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Kjell Engelbrekt

Ph.D., Associate Professor

E-mail: kjell.engelbrekt@statsvet.su.se

Research

Engelbrekt’s most recent major publication is Russia and Europe: Building Bridges, Digging Trenches (London: Routledge, 2010), co-authored and co-edited with Bertil Nygren, analyzing the potential for partnership and conflict between Russia and the European Union in the medium- to long-term. In a Swedish-language volume also published in 2010, Engelbrekt and Jan Ångström co-wrote and co-edited Svensk säkerhetspolitik i Europa och världen [Swedish Security Policy in Europe and the World at Large] (Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik, 2010). Both volumes included chapters by several other authors.

With the 2011 publication of “EU Enlargement and the Emboldening of Institutional Integrity in Central and Eastern Europe: The ‘Tough Test’ of Public Procurement,” in European Law Journal, Engelbrekt has wrapped up a project examining the expansion of European Union laws, rules and norms to the accession countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Previous publications in this area are: ”The Impact of Enlargement on Institutional Integrity in Central and Eastern Europe”, in Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2009, and “Bulgaria’s EU Accession and the Issue of Accountability: An End to Buck-Passing?” in Problems of Post-Communism, 2007.

During 2011 Engelbrekt will work on the evolving relations between Asia’s three ‘giants’—China, India and Japan—and the European Union. He will also continue studying the growing impact of a more ‘polycentric’ international system on the diplomatic practice of great powers in international institutions, as well as on relationship between such powers and diaspora communities.

Engelbrekt spent the 2010 fall semester as Visiting Scholar to Columbia University/Harriman Institute in New York, but is now back at Stockholm University and the Swedish National Defense College.

Courses at Stockholm University

• The Political Sociology of Globalization, master-level (current academic year)

• Comparative Methods and Case Study Research, master-level (current academic year)

• Research Design, Ph.D.-level

• Comparative Method and Case Studies, PhD.-level

• Rules, Norms and Institutions in International Relations, master-level

• Independent Research, 2nd semester undergraduate

• Institutional Transformation in Post-Communist Europe: Reform, Legacy, Adaptation, 2nd semester undergraduate

• Nationalism and Internationalism, 2nd semester undergraduate

• International Cooperation, Integration and Independence, 1st semester undergraduate

• International Politics, 1st semester undergraduate

Appointments

• Senior Lecturer (pro tempore), Department of Political Science, Stockholm University (current)

• Senior Lecturer (tenure), Swedish National Defense College (current)

• Research Analyst, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (1990-1994)

Activities/fellowships

• Visiting Scholar, Department of Political Science & Harriman Institute, Columbia University, Fall 2010

• Chairman, International Relations Unit, Swedish Political Science Association, 2009-

• Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of War Sciences, 2008-

• Board member, European Institute for the Furtherance of Democracy (Vienna), 2007-

• Consultant, Swedish National Center for Crisis Management (CRiSMART), 2004 2005

• Visiting Fellow, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Fall 2004

• Board member, International Politics Unit, Swedish Political Science Association, 2003-

• International consultant, United Nations Development Program, 2002

• Secretary-General, Swedish Atlantic Committee, 2000-2005

• EUSSIRF Fellow, European University Institute, Spring 2000

• Coordinator, TEMPUS/PHARE Joint European Project, 1998-2001

• Consultant, Economist Intelligence Unit, 1990-1992

• Consultant, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Broadcast Division, 1989-1991 and 1995-1996.

Recent guest lectures

• University of Nicosia, Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs (Nicosia), April 2009

• Institute for Defence Studies (Oslo, Norway), November 2008.

• National Research Council (Ottawa, Canada), September 2006.

• Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (Oslo, Norway), September 2006.

• University of Bologna at Forlí (Italy), Istituto per l’Europa centrale-orientale e balcanica, February 2006.

• European University Institute (Florence, Italy), Department of Law, January 2006

• University of Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies, November 2005

• University of Bologna (Italy), Istituto per l'Europa centrale-orientale e balcanica, September 2005

• Humboldt-Universität (Berlin, Germany), Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, September    2004

Publications

Books/co-authored and co-edited volumes

Svensk säkerhetspolitik i Europa och världen [Swedish Security Policy in Europé and the World at Large] (Stockholm: Norstedts Juridik, 2010), with Jan Ångström.

Russia and Europe: Building Bridges, Digging Trenches (London: Routledge, 2010), with Bertil Nygren.

The European Union and Strategy: An Emerging Actor (London: Routledge, 2008), with Jan Hallenberg. (Reprinted in paperback 2009.)

Managing Political Crises in Bulgaria: Pragmatism and Procrastination (Stockholm: Swedish National Defense College, 2005), with Markus Förberg.

Security Policy Reorientation in Peripheral Europe: A Comparative-Perspectivist Approach (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002).

