Aila Trasi

Teaching Fellow

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Room: E1.24

Profile

I recently joined Warwick as a Teaching Fellow in International Political Economy. I completed my PhD in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD, USA) in July 2025. In 2024/25 I was a visiting researcher at Goethe University, Frankfurt, at the Chair of International Political Economy, while completing my dissertation titled "Making State Projects: Analyzing Embedded Neoliberal Transitions In Malaysia and Thailand".

My research broadly focuses on the evolving relationship between states, markets and society in the Global South, which I approach from a Neo-Gramscian perspective. I am also interested in studying the interaction between domestic bureaucrats and International Organizations, and the inner workings of the latter as "pathological" bureaucracies.

Teaching and Supervision

In 2025/26 I will be teaching PO133 (Foundation of Political Economy) and PO131 (World Politics). I am available to supervise undergraduate dissertations on any aspect of Political Economy broadly (and/or tangentially) related to my research interests. I am also happy to supervise work on the topics of Public Policy in the Global South, Postcolonial/Decolonial approaches to Development, The Politics of Measurement, Critiques to Economic Growth, and IR Theory (including meta-theoretical debates).