Research & Writing

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Kochanski, Adam, Emily K. M. Scott, and Jennifer Welsh. 2025. “Localization in World Politics: Bridging Theory and Practice.” Global Studies Quarterly. Volume 5, Issue 1, ksaf023.

Khoury, Rana B., and Emily K. M. Scott. 2024. “Going Local without Localization: Power and Humanitarian Response in the Syrian War.” World Development. Vol. 174, 106460. See coverage at The New Humanitarian.  

Simon Bagshaw and Emily K. M. Scott. 2023. “Talk Is Cheap: Security Council Resolution 2286 & the Protection of Health Care in Armed Conflict,” Dædalus 152 (2) (Spring): 142–156. 

Scott, Emily K. M. 2022. “Compromising Aid to Protect International Staff: The Politics of Humanitarian Threat Perception after the Arab Uprisings.” Journal of Global Security Studies. Vol. 7 (1). See coverage at Syria Direct.  

Scott, Emily K. M. 2015. “To Adapt, Innovate, or Stop Short? INGO Pathways to Humanitarian Response.” Comparative Program on Health and Society Working Paper Series.

Book Chapters & Policy Reports

Scott, Emily K. M. “Follow the money? Global and Local Aid, Donor Influence, and Reparations." Publication anticipated 2024. In The Politics of Development: Institutions, Interests, and Ideas, eds. Claire Mcloughlin et al, Sage University Press.

Scott, Emily. (2022) "The political economy of local aid: a new research agenda." In A Research Agenda for International Political Economy, Chapter 11, pages 183-198, ed. David Deese, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Scott, Emily K. M. et al. 2010. “Palestinian Women Organizing in Jerusalem: Marking the 10th Anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.” UN Documents.

Select Works in Progress 

Scott, Emily K. M. Disruptive by Design: Health, Refugees, and Humanitarian Governance in the Middle East. Draft Monograph.

Scott, Emily, and Merve Erdilmen. In Progress. “When Disciplines Collide: Spatial Analysis in Political Science.”

Scott, Emily K. M. “Humanitarian Boundaries? Transforming Syrian refugee health needs.”

Other Writing

Khoury, Rana and Emily K. M. Scott. 2024. “Localisation doesn’t shift power. It deepens international dominance.” The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN).

Scott, Emily K. M. 2021. “Using GIS to understand how humanitarian aid moves.” Newsletter of the MENA Politics Newsletter 4 (1).

Scott, Emily K. M. 2020. “Syrian refugees in Lebanon are misled on their chances of coming to Canada.” The Conversation.

Scott, Emily K. M. 2019. “Yes, aid workers are getting killed more often. But why?” The Washington Post Monkey Cage.

Other Media

Scott, Emily K. M (Co-Host). Ongoing. “Localization in World Politics.” Centre for International Peace and Security Studies. McGill University. Spotify.

Scott, Emily K. M. 2021. In “Militia Intelligence and Ethnic Violence, Politics of Humanitarian Threat Perception, Iranian Economy.” The POMEPS Middle East Political Science Podcasts. Season 11 Episode 11.

Sheker, Manini. 2017. “Among Syrian Refugees, a Need for Insulin and Heart Meds.” University of Toronto Magazine.