Recent PhD

Cristobal.Bywaters@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

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Profile

** This profile was last updated April 2024. My updated CV is available hereLink opens in a new window **

I recently completed my PhD in Politics and International Studies at PAIS without corrections (November 2023). In March 2024, my thesis was awarded the UK Political Studies Association's Shirin M Rai Prize 2024 fot the best dissertation in the field of International RelationsLink opens in a new window. My work was nominated by PAIS.

I hold an MSc in International Relations (Research) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Alberto Hurtado University, Chile.

I have research and teaching experience at Alberto Hurtado University and as a research assistant at the University of Santiago’s Institute of Advanced Studies (IDEA-USACH). I also worked as a policy planning analyst at Chile’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence.

Until July 2023, I was part of Nueva Política ExteriorLink opens in a new window's board. Nueva Política Exterior is a progressive think tank oriented to generating knowledge, promoting political dialogue, and contributing to Chilean foreign policy and international relations.

Untill September 2023, I was a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile's Foreign Policy Council. Although I currently work as a special advisor at Chile's MFA, I am open to academic collaboration!

Thesis

My doctoral research looked at the domestic politics of small state international status management, taking contemporary Chile as a case study (1973 - 2010). It was sponsored by the Chile’s National Research and Development Agency (ANID).

My supervisors were Tom LongLink opens in a new window and Christopher BrowningLink opens in a new window.

Research interests

• IR theory
• Status in world politics
• Domestic politics of foreign policy
• Small states
• Latin American foreign policies
• Latin America - United States relations

Book

Nuevas voces de política exterior: Chile y el mundo en la era post-consensual [New foreign policy voices: Chile and the world in a post-consensus era] is a volume edited by Cristóbal Bywaters (PAIS Warwick PGR), Daniela SepúlvedaLink opens in a new window (PolISciUMN) and Andrés Villar (PhD, POLIS Cambridge). 25 young IR scholars and practitioners reflect on the present and future of Chile’s foreign relations and propose a new progressive foreign policy agenda for the South American country. The 384-page book was published by the prestigious Latin American publisher Fondo de Cultura Económica and was sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Chile and the University of Chile’s Institute of International Studies.

The book was launched Tuesday 20 April 2021. Commentators were the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Chile, Mrs. Michelle Bachelet; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Mr. Juan Gabriel Valdés; and public intellectual and LSE doctoral researcher, Mr. Noam Titelman.

Other Warwick community members who contributed to the book are Tom Long (PAIS), Federico Merke (PAIS alumnus), and María del Carmen Domínguez (School of Law alumnus).

The book is available in paperbackLink opens in a new window, Amazon KindleLink opens in a new window and EPUBLink opens in a new window.

Further information (in Spanish) at nuevapoliticaexterior.cl.

Awards and scholarships

Shirin M Rai Prize 2024 fot the best dissertation in the field of International RelationsLink opens in a new window. Awarded by the Political Studies Association, United Kingdom. March 2024.

Society for Latin American Studies' Postgraduate and Post-Doctoral Research Support Grant to conduct archival research at the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York, United States. April 2022.

Becas-Chile Scholarship for undertaking a doctoral degree abroad. Awarded by Chile’s National Research and Development Agency (ANID). June 2018.

Becas-Chile Scholarship for undertaking a master’s degree abroad. Awarded by Chile’s National Research and Development Agency (ANID). June 2015.

First prize. Fourth Young Researchers Contest organised by Alberto Hurtado University’s Faculty of Social Sciences. August 2014.

First prize. Essay competition on Chilean foreign policy “Embajador Jorge Berguño Barnes” organised by the Career Diplomats Association of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Chile (ADICA) and University of Santiago’s Institute for Advanced Studies (IDEA-USACH). July 2012.

Recent publicarions

2023. Domestic Politics, Prestige, and War: The Emergence of Chile's Democratic Status Narrative [Políttica doméstica, prestigio y guerra: la emergencia de la narrativa del estatus democ´ratico de Chile]Link opens in a new window. Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, vol. 66, no. 1, e006.

Recent publications

2022. *Untitled policy brief on the future of Brazilian foreign policy towards Latin America*Link opens in a new window. In: El futuro de Brasil: política exterior y relación bilatteral con la Argentina del próximo gobierno brasileño [The future of Brazil: the next Brazilian government’s foreign policy and its bilateral relationship with Argentina]. Buenos Aires: Red Argentina de Profesionales para la Política Exterior (REDAPPE). 15.

2022. ¿Qué Constitución para qué política exterior? Apuntes para el trabajo de la Convención Constitucional de ChileLink opens in a new window [with Claudia Fuentes-Julio and Daniela Sepúlveda Soto]. Fundación Friedrich Ebert and Nueva Política Exterior, 1-18.

2021. Nuevas voces de política exterior: Chile y el mundo en la era post-consensualLink opens in a new window [edited with Daniela Sepúlveda Soto and Andrés Villar Gertner]. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 384 pp.

2021. “Introducción: Hacia un nuevo ciclo progresista para la política exterior de Chile”Link opens in a new window [with Daniela Sepúlveda Soto and Andrés Villar Gertner]. In: Bywaters C., Cristóbal, Daniela Sepúlveda Soto and Andrés Villar Gertner (Eds.). Nuevas voces de política exterior: Chile y el mundo en la era post-consensual. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 21-55.

2021. “¿El fin de la ‘política de Estado’? Eficiencia y democracia en el nuevo ciclo de la política exterior”Link opens in a new window. In: Bywaters C., Cristóbal, Daniela Sepúlveda Soto and Andrés Villar Gertner (Eds.). Nuevas voces de política exterior: Chile y el mundo en la era post-consensual. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 144-154.

2021. “Reflexión final: Los desafíos del nuevo ciclo de la política exterior chilena”Link opens in a new window [with Daniela Sepúlveda Soto and Andrés Villar Gertner]. In: Bywaters C., Cristóbal, Daniela Sepúlveda Soto and Andrés Villar Gertner (Eds.). Nuevas voces de política exterior: Chile y el mundo en la era post-consensual. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica. 367-374.

Recent op-eds