Kira Huju is a Fellow in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She works on global order, liberal internationalism and its discontents, India, post-Western IR, and the nature of cosmopolitanism in a hierarchical world. Previously, she was a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford. She obtained her doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford in 2021, developing a critical sociological reading of the Indian Foreign Service and the making and unmaking of cosmopolitan elites in international society.