Welcome

My name is Cartland Zhou. I am a Political Science Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In the upcoming academic year 2025-2026, I will be a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance (NCGG) at Princeton University. My core research evaluates the influence of geopolitical and global economic constraints on modern conflict processes and international relations. My dissertation book project analyzes how the global arms supply, dominated by an oligopolistic arms industry, shapes aspects of militarized conflicts in the post-WWII era. I use machine learning models to develop novel techniques and measure latent outcomes in my research projects. I am a 2024-2025 IGCC fellow, 2024-2025 Hans J. Morgenthau fellow, and a 2023-2024 Alice Belkin scholar.

Contact

Cartland Zhou
Email: [cartlandzhou@g.ucla.edu]