Graduate Student

My research interests lie in domestic politics of foreign policy (both foreign policies at a strategic level and specific decisions in face of certain incidents). I would like to identify a range of critical players involved, and see how their interactions shape diplomatic decisions. I will also weave the implications of ongoing domestic transformations into the policy-making process. In the end, I wish to figure out the relevance between domestic variables (regime type, political system, domestic landscape of political power) and the foreign policy-making patterns of major powers.

My areas of interest include identity, subjectivity, democracy,  contentious politics, sovereignty, imagination, critical theory, and continental philosophy. I approach the study of identity from an intersectional perspective, but I am most firmly rooted in the tradition of feminist theory and gender scholarship. This connects with my interest in subjectivity, because I am interested in how particular forms of subjectivity are imposed onto or resisted by particular bodies as well as how political subjectivity can be strategically deployed by activists at a macropolitical level.

FIELD: American Political Development, American Political Thought

My research interests focus primarily on how some regions are able to cease hostilities and enter more peaceful and cooperative relations while others find themselves trapped in the entangling historical animosities and disputes. In particular, I am interested in the comparative regional security developments in postwar Europe and East Asia.