Noel Anderson

Noel Anderson is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he studies external intervention in internal conflicts, limited war, and counterinsurgency. His book, Wars Without End: Competitive Intervention, Escalation Control, and Protracted Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2025), brings together battlefield bargaining dynamics, the escalatory pressures of interstate competition, and the systemic dimensions of geopolitical rivalry in civil wars to explain how protracted fighting within states is linked to enduring competition between them. Some of his other work has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Strategic Studies, among other venues, and has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has previously worked for the Irish Department of Justice and the Independent Monitoring Commission, an independent body that monitored paramilitarism and security normalization in Northern Ireland.