Anatoly (Tolya) Levshin research addresses two theoretical issues: 1) how historical evolution in patterns of material interdependence, especially violence interdependence, altered and continues to alter optimal strategies for exerting state power in international relations; and, 2) how the growth of institutional creativity interacts with changes in interdependence to stabilize or undermine international orders. His 2021 dissertation, “The Promise of a ‘Disentangling Alliance’: Collective Security and the Statecraft of Violence in the Age of Industrial Modernity,” is being prepared for publication. At the RWO, Levshin co-organizes the community’s feature podcast, World Order Colloquium, workshops, and annual conferences, and co-teaches its “Theories of International Order” seminar. Ph.D. Princeton University