Publications
A book in preparation for Oxford University Press, an article in press at the European Journal of International Relations, a special issue in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, two book chapters, two articles in revision and two more in progress.
Book project
- For the Greater Peace: Traumatopolitics and the Political Unconscious of Peacebuilding. In preparation for submission to Oxford University Press.
Published and forthcoming
Peer-reviewed journal article
- 2026 (in press). ‘The Politics of Civilian Suicidality in Liberal Peacebuilding: Theorising the Death Drive in International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations.
Special issue
- 2024. ‘Remapping the Critical: Imagining Anti-Hierarchical Futures in International Studies’ (with Eva Leth Sørensen and Shreya Bhattacharya), Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 52:3, 533–539. Introduction to the special issue of the same name, which we co-edited.
Book chapters
- Forthcoming 2027. ‘Ethics of Pessimism for Dark International Relations’, in Ignasi Torrent and Srishti Malaviya (eds.) Dark International Relations: On Critique Beyond Affirmation, University of Michigan Press.
- 2025. ‘“We’re the Goodies”—Lacanian Vernacular Peace: Ideology, Derry Girls, and Ontological (In)Security in Northern Ireland’, in Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister and Akinyemi Oyawale (eds.) New Directions in Vernacular Security Research, Palgrave Macmillan.
Working paper
- 2022. ‘The Chinese Peacebuilding Script: A Pragmatic Contestation of the Liberal International Order’, SCRIPTS Working Paper No. 19, Berlin: Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)”.
Under review
- ‘Darkening Critical Theory: Enjoying Methodological Pessimism in the Negative Turn of International Relations’, Journal of International Political Theory (special issue). Revised and resubmitted.
- ‘Unsettling the Normal: Lacan, Woolf, and Queer Emancipation in Literary Political Theory’, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. Revised and resubmitted.
Work in progress
- ‘Warpeace or the Missing Signifier of the International: On Liminal Violence and the Ideological Gaze’. To be submitted to International Political Sociology.
- ‘Ideology and Post-Paramilitary Governance’. To be submitted to International Organization.