Research

I am a final year DPhil student in International Relations at DPIR researching security and defence cooperation in the Euro-Atlantic community. In an effort to develop a community-based account of European defence integration, my dissertation analyses the social motivations underlying two transformative phases of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy. My broader research interests include International Relations & European Integration theory as well as Foreign-Policy Analysis.

A DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the Department of Politics and International Relations, my research recovers and evaluates the international thinking of historical women in the United States academy from 1919 to 1949. Focused on the interconnected, critical mass of largely Eastern institutions, especially women’s colleges and historically black colleges and universities, I use extensive archival research in the US to find thinkers and analyse their work, both published and unpublished.

Nicholas is a DPhil candidate researching the differences in legislative debates between democratic, authoritarian, and backsliding regimes. He focuses on the Russian Duma (1996-2021) as a case study, examining the development of formal and informal mechanisms that restrict or facilitate floor time, as well as the growing dissimilarity in speechmaking incentives between government and opposition and between leaders and backbenchers.

Research

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