Europeisk säkerhetspolitik [The Making of European Security Policy] (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2000), with Lisbeth Aggestam, Lotta Wagnsson and Mike Winnerstig.

Journal articles

“EU Enlargement and the Emboldening of Institutional Integrity in Central and Eastern Europe: The ‘Tough Test’ of Public Procurement,” in European Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2, March 2011, 230-251.

“Après le non-alignement,” in Nordiques, No. 19, Printemps-été 2009, 1-17.

“What Carl Schmitt Picked Up in Weber’s Seminar. A Historical Controversy Revisited”, The European Legacy, 667-684.

”The Impact of Enlargement on Institutional Integrity in Central and Eastern Europe”, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, vol. 10, Spring 2009, 167-180.

“Efter alliansfriheten” (After Nonalignment), in Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademiens handlingar och tidskrift [The Proceedings and Journal of the Royal War Academy], No. 6, 2008.

“Bulgaria’s EU Accession and the Issue of Accountability: An End to Buck-Passing?” in Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2007.

"Ingen skräll? EU:s östutvidgning" [No Bang? The EU Enlargement] in Internationella studier, No. 4, Winter 2004.

"Back to Basics? International Engagement and Recurring Conflict in Southeastern Europe" in The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, Vol. 3, Issue ¾, March/June 2004.

"Multiple Asymmetries: The European Union's Neo-Byzantine Approach to Eastern Enlargement", International Politics, Vol. 39, No. 1, (March) 2002.

"Den sjuttonde alliansmedlemmen?" [The Seventeenth Alliance Member?] in Internationella studier [International Studies], No. 4, 1999.

"Östra Centraleuropa: ett säkerhetskomplex?" [East Central Europe: A Security Complex?] in Krigsvetenskapliga akademiens handlingar och tidskrift [The Proceedings and Journal of the Royal War Academy], No. 4, 1998.

"Unfinished Democracy: Political Transformation in Southeastern Europe", in Problems of Post-Communism, November-December 1997.

Book/monograph chapters

“Mobility and the Notion of Attainable Reach,” in Giuseppina Pellegrino (ed.), The Politics of Proximity: Mobility and Immobility in Practice (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011).

“Norms,” in Geoffrey Garrett et al. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Political Science (Washington D.C.: CP Press, forthcoming).

“International System,” in Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Leonardo Morlino (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Political Science, Washington D.C.: CQ Press, forthcoming.

“International Aid and the Process of Legalization: The Extreme Case of the European Union’s Eastward Enlargement,” in David Lehrer and Anna Korhonen (eds.), Western Aid in Postcommunism: Effects and Side-Effects (Basingstoke: Palgrave, forthcoming).

"The Impact of Enlargement on EU Actorness: Enhanced Capacity, Weakened Cohesiveness," forthcoming in Jan Hallenberg and Håkan Karlsson (eds.), Changing Transatlantic Security Relations: Do the U.S, the EU and Russia form a New Strategic Triangle? (London: Routledge, 2006), with Magnus Ekengren.

"Nationalism," in Jakob Gustavsson and Jonas Tallberg (eds.), Internationella relationer [International Relations] (Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2006).

"Group-Rights Theory Meets Balkan Secessionism" in Ishtiaq Ahmed (ed.), The Politics of Group Rights: The State and Multiculturalism (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2005).

"Political Studies in the Vortex: The Legacies of Meinecke, Schmitt and Voegelin" in Transitions: Essays in Honour of Kjell Goldmann (Stockholm: Department of Political Science, 2003).

"Posledstvija ot chlenstvo v Evropeiskija sajuz na publichnata administratsija: shvedskijat opit" [Consequences of Membership in the European Union on Public Administration: The Swedish Experience] in Ingrid Shikova (ed.), Evropejska integratsija (Sofia: Institute for European Studies and Information, 2001).

"Etnonationalism på Balkan-tre exempel ur ett historiskt perspektiv" [Ethnonationalism in the Balkans-Three Examples in Historical Perspective] in Lisbeth Aggestam et al. Identitet, politisk kultur och internationalisering [Identity, Political Culture and Internationalization] (Stockholm: Stockholm University, Department of Political Science), Rapport No. 1995: 2.

"The Bulgarian Socialist Party: Unity at Any Cost," in Wolfgang Höpken (ed.), Revolution in Raten: Bulgariens Weg in Die Demokratie (München: Südost Europa Verlag, 1995).

Reviews

of Christine Agius, The Social Construction of Swedish Neutrality: Challenges to Swedish Identity and Sovereignty (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), and Robert Dalsjö, Life-Line Lost: The Rise and Fall ’Neutral’ Sweden’s Secret Reserve Option of Wartime Help from the West (Stockholm: Santérus International, 2006), in Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2009.

of Nils Bruzelius, Near Friendly or Neutral Shores: The Deployment of the Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines and US Policy towards Scandinavia, 1957-1963 (Stockholm: Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, 2007), in Krigsvetenskapliga akademiens handlingar och tidskrift [The Proceedings and Journal of the Royal War Academy], No. 4, 2007.

