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1. Energy Geopolitics and Energy Security
Energy resources, infrastructures, and flows shape relations between states and the geopolitical distribution of power, while vulnerabilities in energy systems create significant security risks. Treating energy both as an instrument of statecraft and as a critical system, this research examines how its disruption can undermine national resilience and international stability. It analyses strategic dependency, resource competition, and great power rivalry, alongside the security of energy corridors, chokepoints, and critical infrastructure such as power grids, pipelines, and tanker routes. The work also explores how energy transitions are reshaping alliances and vulnerabilities, and how states, institutions, and non-state actors respond through diplomacy, governance frameworks, and resilience-building in the face of threats ranging from cyberattacks and terrorism to climate impacts and hybrid warfare.
2. Critical Infrastructure Security
I examine how the security of critical infrastructure shapes national resilience and international stability, with a focus on energy, strategic chokepoints and corridors, digital, and cross-border systems. My research analyses threats ranging from geopolitical coercion and interstate conflict to cyberattacks, terrorism, hybrid warfare, and systemic disruption. I explore how states and institutions assess vulnerability, manage interdependence, and develop governance frameworks to protect critical infrastructure while balancing security, economic efficiency, and openness.
3. Practice Theory in International Relations
My research draws on practice theory in International Relations to examine how international practices constitute political order and the production of nomos in international relations. I analyse how norms emerge, evolve, and stabilise through their enactment in everyday institutional routines, diplomatic interactions, and professional communities across bilateral, trilateral, and multilateral settings, including international organisations and negotiating forums. By focusing on these practices, I examine how they structure state behaviour and cooperation, and shape governance outcomes, legitimacy, and change across issue areas such as energy, security, and global governance.