Charlie Carter is an MPhil/PhD candidate in the Department of International Relations. His research explores the rhetoric used by states in the United Nations General Assembly in relation to the issue of terrorism. Specifically, he examines how a state’s domestic politics, institutions, and network of international ties affect how its representatives discuss and/or characterise terrorism and similar forms of political violence.
He uses quantitative text analysis methods to identify meaning in large text corpora. Separately, he employs longitudinal network analysis models to understand the temporal coevolution of international networks — including foreign aid flows, military ties, and formal alliances — and state rhetoric.
These tools enable him to identify how states talk about terrorism, whether their rhetoric is influenced by the relations they maintain with other states and, conversely, whether states’ rhetoric on terrorism might influence decisions about the topology of international networks: where to allocate aid, with whom to ally, and what groups to associate with.
Charlie holds an MSc International Relations (Research) degree from the London School of Economics and a BSc Politics and International Relations degree from the University of Exeter.
Research topic
The state-level and relational determinants of state rhetoric on terrorism in the United Nations General Assembly
Academic supervisors
Anna Getmansky
Professor Toby Dodge
Research Cluster affliation
Security and Statecraft Research Cluster