Edited Special Issues
Mello, Patrick A., and Stephen M. Saideman, eds. 2019. The Politics of Multinational Military Operations. Contemporary Security Policy 40 (1): 30-133.
Mello, Patrick A., and Dirk Peters, eds. 2018. Parliaments in Security Policy: Involvement, Politicisation, and Influence. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 20 (1): 3-190.
Journal Articles
Caputo, Alessia, Lorenzo Taddeucci, Patrick A. Mello, and Milena Vainieri. 2026. Can the Public Sector Break the Mold? Exploring Antecedent Factors Driving Sensing Capabilities With fsQCA in the Tuscan Family and Community Nurse Model. Public Policy and Administration (June 8, 2026), 1-38.
Mello, Patrick A. 2025. The Party Politics of National Role Contestation: Germany’s ‘Traffic Light’ Coalition and the Russian War Against Ukraine. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 38 (6), 790-813.
Mello, Patrick A. 2024. Zeitenwende: German Foreign Policy Change in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine. Politics and Governance 12, 1-17.
Mello, Patrick A. 2022. Incentives and Constraints: A Configurational Account of European Involvement in the Anti-Daesh Coalition. European Political Science Review 14 (2): 226-244.
Ide, Tobias, and Patrick A. Mello. 2022. QCA in International Relations: A Review of Strengths, Pitfalls, and Empirical Applications. International Studies Review 24 (1): 1-20.
C. Heldt, Eugénia, Patrick A. Mello, Anna Novoselova, and Omar Ramon Serrano Oswald. 2022. When Do International Organizations Engage in Agency Slack? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of United Nations Institutions. Global Studies Quarterly 2 (3): 1-15.
C. Heldt, Eugénia, Patrick A. Mello, Anna Novoselova, and Omar Ramon Serrano Oswald. 2022. Persistence Against the Odds: How Entrepreneurial Agents Helped the UN Joint Inspection Unit to Prevail. Global Policy 13 (2): 235-246.
Meissner, Katharina L., and Patrick A. Mello. 2022. The Unintended Consequences of UN Sanctions: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Contemporary Security Policy 43 (2): 243-273.
Mello, Patrick A. 2022. German Parliamentary Debates and Decision-Making on Afghanistan, Orient: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur des Orients / German Journal for Politics, Economics and Culture of the Middle East 63 (1): 44-49.
Haesebrouck, Tim, and Patrick A. Mello. 2020. Patterns of Political Ideology and Security Policy. Foreign Policy Analysis 16 (4): 565-586.
Mello, Patrick A. 2020. Paths towards Coalition Defection: Democracies and Withdrawal from the Iraq War. European Journal of International Security 5 (1): 45-76.
Mello, Patrick A., and Stephen M. Saideman. 2019. The Politics of Multinational Military Operations. Contemporary Security Policy 40 (1): 30-37.
Mello, Patrick A. 2019. National Restrictions in Multinational Military Operations: A Conceptual Framework. Contemporary Security Policy 40 (1): 38-55.
Mello, Patrick A., and Dirk Peters. 2018. Parliaments in Security Policy: Involvement, Politicisation, and Influence. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 20 (1): 3-18.
Lagassé, Philippe, and Patrick A. Mello 2018. The Unintended Consequences of Parliamentary Involvement: Elite Collusion and the Afghanistan Deployments of Canada and Germany. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 20 (1): 135-157.
Mello, Patrick A. 2018. Perspektiven der Forschung zur Privatisierung in der Sicherheitspolitik. Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung 7 (1): 195-199.
Mello, Patrick A., Dirk Peters. 2017. Parlamente in der Friedens- und Sicherheitspolitik: Parlamentarische Kontrolle von Streitkräfteeinsätzen im Licht der Forschung. Sicherheit und Frieden 35 (2): 53-59.
Mello, Patrick A. 2017. Curbing the Royal Prerogative to Use Military Force: The British House of Commons and the Conflicts in Libya and Syria. West European Politics 40 (1): 80-100.
Mello, Patrick A. 2012. Parliamentary Peace or Partisan Politics? Democracies’ Participation in the Iraq War. Journal of International Relations and Development 15 (3): 420-453.
















