Until recently, not many IR scholars paid attention to the geopolitics and policy ramifications of technological advancement. Increasingly, however, it is becoming clear that these issues must be addressed better. My academic and policy-making work enabled me to develop creative and comprehensive theoretical knowledge and models for IR with a unique focus on space and the digital landscape.  

Conscious that current technological trends, especially digital transformation, permeate society and many aspects of world politics in a significant and non-traditional way, I seek to expand and further develop the field of politics of strategic technological domains.

My research agenda for the next few years includes several projects.

Great Power Rivalry, Transformability of Dual-use Technology and the Change of Practices and Processes of Empowerment in the Digital Technology Landscape (ISF, 2022-2025).

This research project aims to explore the theoretical and empirical aspects of the politics of dual-use technology in great power rivalry focusing on the digital technology landscape. It intends to highlight the social and political functions of the dual usage of digital technologies in the context of that rivalry in shaping and constructing the meaning and conception of digital power, the ways to achieve digital power, and interact over it. 

 

Partnership in Leadership: Collaborating with Prof. Gadi Heimann (2020-2024).

In this project, we focus on partnership in leadership in the context of global power shifts among established powers and emerging powers. Particularly, we aim to understand the dynamics leading to forming formal clubs, strategies used by emerging powers to acquire a seat at the table of the established powers, and the considerations of the great powers to accommodate the needs and aspirations of less powerful actors in these exclusive institutions.

 

Cooptation in great power rivalry: A collaboration with Prof. Gadi Heimann, Prof. Bernard Zangl, and Dr. Andreas Kruck from LMU Munich.

The research aims to investigate cooptation deals in the context of great power rivalry, power transitions, and institutional adaptation. We typify cooptation deals, pointing to the factors influencing the life cycle of these deals at different levels of institutionalization.

 

Space commercialization: the evolution of space power and the changing role of governments in its realization (2022-2025).

Following my book, my current research project focuses on the space club's development, current state of affairs, and future, focusing on the interrelations between governments and their private sectors. In this project, I outlay and analyze considerations of technology commercialization and innovation in the context of competition, controversies, and cooperation regarding the evolution of space power and the changing role of governments in its realization.