I am an Associate Professor and the Director of the Security Studies Programme in the Department of Political Science at University College London.
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​I work on state building and international conflict with a focus on Latin America. I am the author of Bringing War Back In (Cambridge University Press, 2024). My 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.
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​I earned my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, was a Postdoc at the University of Konstanz, and am a Research Associate at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
"Hands down the best social science work I have read in some time. Theoretically ambitious and consequential, empirically savvy and persuasive, substantively rich and razor-sharp. A must-read for students of war and state-building and for everyone looking for exemplary social science."
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Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford)
"This is a deep and brilliant analysis of the role of war in state building, not just in Latin America, but with wider implications for bellicist theory. Schenoni’s focus on outcomes is a great innovation and provides critical insights into the links between military and political development. A very important and timely contribution."
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Miguel Centeno (Princeton University)
"The disillusionment with democracy and the incidence of populism in Latin America today is tied to the weakness of state institutions there. This book provides a new and powerful explanation for how the continent ended up like this. The theory has broad implications for the world we are living in today."
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James Robinson (University of Chicago) Nobel Prize in Economics, 2024