Dissertation:

My dissertation examines how sovereign states can resolve conflicts within the international community without surrendering their sovereign status, akin to how individuals delegate authority to ensure peace and order while retaining personal freedoms. I argue that modern international governance needs to allow states to retain sovereignty while providing a system for resolving disputes, which can be done by understanding sovereignty as divisible. Divided sovereignty challenges the traditional view of sovereignty as absolute, proposing that sovereignty can be shared or divided among different levels of governance, enabling a more cooperative international order.

Research Interests:

Using an interdisciplinary approach to history and political theory, my ongoing research considers questions and issues of sovereignty in the late modern and American founding periods and what these findings can tell us about today’s international global order.