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Works & Research

Research Interests & Areas:

• UK, US, French & NATO Liberal Intervention, Military Intervention, & Humanitarian Intervention.
• Epistemologies & Liberalism.
• International Relations Theories & Theories of International Security.
• Comparative Political Theory.
• Human Security.
• UK, US, UN, & NATO Post-Cold War Foreign Policy & The Use of Force.
• Responsibility to Protect (R2P), Human Rights & Humanitarianism.
• The Liberal International Order, Power, Norms & Hegemony.

Works in Progress:

• Apples & oranges or green apples & red apples? An analysis of American military intervention in Syria against Bashar al-Assad under the presidencies of Barack Obama & Donald Trump

• R2P & Resolution 1973: how the power politics of regime change diminished human security in NATO’s Libya intervention.

• Returning to the source of liberal intervention: the conceptual disconnection between epistemology, theory, and praxis in elite decision-making toward intervention in Iraq & Libya (doctoral dissertation.)

• Vini, Vidi, Vici? NATO’s militarized hijacking of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P): how NATO’s military intervention in Libya set a damaging precedent for R2P.

• Rethinking Regime Change in Military Intervention: How the Legacies of Charismatic Authority Impact Regime Change in Libya & Iraq.