Kasper Arabi
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 (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 inform its approach to 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
- Arabi, K. (2025). Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power. Review of International Studies. 1-20.
- Arabi, K. (2025). Overcoming methodological statism: new avenues for hegemony research. Review of International Political Economy, 32(1), 242–257.
- 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.
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, , Denmark, 2022-2024.
- Assistant Editor, Danish Foreign Policy Review, 2020-2021.