Governance & Democracy

Sié Faculty research a variety of global dynamics associated with governance and democracy including varieties of democracy, global dynamics supportive of and challenging to democracy, civil-military relations and democracy, and the democratic (or not) qualities of new forms of governance. Faculty focus on institutions in the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. 

Sié faculty contribute to the planning and execution of the annual Denver Democracy Summit

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Featured Publications

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    Seth Masket (with Hans Noel). 2021. Political Parties: A Modern Book for a Modern Parties Course.
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    Alvin Camba. June 15, 2021. How Duterte Strong-Armed Chinese Dam Builders But Weakened Philippine Institutions.
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    Deborah Avant. 2021. America’s Pragmatic Role?
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    Deborah Avant. 2021. “Governance Shifts in Security: Military and Security Services and Small Arms Compared. In Global Governance in a World of Change. Eds Michael Barnett, Jon Pevehouse, and Kal Raustiala. Cambridge University Press. 

    Seth Masket. 2020. Learning from Loss: The Democrats 2016-2020.
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    Deborah Avant (with Kara Kingma Neu). 2020. Military Dissent Could Curb Democratic backsliding in the US. Political Violence at a Glance. 
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    Martin Rhodes (with Manuella Moschella). 2020. A tale of two populisms: the League and the Five Star Movement in Power.
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    Tricia Olsen (with Geoff Dancy and Bridget Marchesi, Leigh A. Payne, Andrew G. Reiter and Kathryn Sikkink). 2019 “Behind Bars and Bargains: How Justice Policies Change Human Rights Practices in New Democracies.”
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    Deborah Avant. 2017. Innovations in Global Governance. Council on Foreign Relations Report.
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    Naazneen Barma.2017.The Peacebuilding Puzzle: Political Order in Post-Conflict States.
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    Martin Rhodes. 2016. A Future of Competitive Corporatism.
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    Deborah Avant (with Martha Finnemore and Susan Sell). 2010. Who Governs the Globe? Cambridge University Press.
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    Rachel Epstein. 2005. "NATO Enlargement and the Spread of Democracy: Evidence and Expectations," Security Studies.
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    Rachel Epstein. 2006. "When Legacies Meet Policies: NATO and the Refashioning of Polish Military Tradition," East European Politics and Societies.
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    Deborah Avant (with James Lebovic). 2000. “US Military Attitudes toward Post-Cold War Missions,” Armed Forces and Society.
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    Deborah Avant. 1998. “Conflicting Indicators of ‘Crisis’ in American Civil-Military Relations,” Armed Forces and Society.
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    Deborah Avant. 1994. Political Institutions and Military Change: Lessons from Peripheral Wars.
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Past Projects

  • Fostering Inclusive Responses to the Liberal Order's "Crisis"

    In partnership with CSIS, the Sié Chéou-Kang Center and Center for Europe and the World at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies hosted a workshop exploring the roots of discontent with the liberal international order. The workshop brought together the different perspectives on this question from political science scholars that study international relations, comparative politics, and American politics along with anthropologists and sociologists. The goal was to examine why some citizens have lost faith in democratic institutions and explore potential ways in which faith can be built around inclusive processes that maintain openness while serving the needs of local, national, and global publics. 

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  • New Power Politics Workshop

     "The New Power Politics: Networks, Governance, and Global Security" examined how various associations of state and non-state actors addressing security issues might be thought of as networks or governance systems. Participants were an international group of scholars focused on a wide range of contemporary security issues, and each participant was responsible for a paper addressing the interaction between networks, governance and power. Led by Deborah Avant, Sié Chair and Director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center, and Oliver Westerwinter, lecturer at the European University Institute with support from the International Studies Association and the One Earth Future Foundation.  

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