About

As a student of international politics and international political economy, my research has focused on international monetary and financial cooperation, political networks, Asia-Pacific regionalism, international institutions, and global governance. I have also written on terrorist networks, the history of international relations, and the consequences of globalization. Recent projects have centered on the changing role of emerging economies in world politics and global governance, the emergence of complex global governance, sources of cosmopolitanism and parochialism in contemporary politics, and challenges to the nation-state as a dominant unit in the international system.

At the Council on Foreign Relations, I have completed projects on the competitive and complementary relations between global and regional institutions, innovation in global governance, and international efforts to combat illicit financial flows. My current project at the Council, supported by the Future of Democracy Program, concerns foreign influence and democratic governance.

My research and writing have been enriched by visiting appointments and fellowships at the Global Governance Unit, WZB Berlin Social Science Center; the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; the University of Melbourne; and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University. I serve as a Senior Advisor to International Organization. I received the 2023 Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.

I have benefited from an education in the Baltimore County public schools, at Harvard University (A.B. and Ph.D.) and at Nuffield College, University of Oxford (M.Phil.).