Research
Dr. Sachleben focuses on international Law and organizations, with an emphasis on European politics. Additionally, much of his work focuses on political identities and how people know and understand their attachment to nationalism and subnational identities through popular culture and media.
Books
Global Issues, Tangled Webs: Transnational Concerns in an Interconnected World (Oxford University Press, 2024). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-issues-tangled-webs-9780190218768.
World Politics on Screen: Understanding International Relations through Film and Popular Culture (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014). https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813176208/world-politics-on-screen/.
Scandal! An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Consequences, Outcomes, and Significance of Political Scandals, edited with Alison Dagnes (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/scandal-9781501309229/
Seeing the Bigger Picture: American and International Politics in Film and Popular Culture, Second Edition, coauthored with Kevan Yenerall (Peter Lang, 2012). https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109272.
Human Rights Treaties: Considering Patterns of Participation, 1948-2000 (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2006). https://www.routledge.com/Human-Rights-Treaties-Considering-Patterns-of-Participation-1948-2000/Sachleben/p/book/9780415655071
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Contested Identities, Hunger, and Emigration: Themes in Ukrainian Cinema to Explain the Present Day,” Czech Journal of International Relations 59(1): 159-176 (April 2024). https://cjir.iir.cz/index.php/cjir/article/view/771/739.
Current Research Trajectory
‘It is solved by walking’: Politics and the Oldest Form of Transportation (Book Manuscript). Book Proposal to be submitted summer 2026.
“Radio, Adams, and the Hitchhiker’s Guide: Prescient Observations of Twenty-First Century Politics (Article Manuscript). Manuscript to be submitted summer 2026.
Two other projects, one on European politics and the other on popular culture and identity, are in nascent stages but have been outlined and portions presented at conferences.