My research focuses on understanding the origins of our current world order, the challenges of global governance, and the struggle to maintain international peace and security. My research reconsiders the meaning of the “liberal international order”—something whose meaning has been taken as axiomatic in studies of international relations and diplomatic history. World ordering following the Second World War was a deliberate political project that involved a diverse cast of characters both from the major powers of the west as well as from countries that now comprise the Global South. My current project, an intellectual and international history of the founding of the United Nations, rejects a priori assumptions about the “liberal international order”—or that it was an Anglo-American imposition—by highlighting the Asian authors of the postwar order and the world they created.