PROFILE
Anna Leander is Professor of International Relations/Political Science. Since 2013, she has been Professor of International Relations at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, where she will continue to teach a few weeks per year. She previously held positions at Central European University in Budapest, the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute, the University of Southern Denmark, the Copenhagen Business School, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, the Collegio Carlo Alberto and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University. Her research is in International Political Sociology. She has worked extensively with practice theoretical approaches and she has a longstanding interest in the commercialisation of military/security matters. She recently published the Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies (2016, edited with Rita Abrahamsen) as well as articles in the European Journal of Social Theory, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, the Leiden Journal of International Law and International Studies Perspectives. Her current research focuses on the politics of digital, aesthetic and legal practices.
EXPERTISE DETAILS
- Commercial security: markets, marketing and regulation of commercial security
- Internet politics: social media, cyber-security, internet governance, politics of images/videos.
- Politics of expertise: security and conflict resolution expertise in particular
- Academic specialization: International political sociology; critical security studies.
recent publications
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(2022), ‘Militarization matters: rhetorical resonances and market militarism’, Critical Military Studies, pp. 1-24, https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2022.2081300
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(2021) Jonathan Austin and Anna Leander ‘Designing-With/In World Politics. Manifestos for an International Political Design’. Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (2) 1, pp. 83-154.
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Leander, Anna. (2019) 'Sticky Politics: Composing Security by Advertising Tracking Devices'. European Journal of International Security 4 (3): 322–44.
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Leander Anna (2019) Le Souci de Soi: The Duty of Care and the Humanitarian Politics of Life. In: Græger N and Leira H (eds) The Duty of Care in International Relations: Protecting citizens beyond the border. London et al.: Routledge, pp.18-34.
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Leander Anna (2019) Making Markets Responsible: Revisiting the State Monopoly on the Legitimate Use of Force. In: Crosbie T and Swed O (eds) Sociology, Privatization, Global Conflicts Palgrave, pp.137-171.
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Leander Anna (2020) Collaging as a Method for IR in the Anthropocene. In: Chandler D, Müller F and Rothe D (eds) International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Actors, New Agencies and New Approaches. London et al: Palgrave-Macmillan, pp.353-372.
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Aalberts Tanja, Kurowska Xymena, Leander Anna, et al. (2020) Rituals of World Politics: On (Visual) Practices Disordering Things. Critical Studies in Security 8: 240-264.
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Austin Jonathan Luke and Leander Anna (2021) Designing-With/In World Politics. Manifestos for an International Political Design. Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences 2: 83-154.
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Leander Anna (2021) Locating (New) Materialist Characters and Processes in A Theory Global Governance. International Theory 13(1): 157–168.
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Leander Anna (2021) Parsing Pegasus: An Infrastructural Approach to the Relationship between Technology and Swiss Security Politics. Swiss Political Science Review 27(1): 205-213.
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Leander Anna (2021) The Politics of Neo-Liberal Rituals: Performing the Institutionalization of Liminality at Trade Fairs. In: Rai S, Gluhovic M, Jestrovic S, et al. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
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(2019) Leander, Anna, and Wæver, Ole. Eds Assembling Exclusive Expertise: Knowledge, Ignorance and Conflict Resolution in the Global South. London et al.: Routledge (Worlding Beyond the West).
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(2016) Rita Abrahamsen and Anna Leander eds, Handbook of Private Military-Security Companies. New York Routledge (pbk: 2017).
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(2013) ed. The Commercialization of Security in Europe: Consequences for Peace and Reconciliation. New York: Routledge.
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(2010) (and Morten Ougaard) eds, Business and Global Governance. London and New York: Routledge.
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(2006) (and Stefano Guzzini) eds, Constructivism and International Relations: Alexander Wendt and his critics, London and New York: Routledge.
Articles
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(2019), Elke Krahmann and Anna Leander, 'Contracting Security: Markets in the Making of MONUSCO Peacekeeping', International Peacekeeping, 26 (2): 165-189.
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(2016) ‘Strong Objectivity in Security Studies: Ethnographic Contributions to Method Development’, International Studies Perspectives 17 (4): 462-475.
