Kasper Arabi

Primary research areas

Kasper Arabi studies economic inequality and works within the field of International Political Economy. He has a strong focus on British politics and the economic history of Great Britain. Kasper is specifically interested in everyday perceptions of economic polarization and their relationship with the broader international system. He is also affiliated with the University of Warwick.

Current research

Kasper’s doctoral research focuses on whether subjective experiences of economic polarization within a hegemon influence its ability to act as the primary regulator of liberal international order. Exploring this question, his PhD project revolves around the hegemonic projects of Pax Britannica and Pax Americana as he aims at contributing to the rigorous 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 Kasper remains keen on exploring questions that are typically considered the domain of Political Science using archival research methods. As such, in his PhD project, he deploys a historicist approach whereby the socio-political meaning of inequality is contextualised and by which the relative importance of functional, individual, and other forms of economic inequality become objects of research.