Dr Patrick Shea

  • Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Global Governance (Political & International Studies)

email: Patrick.Shea@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: He/him/his

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Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow's School of Social and Political Sciences. Formerly, I was an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. I received my Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University. My work can be found in the British Journal of Political Science, Economics & Politics,  International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the Journal of Peace Research, and the Journal of Politics, among other outlets.

 

Research interests

My research focuses on:

  • international relations
  • the political economy of conflict processes
  • politics of international finance and debt
  • the international politics of state capacity
  • leaders and international relations 
  • domestic politics of international relations
  • statistical and causal inference.

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 9.

2025

Cormier, Ben and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2025) Global finance, political business cycles, and the politics of foreign reserves. International Studies Quarterly, (Accepted for Publication)

Ferry, Lauren L. and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2025) Crises and consequences: the role of U.S. support in international bond markets. Journal of Conflict Resolution, (doi: 10.1177/00220027251327970) (Early Online Publication)

2024

DiGiuseppe, Matthew and Shea, Patrick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2024) Information, uncertainty, and public support for brinkmanship during the 2023 debt limit negotiations. British Journal of Political Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Kern, Andreas (2024) China lending and the political economy of leader survival. Journal of Conflict Resolution, (doi: 10.1177/00220027241263036) (Early Online Publication)

Brown, Kathleen J., DiGiuseppe, Matthew and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2024) Ethnic politics and sovereign credit risk. Review of International Political Economy, 31(2), pp. 589-621. (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2225143)

Kern, Andreas, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2024) Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival. Public Choice, 198, pp. 269-295. (doi: 10.1007/s11127-023-01114-4)

Cappella Zielinski, Rosella and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2024) Global war finance in the twenty-first century. In: Aggarwal, Vinod K. and Cheung, Tai Ming (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780197673577 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197673546.013.19) (In Press)

2023

Artabe, Eugenia, Chapa, Samantha, Sparkman, Leah and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2023) External threats, capacity, and repression: how the threat of war affects political development and physical integrity rights. British Journal of Political Science, (doi: 10.1017/S0007123422000692) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Imamverdiyeva, Ulkar and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2022) Re-examining women leaders and military spending. Journal of Peace Research, 59(5), pp. 679-693. (doi: 10.1177/00223433211055909)

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Number of items: 9.

Articles

Cormier, Ben and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2025) Global finance, political business cycles, and the politics of foreign reserves. International Studies Quarterly, (Accepted for Publication)

Ferry, Lauren L. and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2025) Crises and consequences: the role of U.S. support in international bond markets. Journal of Conflict Resolution, (doi: 10.1177/00220027251327970) (Early Online Publication)

DiGiuseppe, Matthew and Shea, Patrick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2024) Information, uncertainty, and public support for brinkmanship during the 2023 debt limit negotiations. British Journal of Political Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Kern, Andreas (2024) China lending and the political economy of leader survival. Journal of Conflict Resolution, (doi: 10.1177/00220027241263036) (Early Online Publication)

Brown, Kathleen J., DiGiuseppe, Matthew and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2024) Ethnic politics and sovereign credit risk. Review of International Political Economy, 31(2), pp. 589-621. (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2023.2225143)

Kern, Andreas, Reinsberg, Bernhard ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-413X and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2024) Why cronies don’t cry? IMF programs, Chinese lending, and leader survival. Public Choice, 198, pp. 269-295. (doi: 10.1007/s11127-023-01114-4)

Artabe, Eugenia, Chapa, Samantha, Sparkman, Leah and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2023) External threats, capacity, and repression: how the threat of war affects political development and physical integrity rights. British Journal of Political Science, (doi: 10.1017/S0007123422000692) (Early Online Publication)

Imamverdiyeva, Ulkar and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2022) Re-examining women leaders and military spending. Journal of Peace Research, 59(5), pp. 679-693. (doi: 10.1177/00223433211055909)

Book Sections

Cappella Zielinski, Rosella and Shea, Patrick E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5051-4443 (2024) Global war finance in the twenty-first century. In: Aggarwal, Vinod K. and Cheung, Tai Ming (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780197673577 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197673546.013.19) (In Press)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 15:03:42 2025 BST.

Supervision

I am most interested in supervising PhD students on the following topics:

  • International Political Economy
  • Sovereign Debt
  • Foreign aid
  • Development finance
  • Quantitative methods and international relations. 

 

If you wish me to supervise your PhD project, please do not hesitate to get in touch. Send me a short research proposal and curriculum vitae. 

Current supervision projects: 

  • Wu, Zhihang
    Principles or Pragmatism? Social Standards in FTAs

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