Nikhil Kalyanpur

Nikhil Kalyanpur is an Assistant Professor in LSE’s International Relations Department. He researches issues at the intersection of international political economy, business-government relations, law, and global governance.

More specificlly, he analyses how the proliferation of global rules and legal forums can serve as a channel for economic protection and a mechanism to target political competition. His work is published in a number of leading academic journals including the European Journal of International Relations, International Organization, and Perspectives on Politics.

Prior to LSE, he completed his PhD in Government at Georgetown University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance.

Expertise Details

• Economic Statecraft; Business-Government Relations; Global Governance

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Georgetown University (2014 — 2019)
• Master of Arts - MA Georgetown University (2014 — 2016)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Brown University (2010 — 2013)

Academic Publications

• The Financialization of International Law (with Abraham Newman)
  Perspectives on Politics 19(3): 773-790 2021.

• Domestic Courts, Transnational Law, and International Order (with Filiz Kahraman and Abraham Newman)
  European Journal of International Relations 26(1): 184-208 2020.

• The MNC-Coalition Paradox: Issue Salience, Foreign Firms, and the General Data Protection Regulation (with Abraham Newman)
  JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 2019.

• Mobilizing Market Power: Evidence from firm reactions to Sarbanes-Oxley (with Abraham Newman)
  International Organization 73(1): 1-34 2019.

• Hegemony, Inequality, and the Quest for Primacy
  Journal of Global Security Studies 3(3): 371-384 2018.

• Form Over Function in Finance: International Institutional Design by Bricolage (with Abraham Newman)
  Review of International Political Economy 24(3): 363-392 2017.

• Networked Liabilities: Transnational authority in a world of transnational business (with Loriana Crasnic and Abraham Newman)
  European Journal of International Relations 23(4): 906-929 2017.

Work-in-Progress

• Liberalism as Last Resort, Article and Book Project
• Exporting Capital, Importing Law (with Calvin Thrall)
• Estimating the boundaries of Economic Coercion in the US-China Relationship (with Abraham Newman and Qi Zhang)
• The Limits of Global Property Rights (with Paula Ganga)
• The Passions and the Interest Rates (with Dani Nedal)