Patrick Morgan
Professor of Political Science, UC Irvine
- Phone: 949/824-3187
- Fax: 949/824-8762
Profile
Expertise
International Politics, Peace and Security Issues—national and international, U.S. Foreign Relations, U.S.-European Relations, International Relations TheoryBiography
Deborah Avant is professor of political science and director of international studies at UC Irvine. Her research (funded by the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Olin Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation, among others) has focused on civil-military relations, military change, and the politics of controlling violence. Her recent work on the privatization of security has appeared in The Market for Force: the Consequences of Privatizing Security (Cambridge University Press, 2005) as well as articles in academic and popular journals such as Perspective on Politics, Review of International Studies, Foreign Policy, and International Studies Perspectives. She is also the author of Political Institutions and Military Change: Lessons From Peripheral Wars (Cornell University Press, 1994) along with other articles on military change in such journals as International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and Armed Forces and Society. Her current research focuses on how the U.S. government’s use of private security has affected democratic processes in the United States, how private actors conceptualize and implement security in weak states and the way different non- state actors govern on the global stage.
Prof. Avant chairs the International Security Studies Section of the ISA, is an active member of the executive board of Women in International Security (WIIS), and serves on the editorial boards of several journals including the American Political Science Review and Security Studies.
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