Supervised Ph.D. Projects

• Martin Hearson : “Bargaining Away the Tax Base: The North-South Politics of Tax Treaty Diffusion” (2016).

• Lukas Linsi : “How the Beast Became a Beauty: The Social Construction of the Economic Meaning of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows in Advanced Economies, 1960 – 2007” (2016).

• Bradley C. Parks : “Brokering Development Policy Change: The Parallel Pursuit of Millennium Challenge Account Resources and Reform” (2014).

• Natali Bulamacioglu : “Why are We Running? Political Economy of Bank Runs and an Analysis on the 2007-09 Banking Crises in the United Kingdom” (2013).

Future Applications

I am interested in supervising Ph.D. students working in international political economy, with a focus on international money and finance, international organizations, or other areas related to my current research interests and expertise.

Further guidance on the Ph.D. programme in the Department of International Relations is available here.

All prospective students must apply through the LSE Graduate Admissions Office.

Ideally, your research proposal should address the following important questions:

1. What is your core research question?

2. Why is your research question puzzling?

3. How do you propose to develop an answer to this question?

4. How does your research question relate to important academic and policy debates in international political economy, international relations, or in other fields?

5. What contributions do you expect to make to these debates?

6. What empirical work and research methodology do you expect to employ in your project?