Renée de Nevers

• 2024 Spring
  • PAI/PSC 718/706 United States National Security: Defense and Foreign Policy
• 2023 Fall
  • PAI 719 Fundamentals of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • PAI 710 International Actors and Issues
• 2023 Spring
  • PAI/PSC 718/706 United States National Security: Defense and Foreign Policy
• 2022 Fall
  • PAI/PSC 719 Fundamentals of Post-Conflict Reconstruction
  • PAI 710 International Actors and Issues
• 2022 Spring
  • PAI/PSC 718/706 United States National Security: Defense and Foreign Policy

Renée de Nevers is an associate professor in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Previously she taught at the University of Oklahoma, and was a program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She has been a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Hoover Institution, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Russia in 2011.

She received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her current research focuses on great power efforts to protect or manipulate sovereignty when confronted by new security challenges, and the regulation and accountability of private military and security companies. She is the author of "Comrades No More: The Seeds of Change in Eastern Europe" (MIT Press, 2003) and the co-author of "Combating Terrorism: Strategies and Approaches" (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008), and numerous journal articles and book chapters.

"IC Center for Academic Excellence: Syracuse University Adaptive, Diverse & Ethical IC Professionals: Partnership for Educational Results (PER/SUADE)", Sponsored by Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)/DOD.

• Book
  • Banks, W. C., de Nevers, R. and Wallerstein, M., Combating Terrorism. Congressional Quarterly Press, 2008.
• Journal Articles
  • de Nevers, R., Taylor, B. D., "Russia’s War of Recolonization." Journal of Democracy (Online), 2023.
  • de Nevers, R., "Sovereignty at Sea: States and Security in the Maritime Domain." Security Studies, 2015.
  • de Nevers, R., "State Interests and the Problem of Piracy: Comparing US and UK Approaches to Maritime PMSCs." Ocean Development and International Law, 2015.
  • de Nevers, R., "Private Security Companies and Private Transnational Transfers." Brown, S. S. (ed.) Transnational Transfers and Global Development, 2011.
  • de Nevers, R., "Military Contractors and the American Way of War." Daedalus, 2011.
  • de Nevers, R., "NATO’s International Security Role in the Terrorist Era." Brown, M. E., Cote Jr. , O. R., Lynn-Jones, S. M. and Miler, S. E. (eds.) Contending with Terrorism: Roots, Strategies, and Responses, 2010.
  • de Nevers, R., "The Effectiveness of Self-Regulation for the Private Security Industry." Journal of Public Policy, 2010.
• Book Chapters
  • de Nevers, R., "Human Rights at War: Private Military and Security Companies." In Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?. Evangelista, M., Tannenwald, N. (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • de Nevers, R., "Private Security’s Role in Shaping Foreign Policy." Lenader, A., Abrahamsen, R. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies, 2015.
  • de Nevers, R., "Military Contractors and the American Way of War." In The Modern American Military. Kennedy, D. M. (ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • de Nevers, R., "Looking Beyond Iraq: Contractors in U.S. Global Activities." In Contractors and War. Kinsey, C., Patterson, M. (eds.) Stanford University Press, 2012.
  • de Nevers, R., "Private Military Contractors and Changing Norms for the Laws of Armed Conflict." In New Battlefields/Old Laws: Critical Debates on Asymmetric Warfare. Banks, W. C. (ed.) Columbia University Press, 2011.
• Book Reviews
  • de Nevers, R., "The Markets for Force: Privatization of Security Across World Regions." In Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review. Dunigan, M., Petersohn, U. (eds.) Forthcoming , 2016.
  • Krahmann, E., de Nevers, R., "States, Citizens, and the Privatization of Security." In Governance. , 2011.
  • Castle , M., de Nevers, R., Triggering Communism’s Collapse: Perceptions and Power in Poland’s Transition. Slavic Review, 2004.
• Monographs
  • de Nevers, R., Comrades No More: The Seeds of Change in Eastern Europe. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
  • de Nevers, R., Regimes as Mechanisms for Global Governance. Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1999.
  • Nationalism, Ethnic Identity, and Conflict Management in Russia Today. Lapidus, G. W., de Nevers, R. (eds.) Center for International Security and Arms Control, 1995.
  • de Nevers, R., Russia's Strategic Renovation: Russian Security Strategies and Foreign Policy in the Post- Imperial Era. International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1994.
  • de Nevers, R., The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: The End of an Era. International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1990.
• Newsletter
  • de Nevers, R., "NATO and the War on Terror." In Moynihan European Research Center Newsletter. Moynihan Institute, Syracuse University, 2008.

The War in Ukraine: Status Update and Prospects for the Future, Moynihan Institute (October 27, 2022)

What is National Security Law and Policy?, National Security Student Assocation, SU Law School (October 13, 2022)

PARCC, "Corruption, Statebuilding and Security in Post Conflict reconstruction" (September 21, 2022)

IDC Program, Maxwell School, "Diplomacy" (September 7, 2022)

European Initiative for Security Studies Annual Conference, European Initiative for Security Studies, "Blurring the Lines: Sovereignty and Consent in the Fight Against Terrorism" (June 30, 2022 - July 1, 2022)

The War in Ukraine and Intelligence, IC CAE (April 4, 2022)

Fulbright Scholar (January, 2011 - July, 2011)