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Peacebuilding and International Security

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Suparna Chaudhry
Lewis & Clark College
2
Anne Meng
University of Virginia
3
Basma Hajir
University of Bristol
4
Kathrin Bachleitner
University of Oxford
5
Diana T. Kudaibergenova
University of Cambridge
6
Veronica Anghel
European University Institute
7
Minseon Ku
DePaul University
8
Jessica Kirk
Griffith University
9
Deepak Nair
National University of Singapore
10
Guy Schvitz
Joint Research Centre

Rising Stars Papers

1
Measuring Democratic Backsliding
PS Political Science & Politics|2024
88 cit.
2
Academia in a time of genocide: scholasticidal tendencies and continuities
Globalisation Societies and Education|2025
35 cit.
3
The enlargement of international organisations
West European Politics|2024
15 cit.
4
The Geopolitics of EU Enlargement: From Club to Commons
Survival|2024
15 cit.
5
Why the EU is a geopolitical power: wartime enlargement, integration, and reform
Journal of European Public Policy|2025
15 cit.
6
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups
Journal of Peace Research|2024
14 cit.
7
What We Do and Do Not Know about Democratic Backsliding
PS Political Science & Politics|2024
13 cit.
8
The EU’s Normative Dissensus on Migration: How National Identities Shaped Responses to the European Refugee Crisis
Journal of European Integration|2024
13 cit.
9
Using Bourdieu's Habitus in International Relations
International Studies Quarterly|2024
11 cit.
10
The Transatlantic Relationship and the Russia-Ukraine War
Political Science Quarterly|2024
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Hannah Smidt
University of St.Gallen
2
Piia Bränfors
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
3
Jessica Di Salvatore
University of Florence
4
Anne Spencer Jamison
Copenhagen Business School
5
Milli Lake
London School of Economics and Political Science
6
Pamina Firchow
George Mason University
7
Virginia Page Fortna
Brandeis University
8
Govinda Clayton
University of Kent
9
Philipp Schulz
Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films
10
Dipali Mukhopadhyay
University of Minnesota System

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence
International Studies Review|2022
130 cit.
2
Introducing the Peacekeeping Mandates (PEMA) Dataset
Journal of Conflict Resolution|2022
113 cit.
3
Political Agency, Victimhood, and Gender in Contexts of Armed Conflict: Moving beyond Dichotomies
International Studies Quarterly|2022
54 cit.
4
UN Peacekeeping and Democratization in Conflict-Affected Countries
American Political Science Review|2023
37 cit.
5
Self-care for gender-based violence researchers – Beyond bubble baths and chocolate pralines
Qualitative Research|2022
34 cit.
6
UN Peacekeeping and Democratization in Conflict-Affected Countries
SSRN Electronic Journal|2022
32 cit.
7
Keeping or Building Peace? UN Peace Operations beyond the Security Dilemma
American Journal of Political Science|2023
30 cit.
8
Policing Insecurity
American Political Science Review|2022
26 cit.
9
Do UN peace operations lead to more terrorism? Repertoires of rebel violence and third-party interventions
European Journal of International Relations|2022
22 cit.
10
Broadening the scope but reasserting male privilege? Potential patriarchal pitfalls of inclusive approaches to gender-based violence
International Feminist Journal of Politics|2022
22 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Jeremy M. Weinstein
ETH Zurich
2
Oliver P. Richmond
Ewha Womans University
3
Duncan Snidal
University of Chicago
4
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
University of Essex
5
Vincent Pouliot
Université de Montréal
6
Nicholas Sambanis
Yale University
7
Nils B. Weidmann
University of Konstanz
8
Paul Williams
Griffith University
9
Michael C. Williams
Aberystwyth University
10
Roger Mac Ginty
Durham University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The Rational Design of International Institutions
International Organization|2001
2.3k cit.
2
Why States Act through Formal International Organizations
Journal of Conflict Resolution|1998
1.7k cit.
3
Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?
American Political Science Review|2007
1.3k cit.
4
Sensitivity Analysis of Empirical Results on Civil War Onset
Journal of Conflict Resolution|2006
1.3k cit.
5
Expanded Trade and GDP Data
Journal of Conflict Resolution|2002
1.3k cit.
6
The Competent Boundary Spanner
Public Administration|2002
1.3k cit.
7
International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis
American Political Science Review|2000
1.2k cit.
8
Words, Images, Enemies: Securitization and International Politics
International Studies Quarterly|2003
1.1k cit.
9
The Local Turn in Peace Building: a critical agenda for peace
Third World Quarterly|2013
1.1k cit.
10
Expanded Trade and Gdp Data
Journal of Conflict Resolution|2002
1k cit.

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