VINCENZO BOVE
Professor of Political Science

Short Bio

I am Professor of Political Science in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) of the University of Warwick. I am also Senior Research Fellow at RAND Europe.

My current research interests include civil-military relations, defence economics, international migration, military interventions and terrorism. I have published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals, one book and over 20 other pieces.

I joined PAIS in 2014. Previously, I was British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. I received a PhD in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London.

I have held teaching and research appointments at the University of Essex, the University of Genoa, the University of Naples “Federico II”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, IMT Lucca and Sciences Po, Paris.

In my pre-academic life, I served as an officer in the Italian Navy, principally working in anti-submarine warfare.

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Contact

Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick

Coventry, CV4 7AL
Room: E2.07, Social Sciences Building

Email: v.bove[AT] warwick.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)24765 22170

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Current projects

The effect of terrorism on public attitudes and individual well-being in Great Britain

Economic and Social Research Council
(£ 291.000)
P-I: Vincenzo Bove
Co-I: Georgios Efthyvoulou (University of Sheffield) and Harry Pickard (University of Sheffield)
Duration: 2021- 2023

Who keeps the peace and why does it matter?

Swedish Research Council
(£ 560.000)
P-I: Chiara Ruffa (Uppsala University)
Co-I: Vincenzo Bove, Ralph Sundberg (Uppsala University) & Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford)
Duration: 2018-2021


Peacebuilding, refugees and return migrants

Folke Bernadotte Academy (£ 15.000)
P-I: Vincenzo Bove
Co-I: Jessica Di Salvatore (University of Warwick) & Leandro Elia (Marche Polytechnic University)
Duration: 2019-2021


What it takes to Return: UN Peacekeeping and the safe return of internally displaced people

World Bank
($ 25.000)
P-I: Vincenzo Bove
Co-I: Jessica Di Salvatore (Univeristy of Warwick)
Duration: 2020-2021

Articles

Preprints are available on ResearchGate

Military Culture and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Conscription Reforms across Europe (with Riccardo Di Leo & Marco Giani), American Journal of Political Science, in press
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Government ideology and international migration (with Georgios Efthyvoulou & Harry Pickard), The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, in press
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What’s left after right-wing extremism? The effects on political orientation (with Georgios Efthyvoulou & Harry Pickard, European Journal of Political Research, in press
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You (Br)exit, I stay: The effect of the Brexit vote on internal migration (with Georgios Efthyvoulou & Harry Pickard), Political Geography, in press, download
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Immigration, Fear of Crime, and Public Spending on Security (with Leandro Elia and Massimiliano Ferraresi), The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, in press, download
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Arms Imports in the Wake of Embargoes (with Tobias Böhmelt), European Journal of International Relations, in press, download
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Politics or Performance? Leadership Accountability in UN Peacekeeping (with Kseniya Oksamytna & Magnus Lundgren), Journal of Conflict Resolution, in press, download
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UN peacekeeping and households’ well-being in civil wars (with Jessica Di Salvatore & Leandro Elia), American Journal of Political Science, in press
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Do Terrorists Get the Attention They Want? Comparing Effects of Terrorism across Europe (with Enzo Nussio & Tobias Böhmelt), Public Opinion Quarterly, download
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Did terrorism affect voting in the Brexit referendum? (with Georgios Efthyvoulou & Harry Pickard), British Journal of Political Science, in press, download
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Imprisonment and Terrorism (with Tobias Böhmelt), Terrorism and Political Violence, in press, download​
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Leadership Selection in United Nations Peacekeeping (with Kseniya Oksamytna & Magnus Lundgren), International Studies Quarterly 65.1 (2021)
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Terrorism abroad and migration policies at home (with Tobias Böhmelt & Enzo Nussio), Journal of European Public Policy 28.2 (2021)
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COVID-19, Security Threats and Public Opinions (with Riccardo Di Leo), Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 26.3 (2020), download​​
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Can Terrorism Abroad Influence Migration Attitudes at Home? (with Tobias Böhmelt & Enzo Nussio), American Journal of Political Science 64.3 (2020), download
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Does cultural proximity contain terrorism diffusion? (with Tobias Böhmelt), Journal of Peace Research 57.2 (2020), download
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How Migration Policies Moderate the Diffusion of Terrorism (with Tobias Böhmelt), European Journal of Political Research 59.1 (2020), download
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Regional Integration Support A Positive Externality toward Migration Attitudes (with Tobias Böhmelt), JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 58.2 (2020), download
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Beyond Coups: Terrorism and Military Involvement in Politics (with Mauricio Rivera & Chiara Ruffa), European Journal of International Relations 26.1 (2020), download
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Cultural distance and income divergence over time (with Gunes Gokmen), Economics Letters 194 (2020), download
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School Infrastructure Spending and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from the 2012 Earthquake in Northern Italy (with A. Belmonte, G. D’Inverno & M. Modica), Economics of Education Review 75 (2020)
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The consequences of terrorism on migration attitudes across Europe (with Enzo Nussio & Bridget Steele), Political Geography 75 (2019)
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Peacekeeping effectiveness and blue helmets’ distance from locals (with Andrea Ruggeri), Journal of Conflict Resolution 63.7 (2019)download

