Margherita Belgioioso,
PhD
Associate Professor of Quantitative
International Relations
School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds

Margherita Belgioioso, PhD
School of Politics and International Studies
University of Leeds
Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT UK
Publications
Published Articles
- 2026 “Gender parity in Peace and Conflict Science” (with Maekawa, Chiba, and Meherl) RnR in International Studies Perspectives
- 2025 “Breaking the conflict trap with citizens’ non-violent mobilization” second RnR in International Studies Quarterly
- 2024 “A just transition? Fossil fuel reforms and civil unrest (with Newman) Energy Research and Social Science
- 2024 “Looking for the International in International Relations and Political Science: Evidence from Author Locations in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 1999-2023” (with Meherl) British Journal of Politics and International Relations
- 2023 “Local deprivation predicts right-wing hate crime in England” PLOS One (with Dworschak and Gleditsch)
- 2022 “From Doctrine to Detonation: Ideology and Terrorism in Campaigns of Mass Resistance” (with Thurber) Journal of Peace Research.
- 2021 “Female fighters and the deadliness of terrorist campaigns in civil war (with J.P. Eggert) Interdisciplinary Political Studies.
- 2020 “Tangled Up in Blue: External Intervention, Peacekeeper Nationality, and the Enabling Environment for Resistance” (with Di Salvatore and Pinckney) International Studies Quarterly
- 2019 “The Physics of Dissent: The Effect of Movement Momentum” (with Chenoweth). Nature Human Behaviour.
- 2019.“Better the devil you know? How fringe terrorism can induce an advantage for moderate nonviolent campaigns” (with Gleditsch and Costalli). Terrorism and Political Violence.
- 2018. “Going Underground: Resort to Terrorism in Mass Mobilization Dissident Campaigns” the Journal of Peace Research.
- 2018. “A Tale of Two Governments? Government Responses and Perceived Influence in the 2014 Protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (with Gleditsch and Vidovic). ISA Journal of Global Security Studies.
- 2018. “The Political Geography of Migrant Reception and Public Opinion on Immigration: Evidence from Italy” (with Genovese and Kern) Economics.
Books
2023 “External Financing and Terrorism in Civil War” Routledge Studies in Civil Wars and Intra-State Conflict Book Series.
Under Review
- “Rebel Tactics, Public Support and the Peace Talks in Southern Thailand” (with Cunningham) in Journal of Peace Resolution.
- “Gender in Peace and Conflict Science” (with Maekawa, Chiba, and Meherl) in International Studies Perspectives
Works in Progress
- “Community-Based Protective Factors Against Right-Wing Radicalization” (with Gleditsch) in preparation for Nature Human Behavior
- “Mediating the Energy Transition: How Green Investment Influences Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform Through Social Unrest” (with Newman) in preparation for Nature
- “A Climate of Terror: Terrorism and Natural Disasters in Civil War” (with Azimy) in preparation for the Journal of Peace Research
- “When Civil Resistance in Ethnic Conflicts Works” (with Thurber) presented at APSA in 2024
- “Civil Society Consultation and Post Conflict Stability” in preparation for American Political Science Review
Published Blogs and Policy Papers
- 2025.What Role can nonviolent social movements play in peace talks.
United States Institute of peace. - 2024. The link between deprivation and the risk of future riots.
The Guardian - 2024. The Gender Gap in Peace Science
The Centre for Global Security Challenges at the University of Leeds. - 2023. Community deprivation drives far-right violence.
The Loop ECPR’s Political Science Blog. - 2019. Behind the paper The Physics of Dissent. For people movement does momentum equal mass times velocity?
Nature Research (with Chenoweth) - 2019. “Hierarchy and Central Leadership Help Non-violent Campaigns when Fringe Terrorism Occurs.”
Political Violence @ a Glance - 2017. “Is Radical Islam the Main Terrorist Threat to the EU?”
Political Violence @ a Glance. - 2014. “Bosnia and Herzegovina: Evolution, not Revolution.”
Political Violence @ a Glance. - 2014. “The Rohingya in Myanmar: A genuine effort toward peace?”
Insight on Conflict, published by Peace Direct. Correct link?
