I am a DPhil student in International Relations, with interests in international organisations, international law, international criminal justice, transitional justice, and international order.

I completed my MPhil in International Relations in 2020; my MPhil thesis examined the processes of judicial and organisational innovation at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). My DPhil project builds on this research.

Jakob is a DPhil candidate researching ethnic civil wars, with a special emphasis on peripheral groups that dispute the state's sovereignty in borderlands. His project maps the interplay of bilateral diplomacy among neighbour states, on the one hand, and rebels' and governments' violent tactics, on the other.

Before beginning his doctorate in 2021, Jakob earned an MPhil (Distinction) in International Relations, also at Oxford, investigating the causal effect of petroleum discoveries on states' strategies in island disputes.

Virginia is a DPhil candidate in International Relations at Balliol College, University of Oxford. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of the technology private sector as a site of great power competition between the United States and China, addressing private firms' geopolitical postures, involvement in third countries' critical national infrastructures and agency in global Artificial Intelligence (AI) race dynamics.

I am a DPhil student in Politics at Linacre College, where I research issues related to domestic and international election observation in Russia and in the wider post-Soviet region. Specifically, my study aims to enhance the understanding of the causes and mechanisms of the contestation over domestic and international election observation between Russia and national non-governmental, intergovernmental and international nonprofit organisations and Western states.