War and Development in Latin America

Associate Professor and Director of the Security Studies Programme at UCL's Department of Political Science, he works on state building and international conflict with a focus on Latin America. He is the author of Bringing War Back (Cambridge University Press, 2024), a book that explains the variation in state capacity and development within Latin America. His single-authored work has also appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, as well as in popular media outlets like the Washington Post.