Funding and Child Soldiers: Exploring the Relationship between Natural Resources and Forcible Recruitment.” European Journal of International Relations 26(1): 236-262.
Beth Elise Whitaker, James Igoe Walsh, and Justin M. Conrad. 2019. “Natural Resource Exploitation and Sexual Violence by Rebel Groups.” Journal of Politics 81(2): 702-706.
Nathaniel Cogley, John Doces, and Beth Elise Whitaker. 2019. “Which immigrants should be naturalized? Which should be deported? Evidence from a survey experiment in Côte d’Ivoire.” Political Research Quarterly 72(3): 653-668. [Honorable Mention, Best Article Award, APSA Migration and Citizenship Section]
Justin M. Conrad, Kevin T. Greene, James Igoe Walsh, and Beth Elise Whitaker. 2019. “Rebel Natural Resource Exploitation and Conflict Duration.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 63(3): 591-616.
Martha Kropf, Samuel Jacob Grubbs, John Szmer, and Beth Elise Whitaker. 2019. “American Politics Course Redesigns: The Effect of Propensity Score Matching on Predicting Learning Outcomes.” Journal of Political Science Education 15(4): 459-473.
James Igoe Walsh, Justin M. Conrad, Beth Elise Whitaker, and Katelin M. Hudak. 2018. “Funding rebellion: The Rebel Contraband Dataset.” Journal of Peace Research 55(5): 699-707. [Dataset]
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2017. “Migration within Africa and Beyond.” African Studies Review 60(2): 209-220.
Beth Elise Whitaker and Salma Inyanji. 2015. “Vote de la diaspora et ethnicité au Kenya.” Afrique contemporaine 256(4): 73-89. [English version]
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2015. “Playing the immigration card: the politics of exclusion in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.” Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 53(3): 274-293.
Beth Elise Whitaker and Jason Giersch. 2015. “Political Competition and Attitudes towards Immigration in Africa.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 41(9-10): 1536-1557
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2011. “The Politics of Home: Dual Citizenship and the African Diaspora.” International Migration Review 45(4): 755-783.
Elizabeth G. Radcliff, Elizabeth F. Racine, Larissa R. Brunner, and Beth Elise Whitaker. 2011. “Association Between Family Composition and the Well-Being of Vulnerable Children in Nairobi, Kenya.” Maternal and Child Health Journal (July 2011).
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2010. “Soft Balancing Among Weak States? Evidence from Africa.” International Affairs 86(5): 1109-1127.
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2010. “Compliance Among Weak States: Africa and the Counter-Terrorism Regime.” Review of International Studies 36(3): 639-662.
Beth Elise Whitaker and Jason Giersch. 2009. “Voting on a Constitution: Implications for Democracy in Kenya.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 27(1): 1-20.
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2008. “Reluctant Partners: Fighting Terrorism and Promoting Democracy in Kenya.” International Studies Perspectives 9(3): 254-271.
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2008. “Funding the International Refugee Regime: Implications for Protection.” Global Governance 14(2): 241-258.
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2007. “Exporting the Patriot Act? Democracy and the ‘war on terror’ in the Third World.” Third World Quarterly 28 (5): 1017-1032.
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2006. “Talking about the Neighbors: The Discourse on Refugees in Tanzanian Politics.” African Review of Foreign Policy 4(1): 24-44.
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2005. “Citizens and Foreigners: Democratization and the Politics of Exclusion in Africa.” African Studies Review 48(1): 109-126.
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2003. “Refugees and the Spread of Conflict: Contrasting Cases in Central Africa.” Journal of Asian and African Studies 38(2&3): 211-231. [Reprinted in Rose Kadende-Kaiser and Paul J. Kaiser, eds. Phases of Conflict in Africa. Toronto: de Sitter Publications, 2005.]
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2002. “Changing priorities in refugee protection: the Rwandan repatriation from Tanzania.” Refugee Survey Quarterly 21(1&2): 328-344. [Revised version published in Gil Loescher, Mark Gibney, and Niklaus Steiner, eds. Problems of Protection: UNHCR and the Protection of Refugees and Human Rights. New York: Routledge, 2003.]
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2002. “Refugees in Western Tanzania: The Distribution of Burdens and Benefits Among Local Hosts.” Journal of Refugee Studies 15(4): 339-358.
Book Chapters
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2014. “African Reactions to U.S. Counterterrorism Policies: Kenya, From Reluctance to Resolve.” In Maya Kandel, ed. U.S. Strategy in Africa. Paris, France: Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’Ecole Militaire (IRSEM), Ministry of Defense.
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2004. “Between Victims and Killers: Dilemmas of the International Operation for Rwandan Refugees.” In Nitza Nachmias and Rami Goldstein, eds. The Politics of Forced Migration: A Conceptual, Operational and Legal Analysis. Frederick, MD: Publish America.
Beth Elise Whitaker. 2001. “Creating Alternatives: Refugee Relief and Local Development in Western Tanzania.” In Ondine Barrow and Mike Jennings, eds. The Charitable Impulse: Relief, Development and Non-Governmental Organisations in North East Africa. Oxford: James Currey.