Peer-reviewed journals

• De Vries, Lotje and Tim Glawion (2021) “Studying Insecurity from Relative Safety — Dealing with methodological blindspots“, Qualitative Research, (advance online access, open access).
• Marijnen, Esther, Lotje de Vries and Rosaleen Duffy (2021) “Conservation in violent environments: Introduction to a special issue on the political ecology of conservation amidst violent conflict“, Political Geography, 87, 102253.
• Van Abswoude, Renée and Lotje de Vries (2020) “How Brexit Affects Boundaries in Northern Ireland“, Peace Review, 32:2, 125-133 (open access).
• Van Leeuwen, Mathijs, Gillian Mathys, Lotje de Vries and Gemma van der Haar (2020) “From resolving land disputes to agrarian justice – dealing with the structural crisis of plantation agriculture in eastern DR Congo,” The Journal of Peasant Studies (advance open access).
• Van der Haar, Gemma, Mathijs van Leeuwen and Lotje de Vries (2020) “Claim-making as social practice – Land, politics and conflict in Africa” Geoforum, 109, 111-114.
• De Vries, Lotje (2020). “Navigating violence and exclusion: The Mbororo’s claim to the Central African Republic’s margins“. Geoforum, 109: 162-170.
• De Vries, Lotje and Joseph Mangarella (2019) “Workshop Report. Tracing Legacies of Violence in French Equatorial Africa” Africa Spectrum, 54 (2), 162-172.
• Warner, Jeroen, Sarunas Jomantas, Eliot Jones, Sazzad Ansari and Lotje de Vries (2019) “The Fantasy of the Grand Inga Hydroelectric Project on the River Congo” Water, 11 (3), 407.
• Justin, Peter Hakim and Lotje de Vries (2019) “Governing Unclear Lines: Local Boundaries as a (Re)source of Conflict in South Sudan” Journal of Borderlands Studies, 34 (1), 31-46.
• De Vries, Lotje and Andreas Mehler (2019). “The limits of instrumentalizing disorder: Reassessing the neopatrimonial perspective in the Central African Republic” African Affairs 118 (471), 307-327.
• Glawion, Tim, Lotje de Vries and Andreas Mehler (2019). “Handle with Care! A Qualitative Comparison of the Fragile States Index’s Bottom Three Countries: Central African Republic, Somalia and South Sudan“. Development and Change 50 (2), 277-300.
• Glawion Tim and Lotje de Vries (2018). “Ruptures revoked: why the Central African Republic’s unprecedented crisis has not altered deep-seated patterns of governance“. Journal of Modern African Studies, 56 (3), 421-442.
• De Vries, Lotje (2017). Review of ‘State of Rebellion: Violence and Intervention in the Central African Republic’ by Louisa Lombard London: Zed Books, 2016. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 55(4), 713-714.
• De Vries, Lotje and Mareike Schomerus (2017) “South Sudan’s Civil War Will Not End with a Peace Deal” Peace Review 29 (3) : 333-340. (Open Access)
• De Vries, Lotje and Mareike Schomerus (2017) “Fettered Self-determination: South Sudan’s Narrowed Path to Secession” Civil Wars Journal 19 (1): 26-45. (Open Access)
• De Vries, Lotje and Peter Hakim Justin (2014) “Un mode de gouvernement mis en échec: dynamiques de conflit au Soudan du Sud, au-delà de la crise politique et humanitaire”, Politique africaine 135: 159-175. (Available here)
• De Vries, Lotje (2014) “De paradox van papieren permissie“, Kwalon 19 (2): 37-41.
• Schomerus, Mareike and Lotje de Vries (2014) “Improvising Border Security: ‘A situation of security pluralism’ along South Sudan’s Borders with the Democratic Republic of Congo.” Security Dialogue 45 (3): 279-294 (Special Issue Governance of Border Security in Practice).
• De Vries, Lotje (2013) [Review of the book South Sudan: From Revolution to Independence” by Matthew LeRiche and Matthew Arnold], Politique Africaine; 132 (4): 204-205.
• De Vries, Lotje (2011) Négocier l’Autorité. Les micro-pratiques étatiques à la frontière du Sud-Soudan et de la République Démocratique du Congo. Politique Africaine; 122 (2): 41-58. (Available here)
• Hazard, Eric, Lotje de Vries, Mamadou Alimou Barry, Alexis Aka Anouan, Nicolas Pinaud (2009). The Developmental Impact of the Asian Drivers on Senegal. The World Economy; 32 (11): 1563-1585. (Available here)

