Hello! I am an Assistant Professor at the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics. I research topics at the intersection of business-government relations and economic statecraft. More specifically, I focus on the use of domestic institutional tools to achieve geo-strategic ends.

I received a PhD in Government from Georgetown University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance for the 2020-2021 academic year. Before graduate school, I studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brown University and worked as a Research Associate at Harvard Business School.

I spend a disproportionate amount of my time reading and thinking about Manchester United, often bemoaning the fraility of our frontline.

Academic Publications

An Illiberal Economic Order: Commitment mechanisms become tools of authoritarian coercion Review of International Political Economy Accepted.

The limits of global property rights: Quasi-Experimental evidence from the Energy Charter Treaty (with Paula Ganga)
Energy Policy 167 2022.

The Financialization of International Law (with Abraham Newman)
Perspectives on Politics 19(3): 773-790 2021.

Domestic Courts, Transnational Law, and International Order (with Filiz Kahraman and Abraham Newman)
European Journal of International Relations 26(1): 184-208 2020.

The MNC-Coalition Paradox: Issue Salience, Foreign Firms, and the General Data Protection Regulation (with Abraham Newman)
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 57(3): 448-467 2019.

Mobilizing Market Power: Evidence from firm reactions to Sarbanes-Oxley (with Abraham Newman)
International Organization 73(1): 1-34 2019.

Hegemony, Inequality, and the Quest for Primacy
Journal of Global Security Studies 3(3): 371-384 2018.

Form Over Function in Finance: International Institutional Design by Bricolage (with Abraham Newman)
Review of International Political Economy 24(3): 363-392 2017.

Networked Liabilities: Transnational authority in a world of transnational business (with Loriana Crasnic and Abraham Newman)
European Journal of International Relations 23(4): 906-929 2017.

Work-in-Progress

Liberalism as Last Resort, Article and Book Project

Exporting Capital, Importing Law (with Calvin Thrall)

Estimating the boundaries of Economic Coercion in the US-China Relationship (with Abraham Newman and Qi Zhang)

The Passions and the Interest Rates (with Dani Nedal)