Nir Rotem is a transnational sociologist specializing in knowledge, globalization, and social theory. He wrote his dissertation about the UNHCR at the University of Minnesota and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations. His current research agenda delves into the rise of illiberal global norms. This project seeks to understand whether illiberalism emerges from local contexts or diffuses through the institutional structures promoting liberalism.