Research

Overview

My research primarily examines how the international political economy shapes armed conflict and peace-building, with a regional focus on Latin America. I situate these developments internationally, pushing against theories that portray them as purely nationally driven or rooted in domestic conditions. I develop theory in an abductive fashion, drawing on extensive empirical research – particularly archives, interviews, and ethnography – to identify the underlying and not immediately observable dynamics driving conflict and peace. My aim for bringing these approaches together is to link the more macro-level international political-economic transformations to the lived realities of conflict, peace-building, and post-conflict transition. 

Current Projects

Beyond the Battlefield: The Political Economy of Colombia’s Armed Conflict and the 2016 Peace Agreement

Monograph (under review)

This book develops a critical international political-economic reinterpretation of Colombia’s armed conflict and the 2016 peace agreement. It challenges dominant accounts that centre the immediate problems of state capacity, drug trafficking, and grievances, arguing instead that conflict and peace must be analysed against the background of Colombia's changing state formation and its process of reintegration within the broader world order. 

Death From Above: How the Sky Fell on Colombia’s FARC

Journal article (in preparation) 

This article examines the role of aerial warfare, intelligence-led targeting, and military-technological escalation in forcing the FARC onto the strategic defensive as a condition for the singing of the 2016 peace agreement. It draws especially on interviews with senior former FARC commanders and rank-and-file FARC combatants to demonstrate how the changing counter-insurgency dynamics transformed the daily context of guerrilla life and made it increasingly difficult for the FARC to sustain its insurgency. 

Peace as Passive Revolution: The Political Economy of Colombia’s Peace Settlement

Journal article (in preparation)

This article reinterprets Colombia's 2016 peace agreement, arguing that it must be understood as a international political-economic project linked to global capitalist restructuring rather than simply a technocratic peace-building accord.