Dr Patrick Shea

  • Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Global Governance (Political & International Studies)

email: Patrick.Shea@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

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Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences. Formerly, I was an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. I received my Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University. My work can be found in the British Journal of Political Science, Economics & Politics,  International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, and the Journal of Politics, among other outlets.

 

Research interests

My research focuses on:

  • international relations
  • the political economy of conflict processes
  • politics of international finance and debt
  • the international politics of state capacity
  • leaders and international relations 
  • domestic politics of international relations
  • statistical and causal inference.

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 7.

2024

DiGiuseppe, M. and Shea, P. (2024) Information, uncertainty, and public support for brinkmanship during the 2023 debt limit negotiations. British Journal of Political Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Shea, P. E., Reinsberg, B. and Kern, A. (2024) China lending and the political economy of leader survival. Journal of Conflict Resolution, (doi: 10.1177/00220027241263036) (Early Online Publication)

Brown, K. J., DiGiuseppe, M. and Shea, P. E. (2024) Ethnic politics and sovereign credit risk. Review of International Political Economy, 31(2), pp. 589-621. (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2225143)

Kern, A., Reinsberg, B. and Shea, P. E. (2024) Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival. Public Choice, 198, pp. 269-295. (doi: 10.1007/s11127-023-01114-4)

Cappella Zielinski, R. and Shea, P. E. (2024) Global war finance in the twenty-first century. In: Aggarwal, V. K. and Cheung, T. M. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780197673577 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197673546.013.19) (In Press)

2023

Artabe, E., Chapa, S., Sparkman, L. and Shea, P. E. (2023) External threats, capacity, and repression: how the threat of war affects political development and physical integrity rights. British Journal of Political Science, (doi: 10.1017/S0007123422000692) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Imamverdiyeva, U. and Shea, P. E. (2022) Re-examining women leaders and military spending. Journal of Peace Research, 59(5), pp. 679-693. (doi: 10.1177/00223433211055909)

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Number of items: 7.

Articles

DiGiuseppe, M. and Shea, P. (2024) Information, uncertainty, and public support for brinkmanship during the 2023 debt limit negotiations. British Journal of Political Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Shea, P. E., Reinsberg, B. and Kern, A. (2024) China lending and the political economy of leader survival. Journal of Conflict Resolution, (doi: 10.1177/00220027241263036) (Early Online Publication)

Brown, K. J., DiGiuseppe, M. and Shea, P. E. (2024) Ethnic politics and sovereign credit risk. Review of International Political Economy, 31(2), pp. 589-621. (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2225143)

Kern, A., Reinsberg, B. and Shea, P. E. (2024) Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival. Public Choice, 198, pp. 269-295. (doi: 10.1007/s11127-023-01114-4)

Artabe, E., Chapa, S., Sparkman, L. and Shea, P. E. (2023) External threats, capacity, and repression: how the threat of war affects political development and physical integrity rights. British Journal of Political Science, (doi: 10.1017/S0007123422000692) (Early Online Publication)

Imamverdiyeva, U. and Shea, P. E. (2022) Re-examining women leaders and military spending. Journal of Peace Research, 59(5), pp. 679-693. (doi: 10.1177/00223433211055909)

Book Sections

Cappella Zielinski, R. and Shea, P. E. (2024) Global war finance in the twenty-first century. In: Aggarwal, V. K. and Cheung, T. M. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780197673577 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197673546.013.19) (In Press)

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Supervision

I am most interested in supervising PhD students on the following topics:

  • International Political Economy
  • Sovereign Debt
  • Foreign aid
  • Development finance
  • Quantitative methods and international relations. 

 

If you wish me to supervise your PhD project, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Send me a short research proposal and curriculum vitae. 

Current supervision projects: 

  • Wu, Zhihang
    Principles or Pragmatism? Social Standards in FTAs

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