Horia M. Dijmarescu

I am a Lecturer at Northwestern's Department of Political Science, where I teach Introduction to International Relations. My research is on the ways people invoke rules to justify or contest actions. Invoked rules constitute resources through which the meaning of rules is produced and negotiated. My dissertation, Prometheus’ Blind Spot: Invoking Rules and Political Histories of Fire, traces the norming and institution-building effects of rhetorical invocations of rules in response to conflagrations, and in justification of incendiary munitions use during armed conflict. Read more. 

I earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University, specializing in International Relations and Political Theory. ​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, anti-racism in IR, and Wittgenstein. 

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