Neil Loughlin

Dr. Neil Loughlin is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at City, University of London, where he also serves as the Programme Director for the BSc Politics programme. His primary research interests lie in authoritarian politics and the political economy of development.

Neil's book, The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in Cambodia, was published by Cornell University Press in September 2024. His work has appeared in leading academic journals, including Comparative Politics, Democratization, Third World Quarterly, and the Journal of Contemporary Asia. His research spans a wide range of topics, such as post-conflict state-building, patronage and clientelism, authoritarian developmentalism, and land dispossession and resource extraction.