About
Charlie Carter is an IRD Fellow and an MPhil/PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations. He studies the international politics of terrorism and similarly contentious aspects of global politics. Principally, he is concerned with how material, strategic, and domestic factors might determine the positions states adopt on issues of political violence.
To this end, he uses a variety of sophisticated quantitative methods, including network, text, and experimental analyses. Charlie has provided extensions to social science methodologies and statistical programming libraries to enable the production of robust answers to otherwise difficult-to-address research questions. For instance, he has refined computational text analysis tools for UN diplomatic speeches and developed custom network statistics for co-evolutionary models of international networks and state behaviour.
Substantively, his work suggests that foreign aid recipients align their terrorism rhetoric with that of their donors on some, but not all, salient dimensions of terrorism politics. Experimental evidence further shows that foreign policy elites do not significantly penalise aid offers that include political conditionality on terrorism policies, indicating that such conditional arrangements may occur regularly in practice even when not directly observable.
Charlie holds an MSc International Relations (Research) degree from the London School of Economics and a BSc Politics and International Relations degree from the University of Exeter.
Research topic
The state-level and relational determinants of state rhetoric on terrorism in the United Nations General Assembly
Academic supervisors
Research Cluster affliation
Security and Statecraft Research Cluster
Expertise
Quantitative text analysis; network analysis; International institutions; diplomacy
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