Welcome! I’m a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, where I’m affiliated with two fellowships at the Belfer Center: Technology and Geopolitics and the International Security Program. I’m also Director’s Fellow with the Reimagining World Order research community at Princeton University, which I formerly co-curated with its director, G. John Ikenberry. Before coming to Harvard, I served as Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton. In July 2021, I completed my doctoral dissertation under the supervision of John Ikenberry (chair), Aaron L. Friedberg, Gary J. Bass, and Marc Ratkovic – also at Princeton. I also hold an M.A. in Political Science from Princeton, an M.Phil. in International Relations from Oxford University, and a B.A. (Hons.) in Political Studies from Queen’s University.

My research explores fundamental international-security issues from the standpoint of world order. My first book project, tentatively entitled The Fragile Peace: Rules of Neutralization, Demilitarization, and Non-Aggression and the Institutional Logic of Multilateral Prohibitions on Militarized Bargaining, explores the history and theory of rules of neutralization, demilitarization, and non-aggression as instruments for the bounding of war in the international system. The book compiles an original dataset of multilateral rules of neutralization, demilitarization, and non-aggression; investigates why states enact such rules; and explores the implications of this important practice for our understanding of the ability states, especially the great powers, to regulate the scope and intensity of strategic competition under anarchy. I also study Artificial Intelligence as an emergent technology. I’m currently writing a paper on the probable implications of the militarization of Artificial Intelligence by the great powers on patterns of strategic competition in the international system.

My work has been supported by, among others, the Stand Together Trust, Josephine de Karman Trust, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Government of Alberta as well as by Princeton’s University Center for Human Values, the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Center for International Security Studies jointly with the Bradley Foundation.