International migration and military intervention in civil war (with Tobias Böhmelt), Political Science Research and Methods 7.2 (2019), download
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Blame the victims? Refugees, state capacity, and non-state actor violence (with Tobias Böhmelt & Kristian Skrede Gleditsch), Journal of Peace Research 56.1 (2019), download
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Global arms trade and oil dependence (with Claudio Deiana & Roberto Nisticò), The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 34.2 (2018), download
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Genetic distance, trade, and the diffusion of development (with Gunes Gokmen), Journal of Applied Econometrics 33.4 (2018), download
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Economic development in peacekeeping host countries (with Leandro Elia), CESifo Economic Studies 64.4 (2018), download
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Police Officer on the Frontline or a Soldier? The Effect of Police Militarization on Crime (with Evelina Gavrilova), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 9.3 (2017) Lead article
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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth (with Leandro Elia), Harvard Business Review (digital article, April 2017), download
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Migration, diversity, and economic growth (with Leandro Elia), World Development 89 (2017), download
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Political cycles in public expenditure: Butter vs guns (with Georgios Efthyvoulou & Antonio Navas), Journal of Comparative Economics 45.3 (2017), download
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Political repression in autocratic regimes (with Jean-Philippe Platteau & Petros G. Sekeris), Journal of Comparative Economics 45.2 (2017), download
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On the heterogeneous consequences of civil war (with Leandro Elia & Ron P. Smith), Oxford Economic Papers 69.3 (2017), download
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Cultural Distance and International Conflict (with Gunes Gokmen), British Journal of Political Science 47.4 (2017), download
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Virtual water trade and bilateral conflicts (with E. De Angelis, R. Metulini & M. Riccaboni), Advances in Water Resources 110 (2017), download
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What Do We know about UN Peacekeeping Leadership? (with Andrea Ruggeri & Remco Zwetsloot), International Peacekeeping 24.1 (2017)
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Does immigration induce terrorism? (with Tobias Böhmelt), The Journal of Politics 78.2 (2016), download
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Kinds of blue: Diversity in UN peacekeeping missions and civilian protection (with Andrea Ruggeri), British Journal of Political Science 46.3 (2016), download
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“Oil Above Water": Economic Interdependence and Third-Party Intervention (with Kristian Skrede Gleditsch & Petros G. Sekeris), Journal of Conflict Resolution 60.7 (2016), download
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Barriers to coordination? Examining the impact of culture on international mediation occurrence and effectiveness (with Zorzeta Bakaki & Tobias Böhmelt), Political Studies 64.3 (2016), download
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The demand for military expenditure in authoritarian regimes (with Jennifer Brauner), Defence and Peace Economics 27.5 (2016), download
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Centrality in trade networks and investment in security (with Leandro Elia & Marco Pelliccia), Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 22.1 (2016), download
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Elite co-optation, repression, and coups in autocracies (with Mauricio Rivera), International Interactions 41.3 (2015), download
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Military in politics and budgetary allocations (with Roberto Nisticò), Journal of Comparative Economics 42.4 (2014), download
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Coups d’état and defense spending: a counterfactual analysis (with Roberto Nisticò), Public Choice 161.3-4 (2014)
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Forecasting military expenditure (with Tobias Böhmelt), Research & Politics 1.1 (2014), download
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Income and Livelihoods in the War in Afghanistan (with Evelina Gavrilova), World Development 60 (2014), download
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The impact of American and British involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq on health spending, military spending and economic growth (with Leandro Elia), B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 14.1 (2014), download
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US security strategy and the gains from bilateral trade (with Petros G. Sekeris & Leandro Elia), Review of International Economics 22.5 (2014) Lead article, download
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Occupational Choices and Insurgency in Afghanistan’s Provinces (with Leandro Elia), Chapter 7 in The Economics of Conflict- Theory and Policy Lessons, K. Wärneryd (ed), The MIT Press, 177–208 (2014)
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Drugs and violence in Afghanistan: A panel VAR with unobserved common factor analysis (with Leandro Elia), Defence and Peace Economics 24.6 (2013), download
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From conscription to volunteers: budget shares in NATO defence spending (with Elisa Cavatorta), Defence and Peace Economics 23.3 (2012), download
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Supplying peace: Participation in and troop contribution to peacekeeping missions (with Leandro Elia), Journal of Peace Research 48.6 (2011) Lead article, download
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The Economics of Peacekeeping (with Ron P. Smith), Chapter 10 in the Handbook on the Economics of Conflict. Eds. D. Braddon and K. Hartley. Edward Elgar, 237–264 (2011), download
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A theoretical approach to the demand and supply for peacekeeping, The Economics of Peace and Security Journal 6.2 (2011), download
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2010 Lewis Fry Richardson Lifetime Achievement Award: Ron P. Smith and the Economics of War and Peace (with Kristian Skrede Gleditsch), Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 17.1 (2011), download

