The New School University

Faculty Member, International Affairs

Assistant Professor

Thesis Title: Legitimacy in a Post – National Context: Efficiency and Democracy in the European Union

About

I received my Ph.D. from the Political Science Department at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University.  (Thesis “Legitimacy in a Post – National Context: Efficiency and Democracy in the European Union.”)
Currently, I am also working on a project with Sheri P. Rosenberg at the Program in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law that reassesses the concept of genocide by combining international law, human rights and political spheres of inquiry. Co-authored study on Genocide by Attrition is due to be published later in 2009.
I also chair the International Field Program (summer program) in Hong Kong.

My research interests include:
  Human rights in historical and current global context, theoretical foundations, generations of rights, cultural diversity and the challenge of neo-liberal economic orders.
  More in-depth study of  the concept of  genocide through the lenses of human rights and international law, the right to security as an “underwriting” right, the process and the attributes of genocide, the notion of intent, and the role of the “victim” in determinations of genocide.
  Critical study of global governance and international organizations and proliferation of human rights regime (esp. with regard to the European Union), issues of representation and democratic deficit, socioeconomic distribution and problems of implementation associated with categories of human rights, and trade-off between representation and market efficiency, among others. Particularly, the existence and building of consensus culture across the various nations of the EU member states and ethnic, cultural, and national frictions it engenders, and relationship between public consent and EU legitimacy.
  More generally: forms of market organization, market and democracy interactions, international organizations and global governance, human rights regimes, security studies, theories of democracy, liberalism, theories of justice, public choice literature, others.

My teaching interests cover:
-Critical Security Studies/Human Security
-Democracy and Human Rights
-International Law and Human Rights
-Genocide in the Modern Era
-Global Governance and International Organization
-Introduction to Comparative Politics/Theories of International Relations
-International Political Economy
-European Union and Integration/History/Politics/Institutions/Democracy/Human Rights
-Introduction to Political Theory
-Political Argumentation and Reasoning/Research Methods
-Political Inquiry