‘Failed Democracy in Afghanistan: Lack of Deliberation and Pluralism,’ in A. Larson, D. Mukhopadhyay & O. Sharifi (eds), Power and Authority in Afghanistan: Rethinking Politics, Intervention & Rule, New York: IB Tauris (Bloomsbury), 2025. ISBN: 9780755647507.

‘How Peace Negotiations Fail: A Case of Afghanistan with the Taliban,’ Afghanistan (Journal of American Institute of Afghanistan Studies), 7 Supplement (2024): 114-136. DOI: 10.3366/afg.2024.0147

‘A Case for Democratic Pluralism Instead of Democratic Minimalism,’ Frontiers in Political Science, 6 (August 7, 2024): 1442766. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1442766 

Omar Sadr & Akram Umarov. The Need for Regionalism in Central Asia, Bakhu Dialogue, 2022, Vol. 6, No. 1: 74-86.

‘In Search of Peace: Letters of Najibullah and Hasan Kakar’, in Zarin Anzur and Khalilullah Afzali (eds.) Efforts of Afghans for Peace for Afghanistan. Kabul: Amiri, 2021. ASIN: B09328FD57 Read More

‘Mahmud Tarzi: Intellectual and Reformist’, in Dev N Pathak and Sanjeev Kumar H.M. (eds.) Modern South Asian Thinkers. Delhi: Sage, 2018. ISBN: 9352806778; Read More

‘Afghanistan: the Vulnerabilities of Minorities’, in Sajjad Hassan (ed.) South Asia State of Minorities Report- 2016: Mapping the Terrain Delhi: Books for Change, 2016. ISBN: 978-81-926907-3-5; Read More

‘Rethinking Stability for Afghanistan: Socializing Great Powers in a Multilateral Order’, in Rajen Harshe and Dhananjay Tripathi (eds.) Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evaluating Trajectories London and New Delhi: Routledge, 2015. DOI: 10.4324/9781315665474. ISBN: 9781315665474; Read More