Christopher Thornton

Biographic Data

ID4054101
NAMEChristopher Thornton
GIVEN NAMESChristopher
FAMILY NAMEThornton
SIGNATURETHORNTON C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0003-0055-5500
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS33
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • This program is literally saving lives”

    Open AccessHillary M Kapa, Stephanie Garcia et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Our findings demonstrate integration of strengths-based approaches in youth violence prevention programming to support holistic wellbeing beyond risk reduction. Further, our work underscores need to develop evidence for and elevate community-generated solutions to rebuild and heal communities

  • All necessary measures? The United Nations and international intervention in Libya

    Open AccessChristopher P Thornton, Christopher ThorntonARTICLEInternational Affairs2023Cited by: 2

    Journal Article All necessary measures? The United Nations and international intervention in Libya Get access All necessary measures? The United Nations and international intervention in Libya. By Ian Martin. London: Hurst. 2022. 224pp. £30.00. Isbn978 1 78738 584 9. Available as e-book. Christopher Thornton Christopher Thornton University of Oxford, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs…

  • Waiting for dignity

    Open AccessChristopher P Thornton, Christopher ThorntonARTICLEInternational Affairs2023

    adopt showcase the limited utility of defining periods of time.In relation to the 2011 Arab uprisings (Arab Spring), Wyrtzen refers to the upheaval across much of the Middle East, when, once again fleetingly, the possibilities of new political futures, both constructively and, in the case of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, destructively, came into existence

  • Legal Limits in Exceptional Times

    Open AccessChristopher P Thornton, Christopher ThorntonARTICLEInternational Studies Review2022

    Journal Article Legal Limits in Exceptional Times Get access H D Emmanuel. De Groof. State Renaissance for Peace: Transitional Governance under International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 392 pp., $125.00 hardback (ISBN: 978-1108499767). Christopher Thornton Christopher Thornton University of Oxford, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 24, Issue 1, Ma…

  • Descendants of Cyrus

    Christopher Thornton, Christopher R ThorntonBOOKDescendants of Cyrus2019

  • Descendants of Cyrus

    Christopher ThorntonBOOKDescendants of Cyrus2019

    A firsthand look at one of the least accessible and yet most politically significant countries on earth, Descendants of Cyrus taps is a beautifully written travelogue full of Iranian culture, history, and politics

  • Why Do Fewer Women Than Men Apply for Grants After Their Phds

    Open AccessLynne Goldstein, B J Mills et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2018Cited by: 31References: 22

    In spring 2013, the Society for American Archaeology created the Task Force on Gender Disparities in Archaeological Grant Submissions because of an apparent disparity in the rates of senior (post-PhD) proposal submissions by men and women to archaeology programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Although NSF success rates for men and women between 2009 and 2013 were roughly equal…

  • Archaeometallurgy in Global Perspective

    Benjamin W Roberts, Christopher P Thornton et al.BOOKArchaeometallurgy in Global…2014