Cora Lacatus is a Research Associate on the MAXCAP Project, working with Professor Ulrich Sedelmeier. She is a doctoral candidate in the LSE's Department International Relations, a fellow of the Economic and Social Research Council, and the LSE research assistant of the MAXCAP Project Research Consortium. Her social sciences-based research interests focus on global governance, human rights, and European foreign policy. She holds a PhD in Germanic and European Studies from University of California, Los Angeles (2007) and is the author of the book The (In)visibility Complex: Representing Otherness in Contemporary Sweden (Stockholm University 2008). Before joining the LSE to pursue a second PhD, she taught at University of California Los Angeles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and American University in Washington DC. She has also worked for a number of think tanks and organizations based in London and Washington DC.