CLACS Seminar: Luis Schenoni (UCL): "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America"
| Dates: | 18 March 2026 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Speaker: | Luis Schenoni |
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This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Wed 18 March 2026, 5pm (UK time). This event will be in person, in Samuel Alexander Building, room A112. It can be followed online here: https://tinyurl.com/yzm5d7k2
Abstract: Did war make states in Latin America? My book "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America" (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009442145), 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 that is compelling for readers across disciplines, breathes new life into bellicist approaches to state formation, and offers a novel framework to explain variation in state capacity across Latin America and the world.
Luis Schenoni is Associate Professor and Director of the Security Studies Programme at the Department of Political Science, University College London.
Speaker
Luis Schenoni
Role: Associate Professor and Director of the Security Studies Programme
Organisation: Department of Political Science, University College London
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A112
Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
