Books:

Aisha Ahmad (ed.), Future Security Challenges Facing Canada: Vital Insights from Women Experts (forthcoming with University of Toronto Press, 2024)

 Aisha Ahmad, Jihad and Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Winner of the 2017 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for best new book in International Security from the Mershon Center; Winner of 2018 Best Book in Comparative Politics Prize from the Canadian Political Science Association. Best Books List of 2018 in Foreign Affairs. Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics, Volume 17, Issue 2 (June 2019), pp. 619-620.

Peer Reviewed Articles:

Aisha Ahmad and Ousmane Diallo, “A Winning Team of Losers: The Logic of Jihadist Coalitions in Civil Wars”, Journal of Global Security Studies, 2022. DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogac029

Aisha Ahmad, Tanya Bandula-Irwin, and Mohamed Ibrahim, “Who Governs? State, Strongmen, and Jihadists in Somalia” in Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1 (May 2022), pp. 68-91.

Aisha Ahmad, “The Long Jihad: The Boom-Bust Cycle Behind Jihadist Durability” in Journal of Global Security Studies, Volume 6, Issue 4 (December 2021).

Aisha Ahmad, “We Have Captured Your Women: Explaining Jihadist Norm Change,” International Security, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Summer 2019), pp. 80-116.

Aisha Ahmad, “Canadian Values and the Muslim World,” International Journal, Vol. 72, No.2 (Spring 2017), pp. 255-268.

Aisha Ahmad, “Going Global: Islamist Competition in Contemporary Civil Wars,” Security Studies, (Spring 2016), Vol. 25(2), pp. 353-384.

Aisha Ahmad, "The Security Bazaar: Business Interests and Islamist Power in Civil War Somalia," International Security, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Winter 2014/15), pp. 89-117. Winner of 2017 Best Security Article Award by the International Studies Association.

Aisha Ahmad, “Agenda for Peace or Budget for War? Evaluating the Economic Impact of International Intervention in Somalia” in International Journal, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Spring 2012) pp. 313-331

Book Chapters:

Aisha Ahmad, “Smuggling, Survival, and Civil War Economies” in Florian Weigand and Max Gallien (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling, 1st edition (New York, NY: Routledge, 2021).

Aisha Ahmad, "Canada and the World: Managing Insecurity in a Changing Global Order," in ed. Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Sophie Borwein, Peter Loewen and Andrew Potter, Policy Transformations in Canada: Is the Past Prologue?, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018).

Aisha Ahmad, “Canada in Somalia: Learning from the Legacy of Failed Intervention” in ed. Fen Osler Hampson and Stephen Saideman, Elusive Pursuits: Lessons from Canada’s Interventions Abroad, (Canada Among Nations Series, Centre for International Governance Innovation: Waterloo), 2015.