Dr Luis De La Calle

Luis De la Calle started his academic career as a junior researcher at the Juan March Institute, and then moved to CIDE in Mexico City, where he spent eight years before joining Sheffield. He was a visiting professor in Carlos III University during the spring of 2018 and a resident fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences (CASBS) during the 2020/2021 year. His broader research interests include terrorism, conflict dynamics, legacies of violence, and warfare and state capacity. His book Nationalist Violence in Post-war Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2015) compared why some sub-state nationalist movements turned to terrorism during the second half of the previous century whereas others remained peaceful. Together with Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca, he is working on another book-long project that lays out an original theory of terrorism identifying it as the defining feature of clandestine armed groups engaged in highly asymmetrical conflicts. His previous work has been published in journals such as the Annual Review of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Peace Research.