Mr Lewis Birley

Working between theory building and empirical research on contemporary processes in international political economy and governance formations. I have just recently gained a PhD in international politics working out of Aberystwyth University. My PhD utilised a re-worked application of early world-systems approaches to apply to a contemporary analysis of China's recent transformative processes across political, economic, technical and social fields. Working from a basis of complexity, contingency and temporal ordering, I am primarily interested in understanding extended geospatial ordering and contestation.