Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

Peace and Development Research
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About

Jens Stilhoff Sörensen is a researcher at the School of Global Studies since 2007 and is also affiliated to the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He earned his Doctorate in History and Civilisation from the European University Institute in Florence. He has taught university courses in international political economy, peace- and development studies, international relations, and political theory. Prior to research, between 1994 –2000, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen worked for the Swedish Government (MFA, Sida) and for international organisations (OSCE, ECMM). He has lived and worked in the Balkans for several years, where he has also continuously conducted field-work.

Areas of interest

International aid and security policy, post-conflict reconstruction, the Yugoslav successor states / Balkan region, critical political economy, shadow economies, the political economy of conflict.

Current research

Teaching and tutoring

Cooperation

Research Workshop 22–23 January 2009:

Aid, intervention and changing conceptions of state2nd workshop within the International Development and Security Network (INDESENT)

Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm
In collaboration with School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. Supported by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Seminar 23 January 2009:

Failed states: Where Do We Stand? A Dialogue Between Scholars and Practitioners

Publications

Books:
State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery – Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia, Kosovo, forthcoming (2008) Berghahn Books, Oxford

(Co-editor with Milivojevi¿, N, J. Thomasson & E Windmar) “Bortom Kriget” Carlssons, Stockholm (1996)

Articles and book chapters:
2006 “The Shadow Economy, War and State-building: Social Transformation and Re-stratification in an Illiberal Economy (Serbia and Kosovo)” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol 14, No 3, December 2006, Routledge / Taylor & Francis

2006 “Biståndets Biopolitik: Civilsamhälle, enskilda organisationer och styrning på distans” i Svedberg, L & L. Trägårdh (Eds)(2006) Det Civila Samhället som forskningsfält, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond & Gidlunds förlag, Stockholm

2006 “Kultur, Institutioner och Social Tillit: en diskussion av Rothsteins ansats och historisk kontext” (Culture, Institutions and Social Trust: a discussion of Rothsteins approach and historical context) Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift (Swedish Political Science Review) No 1 / 2006

2005 “The Normalization of War”, in Dulic, T et al (Eds) Balkan Currents, Centre for Multiethnic Research, Uppsala.

2003 “War as Social Transformation: Wealth, Class, Power and an Illiberal Economy in Serbia” Journal of Civil Wars, Vol 6, No 4, Winter 2003, Taylor & Francis, London.

2001 “Balkanism and the New Radical Interventionism” Journal of International Peacekeeping, Vol 9, No 1, Spring 2002, Frank Cass, London.

2001 “Questioning Reconstruction” in Bieber, F & Z. Daskalovski (Eds) (2002) Understanding the War in Kosovo, Frank Cass, London.

1999 “The Threatening Precedent – Kosovo and the Remaking of Crisis” MERGE 2 / 99, Umeå (report 64 pgs, in MERGE-series)

1997 “Pluralism or Fragmentation?” in War Report Special issue on Bosnia, May-June 1997, Institute for War & Peace Reporting, London.

1996 “Bosnien-Hercegovina – Mellan demokrati och Etnokrati: Påtvingad Majoritetsmodell som krigsprovocerande faktor” i Milivojevic, N et al (Eds) (1996) Bortom Kriget, Carlssons, Stockholm