Books

NGOs and Transnational Networks: Wild Cards in World Politics.  (London: Pluto Press, 2005).

Breaking Cycles of Violence: Conflict Prevention and Intrastate Crises. Janie Leatherman, William DeMars, Patrick Gaffney, and Raimo Vyrynen.  West Hartford, CT:  Kumarian Press, 1999.

Dr. DeMars has been interviewed in 2001-2002 by The New York Times, Chicago Sun Times, Dallas Morning News, thestreet.com, Florida Today, Spartanburg (SC) Herald-Journal, Charleston (SC) Post & Courier, WSPA-TV News Channel 7/WASV (Spartanburg, SC), WHNS Fox-21 (Greenville, SC) and several Midwest and West coast radio stations.

"Iraq sanctions complicate terrorism fight." The State (Columbia, SC).  15 April 2002.  A11.  
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"Terrorism can succeed if we let emotions dictate actions." Spartanburg (SC) Herald-Journal.  18 Sept. 2001. A12.
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"War on Terrorism: A Thumbnail Introduction." Wofford College Old Gold & Black.  May 2002. 
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"Transnational Non-Governmental Organizations: the Edge of Innocence" in The Prevention of Humanitarian Emergencies.  E. Wayne Nafziger and Raimo Vyrynen, Eds.  London: St. Martin's Press. (March 2002).  193-210.

"Hazardous Partnership: NGOs and American Intelligence in Small Wars," International Journal of Intelligence and Counter Intelligence, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Spring 2001): 193-222.

"War and Mercy in Africa," World Policy Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Summer 2000).
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"Contending Neutralities: Humanitarian Organizations and War in the Horn of Africa." in Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State.  Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pagnucco, Eds. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997.

"Eyes and Ears? Limits of NGO Information for Early Warning," Synergy in Early Warning Conference Proceedings (March 1997). Toronto, Canada: York University Centre for International and Security Studies.

"Mercy Without Illusion: Humanitarian Action in Conflict." Featured Book Review in Mershon International Studies Review (1996) Vol. 40, Sup. 1: 81-89.  Click here to read this review.

"Waiting for Early Warning: Humanitarian Action After the Cold War." Journal of Refugee Studies (1995) Vol. 8, No. 4: 390-410.

"Tactics of Protection: International Human Rights Organizations in the Ethiopian Conflict, 1980-1986." in Africa, Human Rights, and the Global System.  Eileen McCarthy-Arnolds, David R. Penna, and Debra Joy Cruz Sobrepea, Eds. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Decade of Displacement in Ethiopia: Internally Displaced Persons and Humanitarian Response. Washington, DC: Refugee Policy Group. October 1992.