Congratulations to Dr Luis Schenoni for winning the European Consortium For Political Research’s (ECPR) 2025 Hedley Bull Prize.
This annual prize celebrates a book which makes a substantial and original contribution to theory and/or empirical studies in international relations. It is named in honour of Hedley Bull, one of the most influential figures in the field during the second half of the twentieth century.
Dr Schenoni says:
Winning the ECPR’s Hedley Bull Prize is a deeply humbling honour. I take this recognition as not only about my work, but also about the urgent need to re-examine how we understand war in international politics.
“Bringing War Back In” (2024, Cambridge University Press) 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 provides a comprehensive picture of state formation in nineteenth-century Latin America.
Of the book, Dr Schenoni says:
"Bringing War Back In" challenges some of our most comfortable assumptions. It highlights how development and war are deeply -and often uncomfortably- interlinked, and how Eurocentric accounts have much to learn from those of other regions. I hope readers will find in the book both a provocation and an invitation to think critically about war’s enduring presence in our lives and politics.
In July 2024, Dr Luis Schenoni joined host Prof Alan Renwick on our weekly podcast “UCL Uncovering Politics” to discuss his work.
Listen to the episode below or at uncoveringpolitics.com, or find us on your usual podcast provider. You can find the full transcript to the episode here.
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