Professor Deborah Avant: Publications

Books

• Who Governs the Globe? (edited with Martha Finnemore and Susan Sell). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
• The Market for Force: the Consequences of Privatizing Security, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Political Institutions and Military Change: Lessons From Peripheral Wars, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. 

Articles

• "Military Contractors and the American Way of War," (with Renee de Nevers) Daedalus Vol. 140, No. 3 (Summer 2011).
• "Private Security and Democracy: Lessons from the US in Iraq," (with Lee Sigelman) Security Studies Vol. 19, No. 2 (2010).
• "NGOs, Corporations, and Security Transformation in Africa," International Relations, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2007).
• "Contracting for Services in US Military Operations," PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 50, No. 3 (July 2007)
• "The Implications of Marketized Security for IR Theory: the Democratic Peace, Late State Building and the Nature and Frequency of Conflict," Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 4, No. 3 (September 2006).
• "Global Monitor: Markets and Forces: Private Security and Its Implications," New Political Economy Vol. 10, No. 1 (2005)
• "Conserving Nature in the State of Nature: the Politics of INGO Implementation," Review of International Studies, (July 2004).
• "The Privatization of Security and Change in the Control of Force," International Studies Perspectives Vol. 5, No. 2 (May 2004).
• "Private Military Training," (update) Foreign Policy in Focus Vol. 7, No. 6 (May 2002).
• "U.S. Military Attitudes toward Post-Cold War Missions," Armed Forces and Society Vol. 27, No. 1 (fall 2000).
• "Privatizing Military Training," Foreign Policy in Focus Vol. 5, No. 17 (May 2000).
• "From Mercenary to Citizen Armies: Explaining Change in the Practice of War," International Organization Vol. 54, No. 1 (winter 2000).
• "Conflicting Indicators of "Crisis‟ in American Civil-Military Relations," Armed Forces and Society Vol. 24, No. 4 (spring 1998).
• "Are the Reluctant Warriors Out of Control? Why the U.S. Military is Averse to Responding to Post-Cold War Low-Level Threats," Security Studies Vol. 6, No. 2 (winter 1996-97).
• "The Institutional Sources of Military Doctrine: Hegemons in Peripheral Wars," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 4 (December 1993). 

Book Chapters

• "War, Recruitment Systems, and Democracy," in Elizabeth Kier and Ronald Krebs, eds., In War‟s Wake, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
• "Making peacemakers out of spoilers: International organizations, private military training, and statebuilding after war," in Roland Paris and Timothy D. Sisk, eds., The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations, New York: Routledge, 2008.
• "Contracting for Services in US Military Operations," in Derek S. Reveron and Judith Hicks Stiehm, eds., Inside Defense: Understanding the US Military in the 21st Century (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008).
• "Private Security" in Paul D. Williams, ed., Security Studies: An Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2008).
• "The emerging market for private military services and the problems of regulation," in Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt, From Mercenaries to Markets: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
• "Political Institutions and Military Effectiveness: Contemporary United States and United Kingdom," in Creating Military Power: The Sources of Military Effectiveness, edited by Risa Brooks and Elizabeth Stanley-Mitchell (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007).
• "Selling Security: Tradeoffs in State Regulation of the Private Security Industry," in Thomas Jager and Gerhard Kummel, eds., Private Military and Security Companies: Chances, Problems, Pitfalls, and Prospects (VS: Verlog, 2007).
• "The Marketization of Force: Adventurous Defense, Institutional Malformation, and Conflict," in Globalization and National Security, edited by Jonathan Kirshner (New York: Routledge, 2006).
• "Losing Control of the Profession through Outsourcing?" in Don Snider and Lloyd Matthews, The Future of the Army Profession, 2nd Edition (New York: McGraw Hill, 2005)
• "Private Military Training: A Challenge to US Army Professionalism?" in Don Snider and Gayle Watkins, Eds. The Future of the Army Profession, New York: McGraw Hill, 2002.
• "US military responses to post-Cold War missions" in Theo Farrell and Terry Terriff, eds., The Sources of Military Change: Military Organisations and Their Changing Environments in the Modern Era, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002.

Other Publications

• "Monitoring the Global Private Military and Security Industry: What do we know, what do we need to know, and how can we know it?," (with Mark Berlin and Karl Kruse). IGCC Occasional Paper No. 4, 2011.
• "Are Private Security Contractors Performing Inherently Governmental Functions?" Testimony. Public Hearing, Commission on Wartime Contracting. Dirkson Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, 18 June, 2010.
• "Mercenaries," Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by George Ritzer, Blackwell, 2010
• “Private Military and Security Companies,” in Encyclopedia of Global Studies, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and Helmut K. Anheier, 2010.
• "Private security contracting undermines democratic control of U.S. Foreign Policy," in "The Mercenary Debate: Three Views," The American Interest, Summer 2009.
• "The real Blackwater controversy," San Diego Union, 20 June 2008.
• "After Blackwater, Four Fundamental Questions about Our Democracy," San Francisco Chronicle, 8 October 2007.
• "NGOs, Corporations and Security Transformation in Africa," International Relations Vol. 21 no.2., June 2007.
• "Private Security Companies and the Future of War," Orbis, (spring 2006).
• "Hired Guns," Worth Magazine, (January 2006).
• "Think Again: Mercenaries," Foreign Policy, July/August 2004.
• "What are those contractors doing in Iraq?" Washington Post, Outlook, 9 May 2004, p. B1.
• Comment on "The Gap," The National Interest, No. 26, winter 2000/01.
• "Military Perspective and Civilian Control in post-Cold War Peace Operations," Proceedings of the 93rd Annual Meeting, American Society of International Law, 214 (2000).
• "Reconciling Culture and Change," in Michael Duffy, Theo Farrell and Geoffrey Sloan, eds., Culture and Command (Exeter: Strategic Policy Studies Group, 2000).
• "Military Reluctance To Intervene in Low-Level Conflicts: A Crisis?" in Vincent Davis, ed., Civil-Military Relations and the Not-Quite Wars of the Present and the Future, (Carlisle Barracks: Strategic Studies Institute, 1996).

In Progress

• "Organizational Security: Transnational Non-State Actors, Security Challenges, and an Agenda for Research," (with Virginia Haufler) for special issue of Global Crime, "Redistributing Security," edited by Ian Loader and Sarah Percy, under review.
• "Governance Dynamics and Regulation in the Global Private Security Market," in James David and Heiner Hanggi, Governing Private Security, under review.
• "The Dynamics of Private Security Strategies and their Public Consequences: Transnational Organizations in Historical Perspective," article manuscript (with Virginia Haufler).
• "Diffusion and Governance beyond the State: Security Policies and New Governance Roles for NGOs and Corporations," (with Virginia Haufler) article manuscript.
• "Organizational Security: Transnational Non-State Actors, Security Challenges, and an Agenda for Research,"(with Virginia Haufler) article manuscript.
• "Private Security Contractors and Post-Heroic Warfare," conference paper.
• "Convergence and Divergence in Security Governance: Regulatory Trajectories in Military and Security Services v Small Arms," book manuscript.
• "Re-thinking the Human Costs of War," (with James Lebovic) experimental research.
• "The New Power Politics: Networks, Governance, and Global Security," (with Oliver Westerwinter) workshop proposal.
• "Questioning the post-heroic warfare logic: private contractors, casualty sensitivity and public support for war in the United States," conference paper.