Published (selected)
- 2026. Andrea Novellis, “Syria: Food Security and Stability in the Post-Assad Transition.” In Ruth Hanau Santini, ed., Food Sovereignty and Food Security: The Increasing Weaponisation of Food, pp. 105–124. Naples: UniorPress. doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-379-0. English PDF · Italian PDF
- 2026. “The Divided Self: How Ideological Compartmentalization Drives Rebel-to-Party Success in Sri Lanka.” Democratization, March, 1-27. doi:10.1080/13510347.2026.2643877. PDF
- 2026. “Programmatic Incompatibility: Ideology, Trust and the Limits of Rebel Cooperation Among Syria’s Kurdish Actors.” Civil Wars, published online 17 June. doi:10.1080/13698249.2026.2669901. PDF
- 2026. Ruth Hanau Santini, Andrea Novellis, Rajni Gamage & Devyani Chaturvedi, eds. Humanitarianism, Development Assistance, Early Warning and Political Violence in South Asia in a Post-Liberal International Order. ISAS Special Report Issue No. 37, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, and University of Naples “L’Orientale”. The report examines how conflict, economic instability, climate pressures and aid politicisation are reshaping humanitarian action and early warning in South Asia and the wider Global South; Andrea Novellis contributes the chapter “Early Warning and Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis”. PDF
- 2025. “Le Relazioni Esterne del DAANES nell’Interregno Siriano” (“The external relations of DAANES in the Syrian Interregnum”). In La guerra civile siriana, Carocci. PDF
- 2025. Andrea Novellis & Davide Grasso. “Introduction: Exploring the Kurdish Movement”. Partecipazione e Conflitto 17(3 bis). PDF
- 2018. “The Rise of Feminism in the PKK”. Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies. PDF
- 2018. “An Alternative to Nationalism: The Kurdish Movement in Turkey”. Occhialì. Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico. PDF
Accepted / forthcoming
- Ruth Hanau Santini & Andrea Novellis, “Paradigm Lock-in and Strategic Surprise: Explaining Israel’s October 7 Intelligence Failure”, Middle East Policy (forthcoming).
- Andrea Novellis & Edoardo Corradi, “Earning, Allocating, Providing: The Financial and Budget Management of the DAANES”, Civil Wars (forthcoming).
- Andrea Novellis, “Early Warning Failure in Sri Lanka: Institutional Knowledge Filters and the 2022 Polycrisis”, Review of International Studies (conditionally accepted).
Dissertation
- 2024. Why fight when you can rule together? Rebel power-sharing during civil wars. PhD dissertation. PDF
Full list
The full list of publications, including book chapters and works in progress, is available in the CV.