Patrick A. Mello
Patrick A. Mello is an Assistant Professor of International Security at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University Berlin and a Habilitation in Political Science (venia legendi) from the Technical University of Munich. His research focuses on international and comparative politics, foreign and security policy, and comparative methods. He is the author of the award-winning Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods (Routledge, 2023). His articles have appeared in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, European Political Science Review, West European Politics, Foreign Policy Analysis, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and Contemporary Security Policy. This workshop is based on Mello’s textbook Qualitative Comparative Analysis: An Introduction to Research Design and Application (Georgetown University Press, 2021).
