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Luis L. Schenoni

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Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Univeristy College London. Director of UCL’s Security Studies Programme. Author of “Bringing War Back In” (CUP, 2024) http://bit.ly/4fXYtVv War/State Formation/Nation Building

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¿Ánimos bipolares? Por qué el conflicto entre EE.UU. y China seguirá escalando pero no estallará El desenlace más probable del conflicto entre las dos potencias es una Segunda Guerra Fría

Hoy en letra de molde para La Nación

08.11.2025 12:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Women, Peace And Security: In Conversation With Helena Carreiras Join us to discuss gender in international security with security expert and former Portuguese Minister of National Defence (2022–2024)

Next week, we will be hosting the former Portuguese Minister of Defence, Helena Carreiras, at UCL www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-peac...

06.11.2025 11:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for this great review @raulaldaz.bsky.social ! If after reading this great review anyone is interested in the book (for yourselves or your libraries) feel free to use this discount voucher valid until Friday

28.10.2025 10:23 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Luis L. Schenoni, "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

New podcast on how war made the state in Latin America. Ideal for a relaxing Saturday afternoon

04.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia - Volume 55

Este documento indaga en la inutilidad de la aspersión aerea para erradicar cultivos de coca y demas, la cual generalmente provoca mas violencia y deslegitima al estado, incentivando la violencia contra agentes estatales

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

22.09.2025 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Beyond Colonialism: The Long Shadow of War in Latin America’s Development Capable states that enforce the rule of law, secure property rights, and provide public goods are prerequisites for development, but where do they originate?

If we set aside ad-hoc explanations, two forces stand out in shaping global development: colonial institutions and war—even if the former fails to explain Europe itself. Latin America has long tilted the debate away from the latter, but what if the real driver was war here as well?👇

29.09.2025 14:29 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Perspectives on US Democracy in Challenging Times Perspectives on US Democracy in Challenging Times: Historical and Comparative Reflections

Thrilled to join @notredame.bsky.social London on Thu, Oct 16, 6pm to discuss trends in democracy from a Latin American perspective, with former @apsa.bsky.social and @ipsa.org president D. Pinderhughes, E. Gonzalez Ocantos, B. Forjwuor and L. Keita. 4 Suffolk St www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/perspectiv...

26.09.2025 15:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of state interventions and aerial spraying of coca crops on violence in Colombia, analyzing the impact on local economies, insurgency movements, and civilian victimization from 2000 to 2015.

BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of state interventions and aerial spraying of coca crops on violence in Colombia, analyzing the impact on local economies, insurgency movements, and civilian victimization from 2000 to 2015.

#OpenAccess from July 2025 -

Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia - cup.org/473YHcr

- Juan Felipe Campos-Contreras, Camilo Nieto-Matiz & @llschenoni.bsky.social

22.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Luis L. Schenoni | Book Talk: Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Bringing War Back In 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...

Today at Princeton University the intellectual father meets the son: Miguel Centeno and I will be discussing the arguments in Bringing War Back In at 12pm, Aaron Burr Hall, Room 216. Come join the conversation! plas.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

16.09.2025 14:49 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starting in an hour (4 PM local time) at Pan Pacific Vancouver - Oceanview 5! 👇

11.09.2025 22:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Call For Papers - Special Issue: "War and the State in Latin America" with the Journal of Latin American Studies 📢 please retweet!

The deadline for proposals is October 30, 2025. Invited proposals must be submitted next year by January 30.

02.09.2025 13:10 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

I apparently wrote the best book of 2024/25 in International Relations 😱🥳 Huge thanks to the generous committee!

05.09.2025 21:26 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Counting down! Just one week until I get to discuss how war made the state in Latin America with an incredible AMC panel at APSA! Venue is still TBA, but save the time to participate if you are around.

04.09.2025 20:31 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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With Brussels moving forward with the EU - #Mercosur agreement, this morning @andresmalamud.bsky.social presented the study he co-authored with @llschenoni.bsky.social on “Geopolitical aspects of the EU-Mercosur agreement” at the #AFET Committee meeting 📚🌍

Read it here 🔗 tepsa.eu/analysis/geo...

04.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Call For Papers - Special Issue: "War and the State in Latin America" with the Journal of Latin American Studies 📢 please retweet!

The deadline for proposals is October 30, 2025. Invited proposals must be submitted next year by January 30.

02.09.2025 13:10 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Luis L. Schenoni Luis L. Schenoni (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame) is associate professor of international relations and director of the Security Studies Programme at the Department of Political Science, University Co...

Glad to be spending some time at Princeton University to wrap up my sabbatical year, hosted by the Latin American Studies Program. I’ll be arriving Sept 1 eager to catch up with friends & faculty—if you’re around, let me know! plas.princeton.edu/people/luis-...

