Research

Selected research across governance domains

Research spanning international security, space governance, nuclear governance, cyber governance, and emerging technology governance, with a conceptual focus on legitimation theory, dual-use governance, authority architecture, and responsible behaviour norms.

Working Paper

Who Speaks for Humanity on the Moon?

Working Paper

The conceptual flagship. Examining how competing lunar governance frameworks — the Artemis Accords and the International Lunar Research Station programme — construct legitimation audiences, deploy translation devices, and build authority architecture under universalist language while establishing divergent participation conditions and boundary-making practices.

Legitimation audiencesTranslation devicesAuthority architectureArtemis vs ILRSUniversalist languageParticipation conditionsBoundary-making

In Progress

Responsible Behaviour as an Unfinished Norm

In Progress

Investigating how 'responsible behaviour' functions as an unfinished norm across space, AI, and cyber governance — examining denial, displacement, and inoculation dynamics in governance discourse around dual-use technologies.

Governance gapsDenialDisplacementInoculationDual-use ambiguityNorm codificationEmerging technology governance

Post-Disaster Governance and the Trust Gap

In Progress

Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Fukushima, this research examines the governance of post-disaster recovery — focusing on trust, transparency, policy gaps, and the evolving relationship between state institutions and affected communities.

Post-disaster governanceTrustRecoveryPolicy gapsState-society relationsLong-term fieldwork

Conference & Development

Ontological Governance: What AI Does to the Human Subject

Conference Abstract

Introducing ontological governance as a second-order analytical layer that asks not only what AI systems do, but what they do to the knowing, existing, and self-governing human beings whose dignity and agency governance exists to protect.

AI governanceOntological governanceNarrative identityEpistemologyDemocratic deliberationEU AI ActSecond-order governance

Dual-Use Governance and the Ambiguity Problem

Conference Abstract

Exploring how dual-use ambiguity shapes governance frameworks across nuclear, space, and cyber domains — examining the structural difficulties of regulating technologies with simultaneous civilian and military applications.

Authority Architecture in Emerging Technology Governance

In Progress

Developing a framework for understanding how authority is constructed, distributed, and contested across emerging technology governance — with attention to legitimation processes, institutional design, and the role of technical expertise.

Selected Conference Presentations

  1. 01

    Dual-Use Neutralisation and Responsible Behaviour Norms in Lunar Infrastructure Governance

    Oral PresentationE9 — Space Security, Stability and Sustainability· 8 October 2026
  2. 02

    Conditional Openness: How Universalist Language Produces Boundaries in Future Lunar Exploration Governance

    Interactive PresentationE3 — Space Policy, Regulations and Economics
  3. 03

    Mythic Naming as Soft Infrastructure in Competing Lunar Orders: Artemis and Chang’e

    Interactive PresentationE5 — Space and Society

Research focuslunar governance, dual-use systems, norm formation, and symbolic infrastructure in emerging space orders.

Additional papers and conference work in development.