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Research Interests

My research focus on comparative regionalism, historical international relations, and the liberal international order.

Underlying these research topics is my interest in the relationship between individuality and collectivity from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
  • How do individuals form a collective entity?
  • What is the relationship between individual preferences and collective rationality?
  • Does the collectivity make up each individual, or do individuals constitute the collectivity?
  • How did the answers to these questions give rise to the preferred models of ecoomic production, public governace, and international relations across time and space?
Questions such as these have motivated my research on group-oriented behaviour, competition in international hierarchy, as well as the evolving ideas of world order.