BOOKS IN PROGRESS

A LABORATORY FOR INTERVENTION: Greece and the Making of Modern International Order
[Working title]

Princeton University Press — Under contract · In research

Through a series of episodes spanning two centuries, A Laboratory for Intervention examines Greece as a recurring site in which the meaning and limits of international intervention were worked out in practice. From military occupation and financial control to humanitarian protection and political supervision, the book explores how external authority was imposed, negotiated and contested, and how these encounters shaped both Greece’s place in the world and changing understandings of sovereignty, power and international order.

THE PARTITION MACHINE: Legacies of Territoriality in a Violent World

Co-edited with Jayita Sarkar
Proceedings of the British Academy — In progress

From Bengal and Lausanne to Palestine, India and Korea, The Partition Machine traces how dividing territory became a recurring response to the problems of empire, diversity and political violence. It follows partitionary ideas, practices and actors across regions and empires, connecting the bureaucratic logic that made territorial division appear rational with its human consequences of displacement, separation and loss.

HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION Cambridge Elements in Modern Wars

Cambridge University Press — In progress

From anti-slavery campaigns and naval blockades to UN peacekeeping, airstrikes and the “Responsibility to Protect”, this short book traces the modern history of humanitarian intervention as a practice of warfare and peacemaking. It explores how the promise of protecting vulnerable populations developed alongside empire, unequal power and changing technologies of intervention, and how ideas about who was considered worthy of international protection remained persistently selective. Moving from the Ottoman Empire and Africa through the League of Nations, decolonisation and the Cold War to Rwanda, the Balkans and twenty-first-century conflicts, the book asks a continuing question: can humanitarian intervention be a legitimate instrument of peacemaking?