About Alexander
Alexander Yen is a DPhil candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where he studies the strategic use of ‘undiplomatic’ language in United Nations General Assembly discourse and what it reveals about rising powers, status, and contestation over international order. His work sits at the intersection of diplomatic practice, political rhetoric, and the interpretive and quantitative analysis of elite speech, with a focus on how states justify, signal, and revise their relationship to prevailing norms.
Outside his research, his interests include academic dress and institutional tradition, the common law and the British constitution, and science fiction, particularly as a way of thinking clearly about authority, obligation, and the shape of future orders.