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| Political institutions and military change DD Avant Political Institutions and Military Change, 2019 | 526 | 2019 |
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| Mercenaries D Avant Foreign Policy, 20-28, 2004 | 111 | 2004 |
| Conflicting indicators of" crisis" in American civil-military relations D Avant Armed Forces & Society 24 (3), 375-387, 1998 | 108 | 1998 |
| The implications of marketized security for IR theory: The democratic peace, late state building, and the nature and frequency of conflict D Avant Perspectives on politics 4 (3), 507-528, 2006 | 107 | 2006 |
| Pragmatic networks and transnational governance of private military and security services DD Avant International Studies Quarterly 60 (2), 330-342, 2016 | 102 | 2016 |
| Are the reluctant warriors out of control? Why the US military is averse to responding to post‐cold war low‐level threats DD Avant Security Studies 6 (2), 51-90, 1996 | 102 | 1996 |
| Privatizing military training D Avant Foreign Policy in Focus 7 (6), 1-4, 2002 | 99 | 2002 |
| Military contractors & the American way of war DD Avant, R De Nevers Daedalus, 88-99, 2011 | 97 | 2011 |
| The new power politics: Networks and transnational security governance D Avant, O Westerwinter Oxford University Press, 2016 | 96* | 2016 |
| Private security companies D Avant New Political Economy 10 (1), 121-131, 2005 | 89 | 2005 |
| Sell. 2010. Who governs the globe DD Avant, M Finnemore, K Susan Who Governs the Globe, 1-31, 2010 | 81 | 2010 |
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Susan K SellProfessor of Political Science and International AffairsVerified email at gwu.edu
