Associate Professor Malena Rosén Sundström Lund University, Sweden
Research visit supported by Get Started Fund by Lund University, Sweden
Main research or teaching areas
- Feminist foreign policy
- Political parties
- Negotiations in the EU
- Swedish EU-politics
At UC: Research collaboration with Professor Natalia Chaban on the project “Like-minded Partners in a Geopolitical World — Security Debates, Mutual Perceptions, Diplomacy and Learning”
Horizon Europe. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action.
PhD candidates (supervised by Prof Chaban)
Kim A. Steffens, Diplomatic Academy Vienna
Kim Alexa has a background in European Law (LLB) and an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree covering International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development (LLM), International Security (MA), and International Law and Human Rights (MA). After working as a paralegal supporting strategic litigation and cases involving international dispute resolution, transnational justice, and human rights, she has now joined the EUFOG MSCA doctoral network as a Doctoral Candidate at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien (DA), where she will work on EU actorness in non-proliferation and disarmament regimes in the era of geopolitical pressure.
Mads Raun Ostergaard, University of Oslo
Mads holds a BA in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and an MA in Diplomacy and Global Governance from Brussels School of Governance. Before joining ARENA, he worked at Climate Group, an international non-profit organisation based in Amsterdam. Mads Østergaard's PhD project examines the European Union's Global Gateway strategy, how it is presented as “a positive offer" in the global connectivity race, and how that offer is received by partner countries.
Research Professor Babak Bahador is Director of the Institute of Public Diplomacy and International Communication at George Washington University, the US.
His research examines media and communication in relation to politics/ international relations with a special focus on peace and conflict.
He is currently working on projects related to automated hate speech detection and effective counter-speech methods. Babak is an Associate Research Professor at SMPA where he teaches a course on Media and Peacebuilding and directs the Media and Peacebuilding Project. In addition, Babak directs the peace journalism news service called Peace News. Babak is also a Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
