Peer-Reviewed Articles:

R. McCarthy and S. Hmimnat, ‘Can Morocco’s Party of Justice and Development Rebuild?’, The Middle East Journal, forthcoming.

F. Merone and R. McCarthy, ‘Explaining the Distinction Between Religious and Political Activism in Islamism: Evidence from the Tunisian Case’, Politics and Religion Volume 17 Issue 2 (2024), 296-314.

R. McCarthy, ‘Islamism, Party Change, and Strategic Conciliation: Evidence from Tunisia,’ Party Politics Volume 30 Issue 6 (2024), 1064–1074.

R. McCarthy, ‘Autonomous Activism and Accountability in a Democratic Transition: Evidence from Tunisia,’ Democratization, Volume 30 Issue 5 (2023), 875-893.

R. McCarthy, ‘Transgressive Protest after a Democratic Transition: The Kamour Campaign in Tunisia,’ Social Movement Studies, Volume 21 Issue 6 (2022), 798-815. Shortlisted for the 2022 Britta Baumgarten Memorial Prize.

R. McCarthy, 'The Politics of Consensus: Al-Nahda and the Stability of the Tunisian Transition,' Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 55 Issue 2 (2019), 261-275, pdf.

R. McCarthy, 'When Islamists Lose: The Politicization of Tunisia's al-Nahda Movement', The Middle East Journal, Volume 72 Issue 3 (2018), 365-384, pdf.

R. McCarthy, 'Protecting the Sacred: Tunisia's Islamist Movement Ennahdha and the Challenge of Free Speech', British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 42 Issue 4 (2015), 447-464, pdf.

R. McCarthy, 'Re-thinking secularism in post-independence Tunisia', The Journal of North African Studies, Volume 19 Issue 5 (2014), 733-750, pdf.

Book Chapters:

R. McCarthy, ‘Ḥizb al-Taḥrīr Tunisia’, in Fleet, Kate, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, and Devin J. Stewart, eds. Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. Three. (Leiden: Brill, 2023), 30-31, pdf.

R. McCarthy, 'The Tunisian Uprising, Ennahdha, and the Revival of an Arab-Islamic Identity', in Holliday, S. and Leech, P. (eds.), Political Identities and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016), 157-176, pdf.

Edited Volumes:

Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, Rory McCarthy and Timothy Garton Ash (eds.), Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Published in Arabic as: Al-Muqawama al-Madaniyya fi al-Rabiʿ al-ʿArabi: Al-Intisarat wa-l-Kawarith (Beirut: All Prints, 2017).

Other:

R. McCarthy, The Unfinished Arab Spring: Micro-dynamics of Revolts between Change and Continuity, edited by Fatima El-Issawi and Francesco Cavatorta, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 50 Issue 1 (2023), 214-15, pdf.

R. McCarthy, ‘Political Mistrust and the Islamist impasse’, APSA MENA Politics Newsletter, Volume 4 Issue 2 (2021), 57-60, pdf.

D. Green and R. McCarthy, Lawrence of Oxford (Oxford: Magdalen College, 2020).

R. McCarthy, ‘Al-Nahda: From Preaching Circles to Politics’, The Middle East in London, Volume 14, Number 1 (2017), 14-15, pdf.

R. McCarthy, ‘Hammamet Conference 2012. The Leadership Challenge: Responding to Rapid Change
in the 21st Century’, (British Council, 2013).