Book : COMPOSING PEACE

Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping
with Chiara Ruffa and Andrea Ruggeri
Oxford University Press, 2020

Description

Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace. This book focuses on four types of mission composition—diversity among peacekeepers, within the mission leadership, between mission leaders and peacekeepers, and between peacekeepers and locals. It is the first book to explore mission composition and its consequences, unpacking a concept hitherto unexplored and empirically combining quantitative and qualitative methods. It makes an important contribution to the fields of peace research, security studies, and international relations at large.

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Author Information

Vincenzo Bove, Professor of Politics and International Relations Ruggeri, University of Warwick, Chiara Ruffa, Academy fellow and Associate Professor, Uppsala University and Swedish Defence University, and Andrea Ruggeri, Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Vincenzo Bove is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. Prior to joining Warwick, he was British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. He holds a PhD in Economics (Birkbeck, University of London, 2011), an MSc in Economics (Birkbeck, University of London, 2007) and a BA in Politics (Firenze, 2003). He has held teaching and research appointments at the University of Essex, the University of Genoa, the University of Naples “Federico II”, the University of Venice, IMT Lucca, and Sciences Po, Paris. In his pre-academic life, he served as an officer in the Italian Navy. His research focuses on the arms trade, civil-military relations, international migration, military spending, terrorism, and third-party intervention in civil wars. He has published more than 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals in Economics and Political Science.

