Carsten-Andreas Schulz
Academic title(s):
Assistant Professor
Degree(s):
DPhil, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Curriculum vitae:
Link(s):
Research areas:
International Relations
Biography:
Carsten-Andreas Schulz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. Previously, he was Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge (2021-2026) and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2015-2021). He earned his DPhil from Nuffield College, Oxford University.
Areas of interest:
International Organization
Status in World Politics
International Relations of Latin America
Selected publications:
Journal Articles
- "Bound by History: How Antecedents Shaped the League of Nations Institutional Design" with Tom Long. International Studies Quarterly 70(1): sqag011. [Open access]
- "Reaching for the Threshold: How Minimum Participation Rules Facilitate Multilateral Treaty Ratification" with Christian Arnold. Journal of Conflict Resolution 70:6 (2026), 1018-1043. [Open access]
- "Critical Junctures in International Relations: Antecedents, Contingency, and Change in World Politics" with Tom Long. European Journal of International Relations 31:4 (2025), 889-913. [Open access]
- "Seeing the Berlin Conference from the Periphery: Latin American Reactions to Imperialism Elsewhere, 1884-1885" with Tom Long. Journal of Global History 20:2 (2025), 143-162. [Open access]
- "A Turn Against Empire: Benito Juárez’s Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico" with Tom Long. American Political Science Review 119:2 (2025), 763-777. [Open access]
- "Status Cues and Normative Change: How the Oscar Awards Facilitated Chile's Gender Identity Law" with Cameron G. Thies. Review of International Studies 50:1 (2024), 127-145. [Open access]
- "How Secondary States Can Take Advantage of Networks in World Politics: The Case of Bridges and Hubs" with Andrew F. Cooper. Globalizations 20:7 (2024), 1083-1101. [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
- “The Turn to the History of International Law in the Field of International Relations” with Giovanni Mantilla Casas. In The Cambridge History of International Law, edited by Randall Lesaffer and Anne Peters, 136–161. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- "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).
Reviews
- Review: "Colonialism and Antarctica: Attitudes, Logics, and Practices" edited by Peder Roberts and Alejandra Mancilla (Manchester University Press, 2024), Journal of Historical Geography, 89 (2025): 297-298.
- Review: "Latin American Foreign Policies in the New World World: The Active Non-Alignment Option" edited by Carlos Fortin, Jorge Heine and Carlos Ominami (Anthem, 2023), European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 116.
- Review: "Interregionalism and the Americas" edited by Gian Luca Gardini, Simon Koschut and Andreas Falke (Lexington, 2018), Bulletin of Latin American Research, 39:3 (2020): 405-406.
- Review: "International Relations in Africa before the Europeans" by John Anthony Pella, The International History Review, 37:1 (2015). H-Diplo Article Review 544.
- Review: "El Oriente Desplazado: los intelectuales y los orígenes del tercermundismo en la Argentina" by Martín Bergel (Bernal, 2015), Bulletin of Latin American Research, 37:2 (2018): 228-230.
Group:
Assistant Professor