”Darker Legacies, Schmitt’s Shadow, and Europe,” German Law Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2006.

“Kontroversiellt tankegods i europeisk rätt”, Europarättslig tidskrift, No. 1, 2006, s. 185-197.

of Christian Joerges och Navraj Singh Ghaleigh (ed.), Darker Legacies of Law in Europe: The Shadow of National Socialism and Fascism over Europe and its Legal Traditions (Oxford: Hart, 2003), and 'Confronting Memories: European "Bitter Experiences" and the Constitutionalization Process,' German Law Journal, special issue edited by Christian Joerges and Paul Blokker with Chris Engert, No. 6, 2005, in German Law Journal, No. 2, 2006. Also in Europarättslig tidskrift, No. 1, 2006.

of Edward W. Said, Humanism and Democratic Criticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) in Tidskrift för politisk filosofi [Journal of Political Philosophy], No. 1, 2005, forthcoming.

""En bättre återförsäkring än vi anade"?" [A Better Reinsurance Policy than We Suspected?] in Internationella studier [International Studies], No. 1, 2003.

"Vidgade vyer i studiet av säkerhetspolitik" [Wider Horizons in the Study of Security], Internationella studier [International Studies], No. 2, 2001.

of Zheliu Zhelev, V goliamata politika [In Big Politics], in Nationalities Papers, 1998.

of Armin von Bogdandy (ed.), Die Europäische Option. Eine interdisziplinäre Analyse über Herkunft, Stand und Perspektiven der europäischen Integration (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1993), in Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift [Political Science Journal], Vol. 99, No. 3, 1996.

Recent conference papers

“Formations of Violence? Political Community and the Approaching Multipolarity,” and “From Neutrality to Solidarity: Swedish Security Policy after EU Accession,” papers presented at the 49th Annual ISA Convention, New Orleans, 16-20 February, 2010.

“European Energy Policy Meets Russian Bilateralism: The Case of South Eastern Europe,” paper co-authored with Ilian Vassilev and presented at the ASN 14th Annual World Convention, 23-25 April 2009.

“European Union/ Acquis/ at Work: Institutional Divergence and Convergence in the New Member States, paper co-authored with Antonina Bakardjieva and presented at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Central European University, Budapest, 26-30 June 2008.

“Mobility and the Notion of Attainable Reach,” paper presented at the 38th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Central European University, Budapest, 26-30 June 2008.

“Political Community and Globalization: A Political Sociology Approach,” paper presented at the ASN 13th Annual World Convention, 10-12 April 2008.

“What Carl Schmitt Picked Up in Weber’s Seminar: An Historical Controversy Revisited,” paper presented at conference Focal Point Germany, Center for German Studies, Södertörn University College, 8-9 November 2007.

“The European Union: A Strategic Actor under Permanent Construction?,” paper presented at the ECPR Standing Group Conference, Turin, Italy, 12-15 September 2007.

“The Impact of Enlargement on Institutional Integrity in Central and Eastern Europe,” paper presented at conference “Romania and Bulgaria in Comparative Perspective,” the European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, 26-28 January 2007.

“Enlargement and the Evolution of Institutional Integrity in Central and Eastern Europe: The ‘New York Test,’” paper presented at the Third Pan-European Conference on European Politics, ECPR Standing Group on European Politics, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 21-23 September 2006.

“Unfinished Business: Bulgaria’s EU Accession and the Issue of Accountability,” paper presented at the conference “Contributing to Lasting Stability: The European Union’s Role in South East Europe,” Centre for European Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, 15 September 2006.

"The Impact of Enlargement on EU Actorness: Enhanced Capacity, Weakened Cohesiveness," paper presented at the 44th Annual ISA Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 25-February-1 March 2005, with Magnus Ekengren.

"The Challenge of Delimitation: Law, Politics and Economics in the New Member States", After EU Enlargement: Changes and Challenges in the Baltic Sea Region, Center for German Studies/Södertörn College, 19-20 November 2004.

"Doubleclick. Installing the Acquis in Central and Eastern Europe", epsnet Annual Conference 2004: Charles University, Prague, 18-19 June 2004 (http://www.epsnet.org/Publications/2004Proceedings/Papers2004.asp)

"The Case for Perspectivism in IR," paper presented at the 44th Annual ISA Convention, Portland, Oregon, USA, 25-February-1 March 2003.

"Snags, Snubs and Snipers: Group Rights Theory Meets Balkan Secessionism," paper presented at the conference "Group Rights and Differentiated Citizenship", 21-22 September 2001, Stockholm.

"Europe and the Postcommunist Balkans in the 21st Century: The Promise of Attainable Reach", paper presented at the Sixth Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, 5-7 April 2001, New York.