Center for Security Policy Studies

Professor Pfiffner’s Recent Selected Publications

Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression, co-edited with Tracy Lightcap. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“The Efficacy of Coercive Interrogation.” (with Tracy Lightcap, eds.). In Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression, pp. 127-157. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“U.S. Torture Policy and Command Responsibility.” (with Tracy Lightcap, eds.). In Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression, pp. 103-125. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

“Organizing the 21st Century White House.” In James Thurber, ed., Rivals for Power, 5th ed, pp. 63-86. Lanham, MD: Roman Littlefield, 2013.

“Torture During Interrogation: Notes from the Field.” Public Integrity, Vol. 15, No. 1b, pp. 97-102 (book review essay), Winter 2012-2013.

Torture as Public Policy.” Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010.

“US Blunders in Iraq: De-Baathification and Disbanding the Army.” Intelligence and National Security Vol. 25, No. 1, 76–85, February 2010.

Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives.” (co-edited with Mark Phythian). Manchester University Press (co-published in the United States by Texas A&M University Press), 2008.