Dr Luis L. Schenoni

Associate Professor in International Relations
Room: 2.06, 30 Tavistock Square
Email: luis.schenoni@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at UCL, and the Director of UCL’s Security Studies Programme. I am also an Affiliated Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), Argentina. Before joining UCL, 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) ‘Compliance in Time: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’, International Studies Review, 25(1).

2022

• Schenoni, L. L., Feliú Ribeiro, P., Belém Lopes, D. and Casarões, G. (2022) ‘Myths of Multipolarity: The Sources of Brazil’s Foreign Policy Overstretch’, Foreign Policy Analysis, 18(1).

2021

• Schenoni, L. L. (2021) ‘Bringing War Back In: Victory and State Formation in Latin America’, American Journal of Political Science, 65(2), pp. 405–421.

2020

• Schenoni, L. L., Goertz, G., Owsiak, A. P. and Diehl, P. F. (2020) ‘The Evolution and Causes of the Territorial Peace in the Americas’, International Studies Quarterly, 64(1), pp. 57–70.
• Schenoni, L. L., Braniff, S. and Battaglino, J. (2020) ‘Was the Malvinas/Falklands a Diversionary War? A Prospect Theory Reinterpretation of Argentina’s Decline’, Security Studies, 29(1), pp. 34–63.
• ​Merke, F., Reynoso, D. and Schenoni, L. L. (2020) ‘Foreign Policy Change in Latin America: Exploring a Middle Range Concept’, Latin American Research Review, 55(3), pp. 413–429.
• Nieto-Matiz, C. and Schenoni, L. L. (2020) ‘Backing Despots? Foreign Aid and the Survival of Autocratic Regimes’, Democracy and Security, 16(1), pp. 36–58.

2019

• Schenoni, L. L. and Mainwaring, S. (2019) ‘US Hegemony and Regime Change in Latin America’, Democratization, 26(2), pp. 269–287.

2018

• Schenoni, L. L. (2018) ‘The Argentina-Brazil Regional Power Transition’, Foreign Policy Analysis, 14(4), pp. 469–489.
• Schenoni, L. L. (2018) ‘The Southern African Unipolarity’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 36(2), pp. 207–228.

2017

• Jenne, N.,, Schenoni, L. L. and Urdinez, F. (2017) ‘Of Words and Deeds: Latin American Declaratory Regionalism, 1994-2014’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 30(2), pp. 95–215.
• Schenoni, L. L. (2017) ‘La Lógica Realista de la Unipolaridad Sudamericana’, Desarrollo Económico, 57(222), pp. 253–276.
• Schenoni, L. L. (2017) ‘Subsystemic Unipolarities? Power Distribution and State Behaviour in South America and Southern Africa’, Strategic Analysis, 41(1), pp. 74–86.

2016

• Schenoni, L. L. and Escude, C. (2016) ‘Peripheral Realism Revisited’, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 59(1), pp. 1–18.
• Urdinez, F., Mouron, F., Schenoni, L. L. and de Oliveira, A. J. (2016) ‘Chinese Economic Statecraft and US Hegemony in Latin America: An Empirical Analysis, 2003–2014’, 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) ‘Dual Hegemony: Brazil Between the United States and China’, in F. Boeller and W. Werner (eds.) Hegemonic Transition. London: Springer, pp. 233–255.
• ​Schenoni, L. L. (2021) ‘Brazil: Pursuing a Multipolar Mirage’, in B. Zala (ed.) National Perspectives on a Multipolar Order. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• ​Moscuzza, P. and Schenoni, L. L. (2021) ‘The United States, Democracy, and Authoritarianism in Latin America’, in P. Baisotti (ed.) Problems and Alternatives in the Modern Americas. London: Routledge.

2019

• Schenoni, L. L. (2019) ​‘Hegemony’, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2015

• ​Malamud, A. and Schenoni, L. L. (2015) ‘Neoliberal Institutionalism and Neo-Functionalism in Latin American Security Studies’, in D. Mares and A. Kacowicz (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security. London: Routledge.

​View a full list of publications on my website

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’.