BOOKS IN PROGRESS

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.

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.

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 book traces the modern history of humanitarian intervention as a practice of warfare and peacemaking. It asks how the promise of protecting vulnerable populations became entangled with empire, unequal power and changing technologies of intervention—and why the boundaries of international protection have remained persistently selective.