Austin S. Matthews, Ph.D.

Austin S. Matthews, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a faculty affiliate of UT Austin's Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Long Institute of Latin American Studies.

His research examines how states - particularly authoritarian regimes - organize, lead, and control national security. He is a co-PI at the GetGov project, based out of the University of Oslo and funded by the European Union (ERC, GETGOV, 101221191), which tracks the composition of cabinet ministers worldwide.

His work has been published in Armed Forces & Society, the British Journal of Political Science, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Democratization, Electoral Politics, German Politics, International Interactions Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and the Journal of Peace Research.

His current book manuscript, Comrade-Soldiers: Military Politicization in Dictatorships, examines the origins, development, and consequences of dictatorships infusing their armed forces with partisan institutions. It draws upon an original global dataset of military politicization, archival research in two countries, and original field interviews with former party and military officials in revolution-era Grenada.

Contact: austin.matthews@austin.utexas.edu

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8972-8329

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