Books and book chapters

• Schomerus Mareike and Lotje de Vries (2021) Tall Tales and Borderline Cases. Narratives as meaningful contraband. In: The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling, Eds. Max Gallien and Florian Weigand, London: Routledge, pp 156-167.
• De Vries, Lotje, Pierre Englebert and Mareike Schomerus (Eds.) (2019) “Secessionism in African Politics : Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment”. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Schomerus, Mareike, Pierre Englebert, and Lotje de Vries (2019) “Africa’s Secessionism: A Breakdance of Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, and Disenchantment.” In Secessionism in African Politics: Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment, edited by Lotje de Vries, Pierre Englebert and Mareike Schomerus. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 1-20.
• Schomerus, Mareike, and Lotje de Vries (2019) “A State of Contradiction: Sudan’s Unity Goes South.” In Secessionism in African Politics: Aspiration, Grievance, Performance, Disenchantment, edited by Lotje de Vries, Pierre Englebert and Mareike Schomerus. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 423-454. 
• Justin, Peter Hakim and Lotje de Vries (2019). Governing Unclear Lines: Boundaries as a (Re)source of Conflict in South Sudan. In: The Struggle for South Sudan. Challenges of Security and State formation, edited by Luka Biong Denk Kuol and Sarah Logan . London: I.B. Tauris, pp 27-45.
• Vaughan, Christopher, Mareike Schomerus and Lotje de Vries (eds) The Borderlands of South Sudan: Authority and identity in contemporary and historical perspectives. New York, Palgrave Macmillan (2013) (Full PDF available: please get in touch via email).
• De Vries, Lotje (2013) Pulling the Ropes, Convenient indeterminacies and the negotiation of power at Kaya’s border checkpoint. In: Christopher Vaughan, Mareike Schomerus and Lotje de Vries (eds) The Borderlands of South Sudan: Authority and identity in contemporary and historical perspectives. NewYork, Palgrave Macmillan: pp. 153-172. (Available here)
• Schomerus, Mareike, Lotje de Vries, Christopher Vaughan (2013) Introduction: Negotiating borders, defining South Sudan. In: Christopher Vaughan, Mareike Schomerus and Lotje de Vries (eds) The Borderlands of South Sudan: Authority and identity in contemporary and historical perspectives. New York, Palgrave Macmillan: pp. 1-22. (Available here)
• De Vries, Lotje (2012) Facing Frontiers; Everyday practice of state-building in South Sudan. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Wageningen University. (Download the thesis here)
• Abdoul, Mohamadou, Lotje de Vries (2007). Dynamiques locales dans les espaces transfrontaliers et intégration régionale en Sénégambie méridionale. In: Amadou Diop and Aminata Niang Diene (eds) Les États-Nations face à l’intégration regionale en Afrique de l’Ouest; Le cas du Sénégal. Paris, Karthala, pp. 119-131.

 Other

• Mehler, Andreas and Lotje de Vries (2018) Les conditions marginales du néopatrimonialisme performant : Pourquoi l’Afrique ne “marche” pas dans la République centrafricaine. Arnold Bergstraesser-Institute Working Paper No 8/2018.
• De Vries, Lotje and Laura Wunder (2017) Sustaining Relative Peace: PAX and the cross-border peace network’s support for human security among pastoralist communities in the borderlands of Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda. Research Report PAX/2017/08. Utrecht: Pax.
• Schomerus, M., L. Aalen, V. Barbelet, M. Blackings, M.S. Benson, L.B. Deng, L. de Vries, D. Johnson, P.H. Justin, J.J. Kenyi, C. Leonardi, and L.N. Moro. (2016)  Considering the state: Perspectives on South Sudan’s Subdivision and the Federalism Debate. London, ODI and Bergen, CMI.
• Lotje de Vries and Tim Glawion (2015) Speculating on Crisis: The progressive disintegration of the Central African Republic’s political economy. Clingendael Institute – Conflict Research Unit report.
• Lotje de Vries and Mareike Schomerus (17 August 2015) Washington Post. Monkey Cage blog: Talking about war makes it more likely. Look at South Sudan.
• Lotje de Vries (2012) Een soldatenleven in Soedan [Review of the book From Civilians to Soldiers and from Soldiers to Civilians: Mobilization and Demobilization in Sudan by Saskia Baas, Amsterdam University Press], Internationale Spectator; 66 (12) : 625-626.
• Geoffroy, Agnes, Einas Ahmed, David Ambrosetti, Lotje de Vries (2012) Les Deux Soudans (Nord et Sud) à l’épreuve de l’indépendence : Évolution des systèmes de pouvoirs à Khartoum et Djouba, et interaction avec la communauté internationale. Report commissioned by the French Ministry of Defence, delegation of strategic affairs.
• De Vries, Lotje (2011) The City in the Fragile State. Juba; a Fragile Capital? In: Klem, M. (ed.) Who belongs to the city / To whom belongs the city. Den Haag: Research for Development, VNG international, pp 85-101.
• De Vries, Lotje. “Canarisch drama moet stoppen” (“Canarian tragedy should stop”). Opinion piece in Daily NRC Handelsblad (28 September 2006).
• Cotterink, Maaike, Lotje de Vries. “Als illegaal naar Europa wil houdt niets hem tegen” (“Nothing will stop an illegal migrant”). Opinion piece in Daily Trouw (3 June 2006).