Academic interests
Dr. Fjelstul is a political economist and data scientist. His research interests include the politics of compliance with international law and European Union (EU) law, the politics of policy implementation in the EU, and the politics of international courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). His methodological interests include analytical and computational game theory, quantitative text analysis, machine learning, and causal inference for policy evaluation.
His research has appeared in leading academic journals, including the American Political Science Review, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Law and Courts, European Union Politics, and International Interactions.
Background
Dr. Fjelstul is a researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo (since 2022) and a post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva (since 2021). Prior to Geneva, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at Washington University in St. Louis (2019-2020).
He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Emory University (2019). He also holds an M.A. in political science from Emory, a B.B.A. in the Canfield McCombs Business Honors Program (CBHP) from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. in history and government from the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.