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Tobias Risse
Postdoctoral Fellow


Institute of Political Science

University of St. Gallen



Ongoing Research


Under Review

Right-Wing Terrorism, Party Responses, and Citizens’ Blame Attributions to Far-Right Parties (with Valentin Daur). 

National Security vs. Human Security: Intrastate Conflict and States’ Rhetoric on Conventional Arms Control in the United Nations General Assembly. 

Work in Progress

Diverting Terror in Its Tracks: Drone Strikes as Battlefield Trolley Dilemmas (with James W. Davis and Erik Lin-Greenberg).

The Valence Costs and Benefits of Parties’ Positional Shifts in Dynamic Political Environments (with Valentin Daur).

Outsourcing the Outrage: Public Opinion and Plausible Deniability of Foreign Interference by Proxy (with Ondřej Rosendorf).

Challenging Universality: How Cultural Relativism Shapes Public Opinion on Human Rights (with Christoph Steinert and Stefanie Walter).

Cross-National Differences in Elite Responsiveness to Public Opinion on Military Spending: Experimental Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (with Ondřej Rosendorf).

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