28.08.2025 11:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of state interventions and aerial spraying of coca crops on violence in Colombia, analyzing the impact on local economies, insurgency movements, and civilian victimization from 2000 to 2015.

BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of state interventions and aerial spraying of coca crops on violence in Colombia, analyzing the impact on local economies, insurgency movements, and civilian victimization from 2000 to 2015.

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Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia - cup.org/473YHcr

"Aerial spraying... propitiates retaliatory violence against the state, stimulates turf wars..."

- Juan Felipe Campos-Contreras, Camilo Nieto-Matiz & @llschenoni.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

30.07.2025 09:55 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

On behalf of IPSA’s Research Committee 27 (sponsor of @govjournal.bsky.social), I’m pleased to share that the 2025 Levine Prize Honorable Mention goes to Bringing War Back In by Luis Schenoni @llschenoni.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org.👏

24.07.2025 14:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Dr Schenoni delivers a lecture

Dr Schenoni delivers a lecture

Dr Schenoni stands by a statue of Wasada Uni founder Ōkuma Shigenobu

Dr Schenoni stands by a statue of Wasada Uni founder Ōkuma Shigenobu

Dr Schenoni stands on Wasada university campus

Dr Schenoni stands on Wasada university campus

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@llschenoni.bsky.social's 'Bringing War Back In' received an Honorable Mention for the Levine Prize at #IPSA2025 🇰🇷 and is now required reading for PhD comps at Waseda University 🇯🇵 🏅

As a Visiting Fellow at IDE-JETRO, he’s also given talks at Hitotsubashi, Kobe, and the U of Tokyo. buff.ly/PV69HL9

17.07.2025 14:04 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ok, so I finally finished reading this book by
@llschenoni.bsky.social. If your are into states and development (in and beyond Latin America), you have to read it!

The book is theoretically ambitious and has a clever and brilliant research design. (1/4)

04.07.2025 21:59 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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🗣️ #NewStudy - In the latest study coordinated by TEPSA for the AFET Committee of the European Parliament, @andresmalamud.bsky.social & @llschenoni.bsky.social ‬ examine the Geopolitical aspects of the EU-Mercosur agreement

Read in full 🔗 tepsa.eu/analysis/geo...

11.07.2025 10:15 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Honorable mention for Best Article:
@llschenoni.bsky.social, Gary Goertz, Andrew Owsiak, and Paul Diehl, “The Saavedra Lamas Peace: How a Norm Complex Evolved and Crystallized to Eliminate War in the Americas,” International Studies Quarterly, doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

20.06.2025 17:10 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Congratulations @llschenoni.bsky.social! We're lucky to have you!

30.04.2025 14:55 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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John J. Mearsheimer, one of the giants of IR and a leading voice in realist theory, praised Bringing War Back In as "a truly impressive book (...) that shows in great deal how war helped make the state in Latin America." www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

27.04.2025 16:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Para nada, concuerdo con vos. A veces en 6k caracteres hay que enfatizar los puntos más importantes—por no estar en la agenda

18.04.2025 17:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

De acuerdo. Los cuatro elementos “podrían formar parte de una estrategia deliberada—aunque poco convencional“ y ya se verá si perdedora. Lo que debemos evitar es pensar que un individuo servido de una inteligencia y burocracias formidables no tenga un plan. Y si lo hay, debemos intentar entenderlo

18.04.2025 17:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Qué hay detrás de la aparente locura de Trump frente al mundo Aunque a primera vista incoherentes, las acciones de política exterior del presidente de Estados Unidos revelan un patrón que podría formar parte de una estrategia destinada a frenar el ascenso chino

Resumida en seis mil caracteres apresurados, esta es la mejor forma que se me ocurre de dar sentido a los cuatro ejes más controvertidos—y para muchos, irracionales—de la política exterior de Trump. Sale mañana en letra de molde. www.lanacion.com.ar/estados-unid...

18.04.2025 15:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sid Tarrow, a foundational scholar of contentious politics and Charles Tilly’s longtime collaborator, calls Bringing War Back In a valuable addition to the state formation canon, praising both the analysis and historical depth. Humbled and grateful! www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

07.04.2025 11:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Journal of Democracy The <em>Journal of Democracy</em> has been a leading voice in the conversation about government by consent and its place in the world.

reading the last issue of the Journal of Democracy, with a series of excellent pieces about the third wave (fifty years after it began) by Scott Mainwaring, Dan Slater, and Rachel Beatty Riedl www.journalofdemocracy.org

06.04.2025 07:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Truly grateful for these kind words from one of my favorite political scientists, Stathis Kalyvas. The paperback is out soon and already up for preorder on Amazon www.amazon.com/Bringing-War...

27.03.2025 08:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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