Research

Publications

Vasquez, Paul, and Jonathan Powell. Forthcoming. "Institutional Arsenals for Democracy?" Armed Forces & Society.

Thyne, Clayton, and Jonathan Powell. Forthcoming. "Coup Research." Oxford Research Encyclopedia.

Faulkner, Christopher, Jonathan Powell, and Trace Lasley. 2019. Funding, Capabilities, and the Use of Child Soldiers. Third World Quarterly. Ungated.

Powell, Jonathan, Mwita Chacha, and Gary Smith. 2019. Opening up, or Digging in? Failed coups, Democratization, and Authoritarian Entrenchment. African Affairs 118(471):238-258. Ungated.

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Besaw, Clayton, Matthew Frank, Eric Keels, Jay Benson, John Filitz, and Jonathan Powell. 2019. Annual Risk of Coup Report. One Earth Future. OEF Research. April.

Faulkner, Christopher, Joshua Lambert, and Jonathan Powell. 2019. Reassessing Private Military and Security Company Competition in Sierra Leone. Small Wars & Insurgencies 30(3):641-659. Ungated.

Powell, Jonathan, and Mwita Chacha. 2019. Closing the Book on Africa's First Generation Coups. African Studies Quarterly 18(2): 87-94.

Powell, Jonathan, and Karina Mukazhanova-Powell. Demonstrating Credentials?: Female Executives, Women's Status, and the Use of Force. Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy 40(2):241-262.

Powell, Jonathan. 2019. Leader Survival Strategies and the Onset of Civil Conflict. Armed Forces & Society 45(1):27-44.

Thyne, Clayton, Jonathan Powell, Sarah Parrot, and Emily VanMeter. 2018. How Domestic and International Reactions to Coups Influence Regime Survival. Journal of Conflict Resolution 62(7):1406-1432.

Powell, Jonathan, Christopher Faulkner, William Dean, and Kyle Romano. 2018. Give them Toys?: Military Allocations and Regime Stability in Transitional Democracies. Democratization 25(7):1153-1172.

Schroeder, Theresa, and Jonathan Powell. 2018. Right Man for the Job? Gender as a Source of Civil-Military Friction. Armed Forces & Society 44(3):460-475.

Chacha, Mwita, and Jonathan Powell. 2017. Economic Interdependence and Post-Coup Democratization. Democratization 24(5):819-838.

Schiel, Rebecca, Christopher Faulkner, and Jonathan Powell. 2017. Mutiny in Cote d'Ivoire. Africa Spectrum 52(2):103-115. (editorially reviewed)

Powell, Jonathan, and Mwita Chacha. 2016. Investing in Stability: Economic Interdependence, the Capitalist Peace, and Coups d'etat. Journal of Peace Research 53(4):525-538.

Powell, Jonathan, Trace Lasley, and Rebecca Schiel. 2016. Combating Coups d'etat in Africa, 1950-2014. Studies in Comparative International Development 51(4):482-502.

Thyne, Clayton, and Jonathan Powell. 2016. Coup d'état or Coup d'Autocracy?: How Coups Influence Democratization, 1950-2008. Foreign Policy Analysis 12(2):192-213.

Powell, Jonathan, and Theresa Schroeder. 2016. Friends in Low Places?: The Conditional Effect of Trade on Women’s Status. Studies in Comparative International Development 51(2):169-188.

Powell, Jonathan. 2014. The Strategic Logic of Tolerating Rebellion. African Security Review 23(4):329-338.

Powell, Jonathan. 2014. An Assessment of the 'Democratic Coup' Theory: Democratic Trajectories in Africa, 1952-2012. African Security Review 23(3):213-224.

Powell, Jonathan. 2014. Regime Vulnerability and the Diversionary Threat of Force. Journal of Conflict Resolution 58(1):169-196.

Powell, Jonathan. 2012. Determinants of the Attempting and Outcome of Coups d’état. Journal of Conflict Resolution 56(6):1017-1040.

Powell, Jonathan, and Clayton L. Thyne. 2011. Global Instances of Coups from 1950-Present. Journal of Peace Research 48(2):249-259.