Publications

Academic

• Kalyvas, Stathis, and Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2025. “Islamism and Armed Conflict,” Annual Review of Political Science, 28, 21.1-21.19.

• Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2025. “Why Islamism? A Micro-Institutional Approach to Explaining Ideological Choice,” Civil Wars, 0 (0), 1-29.

• Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2025. “What We Don’t See: Documenting Intercommunal Violence Through Fire Data,” Political Geography, 116 (2025), 1-13.

• Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2024. “The Uses for Fire Data and Satellite Images in Monitoring, Detecting, and Documenting Collective Political Violence,” Research & Politics, 11(3), 1-10.

• Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2022. The Origins of Islamist Insurgencies: The Social-Institutional Foundations of an Ideological Shift. DPhil Dissertation.

• Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2019. “Rivalry Through Proxies: How Iran and Saudi Arabia Compete for Regional Influence,” St Antony’s International Review 14 (2), 137-153.

• Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg. 2016. “Sanksjoner og Irans Atomprogram. [Sanctions and Iran’s Nuclear Programme],” Babylon 2 (2016): 16-28. (In Norwegian).

Other Written Work and Commentary

• Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg and Eirik Kvindesland. 2022. “A Wavering Regime” NRK.no https://www.nrk.no/ytring/et-vaklende-regime-1.16118177 (In Norwegian).

• Natasja Rupesinghe, Mikael Hiberg Naghizadeh, and Corentin Cohen. 2021. “Reviewing Jihadist Governance in the Sahel,” Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), https://nupi.brage.unit.no/nupi-xmlui/handle/11250/2758436.

• Rupesinghe, Natasja, and Mikael Hiberg Naghizadeh. 2021. “The Sahel’s jihadists don’t all govern alike: context matters.” The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/the-sahels-jihadists-dont-all-govern-alike-context-matters-166998.

• Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg, Andreas Øverlie Svela, and Henrik Schou Røising. 2019. «Quantum Technology is Security Politics” Aftenposten https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/jdMJ7n/kvanteteknologi-er-sikkerhetspolitikk-skal-norge-henge-med-naghizadeh-svela-og-roeising (In Norwegian).

Appearances

30.04.2025. Participated in event titled “Ethiopia’s War in Tigray: Learning from the Past, Seeking Peace” at the Harvard University Center for African Studies https://www.youtube.com/live/7Si4S1E-umw.