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We're excited to announce that Bringing War Back In (Cambridge University Press, 2024) by Luis L. Schenoni has been awarded our 2025 Hedley Bull Prize in International Relations.
This annual prize celebrates a book which makes a substantial and original contribution to theory and/or empirical studies in international relations. It is named in honour of Hedley Bull, one of the most influential figures in the field during the second half of the twentieth century.
The winning book provides a fresh theory connecting war and state formation that incorporates the contingency of warfare and the effects of war outcomes in the long run.
A cutting-edge book, that makes an important contribution to the field of International Relations.
The study beautifully weaves a myriad of methods with robust analytical findings.
2025 Hedley Bull Prize Jury
Read the full laudationLuis L. Schenoni is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Security Studies Programme in the Department of Political Science at University College London.
He works on state building and international conflict with a focus on Latin America and his research has appeared in leading journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, and Security Studies, among others.
Luis was also selected as the winner of our 2024 Rising Star Award!
Bringing War Back In Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2024) is Luis' debut book.
Winning the ECPR’s Hedley Bull Prize is a deeply humbling honour. I take this recognition as not only about my work, but also about the urgent need to re-examine how we understand war in international politics.
Bringing War Back In challenges some of our most comfortable assumptions. It highlights how development and war are deeply—and often uncomfortably—interlinked, and how Eurocentric accounts have much to learn from those of other regions. I hope readers will find in the book both a provocation and an invitation to think critically about war’s enduring presence in our lives and politics.
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Keywords: International Relations