Chiara Ruffa is Academy Fellow at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and associate professor in War Studies at the Swedish Defense University. Her research interests lie at the cross-road between political science, sociology, and peace and conflict research with a specific focus on ideational variables, such as cultures, norms and frames, civil-military relations, soldiers in peacekeeping missions. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the European Journal of International Relations, Security Studies, Acta Sociologica, International Peacekeeping, Armed Forces and Society, Security and Defence Analysis, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Comparative European Politics, and several edited volumes. Her book, Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations, has been published with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2018. She is an editorial board member of Armed Forces and Society.

Andrea Ruggeri is Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford. He joined Brasenose College and the Department of Politics and International Relations in 2014. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam from 2010. He holds a PhD in Government (Essex, 2011), an MA International Relations (Essex, 2006) and a BA in Diplomatic and International Sciences (Genova, 2005). His research has been published in several journals including British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Security, International Interactions amongst others. He is in the editorial board of Journal of Peace Research, Il Politico, International Peacekeeping, Quaderni di Scienza Politica and the Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica.

Reviews and Awards

“Identifies four key dimensions of mission composition and how diversity in mission composition became crucial in recent trends of peacekeeping operations.” - Journal of Economic Literature

“In general, UN peacekeeping helps reduce violence and limit the likelihood of new wars. But some missions do this better than others. It is essential to understanding why. In this important new book, Vincenzo Bove, Chiara Ruffa, and Andrea Ruggeri show that how a peacekeeping mission is composed matters greatly to how it performs. Combining an eye for fine-grained detail with a rigorous empirical account that draws on experience in the Central African Republic, Lebanon, and Mali, Composing Peace demonstrates that achieving diversity across a mission’s senior leadership whilst minimizing the social distance between peacekeepers and the peacekept helps missions reduce violence. Its highly original insights break new ground in the field and identify ways of improving the effectiveness of future peacekeeping.” - Alex Bellamy, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at The University of Queensland

“United Nations peacekeeping missions are composed of troops and civilians from more than 120 different countries. It is important to understand how peacekeepers work together, because blue helmets are the most numerous type of troop in hot spots around the world today. Thousands of lives are at stake. What effects does troop diversity have on the ability to protect civilians? Does diversity make peacekeeping missions more effective? Bove, Ruffa, and Ruggeri find that, in general, diversity is an asset: different troop contributors complement each other with different strengths, enabling better peacekeeping. They also find, however, that sometimes less distance between Force Commanders and troops, and between troops and local citizens, can bring better outcomes. Composing Peace is a must-read for anyone interested in UN peacekeeping.” - Lise Howard, Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University

“Composing Peace makes a major contribution by considering when diversity of peacekeepers can foster or impede UN peacekeeping efforts. The authors clearly and sharply analyze the role diversity of armed forces in UN efforts, providing important insights into contemporary peacekeeping. By developing a nuanced conception of diversity, the authors demonstrate that certain aspects improve UN missions while other elements of diversity reduce the effectiveness of the mission. Anyone studying peacekeeping or multilateral military efforts needs to read this book.” - Stephen Saideman, Paterson Chair of International Affairs, Carleton University

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PhD Supervision

PhD Supervision
I am willing to supervise doctoral researchers working on any topic related to my research interests, including:

To address substantive research questions in these topic areas, I largely employ quantitative (large-N) methods. As such, I am unlikely to be able to supervise students who wish to work on a specific case, unless the research question is general enough and the project involves the analysis of multiple events. Please first consider how your topic and research methods fit within my interests and expertise.

If you would like me to consider a project, send me a full CV and a short research proposal (between 2-4 pages).

The proposal should include the following sections:

  1. A description of the motivating context and research questions
  2. A review of relevant literature, including a discussion of the gaps in the literature. The literature review should focus on existing research related to the project’s main research question(s), but should also address the broader literature
  3. The project’s theoretical contribution and main hypotheses
  4. A description of the data sources and the key variables (and how they will be constructed if relevant)
  5. The research design
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    Prospective students should also familiarize with the application process on PAIS’s webpage.