Yannick Pengl

Yannick Pengl

Yannick Pengl
Yannick Pengl
ETH Zurich
International Conflict Research
IFW D 49.1
Haldeneggsteig 4
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
e-mail: yannick.pengl (AT) icr.gess.ethz.ch

Yannick Pengl is a PhD candidate at ETH Zurich’s International Conflict Research Group. His dissertation project examines how the interplay of ethnic identities and economic inequality affects individual attitudes, group mobilization, and political stability. Further research interests include authoritarian politics, democratization, and different forms of political violence. Yannick holds undergraduate degrees in International Affairs and Economics from the University of St. Gallen as well as a Master's degree in Comparative and International Studies from ETH Zurich. He also studied as an exchange student at Trinity College Dublin and the Graduate Institute Geneva. Yannick's dissertation project is fully funded by a Swiss National Science Foundation Doc.CH grant. During his previous studies he was awarded with scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation and the Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Program (ESOP) at ETH Zurich.

Publications

Cederman, Lars-Erik, Luc Girardin, Carl Müller-Crepon, and Yannick Pengl. 2025. Nationalism and the Transformation of the State: Border Change and Political Violence in the Modern World. Cambridge University Press.
Cederman, Lars-Erik, Yannick Pengl, Dennis Atzenhofer, and Luc Girardin. 2025. “Nationality Questions and War: How Ethnic Configurations Affect Conflict Within and Between States.” Journal of Conflict Resolution.
Pengl, Yannick, Carl Müller-Crepon, Roberto Valli, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Luc Girardin. 2025. “The Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railway Construction and Nationalist Mobilization in Europe.” American Political Science Review,.
Cederman, Lars-Erik, Yannick Pengl, Luc Girardin, and Carl Müller-Crepon. 2024. “The Future Is History: Restorative Nationalism and Conflict in Post-Napoleonic Europe.” International Organization: 1–34.
Müller-Crepon, Carl, Yannick Pengl, and Nils-Christian Bormann. 2022. “Linking Ethnic Data from Africa (LEDA).” Journal of Peace Research 59(3): 425–35.
Pengl, Yannick, and Lars-Erik Cederman. 2022. “No Extraction Without Representation: The Ethno-Regional Oil Curse and Secessionist Conflict.” In Natural Resources, Inequality and Conflict, eds. Hamid E. Ali and Lars-Erik Cederman. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 37–69.
Bormann, Nils-Christian, Yannick Pengl, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Nils Weidmann. 2021. “Globalization, Institutions, and Ethnic Inequality.” International Organization 75(3): 665–97.
Müller-Crepon, Carl, and Yannick Pengl. 2021. “Naming the Nation: State Building and National Identity Formation in 19th Century Germany.” Working Paper.
Beiser-McGrath, Janina, Carl Müller-Crepon, and Yannick Pengl. 2020. “Who Benefits? How Local Ethnic Demography Shapes Political Favoritism in Africa.British Journal of Political Science, First View.
Pengl, Yannick, and Lars-Erik Cederman. 2019. “Global Conflict Trends and Their Consequences.”
Pengl, Yannick. 2018. “Resources, Rule and Rebellion in Sub-Saharan Africa.” ETH Zurich.