Ms Sandboe is a Dphil student in International Relations at the University of Oxford and a member of the Changing Character of War Centre.
She is specialising in the radicalisation of lone-actor terrorists and the role of communities in this process. Beyond her current research she has strong interests in political psychology, crisis management, and peace building processes.
I am a first-year student on the MPhil in International Relations and a member of St Hugh’s College. My research studies small and middle powers in the Indo-Pacific, specifically their positioning and behaviour in the context of the current US-China competition. I am more broadly interested in geopolitical and geo-economic dynamics in the Indo-Pacific, as well as between this region and Europe.
My research interests include the politics of difference and multi-ethnicity, ethnic conflict, democratic backsliding, and the politics of the European Union.
My thesis examines the long-term effects of institutional solutions designed to manage ethnic differences in plural societies, with a particular focus on their impact on national identity and ethnic salience. More broadly, I am interested in the intersection of comparative politics and political theory, as well as mixed-methods research and the philosophy of social science.
