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PhD Political Science University of Copenhagen
Masters Sociology University of Copenhagen
Bachelors Sociology University of Copenhagen

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According to Wikipedia, Anna Leander is a sociologist and political scientist. Leander is currently a professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She previously taught at the Copenhagen Business School and the Inst. de Relacoes Internacionais, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Leander is well known for her work in critical security studies and international political sociology. Theoretically, Leander has played an important role in bringing the work of Pierre Bourdieu into conversation with the discipline of International Relations, as well as more recently working with materialist and pragmatist sociologies. Empirically, much of her work focuses on the contours of private military contractors, drones, and the politics of knowledge in a digital context. Leander has supported the development of International Political Sociology as an editor, through engagement with professional organizations and research evaluation as well as through her investment with education. Anna Leander was associate editor of International Political Sociology until 2017 and is currently associate editor of Security Dialogue and Contexto Internacional and co-editor of the Routledge Series in Private Security Studies. Leander has served on the Norwegian and Swedish Research Councils, numerous research evaluation boards as well as on the advisory boards of DIIS, the Danish Institute for International Studies and the GIGA German Institute for Global and Regional Studies. She was a co-founder of the International Political Sociology section of the International Studies Association, she co-developed/co-directed the International Business and Politics Program of the Copenhagen Business School, and she has supported/supervised numerous doctoral projects. She is the founder of the University of Copenhagen's Centre for the Resolution of International Conflicts .

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Anna Leander's Published Works

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The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security (2008) (225)
The Power to Construct International Security: On the Significance of Private Military Companies (2005) (180)
The Market for Force and Public Security: The Destabilizing Consequences of Private Military Companies (2005) (161)
The Promises, Problems, and Potentials of a Bourdieu-Inspired Staging of International Relations (2011) (124)
Global Civil Society: An Answer to War (2004) (120)
Constructivism and international relations : Alexander Wendt and his critics (2006) (100)
Private Security Contractors in the Debate about Darfur: Reflecting and Reinforcing Neo-Liberal Governmentality (2007) (100)
A social theory for international relations (2001) (78)
The Paradoxical Impunity of Private Military Companies: Authority and the Limits to Legal Accountability (2010) (59)
Eroding State Authority?: Private Military Companies and the Legitimate Use of Force (2006) (57)
The constructivist challenge to structural realism (2005) (55)
Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies (2015) (51)
Drafting Community: Understanding the Fate of Conscription (2004) (49)
Wars and the UnMaking of States : Taking Tilly Seriously in the Contemporary World (2002) (48)
Technological Agency in the Co-Constitution of Legal Expertise and the US Drone Program (2013) (42)
Do we really need reflexivity in IPE? Bourdieu's two reasons for answering affirmatively (2002) (41)
Wars and the un-making of states : Taking Tilly seriously in the contemporary world (2003) (37)
The global governance of security and finance (2011) (31)
Introduction: The politics of the list (2016) (29)
A social theory for international relations : an appraisal of Alexander Wendt’s theoretical and disciplinary synthesis (2001) (25)
Habitus and Field (2010) (24)
Introduction: The Co-Constitution of Legal Expertise and International Security (2013) (23)
What do codes of conduct do? Hybrid constitutionalization and militarization in military markets (2012) (22)
France: Making Both Ends Meet? (2013) (22)
Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years (2019) (21)
Business and Global Governance (2010) (21)
Risk and the fabrication of apolitical, unaccountable military markets: the case of the CIA ‘Killing Program’1 (2011) (20)
Commercial Security Practices (2010) (19)
The power to construct international security (2005) (18)
Wendt's constructivism: a relentless quest for synthesis (2006) (17)
