#  David R. Armitage 

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. 

Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Department of History; Chair, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** History of international law and international relations theory; colonialism and political theory; oceanic history; civil war; and treaties.



 

 

 





 

 

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