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Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)

College: St Johns

Research

Armed conflict

Non-state armed groups

Violent behavior

Political destabilisation

Organizational behavior

Publications

Key publications: 

Thorpe, Chelsea, David Winston. (forthcoming, March 2025). “Anti-Vaccination Movements: Exploring the Nexus of Violence and Ideology,” in The Routledge International Handbook on Social Exclusion and Radicalisation, edited by Tahir Abbas, Lianne Vostermans, Richard McNeil-Wilson.

Turchin, Peter, Daniel Hoyer, Andrey Korotayev, Nikolay Kradin, Sergey Nefedov, Gary Feinman, Jill Levine et al. "Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution." PloS one 16, no. 10 (2021): e0258161.

Turchin, Peter, Daniel Hoyer, James Bennett, Kiran Basava, Enrico Cioni, Kevin Feeney, Pieter Francois et al. "The Equinox2020 Seshat Data Release." Cliodynamics 11, no. 1 (2020).

Combating Terrorism Working Group. (2020). Counter-Terrorism Reference Curriculum. Brussels, Belgium: North Atlantic Treaty Organization. https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2020/6/pdf/200612-DEE... 

Thesis Title: Privatized Violence: An Exploration of Organized Mercenarism in Civil Conflicts
Supervisor: Professor Jason Sharman
Chelsea Thorpe

Contact Details

Email address: 
www.chelseathorpe.com