Aleksa Benjamin Andrejevic is a doctoral researcher in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where his work explores the relationship between imperial administration, intellectual discourse, and foreign policy in the early nineteenth-century Mediterranean. His research examines how British elites understood, envisioned, and governed the Mediterranean from 1793 to 1830, arguing that this region served not only as a strategic space but also as a vital cultural and intellectual landscape within the broader development of the British imperial imagination.

Building on British administrative activity and political thought in key Mediterranean territories, Aleksa investigates how governance, cultural engagement, and ideological debates influenced Britain’s evolving global role after the American Revolution and during the ideological shifts between the First and Second British Empires. His work illustrates how Enlightenment rationality, Romantic sensibilities, and classical associations intertwined in elite perceptions of the region, endowing the Mediterranean with a distinctive symbolic significance in British foreign policy thinking.

In addition to his doctoral research, Aleksa serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of War Studies, where he teaches on the undergraduate module 5SSW2064: The Long View: Understanding International Relations through History. He has presented aspects of his work at the Cambridge Cultural History Workshop at the University of Cambridge (2025) and the Lancaster Historical Postgraduate Conference at Lancaster University (2025). Before beginning his PhD, he completed an MA in World History and Cultures at King’s College London, following a BA in History and International Relations from Liverpool Hope University. He is dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary scholarship on empire, geopolitics, and the intellectual foundations of strategic decision-making.

 

Research Interests

• British Imperialism
• British Mediterranean
• Napoleonic Wars
• French Revolutionary Wars
• British Grand Strategy
• Early Nineteenth Century Intellectual History
• European History

Aleksa's work explores the relationship between imperial administration, intellectual discourse, and foreign policy in the early nineteenth-century Mediterranean. His research examines how British elites understood, envisioned, and governed the Mediterranean from 1793 to 1830.