Research areas

Primary research areas

Kasper Arabi studies economic inequality, international order, and hegemonic projects while working within the field of International Political Economy. More specifically, he explores the dynamic interplay between everyday perceptions of economic polarization and the broader international system. He is also affiliated with the University of Warwick.

Current research

Kasper's doctoral research investigates how non-elite experiences of economic polarization within a hegemon shape its role as the primary regulator of the liberal international order. Exploring this question, his research revolves around the hegemonic transition from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana as he aims to contribute to the literature on the outward effects of domestic, intra-state dynamics on hegemony and the stability of world order.

His research has an obvious historical dimension, and he remains keen to explore questions that are typically considered the domain of political science using archival research methods. As such, in his PhD project, Kasper deploys 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.