"The External Dimension of Democratization in Latvia: The Impact of European Institutions," International Relations, Vol. 13, No. 3, December 1996, pp. 59-73.
Nationalism and Democratic Transition: The Politics of Citizenship and Language in Post-Soviet Latvia. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2001.
"The Persistence of the Baltic Nations under Soviet Rule: An Ethno-Symbolist Critique of Modernist Perspectives on the Breakup of the USSR," in Mitchell Young, Eric Zuelow, and Andreas Sturm, Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations, Routledge, 2007, pp. 179-197.
"Teaching the Totalitarian Experience Through Literature," The Civic Arts Review, Vol. 25, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2013, pp. 4-7.
"Recovering the Lost Tradition of Catholic Higher Education: The Enduring Relevance of Newman's Insights for the Contemporary University," in Robert Christie (ed.), Saint John Henry Newman: Preserving and Promulgating His Legacy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 166-187.
Book reviews published in The Review of Politics, Journal of Baltic Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Slavic Review, Demokratizatsiya, The American Political Science Review, and the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.