White, Robert W. 2021. “Why ‘dissident’ Irish Republicans haven’t gone away: A visual study of the persistence of ‘Terrorism.’” Contention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Protest 9/1: 63-96.
White, Robert W., Tijen Demeril-Pegg and Vijay Lulla. 2021. “Terrorism, counterterrorism, and ‘the rule of Law’: State repression and ‘shoot-to-kill’ in Northern Ireland.” Irish Political Studies 36/2: 263-290
White, Robert W. 2020. “Afterword.” Chapter for the paperback edition of Ruairi Ó Brádaigh, the Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
White, Robert W. 2017. “From State Terrorism to Petty Harassment: A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding Repression of Irish Republicans.” Studi Irlandesi 7: 45-64
White, Robert W. and Tijen Demirel-Pegg. 2017. “Social Movements and Social Movement Organizations: Recruitment, Ideology, and Splits.” Pp. 129-46 in Lorenzo Bosi and Gianluca De Fazio (editors), The Troubles: Northern Ireland and Theories of Social Movements. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
White, Robert W. 2011. “Researching the causes and consequences of small group political violence: Implications of Irish Republican Army attacks in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.” Terrorism and Political Violence 23: 329-349.
White, Robert W. 2011. “Response to Henry Patterson.” Terrorism and Political
Violence 23: 354-56.
White, Robert W. “The 1975 British-Provisional IRA Truce in Perspective.” Éire-Ireland 45 (3&4/ Fall/Winter): 211-244.
White, Robert W. 2010. “Structural Identity Theory and the Post-Recruitment Activism of Irish Republicans: Persistence, Disengagement, Splits and Dissidents in Social Movement Organizations.” Social Problems 57: 341-70 (Winner of the Outstanding Article Award of the American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements).
White, Robert W. 2007. “From Gunmen to Statesmen: The Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin (1916-48)” (published summer 2009, on-line and print). The Journal of Conflict Studies 27 (Winter 2007): 42-50.
White, Robert W. 2007. “‘I’m not too sure what I told you the last time’: A methodological note on the consistency of the accounts of activists in political violence.” Mobilization 12: 287-306.
White, Robert W. 2001. “Social and role identities and political violence: Identity as a window on violence in Northern Ireland.” Pp. 133-58 in Richard Ashmore, Lee Jussim, and David Wilder (editors), Social Identity, Conflict, and Conflict Reduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stryker, Sheldon, Timothy J. Owens, and Robert W. White. 2000. “Social Psychology and Social Movements: Cloudy Past and Bright Future (Introduction).” Pp. 1-17, in Sheldon Stryker, Timothy J. Owens and Robert W. White (editors), Self, Identity, and Social Movements. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
White, Robert W. and Michael R. Fraser. 2000. “Personal and Collective Identities and Long Term Movement Activism.” Pp. 324-346, in Sheldon Stryker, Timothy J. Owens and Robert W. White (editors), Self, Identity, and Social Movements. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2000).
White, Robert W. 2000. “Issues in the study of political violence: Understanding motives.” Terrorism and Political Violence 12/1: 95-106.
White, Robert W. 1999. “Comparing repression on the right and on the left: State repression of pro-state vigilantes and anti-state insurgents.” Mobilization 4/2: 189-202.
White, Robert W. 1998. “Don’t confuse me with the facts: More on the Irish Republican Army and sectarianism” (response to James Dingley). Terrorism and Political Violence 10: 166-191.
White, Robert W. 1997. “The Irish Republican Army and sectarianism: Moving beyond the anecdote” (response to Steve Bruce). Terrorism and Political Violence 9: 120-31.
White, Robert W. 1997. “The Provisional Irish Republican Army: An Assessment of Sectarianism.” Terrorism and Political Violence 9: 20-55.
White, Robert W. and Terry F. White. 1995. “Repression and the liberal state.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 39: 330-52.
White, Robert W. 1993. “On measuring political violence: Northern Ireland, 1969-1980.” American Sociological Review 58: 575-585.
White, Robert W. 1992. “Political violence by the non-aggrieved: Explaining the political participation of those with no apparent grievances.” Pp. 79-103 in Donatella della Porta (editor), International Social Movement Research: Participation in Clandestine Political Organizations. Greenwich: JAI Press.
White, Robert W. and Terry F. White. 1991. “Revolution in the city: On the resources of urban guerrillas.” Terrorism and Political Violence 3 (Winter): 100-132. Reprinted in David C. Rapoport (editor), Terrorism: Critical Concepts in Political Science. London: Taylor and Francis, 2003.
White, Robert W. 1989. “From peaceful protest to guerrilla war: Micro-mobilization of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.” American Journal of Sociology 94: 1277-1302. Reprinted in Rosemary H.T. O’Kane (editor), Terrorism (2 Vols). Cheltenham, U.K: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.
White, Robert W., Norma J. Shepelak, and Tamila Jensen. 1988. “Protesting a perceived injustice: The case of sex discrimination.” Social Justice Research 2 (1988): 25-47.
White, Robert W. 1988. “Commitment, efficacy, and personal sacrifice among Irish Republicans.” Journal of Political and Military Sociology 16: 77-90.