Dr Edward Stoddard is Professor of International Security at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is also an Affiliated Researcher at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, and was an EU Marie Curie Research Fellow in Armed Conflict Studies there between 2018 and 2020.
Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin (2014–15). He is a specialist in contemporary armed conflicts, particularly those involving non-state armed groups and non-Western states. His research focuses primarily on conflict in West Africa, especially those involving so-called “jihadist” groups, though in the past he has also researched conflicts in Iraq/Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.
In addition to the above, he has a strong research interest in the warfare practices of authoritarian states and the strategies used by authoritarian leaders to bolster regime security.