Dr Chiara Libiseller is a Lecturer in Strategic Studies in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Before joining King’s in August 2025, Chiara held positions at Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Innsbruck. Her qualifications includes a BA degree in Political Science from the University of Innsbruck, an MA degree in International Peace and Security, and a PhD in War Studies, both from the Department of War Studies, King’s College London.

Chiara’s research focuses on Western knowledge production on war and strategy and its effects on practice. Her doctoral research analysed the rise and fall of fashionable concepts in Strategic Studies. More specifically, it traced and compared the life cycle of concepts such as ‘revolution in military affairs’, ‘counterinsurgency’, and ‘hybrid warfare’ to understand their content and embedded assumptions and thus the mechanisms that drive waves of interest in the field of Strategic Studies. A book based on the thesis is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.

Chiara serves as deputy editor for the Journal of Strategic Studies and is part of the Advisory Committee of Women in International Security (WIIS) UK.

Research interests

• Knowledge production on war
• The changing character of war
• The impact of technology on the theory and practice of war
• Concept formation and analysis

Teaching

Chiara teaches on the theory and practice of war in the MA War Studies and strategic theory in the BA War Studies. She is currently unavailable for PhD supervision.

Link to Pure profile: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/chiara.3.libiseller

Link to Orcid profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5775-9630