Adrian Florea

We look forward to hosting the 2026 Conflict Research Society Annual Conference at the University of Glasgow! Please send your proposals for papers, panels, and workshops by 16 January here: conflictresearchsociety.org/call-for-pap....

Functional Sovereignty in Contested Territories Abstract. Scholarship on international sovereignty generally adopts a binary conception: territories either have international recognition, or they lack it

En route from APSA to CRS and very excited that @reyhuang.bsky.social and my joint work on 'functional sovereignty' is out open-access at @isq-jrnl.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Looking forward to the event! Many thanks, Mark!

Many thanks, @karlobasta.bsky.social! Looking forward to it!

If you know of recent PhDs/postdocs with interest in quant. (ideally mixed-method) research on pol violence/repression/armed actors PLEASE direct them to me! Am looking to appoint Humboldt Fellows to work with me for a year. Esp looking for ppl from Global South. No German citizens/German degree.

📣 Attention all peace and conflict scholars and practitioners! The call for the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference 2025 is out! Get your paper, panel and workshop submissions in by 17th January 😀

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What might explain in/stability in the aftermath of rebel victories? Check out our newly published piece in @risjnl.bsky.social #Conflictsky

Congrats! Great to see this in print!

The core theoretical argument will appear in an article recently accepted at the Review of International Studies. The accepted version of the paper is available here: aflorea.weebly.com/uploads/5/9/...

Enrique's project argued that three key factors are likely to fundamentally shape the post-rebel victory stability: (1) the residual threat posed by the defeated regime; (2) external support for the victorious rebels; (3) fragmentation within the ruling rebel coalition.

Introducing the Armed Nonstate Actor Rivalry Dataset (ANARD) While research on interstate rivalries is abundant, scholarship examining nonstate rivalries remains limited. To address this shortcoming, in this article we introduce the Armed Nonstate Actor Riva...

Stephen's project examined rebel rivalries in the MENA region and his originally collected dataset is featured in a (fairly) recent issue of Civil Wars: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With rebels emerging victorious in Syria, allow me to highlight two excellent PhD projects recently completed at Glasgow under my supervision by Stephen R Powell and Enrique W Young (neither of whom is on this platform, yet).

Huge congrats! Very well deserved!

Glad to see this piece out at International Studies Review: doi.org/10.1093/isr/.... Romain and I are grateful for all feedback received on previous versions. #polisky #conflictsky

IO has revised its policies regarding word limits: we no longer include references/works cited as part of the word count.

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Sukanya Podder (KCL) and I are organizing a Rebel Governance Section at this year’s EISA Conference, 27-31 Aug 2024, Lille. Abstract/s can be submitted at: pec2024.eisa-net.org/abstract-sub... (please make sure to select Section S14, “Rebel Governance and Legitimacy”). #polisky #conflictsky

Thanks, Victor!