Lilit completed her Ph.D. entitled Moral Intuition and International Order: On Change, Progress, and Threat” in August 2023. She studied the impact of moral intuition on conceptualizations of international order via fifty-two expert interviews, establishing that moral foundations influence international relations scholars’ and practitioners’ notions of change, progress, and threat. This laid the groundwork for arguing that moral intuition shapes both scholars’ theoretical leanings and practitioners’ foreign policy stances.

Great power competition, international order, fear and threat in the international realm, gray zone strategies, reputation, intelligence studies, and psychological approaches to international relations

MPSA 2020 [cancelled due to COVID]

2021-22 Hybrid Training Course on Great Power Dynamics, UCSD Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)

ISA 2022 “Hearts and Minds- a misleading distinction: The impact of intuition on conceptualizations of international order and perceptions of threat“

ISA Northeast 2022, Methodology workshop roundtable participant