Professor Stathis N. Kalyvas

Professor Stathis N. Kalyvas

Politics and International Relations
University Academic Fellow since 2018

Stathis N. Kalyvas is Gladstone Professor of Government and fellow of All Souls College at Oxford. He was, until 2018, the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he founded and directed the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence and co-directed the Hellenic Studies Program. In 2019 he founded the T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence at All Souls College. He is the author, among others, of The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996) and The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His work has received multiple awards and he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and the British Academy in 2020.

Research Areas
Violent Political Conflict

Selected Publications

"Ideology and Revolution in Civil Wars: The Marxist Paradox"

(with Laia Balcells). American Political Science Review, 2026, 120:1, 141-159

"Islamism and Armed Conflict"

(with Mikael Naghizadeh). Annual Reviews of Political Science, 2025. 28:21.1–21.19

"Conflict: Trajectories and Challenges."

World Politics, 2025, 77:1, 259-271

"A Loss of Purpose? Sartori and the Current State of Political Science."

Italian Political Science, 2024, 18:1, 1-13

"The Delphi Syndrome: Uses of History in the Social Sciences."

(with Daniel Fedorowicz). In Rirchard Bourke and Quentin Skinner (eds.), History and the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, 116-140