Books

• Phillips, S. (2020). When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland. New York: Cornell University Press. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2011). Yemen and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, London: The Adelphi Series (an International Institute for Strategic Studies publication), Number 420, July 2011. Abingdon: Routledge.
• Phillips, S. (2008). Yemen's Democracy Experiment in Regional Perspective: Patronage and Pluralized Authoritarianism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

• Phillips, S. (2017). The norm of state-monopolised violence from a Yemeni perspective. In Charlotte Epstein (Eds.), Against International Relations Norms: Postcolonial Perspectives, (pp. 138-157). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2017). Yemen. In Ellen Lust (Eds.), The Middle East (14th Edition), (pp. 895-916). Thousand Oaks: CQ Press.
• Phillips, S. (2016). Questioning Failure, Stability and Risk in Yemen. In Mehran Kamrava (Eds.), Fragile Politics: Weak States in the Greater Middle East, (pp. 53-80). London: Hurst and Company. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2014). Yemen. In Ellen Lust (Eds.), The Middle East, (pp. 866-886). Los Angeles: CQ Press.
• Phillips, S. (2013). Good Governance and Air Strikes: America's Awkward Toolkit in Yemen. In Shahram Akbarzadeh, Benjamin MacQueen, James Piscatori and Amin Saikal (Eds.), American Democracy Promotion in a Changing Middle East: From Bush to Obama, (pp. 129-142). London: Routledge. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2013). Tracing the Cracks in the Yemeni System. In David McMurray, Amanda Ufheil-Somers (Eds.), The Arab Revolts: Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East, (pp. 137-143). Bloomington, United States: Indiana University Press.
• Phillips, S. (2010). Breaking Yemen Apart. In Ramzy Mardini (Eds.), The Battle for Yemen: Al-Qaeda and the Struggle for Stability, (pp. 56-60). Washington, D.C.: The Jamestown Foundation.
• Phillips, S. (2010). What comes next in Yemen? Al-Qaeda, the tribes and state-building. In Christopher Boucek and Marina Ottaway (Eds.), Yemen on the Brink, (pp. 75-89). USA: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
• Phillips, S. (2008). Yemen: The Centrality of Process. In Marina Ottaway, Julia Choucair-Vizoso (Eds.), Beyond the Facade: Political Reform in the Arab World, (pp. 231-259). Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Journals

• Phillips, S., Al-Dawsari, N. (2023). Trivializing Terrorists: How Counterterrorism Knowledge Undermines Local Resistance to Terrorism (Forthcoming). Security Studies (Quarterly). [More Information]
• Hastings, J., Phillips, S., Ubilava, D., Vasnev, A. (2022). Price Transmission in Conflict-Affected States: Evidence from Cereal Markets of Somalia. Journal of African Economies, 31(3), 272-291. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2020). The Primacy of Domestic Politics and the Reproduction of Poverty and Insecurity. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 74(2), 147-164. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2019). Making al-Qa'ida legible: Counter-terrorism and the reproduction of terrorism. European Journal of International Relations, 25(4), 1132-1156. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2019). Proximities of Violence: Civil Order Beyond Governance Institutions. International Studies Quarterly, 63, 680-691. [More Information]
• Hastings, J., Phillips, S. (2018). Order beyond the state: Explaining Somaliland's avoidance of maritime piracy. Journal of Modern African Studies, 56(1), 5-30. [More Information]
• Hunt, J., Phillips, S. (2017). Becoming a 'Positive Outlier': A Case Study of Oman. Developmental Leadership Program, (47), 1-23.
• Phillips, S., Hunt, J. (2017). Without Sultan Qaboos we would be Yemen: The Renaissance Narrative and the political settlement in Oman. Journal of International Development, 29(5), 645-660. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2016). When less was more: External assistance and the political settlement in Somaliland. International Affairs, 92(3), 629-645. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2015). Assisting al-Qaeda. Foreign Affairs, , 1-3. [More Information]
• Hastings, J., Phillips, S. (2015). Maritime Piracy Business Networks and Institutions in Africa. African Affairs, 114(457), 555-576. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2011). Al-Qaeda and the Struggle for Yemen. Survival (Abingdon), 53(1), 95-120. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2010). Breaking Yemen Apart: Al-Qaeda Exploits Divisions to Further its Agenda. Terrorism Monitor, 8(19), 1-3.

