Here you can find my publications, sorted by books, articles, book chapters, and book reviews and other writing. My publications are also listed on the VU Amsterdam Research Portal, alongside research projects, datasets, and other activities, and on Google Scholar, where you can also find citation figures. In case you cannot access a publication you are interested in, please get in touch, I am happy to share a copy or a pre-print where I can.
Monographs (2) • Translations (1) • Edited handbook (1) • Edited special issues (2) • Journal articles (20) • Book chapters (14) • Book reviews (8) • Other publications (4)
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Books
Monographs
Mello, Patrick A. 2021. Qualitative Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and Application. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
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Mello, Patrick A. 2014. Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict: Military Involvement in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Translations
パトリック・A・メロ (Mello, Patrick A.), 東伸一・横山斉理 訳 (translation by Nobukazu Azuma and Narimasa Yokoyama). 2023. 質的比較分析 (QCA): リサーチ・デザインと実践 (Japanese edition of Qualitative Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and Application). Tokyo: Chikura Publishing, by arrangement with Georgetown University Press.
Edited handbook
Mello, Patrick A., and Falk Ostermann, eds. 2023. Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods. London: Routledge.
Articles
Edited special issues
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. 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.
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. The 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 Afghanistan Deployments in Canada and Germany. The 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. 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. 2010. In Search of New Wars: The Debate About a Transformation of War. European Journal of International Relations 16 (2), 297–309.
Chapters
Book chapters
Mello, Patrick A. 2026. Germany: The Travails of Realising the Zeitenwende. In Russia's War on Ukraine: A Zeitenwende for European Defence?, edited by Tim Haesebrouck, Michelle Haas, and Servaas Taghon. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, in press.
Mello, Patrick A. 2026. Explaining European Military Engagement in the Fight Against Daesh. In The Changing Fights and Fighters of Contemporary War: From the Margins to the Middle, edited by Marie Robin, Amelie Theussen, and Kerstin Bree Carlson. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 185–208.
Mello, Patrick A. 2024. Uncovering Causal Complexity with Qualitative Comparative Analysis. In The Handbook of Teaching Qualitative and Mixed Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide for Instructors, edited by Alissa Ruth, Amber Wutich, and H. Russell Bernard. London: Routledge, 336–339.
Ostermann, Falk, and Patrick A. Mello. 2023. Methods of Foreign Policy Analysis: Charting Ground, Engaging Traditions, and Opening Up Boundaries. In Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods, edited by Patrick A. Mello and Falk Ostermann. London: Routledge, 3–18.
Mello, Patrick A. 2023. Qualitative Comparative Analysis. In Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods, edited by Patrick A. Mello and Falk Ostermann. London: Routledge, 385–402.
Mello, Patrick A. 2021. German Foreign Policy. In Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991, edited by Jeroen Joly and Tim Haesebrouck. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 155–178.
Mello, Patrick A. 2019. Von der Bonner zur Berliner Republik: Die “Zivilmacht“ Deutschland im Spiegel parlamentarischer Debatten zu Auslandseinsätzen der Bundeswehr, 1990 bis 2018. In Zivilmacht Bundesrepublik?, edited by Klaus Brummer and Friedrich Kießling. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 295–316.
C. Heldt, Eugénia, and Patrick A. Mello. 2018. Two-Level Games in Foreign Policy Analysis. In Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis, edited by Cameron G. Thies. New York: Oxford University Press, 770–789.
Mello, Patrick A. 2018. Curbing the Royal Prerogative to Use Military Force: The British House of Commons and the Conflicts in Libya and Syria. In Challenging Executive Dominance: Legislatures and Foreign Affairs, edited by Tapio Raunio and Wolfgang Wagner. London: Routledge, 80–100.
Mello, Patrick A. 2017. Qualitative Comparative Analysis and the Study of Non-State Actors. In Researching Non-State Actors in International Security: Theory & Practice, edited by Andreas Kruck and Andrea Schneiker. London: Routledge, 123–142.
Mello, Patrick A. 2017. Democratic Peace Theory. In The Sage Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, Volume I, edited by Paul I. Joseph. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 472–476.
Mello, Patrick A. 2017. New and Old Wars. In The Sage Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, Volume III, edited by Paul I. Joseph. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1209–1211.
Mello, Patrick A. 2016. Asymmetric Warfare. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, second edition, edited by George Ritzer. Hoboken: Wiley.
Book reviews and other
Book reviews
African Interventions: State Militaries, Foreign Powers and Rebel Forces, by Emizet F. Kisangani and Jeffrey Pickering, H-Diplo, Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum (Roundtable Review 14–27, July 17, 2023).
Asymmetrische Kriege. Eine politiktheoretische Untersuchung zur Kriegführung im 21. Jahrhundert, by Felix Wassermann, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 57: 2 (2016), 326–328.
Coalitions of Convenience: United States Military Interventions after the Cold War, by Sarah E. Kreps, Berlin Reviews in Social Sciences, No. 2 (2011), 1–2.
Other publications
Zeitenwende at Twilight: Will Germany's Shift Last? Baltic Rim Economies, December 2024 (Issue 4), Centrum Balticum.
Paths towards Coalition Defection: Democracies and Withdrawal from the Iraq War, European Journal of International Security Blog, May 18, 2020.
Kriegsbeteiligung: Gegen den Willen der Bevölkerung, Katapult: Magazin für Kartografik und Sozialwissenschaft, July 6, 2016.
Essay Contribution to “Boot Camp: Ten Years of Qualitative and Multi-Method Research”, edited by Colin Elman, Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 9: 2 (2011), 13–14.