Sabbatical and Research Leave 24-25 (Michaelmas Term)
Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Studies and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. I received my DPhil from Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Previously, I taught at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
My research focuses on Latin America's relationships with and contributions to international order. It has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as American Political Science Review, International Organization, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, and Latin American Politics and Society, among others.
For more information, please visit my personal website: https://www.carstenschulz.eu
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- "A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico" with Tom Long. Forthcoming in American Political Science Review.
- "How Secondary States Can Take Advantage of Networks in World Politics: The Case of Bridges and Hubs" with Andrew F. Cooper. Forthcoming in Globalizations. [Open access]
- "Status Cues and Normative Change: How the Oscar Awards Facilitated Chile's Gender Identity Law" with Cameron G. Thies. Forthcoming in Review of International Studies. [Open access]
- "Compensatory Layering and the Birth of the Multipurpose Multilateral IGO in the Americas" with Tom Long. International Organization, 77:1 (2023), 1-32. [Open access]
- "Regional Patterns of Multilateral Treaty Cooperation: Is there a Latin American ‘Commitment Gap’?" with Laura Levick. International Political Science Review, 44:3 (2023): 316-333.
- "Republican Internationalism: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of Latin American Contributions to International Order" with Tom Long. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 35:5 (2022), 639-661. [Open access]
- "Chile as a Transpacific Bridge: Brokerage and Social Capital in the Pacific Basin" with Federico Rojas-de-Galarreta. Geopolitics, 27:1 (2022), 309-332.
- "Madame President, Madame Ambassador? Women Presidents and Gender Parity in Latin America’s Diplomatic Services" with Matthias Erlandsen and María Fernanda Hernández-Garza. Political Research Quarterly, 75:2 (2021), 425-440.
- "Soft Balancing, Binding, or Bandwagoning? Understanding Institutional Responses to Power Disparities in the Americas" with Laura Levick. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 53:3 (2020), 521-539.
- "Territorial Sovereignty and the End of Inter-Cultural Diplomacy along the 'Southern Frontier," European Journal of International Relations, 25:3 (2019), 878-903.
- "Hierarchy Salience and Social Action: Disentangling Class, Status, and Authority in World Politics," International Relations, 33:1 (2019), 88-108.
- "Setting the Regional Agenda: A Critique of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism" with Mark Petersen, Latin American Politics and Society, 60:1 (2018), 102-127.
- "Accidental Activists: Latin American Status-Seeking at The Hague," International Studies Quarterly, 61:3 (2017), 612-622.
- "Civilisation, Barbarism and the Making of Latin America's Place in 19th-Century International Society," Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 42:3 (2014), 837-859.
Book chapters:
- "Democracy in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: The View from Elsewhere" with Mark Petersen. In Re-Imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1780-1870, edited by Joanna Innes and Eduardo Posada-Carbó, 239-264. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023.
- "El pluralismo teórico y el estudio de las Relaciones Internacionales en América Latina." In La disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales en América Latina. Contribuciones, límites y particularidades, edited by Gonzalo Álvarez, Melisa Deciancio, Giovanni Molano Cruz and Cristian Ovando, 233-256. Santiago: RIL, 2021.
- "From Autonomy to Agency (and Back Again): Debating Latin American States as Global Norm Entrepreneurs." In Latin America in Global International Relations, edited by Amitav Acharya, Melisa Deciancio and Diana Tussie, 31-48. London: Routledge, 2021.
- "Latin America: Between Liminality and Agency in Historical International Relations." In Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations, edited by Benjamin de Carvalho, Julia Costa Lopez, Halvard Leira, 477-486. London: Routledge.
- "El pluralismo teórico y el estudio de las Relaciones Internacionales en América Latina." In La disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales en América Latina. Contribuciones, límites y particularidades, edited by Gonzalo Álvarez, Melisa Deciancio, Giovanni Molano Cruz and Cristian Ovando, 233-256. Santiago: RIL (2021).
- "Confederation Unknown? Latin American Views on the Emergence of Canada in 1867." In Globalizing Confederation: Canada and the World in 1867, edited by Jacqueline D. Krikorian, Marcel Martel and Adrian Shubert, 27-46. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2017).
Teaching and Supervisions
I currently teach POL2 and POL20 at the undergraduate level and “Latin America in the International Order” at the graduate level. I am especially interested in supervising projects related to Latin American politics (past and present), international norms, and the development of international institutions.