Peer-Reviewed Articles:

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, ‘Islamists and the State: The puzzle of enduring competition’, Global Policy Journal Online, 12 January 2023.

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, ‘Book Review – Safwan Masri’s ‘Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly’, LSE Middle East Centre Blog, 28 November 2017.

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