Horia M. Dijmarescu

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Northwestern University, specializing in International Relations and Political Theory. My research is on the ways people invoke rules to justify or contest actions. Rules claims constitute the very resources through which the meaning of rules is produced and negotiated. To this end, my dissertation, Prometheus’ Blind Spot: Invoking Rules and A Political History of Fire, traces the norming and institution-building effects of rules claims in responses to conflagrations, and deployments of incendiary munitions during armed conflict. ​Read more. 

My academic interests include global politics, rules, international practices, institutions, international security, human rights, normativity, invisible power, discourse, sovereignty and intervention, philosophy of science, identity formation, and Wittgenstein. 

Photo credit: "The Great Fire of London." Unknown artist. Courtesy of the London Fire Brigade.