Conferences

• Hastings, J., Oliver, S., Phillips, S. (2018). Territorial Integration and Informal Institutions in Fragile States: Markets in Puntland and Somaliland. International Studies Association 2018 Annual Meeting, San Francisco: International Studies Association.
• Phillips, S. (2016). Donor agencies and the production of political settlements research. The Australian Political Studies Association Conference 2016, Sydney: The Australian Political Studies Association.
• Hastings, J., Phillips, S. (2016). Explaining Variation in Maritime Piracy in 'Peaceful' Somaliland and Puntland. 56th International Studies Association Annual Convention (ISA 2015), New Orleans: International Studies Association (ISA).
• Phillips, S. (2016). Violent extremism and the state from a Yemeni Perspective. The Future of the Middle East, Australi: Deakin University.
• Phillips, S. (2015). Political Settlements and Peace in Post-Colonial Contexts: The Case of Somaliland. 56th International Studies Association Annual Convention (ISA 2015), New Orleans: International Studies Association (ISA).
• Hastings, J., Phillips, S. (2014). Maritime Piracy Business Networks and Local Governance in Africa and the Middle East. International Studies Association Conference 2014, USA: International Studies Association. [More Information]
• Phillips, S. (2014). Somaliland: Relative Security without a Monopoly on Violence. Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Conference 2014, Sydney: Australian Political Studies Association.
• Phillips, S. (2012). State Formation and Human Agency: The Case of Somaliland. Australian Political Science Association Annual Conference 2012, Hobart: Australian Political Studies Association.
• Phillips, S. (2010). Patronage and Instability in Yemen. Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 2010 Annual Meeting, USA: Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc.
• Phillips, S. (2010). The Forest for the Trees: Al-Qa'ida and "Stabilisation" in Yemen. The 2010 Exeter Gulf Studies Conference: "The 21st Century Gulf: The Challenge of Identity" (IAIS 2010), on line (UK): Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (Exeter University).
• Phillips, S. (2009). Will the Tribes Trump the Jihadis? Observations from Yemen, Iraq and Somalia. Third Australaisan Conference on the Economics and Politics of War and Peace.
• Phillips, S. (2009). Yemen's Postcards from the Edge: al-Qa'ida, Tribes and Nervous Neighbours. Australian Political Studies Association Annual Conference 2009, Sydney, NSW: Macquarie University.
• Phillips, S. (2006). Democratization and the Persistence of Authoritarianism in Yemen, 1994-2006. Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 2006 Annual Meeting, Tuscon, AZ, USA: Middle East Studies Association of North America, Inc.

Magazine / Newspaper Articles

• Phillips, S. (2016). Yemen crisis: A domestic affair made worse by foreign meddling. Lowy Interpreter.
• Phillips, S. (2015). Bombing of Yemen comes with no perfect reasons or proof the Houthis are puppets of Iran. Sydney Morning Herald.
• Phillips, S. (2013). Somaliland: Where sovereignty means something. The Interpreter.
• Phillips, S. (2012). Yemen: US fight against al Qaeda likely to fail. The Interpreter.
• Phillips, S. (2011). Figurehead comes to light within al-Qa'ida's most dangerous franchise. The Australian.
• Phillips, S. (2011). Western policymakers shouldn't accept this Saleh spin. The Guardian.
• Phillips, S. (2011). Who Tried to Kill Ali Abdullah Saleh. Foreign Policy.
• Phillips, S. (2011). Yemen Terrorists are Pawns of Power. The Australian.
• Phillips, S. (2010). US risks boost to al-Qa'ida by Yemen attacks. The Australian.
• Phillips, S. (2010). Yemen asks for aid to ward off Al-Qaeda. The Australian.
• Phillips, S. (2006). Foreboding About the Future in Yemen. Middle East Report Online, N/A.
• Phillips, S. (2006). Yemen's Opposition Hopes to Gain in Elections by Government Mistakes. Arab Reform Bulletin, Vol 4:7.
• Phillips, S. (2005). Cracks in the Yemeni System. Middle East Report Online, N/A.
• Phillips, S. (2005). Economic and Political Deterioration in Yemen. Arab Reform Bulletin, Vol 3:7.

Report

• Phillips, S. (2012). The National Political Situation in Yemen. NOREF (The Norwegian Peacebuilding Institute), April.
• Phillips, S. (2009). Politics in a Vacuum: The Yemeni Opposition's Dilemma.

Reference Works

• Phillips, S. (2012). Yemen. The Oxford Companion to American Politics. Oxford University Press.

Research Reports

• Phillips, S. (2013). Political Settlements and State Formation: The Case of Somaliland, Research Paper 23, (pp. 3 - 90). Birmingham, United Kingdom: The Developmental Leadership Program.
• Bubalo, A., Phillips, S., Yasmeen, S., Solahudin, -. (2011). Talib or Taliban? Indonesian students in Pakistan and Yemen, (pp. 1 - 59). Sydney, Australia: The Lowy Institute for International Policy.
• Phillips, S. (2011). Yemen: Developmental Dysfunction and Division in a Crisis State., Research Paper 14, (pp. 1 - 74). Birmingham, United Kingdom: The Developmental Leadership Program.
• Phillips, S., Shanahan, R. (2009). Al-Qa'ida, tribes and instability in Yemen, November 2009, (pp. 3 - 11). Sydney, Australia: The Lowy Institute for International Policy.