MANUEL VOGT
Professor of International Security, University College London
Ideology and group demands
This research strand analyzes the politics of group demands, focusing on the role of political organizations and ideology in conflict escalation.
Vogt, Manuel. 2025. "Nationalism and Ethnic Mobilization: Towards an Integrated Perspective." Nationalities Papers 53(2):245-259. (Link)
This state-of-the-field article reviews scholarship on nationalism and ethnic mobilization, highlighting key sources of division in the literature and proposing an integrated perspective that serves to assimilate findings from separate strands of research in the field.
Gremler, Frederik, Manuel Vogt and Nils B. Weidmann. 2025. "Intra-Ethnic Divisions and Disagreement over Self-Determination Demands in Ethnic Movements." Political Science Research and Methods 13(4):815-831. (Link)
Politically mobilized ethnic groups vary in their territorial demands: some press for increased autonomy or even outright secession, while others do not make such demands at all and prefer integration in the existing state. What explains this divergence in ethnic group demands with respect to the group’s territorial status? Few studies have explored the sources of fragmentation in (ethno-)political movements. Introducing an updated and expanded version of the EPR–Organizations (EPR-O) dataset, we test three pre-registered hypotheses. Our findings indicate that within-group diversity in economic resources increases disagreement over territorial demands.
Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi, Reyko Huang, Kanchan Chandra, Evgeny Finkel, Richard A Nielsen, Mara Redlich Revkin, Manuel Vogt and Elisabeth Jean Wood. 2023. "How Religious Are “Religious” Conflicts?". International Studies Review 25(3): viad029. (Link)
Building on my research on the role of religion in political violence, my contribution to this “Forum” on religion and conflict discusses cognitive biases that have not only misled public debates on religion and violence, but also influenced prominent scholarly theories.