Publications
Below are a selection of my books, book chapters and articles.  You can also find my CV here.
 

In my first book I develop a principal-agent model of civil-military relations and use it to understand the difference between British and US adaptations to insurgencies.

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Examining the relations among governors led me fairly quickly to networks. This volume, edited with Oliver Westerwinter, looks specifically at governance around security issues. j

My 2005 book examines the growth of the market for force and its impact on controlling forces. The market changes this control among states, not for profit  organizations and corporations.

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A product of interactions with my Sié Center colleagues, my latest edited volume develops a logic of “civil” action, and shows how it affects the dynamics of violence in Syria, Peru, Kenya, Northern Ireland, Mexico, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Spain, and Colombia. 

Inspired by the importance of different authorities for governance, this co-edited volume (with Martha Finnemore and Susan Sell) began theorize the agents of global governance: 'global governors' by looking at their relationships.

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• "Between Probability and Possibility: Fostering Productive Research in a Dystopian Moment." International Studies Review 26, No. 3 (2024).

• "The Role of Description" in Doing Good Qualitative Research. Eds Jennifer Cyr and Sara Wallace Goodman. Oxford University Press (2024).

• "The Ethics of Scholarship in a Complex World." International Affairs 100, No.1: 159-180 (2024). 

• "Can CSR strategy mediate conflict over extraction? Evidence from two mines in Peru." World Development Vol. 170 (2023)

• "Introduction." ISSF Roundtable 14-2 on Séverine Autesserre. The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider’s Guide to Changing the World. (2022). 

• “Allergy to pragmatism’s femininities?” Pragmatism in International Relations: Prospects for Substantive Theorizing, International Studies Review. (advanced access) (2021)

• "Has Trump Changed How We Think About American Security?" H-Diplo/ISSF Policy Series 2021-40. 

•  “America’s Pragmatic Role?” International Studies Review, Vol 23, No. 3:1126-1143. (2020)

• “The Private Security Events Database,” (with Kara Kingma Neu). Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol 57, No. 5: 795-821. (2019)

• "Public-Private Interactions and Practices of Security," in Alexandra Gheciu and William C. Wohlforth, eds.  The Oxford Handbook of International Security (Oxford University Press, 2018). 

• "Pragmatism, the Just War Tradition, and an Ethical Approach to Private Military and Security Companies," in Daniel R. Brunstetter and Jean-Vincent Holeindre, eds.,  The Ethics of War and Peace Revisited: Moral Challenges in an Era of Contested and Fragmented Sovereignty (Georgetown University Press, 2017). 

• "Pragmatic Networks and Transnational Governance of Private Military and Security Services," International Studies Quarterly 60:1 (2016).

• "Pragmatism and Effective Fragmented Governance: Comparing Trajectories in Small Arms and Military and Security Services," Oñati Socio-Legal Series 3:4 (2013).

• "The Dynamics of 'Private' Security Practices and their Public Consequences: Transnational Organizations in Historical Perspective," with Virginia Haufler, in Jacquie Best and Alexandra Gheciu, eds., The Return of the Public in Global Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

• "Transnational Organizations and Security," with Virginia Haufler, Global Crime 13:4 (2012).

• "Military Contractors and the American Way of War," with Renee de Nevers, Daedalus 140:3 (2011). 

• "Private Security and Democracy: Lessons from the US in Iraq," with Lee Sigelman, Security Studies 19:2 (2010). 

• "NGOs, Corporations, and Security Transformation in Africa," International Relations 21:2 (2007).

• "Contracting for Services in U.S. Military Operations," PS: Political Science and Politics 50:3 (2007). 

• "The Emerging Market for Private Military Services and the Problems of Regulation," in Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt, eds., From Mercenaries to Markets: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 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 4:3 (2006).

• "Conserving Nature in the State of Nature: the Politics of INGO Implementation," Review of International Studies (2004).

• "The Privatization of Security and Change in the Control of Force," International Studies Perspectives 5:2 (2004).

• "U.S. Military Attitudes toward Post-Cold War Missions," Armed Forces and Society 27:1 (2000).

• "Privatizing Military Training," Foreign Policy in Focus 5:17 (2000).

• "From Mercenary to Citizen Armies: Explaining Change in the Practice of War," International Organization 54:1 (2000).

• "Conflicting Indicators of "Crisis‟ in American Civil-Military Relations," Armed Forces and Society 24:4 (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 6:2 (1996-97).

• "The Institutional Sources of Military Doctrine: Hegemons in Peripheral Wars," International Studies Quarterly 37:4 (1993).