Research & Writing

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Scott, Emily K. M. 2025. "Negotiating for Humanitarian Autonomy: INGOs Resisting Donors During the War in Syria." Perspectives on Politics. First View, pp. 1-23.

Kochanski, Adam, Emily K. M. Scott, and Jennifer Welsh. 2025. “Localization in World Politics.” Introduction to Special Issue. Global Studies Quarterly. 

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.

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. Best Article Prize Honourable Mention 2024

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.

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

Scott, Emily K. M. Forthcoming. “Humanitarian Space.” In The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action (2nd Edition), Routledge.

Scott, Emily K. M. 2024. “Follow the money? Global and Local Aid, Donor Influence, and Reparations." 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.

PUBLIC AND POLICY WRITING

Scott, Emily K. M. Forthcoming 2025. “No Justice, No Peace? A Challenge for Syria.” MENA Politics.

Scott, Emily K. M. Scott. Forthcoming 2025. “How to Negotiate for Autonomy.” The New Humanitarian.

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.” MENA Politics 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.

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. Humanitarian Hesitancy: Risk and the International Humanitarian Order.

Scott, Emily K. M. Disruptive by Design: Health, Protectio , 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.”