Luke Cooper

Luke Cooper is Senior Research Fellow at IDEAS, the LSE’s in-house foreign policy think tank. His primary research interests lie in the field of nationalism, historical sociology, authoritarianism and the theory of uneven and combined development, and his work analyses both historical and present-day case studies. He is the author of Authoritarian Contagion; the Global Threat to Democracy (2021) and Authoritarian protectionism in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe: diversity, commonality and resistance (2021).