Research Centre Centre for Statecraft and International Order
The goal of the centre is to produce excellent historically-informed research on questions related to the conduct and decision-making of international practitioners as they attempt to navigate an increasingly complex and changing international order. Ultimately, the ambition is to contribute to society by drawing on past historical experience to inform current policy-making in the international sphere. To that end, the centre organises its research around four programmes which reflect the particular strengths of the research community at Roskilde University:
- The Legal Foundations of International Order Programme;
- The Alfred Vagts Programme on Defence, Diplomacy and International Order;
- The Programme on Past, Present and Alternative International Orders;
- Between Statecraft and Global Governance: The Programme on International Bureaucrats and Order Making.
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Contact
Laust Schouenborg, Head of centre, Associate tt备用网址, lausts@ruc.dk
Researchers
Miriam Bak McKenna, Associate tt备用网址, miriambm@ruc.dk
Kerstin Carlson, Associate tt备用网址, carlson@ruc.dk
Sevasti Chatzopoulou, Associate tt备用网址, seva@ruc.dk
Klaas Dykmann, Associate tt备用网址, dykmann@ruc.dk
Line Engbo Gissel, Associate tt备用网址, lgissel@ruc.dk
Jonas Haarder, PhD Fellow, jhaarder@ruc.dk
Michael Friederich Kluth, Associate tt备用网址, kluth@ruc.dk
Gorm Rye Olsen, tt备用网址, gormrye@ruc.dk
Karen L?nne Ring, PhD Fellow, kalc@ruc.dk
Laust Schouenborg, Associate tt备用网址, lausts@ruc.dk
Matthew J. Spaniol, Assistant tt备用网址, matt@ruc.dk
Bj?rn Thomassen, tt备用网址, bthomas@ruc.dk
Find the researchers' profiles at the Roskilde University Research Portal
External researchers
Karmen Tornius, Freie Universit?t Berlin
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1. The Legal Foundations of International Order Programme
The goal of this programme is to investigate how transnational legal norms underpin international order. Of central concern is the extent to which international law has been able to travel beyond its origin in the West and incorporate non-Western cultures, often with very different understandings of justice. The programme will focus on salient issues such as the emergence of the International Criminal Court, the status of terrorism as it relates to international and municipal law, and the self-determination of peoples as a legal and political norm.
Affiliated researchers: Line Gissel, Kerstin Carlson, Miriam Bak McKenna, Karen L?nne Ring
2. The Alfred Vagts Programme on Defence, Diplomacy and International Order
Named after the pioneer Alfred Vagts, this programme will investigate the relationship between defence and diplomacy, soldiers and diplomats, and how armed forces officers think about international relations and, in practice, contribute to the conduct of a nation’s foreign policy. The programme will also seek to further our understanding of international military cooperation, including international military interventions, arms control and joint defence procurement, as this is assumed to be partly built upon the assessment of the international situation by armed forces officers. The goal is to unearth the largely overlooked contribution that armed forces international thinking makes to the creation of international order.
Affiliated researchers: Michael Kluth, Gorm Rye Olsen, Laust Schouenborg, Jonas Haarder
3. The Programme on Past, Present and Alternative International Orders
This programme is aimed at capturing what distinguishes the present international order from those that existed in the past, and those orders imagined for the future and currently in the making. A core goal is the comparative study of the Western liberal order, which has prevailed since 1945, and the Sino-centric alternative that is arguably being constructed by a rising China.
Affiliated researchers: Klaas Dykmann, Bj?rn Thomassen, Laust Schouenborg, Jonas Haarder
4. Between Statecraft and Global Governance: The Programme on International Bureaucrats and Order Making
Order can sound like an abstract and empty signifier, but it is something that is created on a day-to-day basis by real people making concrete decisions in relation to concrete problems they experience in the international sphere. This is the domain of the international bureaucrats. This programme will investigate what the increasing scope of international problems, as well as the proliferation of international organisations, has done to the concrete order making that was traditionally the preserve of diplomats who hailed from the aristocracy, but is today managed in sometimes excruciating technical detail by specialised professionals.
Affiliated researchers: Sevasti Chatzopoulou, Klaas Dykmann, Karen L?nne Ring
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Henrik Breitenbauch (Dean of the Royal Danish Defence College)
Pernille Dahler Kardel (Ambassador of Denmark to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji)
Charlotte Flindt Pedersen (Director of the Danish Foreign Policy Society)
Connie Hedegaard (Chair of the Board of CONCITO, former Danish minister and EU commissioner)
Anders Wivel (tt备用网址 at University of Copenhagen)
Trine Flockhart (tt备用网址 at the University of Southern Denmark)
Hans Mouritzen (Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies)
Karen Gram-Skjoldager (Associate tt备用网址 at Aahus University)
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Beatrice de Graaf (professor at Utrecht University)
Sven Biscop (professor at Ghent University)
Ay?e Zarakol (professor at Cambridge University)
John Ikenberry (professor at Princeton University)
Diane Lesley Stone (professor at EUI)
Publications
Analysing expert advice on political decisions in times of crisis
Aagaard, P., Chatzopoulou, S. & Poulsen, B., 5 Jan 2024, In: Policy and Politics. 52, 1, p. 24-43 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Journal article ? Research ? peer-review
Biden alene bestemmer kursen over for Israel
Olsen, G. R., 3 Jan 2024, In: Politiken.Research output: Contribution to journal ? Contribution to newspaper - Newspaper article
Biodiversiteten falder hurtigere end nogensinde i menneskehedens historie
Thomassen, B., 8 Nov 2024, In: Kristeligt Dagblad. p. 10Research output: Contribution to journal ? Contribution to newspaper - Feature article
Activities
The Concept(ion) of Remedies in International Human Rights Law
Gissel, L. E. (Speaker) & Brandes, M. (Speaker)
13 Jun 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event ? Organisation and participation in conference
Taiwan and Latin America
Dykmann, K. (Speaker)
23 May 2024Activity: Talk or presentation ? Lecture and oral contribution
International Studies Association (ISA) 65th Annual Convention
Gissel, L. E. (Participant) & Brett, P. (Participant)
5 Apr 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event ? Organisation and participation in conference
Press-media
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07/11/2024
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06/11/2024
1 item of Media coverage
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Joe Biden var et fravalg. Kamala Harris vil v?re et tilvalg
09/08/2024
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Insights
Base at Roskilde University
The centre is based at Department of Social Sciences and Business
Participating research units: Global Political Sociology research group, Globalization and Europeanization research group, The Standardisation of Transitional Justice: Consolidation, Innovation and Politics research project
PhD programme: Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Business - International studies
Relevant degree programmes: International Politics and Governance // Global and Development Studies // International Studies // International tt备用网址 in Social Sciences
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Head of centre
Laust Schouenborg
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Phone: +45 4674 2925
lausts@ruc.dk