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

Pengl, Yannick, Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, and Carl Müller-Crepon. 2024. “The Future Is History: Restorative Nationalism and Conflict in Post-Napoleonic Europe.” International Organization, forthcoming.

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.

Müller-Crepon, Carl, Yannick Pengl, and Nils-Christian Bormann. 2020. “Linking Ethnic Data from Africa.” Journal of Peace Research, forthcoming.

Pengl, Yannick, and Lars-Erik Cederman. 2019. “Global Conflict Trends and Their Consequences.”