My current project (Beyond Maximalism: The Role of Domestic Political Institutions in the Making and Reception of Excessive State Claims [CLAIMAX]), supported by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, investigates the ways in which domestic political institutions influences the making and reception of maximalist state claims. The project-related documents, working papers, and data will be shared in a separate section on this website in due course.

More generally, my research lies at the intersection of international security, international law, and domestic politics. I rely on original data to examine the determinants of state claims and disputes, focusing on domestic political institutions and international law.

You can find some of my work below:

Publications

• The Domain of International Adjudication: Why Sovereign States Abandon Decision Control (with Fuad Zarbiyev) (under contract with the Cambridge University Press)

• The Law Behind Dispute Onset: How Legal Uncertainty Drives Maritime Boundary Disputes, Journal of Conflict Resolution (online first)

• The Defocalizing Effect of International Courts: Evidence from Maritime Delimitation Practices (with Ezgi Yildiz), Review of International Organizations (online first)

• Legal Uncertainty and the Making of Maritime Boundaries. In Uncertainty in Global Politics, eds. Anastasia Shesterinina and Miriam Matejova. London: Routledge, 101–16.

• Understanding the Limitations of Behaviouralism: Lessons from the Field of Maritime Delimitation (with Ezgi Yildiz), German Law Journal 23(3), 171-195.

• Resource Disputes in the Eastern Mediterranean. In: Gray K. W. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Territorial Rights. Springer, Cham.

Advanced working papers*

• International Courts and Selective Restraint in Times of Backlash (with Ezgi Yildiz)

• When Does ISDS Go Too Far? Arbitration Claim Sensitivity and Reduction of Foreign Investor Protection in International Investment Agreements (with Leopoldo Biffi and Thomas Schultz)

*Please feel free to contact me for a copy of the latest drafts.