Core expertise
International relations
Biography
Jack is the head of the School of Social Sciences and and Vice-President of the Academic Board. His research seeks to understand how we can adapt political institutions designed in the previous century to meet the challenges of our age by exploring the intersections between comparative politics, public policy, and international relations scholarship.
He draws inspiration from communities that have constructed institutional forms to manage the dilemmas inherent to coloniality and climate change. He seeks to challenge simplistic narratives about the form, function and desirability of supposedly best-practice political models and their relationship to ideas about progress by employing an interpretive approach that foregrounds actors and their intersubjective beliefs.
