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Overview

Deborah Avant is affiliated with the University of Denver in the United States. Their academic work primarily falls within the social sciences, with a focus on political science and international relations. The research also intersects with sociology, economics and econometrics, and occasionally addresses topics related to building and construction, as well as general economics and finance.

The primary topics of Deborah Avant's research include military and defense studies, international relations and foreign policy, global peace and security dynamics, defense, military, and policy studies, political conflict and governance, mining and resource management, and natural resources and economic development.

Avant has published extensively in several academic venues. Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • International Studies Review
  • World Development
  • International Affairs
  • Perspectives on Politics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Avant include:

  • Simon Frankel Pratt
  • Sebastian Schmidt
  • Molly Cochran
  • Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
  • Henry Farrell

The following represents a selection of recent papers authored or co-authored by Deborah Avant, showing the year of publication and respective publication venue:

  • "Pragmatism in IR: The Prospects for Substantive Theorizing" (2021), published in International Studies Review
  • "America's Pragmatic Role?" (2020), published in International Studies Review
  • "Can CSR strategy mediate conflict over extraction? Evidence from two mines in Peru" (2023), published in World Development
  • "Between Probability and Possibility: Fostering Productive Research in a Dystopian Moment" (2024), published in International Studies Review
  • "The ethics of engaged scholarship in a complex world" (2024), published in International Affairs

Best Publications

  • The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security

    Deborah D. Avant

  • Who governs the globe

    Deborah D. Avant;Martha Finnemore;Susan K. Sell

  • Political Institutions and Military Change: Lessons from Peripheral Wars

    Deborah D. Avant

  • Who Governs the Globe?: Authority dynamics and governance outcomes

    Deborah D. Avant;Martha Finnemore;Susan K. Sell

  • From Mercenary to Citizen Armies: Explaining Change in the Practice of War

    Deborah Avant

  • The Privatization of Security and Change in the Control of Force

    Deborah Avant

  • Private Security and Democracy: Lessons from the US in Iraq

    Deborah Avant;Lee Sigelman

  • The Institutional Sources of Military Doctrine: Hegemons in Peripheral Wars

    Deborah D. Avant

  • Conflicting Indicators of "Crisis" in American Civil-Military Relations:

    Deborah Avant

  • The Implications of Marketized Security for IR Theory: The Democratic Peace, Late State Building, and the Nature and Frequency of Conflict

    Deborah Avant

  • Pragmatic Networks and Transnational Governance of Private Military and Security Services

    Deborah D. Avant

  • The Market for Force by Deborah D. Avant

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  • Private security companies

    Deborah Avant

  • Military Contractors & the American Way of War

    Deborah D. Avant;Renée de Nevers

  • Who Governs the Globe?: Who governs the globe?

    Deborah D. Avant;Martha Finnemore;Susan K. Sell

  • The Privatization of Security: Lessons from Iraq

    Deborah D. Avant

  • NGOs, Corporations and Security Transformation in Africa:

    Deborah Avant

  • Are the reluctant warriors out of control? Why the U.S. military is averse to responding to post‐cold war low‐level threats

    Deborah D. Avant

  • The new power politics : networks and transnational security governance

    Deborah Avant;Oliver Westerwinter

  • Political Institutions and Military Change

    Deborah D. Avant

  • Political Institutions and Military Effectiveness: Contemporary United States and United Kingdom

    Deborah Avant

  • Who Governs the Globe?: Conclusion: authority, legitimacy, and accountability in global politics

    Deborah D. Avant;Martha Finnemore;Susan K. Sell

  • Transnational organisations and security

    Deborah Avant;Virginia Haufler

  • The emerging market for private military services and the problems of regulation

    Deborah Avant

  • The Private Security Events Database

    Deborah Avant;Kara Kingma Neu

Frequent Co-Authors

Martha Finnemore
Martha Finnemore George Washington University
Cullen S. Hendrix
Cullen S. Hendrix University of Denver
Lee Sigelman
Lee Sigelman George Washington University

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