I am a DPhil candidate in International Relations (IR) at St Peter's College (SPC), University of Oxford. My research is funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie 'Power and Region in a Multipolar Order (PRIMO)' programme of the EU/EC and several DPIR/SPC grants, awards and bursaries.
My academic research explores various aspects of Geopolitics. I am particularly interested in the autonomous definition of geostrategic, geoeconomic, and geopolitical imperatives as well as in their combined use in triangulating policy correction vectors.
The empirical focus of my work is international infrastructure development (e.g, natural gas pipelines and connectors; data storage and connections; trade ports and shipping lines) and my doctoral thesis applies my own theoretical and analytical framework to explain Berlin's historical and more recent positions on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines.
My other interests include the role of geoeconomic actors in economic nationalism, the impact of preferential trade agreements on national sovereignty, the influence of trade blocs on geopolitical unit imperatives, and the interplay of industrial standard setting practices with geostrategic agenda.
I tutor 2-6 students each term. My principal paper (subject) is Comparative Political Economy.
