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Dr Luis L. Schenoni

Luis wears a black jumper and smiles into the camera
Associate Professor in International Relations
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2.06, 30Tavistock Square
Email:luis.schenoni@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

I am an Assistant Professorin the Department of Political Science at ϲ, and theDirector of ϲ’s Security Studies Programme. I am also an Affiliated Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), Argentina. Before joining ϲ, I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Konstanz.

Research

My research explores the determinants of international conflict and its effects on state and nation building, with a particular focus on Latin America. My book,Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth Century Latin America(Cambridge University Press 2024), provides a fresh theory connecting war and state formation that incorporates the contingency of warfare and the effects of war outcomes in the long run. The book demonstrates that international wars in nineteenth-century Latin America triggered state-building, that the outcomes of those wars affected the legitimacy and continuity of such efforts, and that the relative capacity of states in this region today continues to reflect those distant processes. Combining comparative historical analysis with cutting edge social science methods, the book breathes new life into bellicist approaches to state formation, and offers a novel framework to explain variation in state capacity across Latin America and the world.

Publications

Books
  • Schenoni L. L. (2024) Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth Century Latin America.New York: Cambridge University Press.
Journal articles

2024

  • Schenoni, L. L., Goertz, G., Owsiak, A. and Diehl, P. (2024) "The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to eliminate Militarized Confliict in the Americas," International Studies Quarterly, 68(2), 1-17.
  • Schenoni L. L., and Madrid, R. (2024) "Reining in Rebellion: The Decline of Political Violence in South America, 1830- 1929," International Security, 48(3): 129-167.
  • Schenoni L. L., Carvalho, T. and Leiva, D. (2024) "The Ukraine War and the Limits of Latin American Fence- Sitting," Bulletin of Latin American Affairs, DOI:10.1111/blar.13574
  • Schenoni, L. L., and Nolte, D. (2024) "To Lead or Not to Lead: Regional Powers and Regional Leadership," International Politics, 61(1): 40-59.

2023

  • Liñán, A. P., Schenoni, L. L.and Morrison, K. (2023) ,International Studies Review, 25(1).

2022

  • Schenoni, L. L.,Feliú Ribeiro, P., Belém Lopes, D.and Casarões, G. (2022) ,Foreign Policy Analysis, 18(1).

2021

  • Schenoni, L. L. (2021) ,American Journal of Political Science, 65(2), pp.405–421.

2020

  • Schenoni, L. L., Goertz, G., Owsiak, A. P. and Diehl, P. F. (2020),International Studies Quarterly, 64(1), pp.57–70.
  • Schenoni, L. L., Braniff, S. and Battaglino, J. (2020) , Security Studies, 29(1), pp. 34–63.
  • ​Merke, F., Reynoso, D. and Schenoni, L. L. (2020) , Latin American Research Review, 55(3), pp.413–429.
  • Nieto-Matiz, C. and Schenoni, L. L. (2020),Democracy and Security, 16(1), pp.36–58.

2019

  • Schenoni, L. L. andMainwaring, S. (2019),Democratization, 26(2), pp.269–287.

2018

  • Schenoni, L. L. (2018) ,Foreign Policy Analysis, 14(4), pp.469–489.
  • Schenoni, L. L. (2018) ,Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 36(2), pp. 207–228.

2017

  • Jenne, N.,, Schenoni, L. L.and Urdinez, F. (2017) ,Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 30(2), pp.95–215.
  • Schenoni, L. L. (2017) ,Desarrollo Económico, 57(222), pp.253–276.
  • Schenoni, L. L. (2017) ,Strategic Analysis, 41(1), pp. 74–86.

2016

  • Schenoni, L. L. andEscude, C. (2016),Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 59(1), pp.1–18.
  • Urdinez, F., Mouron, F., Schenoni, L. L.and de Oliveira, A. J. (2016) ,Latin American Politics and Society, 58(4), pp.3–30.
Book chapters

2023

  • Schenoni, L. L. (2023) State Capacity and the Diverging Outcomes of Reinvented Governments in Latin America," in Centeno, M. and Ferraro, A. (eds.) State Making and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain, Volume 3: The Neoliberal State and Beyond, New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Owsiak, A., Diehl, P., Schenoni, L. L., and Goertz, G. (2023) "Political Shocks and the Punctuated Equilibrium Model: Applications to the Evolution of Norms in the Americas,” in Thompson, W. and Volgy, T. (eds.) Shocks and Political Change, London: Springer.
  • Aníbal Pérez Liñan and Kelly Morrison (2024) "Addressing Conceptual Challenges: Compliance and Impact," in von Bogdandy, A. et al. (eds.) The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System, New York: Oxford University Press.

2021

  • ​Schenoni, L. L. and Leiva, D. (2021),in F. Boeller and W. Werner (eds.)Hegemonic Transition. London: Springer, pp. 233–255.
  • ​Schenoni, L. L. (2021), in B. Zala (ed.)National Perspectives on a Multipolar Order. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • ​Moscuzza, P. and Schenoni, L. L. (2021),in P.Baisotti (ed.)Problems and Alternatives in the Modern Americas. London: Routledge.

2019

  • Schenoni, L. L. (2019) ​,inOxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2015

  • ​Malamud, A. and Schenoni, L. L. (2015), in D. Mares and A. Kacowicz (eds.)Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security. London: Routledge.

Teaching

I currently teach a postgraduate module on ‘International Peace and Security’ and undergraduate modules on ‘Spread of Conflict in International Relations’ and ‘Latin American Politics’.