Luis works on state-building and international conflict, with a focus on Latin America.
His research has also appeared in leading journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, and Security Studies, among others.
Luis earned his PhD in political science from the University of Notre Dame.
He was a Postdoc at the University of Konstanz, and is a Research Associate at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Cambridge University Press, 2024
