Horia M. Dijmarescu

I earned by Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University, specializing in International Relations and Political Theory. In the Fall of 2020, I am serving as a Visiting Lecturer at Northwestern's Department of Political Science, where I am teaching Introduction to International Relations. My research is on the ways people invoke rules concepts to justify or contest actions. Invoked rules concepts 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 Political Histories 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.