Matthew Sohm

Matthew Sohm was an intern at the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin during the summer of 2009.  He is currently pursuing an MA in International Relations at Yale University, where his focus is on international security issues and transatlantic relations. His stay in Berlin is supported by the Coca Cola World Fund at Yale, as well as by a Yale European Union Studies Grant.  As an undergraduate, he studied history at Columbia University, where he graduated with a BA degree (cum laude) in 2006. 

At Yale, Matthew has served as a Teaching Fellow as well as an editor for the Yale Journal of International Affairs. Previously, Matthew was the Italian translator for a historical study on the relationship between economics and art in Italy, forthcoming from Yale University Press.  He also worked as a research assistant at Harvard University, and as an English teacher in Izmir, Turkey.  

His research interests focus on the changing relationship between Europe, the United States, and emerging powers. More specifically, he is interested in how legal instruments, such as the human rights regime, can be used as tools of global governance.