Mikael Weissmann

Freds- och utvecklingsforskning
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M.Soc.Sci. (Uppsala)
B.A. (University of Queensland)

Bakgrund

Mikael Weissmann is a doctoral candidate in Peace and Development Research. He is the holder of a PhD Fellowship from the Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies’ graduate school. Currently he is a visiting fellow at the School of International Studies at Peking University in Beijing, China. He holds a M.Soc.Sci. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University, and a BA in International Relations and Economics from the University of Queensland, Australia.

He has published on conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the East Asian region with focus on the role and impact of informal processes including track 2 & 3 diplomacy, regionalisation (economic, political and socio-cultural) and personal networks. He has also published on the Chinese impact in the negotiations with North Korea and the link between social movement theory and conflict prevention theory as well as informal networks, early warning and conflict prevention theory in general. He has also developed databases on Early Warning and Political Risk indicators for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Full CV

Forskningsintresse

• International relations / international political economy (focus on the intersection between the economic, political and strategic spheres);

• Conflict resolution, conflict transformation, and peacebuilding;

• Sino-ASEAN relations;

• East Asian regionalisation;

• The Asian peace;

• Track 2 & 3 diplomacy and personal networks;

• Theorising the Asian experiences (informal regionalisation, the Asian peace, and the ASEAN-way);

• Traditional and non-traditional security issues in Post-Cold War East Asia;

Areas: East Asia/ Pacific-Asia, Taiwan Strait, South China Sea, Korean Peninsula

Pågående forskning

Undervisning

He has been teaching International Relations, Conflict Resolution and Research Methods at Renmin University in Beijing, and conflict prevention and research methods at the School of International Studies of Peking University, and case-study based negotiation at China Foreign Affairs University and given guest lectures at Tongji University, Shanghai, National Chen-Chi University, Taipei. In Sweden he has been teaching conflict management and North East Asian studies at Uppsala University.

Fältstudier

Previously he has been a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick in the United-Kingdom, as part of the GARNET Network of Excellence mobility programme (October 2007 – June 2008).

He has also been a visiting Fellow at the School of International Studies (SIS) at Peking University (July 2006 – June 2007), the School of International Studies at Renmin University, Beijing (Oct 2004 - Jan 2005 & July 2006 – June 2007), China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing (Oct 2004 – Jan 2005), and at the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark (Mar 2006).