Research Interests
Territoriality and International Relations: visa policies, international immigration, border management, reconceptualizing border salience.
A central question my current project focuses relates to variation in border security policies. The following pictures provide a snapshot of how borders may look different: some states build fences and walls, whereas others have almost completely permeable borders with only a sign indicating that one has passed into the territory of another state.
Other Research Interests
International Relations: constructivism, social learning, political psychology, international norms, international institutions, compliance processes, democratization and governance, role of international institutions in democratization; role of public opinion in democratic governance, elite-public interaction in electoral processes.
International Law: International treaty making process, parallels between constitution building at domestic level and treaty making at the international level, legalization.
International Conflict: Territorial Conflict, Border Salience, Border Conflicts.
Methods: Quantitative Research Design, Cross-Sectional Time-Series Methods, Bayesian Analysis, scaling analysis of public opinion data.
