Dissertation

• E.M. Bartels, Building Better Games for National Security Policy Analysis: Towards a Social Scientific Approach, RAND Corporation, 2020.​

Monographs

• Y.H. Wong et al. Next Generation Wargaming for the U.S. Marine Corps, RAND Corporation, 2019.

Peer Reviewed Articles

• E.M. Bartels, M. McCown, and T. Wilkie, “Designing Peace and Conflict Exercises: Level of Analysis, Scenario, and Role Specification.” Simulation and Gaming, February 2013 44: 36-50. 

 
Book Chapters

• E.M. Bartels, “Inhabited Models and Irregular Warfare Games: An Approach to Educational and Analytical Gaming at the US Department of Defense,” In Pat Harrigan and Matthew Kirschenbaum, eds. Zones of Control. Cambridge: MIT Press, April 2016.

 
Commentaries and Essays

• E.M Bartels, "Building a Pipeline of Wargaming Talent: A Two-Track Solution," War on the Rocks, November 2018. 
• E.M. Bartels, "Adding Shots on Target: Wargaming Beyond the Game," War on the Rocks, October 2017.
• E.M. Bartels, “Getting the Most out of Your Wargame: Advice for Game Sponsors,” War on the Rocks, January 2016.
• E.M. Bartels, “Gaming: Learning at Play.” OR/MS Today, August 2014.

Podcast

• "The (War)Games We Play," War on the Rocks Podcast, November 2019.
• "Wargames," Defense One Radio, October 2019.
• "Wargaming and Nation Security Decision Making with Elizabeth Bartels," Strategy Bridge Podcast, April 2019.

Working Papers

• E.M. Bartels, The Science of Wargames: A discussion of philosophies of science for research games, Prepared for War Gaming and Implications for International Relations Research MIT CIS and U.S. Naval War College Workshop, Endicott House, 2019.
• E. M. Bartels, Archetypes of Information Produced by Analytical Games, Prepared for ISA Annual Conference, Toronto, 2019.
• E. M. Bartels, Games as Structured Comparisons: A discussion of methods, Prepared for ISA Annual Conference, San Francisco, 2018.

Selected Presentations

• E.M. Bartels, Critiquing a Framework for Linking Game Purpose to Design, Connections Wargaming Conference, Washington DC, 2018.
• E. M. Bartels, Insights from a Survey of the Wargaming Community, MORS Community of Practice, Santa Monica, CA, 2017.
• E. M. Bartels, Resolving Hidden Information in Open Adjudication, Connections UK Wargaming Conference, London, UK, 2016.
• E. M. Bartels, Methods of Social Inquiry for Game Design, MORS Community of Practice, Washington, DC, 2015.