Research
My research spans international relations, political psychology, public opinion, and computational social science. I study how marginalization and discrimination shape solidarity and foreign-policy attitudes, and how changing power relations—especially China's rise and U.S.–China competition—reshape international behavior and institutions.
Dissertation Project
Marginalization and Foreign Policy Attitudes
How does marginalization at home shape concern for people beyond one's own community and country? This dissertation examines whether and how perceived marginalization and experiences of discrimination influence public attitudes toward foreign policy. It theorizes two competing pathways: experiences of suffering may foster recognition of shared vulnerability and extend solidarity across social and national boundaries, but they may also generate distrust, competition, or exclusion. The project studies how these mechanisms shape support for foreign aid, military intervention, economic sanctions, and immigration policies using cross-national survey data and original survey experiments.
Working Papers
Forecasting African Countries' Co-Participation with China in UN Peacekeeping Operations
What explains African countries' participation in UN peacekeeping operations alongside China? This paper examines whether China-Africa economic ties are associated with African countries' co-participation in UN peacekeeping operations. Using country-year data from 1990 to 2020, it combines trade-based measures of economic relations with pooled and fixed-effects logistic regression and random-forest models. The analysis treats the study as a forecasting and association exercise rather than a causal test, evaluating whether patterns of economic ties help predict when African states participate in peacekeeping missions with China. The project contributes to debates about China's role in Africa and the changing international peacekeeping order.
Solidarity or Exclusion? Discrimination Involving Sexuality and Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe [presentation]
Do experiences of discrimination foster solidarity with other marginalized groups, or reinforce exclusion? Using European Social Survey Round 10 data from 31 countries, this paper examines whether discrimination involving sexuality is associated with attitudes toward immigrants. Bayesian hierarchical ordered-logit models estimate respondents' evaluations of immigrants' effects on the economy, culture, and their country. The findings are consistent with an interminority solidarity account: respondents who report discrimination involving sexuality tend to express more favorable attitudes toward immigrants. The study links lived experiences of marginalization to attitudes toward another marginalized population and contributes to research on discrimination, group consciousness, and public opinion.
Works in Progress
BRICS+ Countries' UN Voting Behaviors with China
A Survey Experiment on South Koreans' Attitudes toward North Korean Defectors