I am a U.S. Air Force veteran with an extensive background as a cryptologic linguistics analyst. During my service, my work centered on translation, signals intelligence analysis and reporting. I have since transitioned from active military service to advanced academic research, focusing on political and macroeconomic dependencies, network and statistical data analysis, and international security vectors.
Currently enrolled under the GI Bill, I am pursuing a Master’s degree in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies, with an expected graduation in December 2026. My primary research examines the broad implications of weapons proliferation, structural economic shifts, and trade dependencies across West Asia and Europe.
Recent academic projects include deep-dive assessments into the international security implications of current affairs, such as Iran's drone export industry and the war in Ukraine, as well as historical research.
I believe in the necessity of enforceable international institutions, but I recognize they are currently paralyzed by the uneven domestic and bureaucratic development of member states. Operationally, this means I advocate using the threat of realist hard power as psychological leverage to buy time and space for grassroots, constructivist capacity-building.
My work operates at the intersection of Developmental Institutionalism and Strategic Constructivism, a framework necessitated by the limits of classical international relations theory when applied to complex operational environments. Classical models frequently force a false dichotomy: the structural determinism of realism versus the normative idealism of constructivism. I fundamentally reject that binary, and instead argue that the efficacy of supranational institutions is strictly contingent upon the bureaucratic maturity and institutional interconnectedness of the member states involved. In the absence of such foundational capacity, high-level international organizations frequently devolve into ineffectual, paralyzed political theater.