Kasper Arabi

PhD Candidate

Kasper.arabi@warwick.ac.uk

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I am a PhD Candidate in PAIS working within the fields of Political Economy and International Relations. I hold a BSc and a MSc in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen.

My project is supervised by Professor Matthew WatsonLink opens in a new window and Dr Chris RogersLink opens in a new window, with informal supervision provided by Senior Researcher Rasmus Sinding SøndergaardLink opens in a new window (Danish Institute for International Studies).

Research interests

My doctoral research focuses on everyday perceptions of intra-state inequality and their relationship with the broader international system. More specifically, I am interested in whether non-elite experiences of economic polarization within a hegemon influence its ability to act as the primary regulator of the liberal international order. Exploring this question, my research revolves around the hegemonic transition from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana, and I aim to contribute to the literature on the outward effects of domestic intra-state dynamics, such as specific configurations of state selectivities and business-government-society relations, on hegemony and the stability of world order.

My research has an obvious historical dimension, and I remain keen to explore questions that are typically considered the domain of Political Science using archival research methods. As such, in my PhD project, I deploy a historicist approach whereby the socio-political meaning of inequality is contextualised so that accounts of the mundane experiences of economic inequality become objects of research. Hence, my research interests include:

• Economic inequality
• Hegemony and hegemonic projects
• State regulation and state selectivities
• Historical international political economy
• Everyday political economy
• Archival research methods

Published work

1. Arabi, K. (forthcoming). Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power. Review of International Studies. Accepted for publication on 24 June 2025.
2. Arabi, K. (2025). Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research. Review of International Political Economy, 32(1), 242–257. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2024.2401432 
3. Arabi, K. (2022). Book review (in Danish) of 'The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past'. Politica, 54(1), 104–106. https://doi.org/10.7146/politica.v54i1.130598 

Teaching experience

• 2024: Co-convenor and lecturer, Introduction to Political Science, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University.
• 2020: Instructor, Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

Other activities

• Full-Time Research Assistant, Commissioned inquiry into Denmark's engagements in Afghanistan 2001-2021Link opens in a new window, Denmark, 2022-2024.
• Assistant Editor, Danish Foreign Policy Review, 2020-2021.