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(2015-2016) 'Mercados transgresores de seguridad: una mercancía en disputa y sus prácticas de mercado’ [Transgressive Security Markets: A Contested Commodity and its Market Practices], Relaciones Internacionales (30): 117-37,
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(2015) ‘Theorising International Monetary Relations: Three Questions about the Significance of Materiality’, Contexto Internacional, 37 (3): 945-973.
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(2014) Essential and Embattled Expertise: The Knowledge—Expert—Policy Nexus around the Sarin Gas Attack in Syria. Politik 17:26-37.
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(2013) ‘Technological Agency in the Co-Constitution of Legal Expertise and the US Drone Program’, Leiden Journal of International Law 26 (4): 811-831.
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(2012) ‘What Do Codes of Conduct Do? Hybrid Constitutionalization and Militarization in Military Markets’, Global Constitutionalism 1 (1): 91-119.
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(2011) ‘The Promises, Problems and Potentials of a Bourdieu Inspired Approach to International Relations’, International Political Sociology 5 (3): 294-313.
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(2010) ‘The Paradoxical Impunity of Private Military Companies: Authority and the Limits to Legal Accountability’, Security Dialogue 41 (5): 467-90.
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(2007) (and Rens van Munster) ‘Private Security Contractors in Darfur: Reflecting and Reinforcing Neo-Liberal Governmentality’, International Relations 21 (2): 201-216.
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(2006) ‘Paradigms as a Hindrance to Understanding World Politics’, Cooperation and Conflict 41 (4): 371-377.
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(2005) ‘The Market for Force and Public Security: The Destabilizing Consequences of Private Military Companies’, Journal of Peace Research 42 (5): 605-22.
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(2004) ‘Drafting Community: Understanding the Fate of Conscription’, Armed Forces & Society 30 (4): 571-600.
Peer-reviewed book chapters
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(2020) Composing Collaborationist Collages about Commercial Security. In Eklektiske Analysestrategier: Problemorienteret Samfundsvidenskab På Tværs Af Perspektiver, edited by Justine Grønbæk Pors and Emil Husted. Copenhangen: Akademisk Forlag, in press.
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(2019), ‘Making Markets Responsible: Revisiting the State Monopoly on the Legitimate Use of Force’, in Tom Crosbie and Ori Swed (eds) Sociology, Privatization, Global Conflicts. (London: Palgrave), pp. 137-71.
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(2017), ‘From Cookbooks to Dictionaries in the Making: Methodological Perspectives for Research of Non-State Actors and Processes’, in Andreas Kruck & Andrea Schneiker Methodological Approaches for Studying Non-state Actors in International Security. Theory and Practice. London: Routledge, pp. 233-245.
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(2010) ‘Habitus and Field’, in Robert A. Denemark (ed.) Blackwell: International Studies Compendium Project, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 3255-70.
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(2006) ‘Enduring Conscription: Vagueness and Värnplikt in Sweden’, in Pertti Joenniemi, ed., The Changing Face of European Conscription. London: Ashgate, pp. 112-30.
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Leander, Anna and Donatella della Ratta (2019), 'Art as Expertise? Creative Expression in Syrian Conflict Resolution', in Anna Leander and Ole Wæver (eds.) Assembling Exclusive Expertise: Knowledge, Ignorance and Conflict Resolution in the Global South (London et al.: Routledge (Worlding Beyond the West), pp. 190-212.
ACTIVITIES
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“Network on Drones and Aesthetics” (2017–2020), Danish Research Council Network Grant.
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“VioIence Prevention (VIPRE): Towards a Material-Semiotic Approach to the Prevention of Violent Human Rights Abuses” (2017–2021), project CRSII5_170986 of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
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Project no. 67741 (2015–2018), subproject “ICT and Democratic Security Politics”, Nordic Centre of Excellence for Security Technologies and Societal Values (NordSTEVA).
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“The Duty of Care: Protecting Citizens Abroad” (2015–2018), Doc:PRO project no. 238066 funded by the Research Council of Norway.