UCL Conflict & Change

We are happy to announce that the call for the next @uclconflict PhD Workshop is finally out!🙂We invite ECR working on IR, conflict, contentious politics to apply by 15 February. We look forward to having you in London @uclspp 18-19 May, 2026. Apply here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2026

Why do Armenia, Azerbaijan & Georgia respond so differently to Russia and the West? Eduard Abrahamyan’s (@abrahamyan13) book argues their foreign policies reflect unique geocultural identities & asymmetric ties reshaping our view of small states in world politics.

C&C member @abrahamyan13 recently published his monograph titled "Small States, Russia and the West" which you can find here routledge.com/Small-States-R…

It looks like a diagram from hell. But apparently political scientists like this sort of thing.🤷‍♀️ Huge thanks to the organisers of the Conflict & Change workshop at UCL. Special thanks to @danieljschulte who tolerated reviewing a paper without a methods section🙊 @uclconflict

I am happy and honoured to serve as a discussant of the amazing research on protest and mass mobilization presented at the C&C PhD workshop @uclconflict at @uclspp

Had a fantastic time at the @uclconflict PhD workshop! Truly enjoyed two days at UCL, filled with amazing panels and great discussions. Grateful for all the feedback on my paper and for the chance to catch up with old friends while making new ones!

Kicking off the second workshop day with fresh coffee, fruits, cookies and the first panel at 8:45! Special thanks to @uclspp and @UCL_EI for sponsoring the workshop. We are very grateful for your support!

It was an amazing first day for our PhD Workshop, a great start! We would like to thank again Prof Neil Ketchley for his keynote speech on the research prospects on contentious politics! Stay tuned for tomorrow's updates on the workshop proceedings.

We are almost at the end of the first day of the Conflict & Change PhD Workshop! It has been a great discussion of varied topics and methodological approaches, and we look forward for the continuation tomorrow. Thanks to all the presenters, discussants and other participants.

The next C&C PhD Workshop is almost here (24-25 February)! We would like to thank in particular @UCL_EI and the MSc Security Studies programme for their financial support this year! Also a big thanks to the UCL Political Science academic staff who support us.

We are very excited to confirm Neil Ketchley based at @StAntsCollege (University of Oxford) as the keynote speaker for our @uclconflict PhD Workshop in February! Neil will hold a talk about the "Unresolved Questions in the Study of Contentious Politics".

📢📢 Only two days left to apply for our 2025 @uclconflict PhD Workshop! Make sure to apply by this Sunday, 8 Dec. You can submit your abstracts here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025 We look forward to seeing you in London in February!

The book examines how the outcome of wars in the distant past have shaped the modern Latin American states of today. You can also purchase the book on Amazon amazon.co.uk/Bringing-War-B…, listen to a podcast episode ucl-uncovering-politics.simplecast.com/episodes/how-w… and read a blog post broadstreet.blog/2024/09/12/how…

C&C member @llschenoni, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at UCL, has published his first monograph, Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America cambridge.org/gb/universityp…

Less than 1 week left to apply for our @uclconflict PhD Workshop 2025. 📢 Get your abstracts in by 8 December here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025 We look forward to seeing you in February in London 🙂 Feel free to share in your networks as well!

My new research report on Turkey's involvement in the Libyan conflict has been published as part of @SmallArmsSurvey 's Security Assessment in North Africa project. smallarmssurvey.org/resource/turki…

I’m happy to share that my co-authored article @IntOrgJournal is now available open-access! What started as a short project outside of my PhD research with @NilsWMetternich and @jbeisermcgrath led to years of learning and a life changing trip to Ghana cambridge.org/core/journals/…

It's that time of year again... The call for our @uclconflict PhD Workshop is out!🙂We invite ECR working on IR, conflict, contentious politics to apply by 8 December. We look forward to having you in London @uclspp 24-25 February, 2025. Apply here: conflictandchange.org/phdworkshop2025

Please find the article here: x.com/CUP_PoliSci/st…. The study investigates the sources of intra-group disagreement over demands for self-determination, using an expanded version of the EPR-Organizations dataset.

C&C member Manuel Vogt has just published (with @gremfred and @nils_weidmann) a new article on territorial demands by ethnic groups titled Intra-ethnic divisions and disagreement over self-determination demands in ethnic movements (Political Science Research and Methods).