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Publications

Schiel, Rebecca, Jonathan Powell, and Ursula Daxecker. Forthcoming. Peacekeeping and Mutinies in Africa. Foreign Policy Analysis.
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Vasquez, Paul, and Jonathan Powell. Forthcoming. Institutional Arsenals for Democracy? (ungated version). Armed Forces & Society.
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Thyne, Clayton, and Jonathan Powell. Forthcoming. "Coup Research." Oxford Research Encyclopedia.
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 Faulkner, Christopher, Jonathan Powell, and Trace Lasley. 2019. Funding, Capabilities, and the Use of Child Soldiers.  Third World Quarterly. Ungated version.
 Powell, Jonathan. ​Of Strong Men and Straw Men: Appraising Post-Coup Political Developments. Military Review July-August:47-53.

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

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