Here you can find a selection of my recently published articles and essays.
See my CV for a more complete list of publications.

“The Good Ambassadress: Gender and Diplomacy in the Marriage of Figaro,” commentary on David Armitage, “You Can’t Fool Rules: Niemeyer Lectures in Political Philosophy,” Review of Politics (in press)

“Enlightenment cosmopolitanism and empire,” in The Oxford Handbook of Cosmopolitanism, ed. Prathama Banerjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lisa Wedeen (Oxford UP, 2026) Online 2025: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197623022.003.0002

“The society of nations, imperialism, and the color line: Three conceptions of the international,” in Rise of the International, ed. Richard Devetak and Tim Dunne (Oxford UP, 2024)

“The uses of history in the study of international politics,” in History and the Human Sciences, ed. Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner (Cambridge UP, 2022)

“Disclosing the Problem of Empire in Du Bois’s International Thought,” co-authored with Adom Getachew, in The Oxford Handbook to W.E.B. Du Bois, ed. Aldon Morris et al. (Oxford UP, 2022)

“Law of nations, world of empires: the politics of law’s conceptual frames,” in History, Politics, Law: Thinking through the International, ed. Annabel Brett, Megan Donaldson, and Martti Koskenniemi (Cambridge UP, 2021)

“Liberal democracy and the tenacity of empire,” Contemporary Political Theory exchange on “Empire and its Afterlives,” ed. Inder Marwah (March 2020)

International relations and the critical history of international law,” International Relations 31.3 (2017), 282-298. 

“Ideas of Empire: Civilization, Race, and Global Hierarchy,” in Cambridge History of Modern European Thought (volume 1: Nineteenth Century), ed. Warren Breckman and Peter Gordon (Cambridge UP, 2019), 447-469

“International Law,” in Mark Bevir, ed., Historicism and the Human Sciences in Victorian Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 237-261.

“‘That hippopotamus the American people’: Livingston’s Damn Great Empires!,” Theory & Event 20.3 (2017), 861–866.

“The Critical History of International Law,” Political Theory 43.4 (2015), 541–552.

“Irony in Adam Smith’s Critical Global History,” Political Theory 45.2 (2017), 141–163 [online 2015].

“Empire and legal universalisms in the eighteenth century,”American Historical Review 117, No. 1 (February 2012), 92-121.

“Political Theory and Empire,” Annual Review of Political Science 13, (2010): 211-35.