​I am the author of Bringing War Back In (Cambridge University Press, 2024), a multi-award-winning book on war and state formation in Latin America. My work has appeared in leading journals including the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, International Security, and International Studies Quarterly, among others.
At University College London, I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Programme. ​I received my Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, held a postdoctoral position at the University of Konstanz, and remain affiliated with Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in my hometown of Buenos Aires. My work has been recognised with the ECPR Rising Star Award and the PEACE Emerging Scholar Award of the ISA.​​​
"Hands down the best social science work I've 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)
"I found the brilliant arguments of Bringing War Back In to be simultaneously challenging, historically enriching, and ultimately convincing. This book achieves the highest level of analytic sophistication and methodological rigor. Luis Schenoni has produced nothing short of a modern-day comparative-historical masterpiece."
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James Mahoney (Northwestern 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