Why we need multiple stories about the global political economy (2009) (17)
Dependency today—finance, firms, mafias and the state: A review of Susan Strange's work from a developing country perspective (2001) (17)
Ethnographic Contributions to Method Development: “Strong Objectivity” in Security Studies (2015) (16)
European Economic and Monetary Union and the Crisis of European Social Contracts (1997) (14)
Regulating the role of private military companies in shaping security and politics (2007) (13)
The politics of whitelisting: Regulatory work and topologies in commercial security (2016) (13)
Contracting Security: Markets in the Making of MONUSCO Peacekeeping (2019) (12)
Constructing a new orthodoxy (2005) (11)
Globalisation and the State Monopoly on the Legitimate Use of Force (2004) (11)
Privatizing the politics of protection: military companies and the definition of security concerns (2006) (11)
Essential and Embattled Expertise: Knowledge/Expert/Policy Nexus around the Sarin Gas attack in Syria (2014) (10)
Assembling Exclusive Expertise (2018) (10)
Securing Sovereignty by Governing Security through Markets (2008) (10)
Private Security Contractors in Darfur: Reflecting and Reinforcing Neo-Liberal Governmentality (2006) (9)
The Return of the Public in Global Governance: Understanding US National Intelligence: analyzing practices to capture the chimera (2014) (9)
Digital/commercial (in)visibility (2017) (8)
Enduring Conscription: Vagueness and Värnplikt in Sweden (2005) (7)
Locating (new) materialist characters and processes in global governance (2020) (6)
Private Agency and the Definition of Public Security Concerns:: The Role of Private Military Companies (2004) (6)
Sticky security: the collages of tracking device advertising (2019) (6)
Social Theory as Cartesian science (2005) (6)
Designing-With/In World Politics (2021) (5)
“Globalization Theory”: Feeble... and Hijacked (2009) (5)
Betrand Badie: Cultural Diversity Changing International Relations (1994) (5)
African States and the Market for Force: The Destabilizing Consequences of Private Military Companies (2004) (5)
Parsing Pegasus: An Infrastructural Approach to the Relationship between Technology and Swiss Security Politics (2021) (4)
Jomo Kwame Sundaram: An Interview (2013) (4)
Conceptual Innovations and Contemporary Security Analysis (2004) (4)
The Politics of Legal Arrangements: The "Duty of Care," Justifying, Extending, and Perpetuating the Public-in-the-Private Forms of Protection (2018) (4)
Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding World Politics (2006) (3)
Art as expertise? (2018) (3)
Rituals of world politics: on (visual) practices disordering things (2020) (3)
Tainted love: the struggle over legality in international relations and international law (2016) (3)
Wendt, IR, and philosophy (2005) (3)
Close Range: Targeting Regulatory Reform (2009) (3)
Conclusion: National Lexica of Conscription (2006) (3)
From cookbooks to encyclopaedias in the making (2017) (2)
From leadership to cooperation : the role of Turkish state in bargaining with foreign investors in the 1980s (1997) (2)
Afterword: Engendering Knowledge and Shifting the Spaces of “Private Security” and “Global Politics” (2015) (2)
'Robin Hood' politics? Turkey missing the chance to adopt a new model in the 1990s (1996) (2)
Wendt’s constructivism (2005) (2)
Shifting Political Identities and Global Governance of the Justified Use of Force (2005) (2)
Composing Collaborationist Collages about Commercial Security (2020) (2)
Ripples and their returns: tracing the regulatory security state from the EU to Brazil, back and beyond (2023) (1)
International Relations Expertise at the Interstices of Fields and Assemblages (2018) (1)
Whitelisting and the Rule of Law: Legal Technologies and Governance in Contemporary Commercial Security (2016) (1)
Markets in the Making of Multilateral Military Interventions: Contracted Security in MONUC/MONUSCU (2014) (1)
Afterword: The Commercial In/For International Political Sociology (2017) (1)
From Cookbooks to Encyclopaedias in the Making: Methodological Perspectives for Research of Non-state Actors and Processes (2017) (1)
Private Force and the Emergence of the International System (2018) (1)
Following Onuf’s rules on rule: The legal road to social constructivism (2017) (1)
Transversal Politics of Big Tech (2023) (1)
Collaging as a Method for IR in the Anthropocene (2021) (1)
Book Review Forum: Scenarios and Science in International Relations/International Political Economy (2008) (1)
Endogenizing corporate identities (2005) (1)
Essential and embattled expertise (2017) (1)
Interviewing Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) about Pier re Bourdieu and International Relations (2016) (1)
