Luis Schenoni is an associate professor and the Director of the Security Studies Programme in the Department of Political Science at University College London. He works on state building and international conflict with a focus on Latin America. Schenoni is the author of Bringing War Back In (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and his research has also appeared in leading journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, and Security Studies, among others.
Schenoni earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, and was a Postdoc at the University of Konstanz, and a Research Associate at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
I am interested in how the international security environment shaped the prospects of state formation and democratization, primarily in Latin America.
State Formation in Latin America and Foreign Policy in Latin America. In my dissertation I study the effect of 19th century wars on the state capacity of Latin American states in our days.