About
Kazimier Lim is a PhD candidate at the LSE Department of International Relations.
Kazimier is broadly interested in the evolution of concepts and theories in international relations. His LSE PhD Studentship-funded doctoral project charts the international conceptual history of (aerial) sovereignty and investigates how the scientific discovery of powered flight fundamentally altered how sovereignty is imagined, conceptualised, and practised in relation to verticality.
His other projects investigate how we should study concepts during their moments of meaning-making, how de facto actors choose different strategies to perform sovereignty, and how actors engage in conspicuous consumption through national civil aviation infrastructures.
Kazimier is an Editor at Millennium: Journal of International Studies (Vol 55) and previously co-convened the LISS-DTP-funded DoingIPS PhD Seminar Series in International Political Sociology.
Kazimier has written with leading outlets and think tanks, including The Diplomat, the Lowy Institute, East Asia Forum, and the Australian Institute of International Affairs' Australian Outlook. He is also a member of the Australian Institute of International Affairs' NextGen Network and the Pacific Forum's Young Leaders Program, previously sat on the Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council (AGMC) National Committee, and was recognised in Out for Australia's 30 Under 30 Awards.
A management consultant by training, Kazimier has advised businesses, government agencies, and not-for-profit organisations to translate policy into practice. He brings expertise in strategy, organisational performance, and leadership and capability in the government, health and aging, human services, education, and energy and decarbonisation sectors.
Research topic
When Nations Fly: International civil aviation and the transformation of international politics
Academic supervisors
Expertise
Historical International Relations, Concepts and Theories, Critical Theory, International Political Sociology, Aviation
Research Cluster affiliation
Theory/Area/History Research Cluster
Kazimier has been funded by an LSE Studentship.
Teaching
IR101: Contemporary Issues in International Relations (2025/26)