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| The grand strategy of militant clients: Iran’s way of war A Ostovar Security Studies 28 (1), 159-188, 2019 | 67 | 2019 |
| Sectarian dilemmas in Iranian foreign policy: When strategy and identity politics collide A Ostovar Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
| The Visual Culture of Jihad A Ostovar Jihadi Culture: The Art and Social Practices of Militant Islamists, 82-107, 2017 | 49 | 2017 |
| Iran's basij: Membership in a militant Islamist organization A Ostovar The Middle East Journal 67 (3), 345-361, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| Iran, its clients, and the future of the Middle East: the limits of religion A Ostovar International Affairs 94 (6), 1237-1255, 2018 | 33 | 2018 |
| Guardians of the Islamic revolution ideology, politics, and the development of military power in Iran (1979–2009) AP Ostovar University of Michigan, 2009 | 30 | 2009 |
| Sectarianism and Iranian Foreign Policy A Ostovar Beyond Sunni and Shia: The Roots of Sectarianism in a Changing Middle East …, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| The rebel alliance: why Syria's armed opposition has failed to unify A Ostovar, W McCants CNA, 2013 | 11 | 2013 |
| Vanguard of the Imam: Religion A Ostovar Politics, and, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Escalation in Regional Conflicts: Lessons from North Korea and Pakistan J Meyerle, K Gause, A Ostovar CNA, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| The US and Iran are marching toward war A Ostovar Foreign Affairs 28, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| On Shifting Sands: Iranian Strategy in a Changing Middle East A Ostovar, R Edelston, M Connell CNA, 2013 | 5 | 2013 |
| Jihadi culture R Creswell, B Haykel, N Lahoud, JR Pieslak, A Ostovar, A Stenersen, ... Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 4 | 2017 |
| From Tehran to Mosul A Ostovar Foreign Affairs, 2016 | 4 | 2016 |
| Soldiers of the Revolution: A Brief History of Iran’s IRGC.” A Ostovar Foreign Affairs, 2016 | 4 | 2016 |
| Iran has a bigger problem than the West: Its Sunni neighbors A Ostovar The Brookings Institution, 2015 | 3 | 2015 |
| If Trump Wants a Fight in the Middle East Iran Will Give Him One A Ostovar Foreign Policy, 2017 | 2 | 2017 |
| Sectarian Dilemmas in Iranian Foreign Policy A Ostovar Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
| Deterrence and the Future of US-GCC Defense Cooperation: A Strategic Dialogue Event A Ostovar CAN Analysis and Solutions Report, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA …, 2015 | 2 | 2015 |
