Graduate Student, International Relations
The Maxwell School
About
I'm interested in notions of sovereignty in International Relations. I'm particularly interested in an international system based on evolving conceptions of the self, self-identification, identity politics and religious influences on the individual and the state. Sovereignty as understood by international convention vs. the individual and the individual's state is also important in my attempts to analyze the “international community” from a first principles stance. I am also interested in the soft power of the executive generally, the reserve powers of (not necessarily hereditary) monarchy – or other overarching cultural-political institutions in the Westminster system specifically, with emphasis on the bi-lateral and competing models of the British Commonwealth /European Union and the United Nations and other regional/ethnic/religious agglomerations.