Portraits in Practice : The Private Security Business and the Reconfiguration of International Politics (2007) (1)
Theorising international monetary relations: three questions about the significance of materiality (2015) (1)
2 “ Strong Objectivity ” in Security Studies : Ethnographic Contributions to Method Development 1 (2013) (0)
Of Hummingbirds and Parrots: Drones Re-Producing the Temporalities of International Law (2012) (0)
Temporalizing Radical Difference to Govern Somali Piracy (2015) (0)
A Minestrone of World Order Constructions: Reflections on Disciplinary Change in IPE (2005) (0)
Reflexivity and structural change (2005) (0)
What Role for Technological Expertise in International Crisis (2014) (0)
The politics of legal arrangements (2018) (0)
Post 9/11 Multidimensional Security Challenges (2014) (0)
Book Review (2001) (0)
Ethnography of Insecurity (2012) (0)
The Fighter not Killer App: Digital Democratic Security Communication (2015) (0)
Critical Perspectives on Military Markets (2016) (0)
Dubious dichotomies, restricted options, and deficient sight: A reply to Oktar Türel (1996) (0)
Towards a Global Conversation (2015) (0)
Undermining the Rule of Law by Extending Regulation: Whitelisting and Accountability in the Private Military and Security Industry (2013) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Grand Theory in the age of its impossibility (2005) (0)
Talking Curves at the Montreaux+5 Conference (2014) (0)
The Politics of Withlisting in Commercial Security (2013) (0)
Making Markets Responsible: Revisiting the State Monopoly on the Legitimate Use of Force (2018) (0)
מניה בטוחה להשקעה: ביטחון הוא מלך העול (2015) (0)
The Song of the Hummingbird Drone: Technological Legitimation of Heterogeneous Transnational Security Governance (2012) (0)
Engaging the Contested and Material Politics of Private Military and Security Service Governance from a Pragmatist Perspective (2016) (0)
Value Neutral Research: Methodological Challenges of Ethnographic Research in Critical Security Studies (2012) (0)
Neo-Liberal Governmentality of Contemporary Security: Understanding private security contractors in Darfur and EU immigration control (2006) (0)
The Politics of Neoliberal Rituals (2021) (0)
Private Security Studies: The Strange Story of the Establishment of an Academic Field (2014) (0)
Protecting Citizens Abroad: The Polities of Reshuffeling Responsibilities, Creating Two Tiered Citizenships and Radicalising Insecurity (2015) (0)
Targeted Killings and Extrajudicial Assassinations: Technological Agency in the Politics of the Legal Expertise (2013) (0)
Dependency today — nance , rms , ma as and the state : a review of Susan Strange ’ s work from a developing country perspective (2001) (0)
Commercial Politics of Peace: Military Markets Recasting European Engagements in Afghanistan (2012) (0)
The Impunity of Private Authority : Understanding PSC Accountability (2007) (0)
Art as Expertise?: Creative Expression in the Syrian Conflict Resolution (2019) (0)
Non-individualist Rediscoveries of the Individual: Feminist Approaches to World Politics (1999) (0)
Abstracts (2004) (0)
Following Onuf’s Rules on Rule (2017) (0)
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY Introduction : The Co-Constitution of Legal Expertise and International Security (2013) (0)
Beyond cyberutopia and digital disenchantment Pragmatic engagements with and from within the Internet (2020) (0)
The Privatization of Security (2009) (0)
Theorising international monetary relations (2015) (0)
Constructivism and identity (2005) (0)
Book Review: CONFLICT AND PEACE STUDIES Oded Löwenheim, Predators and Parasites. Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2007, 280 pp., $25.95 pbk.) (2008) (0)
Military Markets Recasting European Engagements in Afghanistan Clausewitz’s famous depiction of war as the prolongation of politics (2012) (0)
No place for politics (2005) (0)
The State of the Sublime: Aesthetic Protocols and Global Security (2022) (0)
Department of Intercultural Communication and Management Porcelænshaven 18 DK-2000 Frederiksberg (2008) (0)
"Robin Hood" Politics? Turkey Probing a New Model in the 1990s (1994) (0)
Book Review: John Stopford and Susan Strange (with John S. Henley), Rival States Rival Firms: Competition for World Market Shares (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 321 pp., £14.95 pbk.) (1992) (0)
Three Questions for Cohen About the "Mechanics" of Monetary Policy in the Age of Electronic Money (2014) (0)
Enduring Conscription: Vagueness and Värnplikt in Sweden 1 (2005) (0)
Promises and Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence for Democratic Participation. Workshop Proceedings.CCDSEE, GSI, University of Geneva, December 10 – 11, 2020, Virtual Event (2021) (0)

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