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Dr. Christian Kaunert

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Dr. Christian Kaunert

Job Title: Senior Lecturer in EU Politics and International Relations

Room number: Crescent House, 318

Telephone number: +44 (0)161 295 4839

Fax number: +44 (0)161 295 5077

Email address: c.kaunert@salford.ac.uk

Name (including title): Dr Christian Kaunert

Short introductory paragraph (research, publication and other interests):

Dr. Christian Kaunert is Senior Lecturer in EU Politics & International Relations, and currently Marie Curie (Senior) Research Fellow at the European University Institute Florence. He joined the Politics and Contemporary History Subject Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, in January 2007.
Christian holds a Ph.D in International Politics & an MSc in European Politics from the University in Wales Aberystwyth, a BA (Hons) European Business from Dublin City University, ESB Reutlingen and a BA (Hons) Open University. Christian has researched and taught in many international departments, such as Aberystwyth (Wales), ULB Brussels (Belgium, 2004, UACES Research Fellow), Maastrict (Netherlands), Salford (England), EUI Florence (Marie Curie Fellowship), as well as a guest professor in Barcelona (Spain), Turin (Italy), Yerevan (Armenia, at the UNDP mission), Cairo (Egypt), and Jinan (China). He is the author of several articles on EU Justice and Home Affairs, EU counter-terrorism, EU asylum and migration, and wider EU global security matters. His articles have appeared in journals, such as European Security, Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, European Political Science, and the Journal of Contemporary European Research. His monograph 'European Internal Security: towards supranational goverance' has been published with Manchester University Press, whilst a few more monographs have been contracted. He is appointed editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER) and a member of the executive committee of UACES. He has frequently commented for UK and international media (Al-Jazeera, USA Today) on terrorism issues. Christian has also developed the new MA Terrorism and Security programme with Sarah Leonard.

 

Research interests:

  • European Union Politics and European Foreign Policy
  • EU Justice and Home Affairs
  • Terrorism and Counter-terrorism
  • Asylum and Migration
  • International Relations

Christian is currently engaged in three main research projects. The first project focuses on the role of European Union institutions in EU Justice and Home Affairs.
The second project, with Sarah Leonard, focuses on the external dimension of the European Union’s counter-terrorism cooperation.
The third research project, funded by a generous Marie Curie Research Fellowship at the EUI Florence, examines the development and impact of EU agencies in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, with a specific focus on EUROPOL, EUROJUST, and the EU’s External Borders Agency FRONTEX.
Christian convenes the ESTI (European Security, Terrorism and Intelligence) seminar series, with Sarah Leonard and Christopher J. Murphy.

Supervision (topics and approaches you're interested in supervising for dissertations):

I can supervise students interested in the following topics: European Union governance; European security; security studies; terrorism and counter-terrorism; asylum and migration; international relations theory:

I have successfully supervised the following PhD students:

  • Dr Kamil Zwolski: The role of the EU as a security actor on the international level (with Dr. Sarah Leonard)
  • Dr Hailong Li (PhD student on exchange from Shandong University, China, on a UACES JCMS scholarship in spring 2009): EU-US transatlantic relations (with Dr. Sarah Leonard)

I currently supervise the following PhD students:

  • Ms. Viviana Merendino (since January 2007): The role of the UK as an actor in the adoption of the EU asylum policy (with Dr. Christine Agius).
  • Mr. Alexander Mackenzie (since October 2008): The role of the EU in counter-terrorism (with Dr. Sarah Leonard).
  • Mr. Sergei Mudrov (since October 2008): The role of churches/religion in European integration (with Dr. Sarah Leonard).
  • Mr. Stephen Rozee (from October 2009): European Policing Missions in International Conflicts (with Dr. Sarah Leonard).
  • Ms Briony Callander (from October 2009): EU aviation security and counter-terrorism (with Dr Sarah Leonard).
  • Ms Ulrike Hoffmanm (from October 2009): The role of NGOs in EU asylum and migration policy (with Dr. Sarah Leonard).

Modules Convened (list):

  • L1: Issues in International Relations and Politics 
  • L2: The European Union in International Relations
  • L3: European Union Simulation (Jean Monnet module from 2009/10)
  • LM: Terrorism: Threat and Response (core module: MA Terrorism and Security)

 Administrative Posts

  • Programme Leader, with Dr. Sarah Leonard, ‘MA Terrorism and Security’; 
  • Programme Leader, BSc Criminology and Politics; BAPolitics with Criminology;
  • Programme Leader, BA East and West European Politics, semester 2, 2007/08:
  • Member of the European Studies Research Institute (ESRI) Board for Contemporary History and Politics (since September 2007);
  • ESRI Representative on the Board for the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Manchester (since January 2008);
  • ESPaCH School Communications Officer; 

 Selected Publications (only 5):

2012 (forthcoming, under contract): Agency Governance in European Internal Security: Supernational Transgovernmentalism?, Basingstoke: Palgrave (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics series);

2012 (forthcoming, under contract): Refugees, Security and the European Union (with S.Leonard), London: Routledge; Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies Series;

2010: 'European Internal Security: Towards Supranational Governance? (Manchester: Manchester University Press)

2007: 'Without the Power of Purse or Sword': The European Arrest Warrant and the Role of the Commission. Journal of European Integration, vol. 29, no.4, pp. 387-404.

2005: The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: The Construction of a ‘European Public Order’, European Security, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 459 – 483.

SEEK page address: http://www.seek.salford.ac.uk/profiles/CKAUNERT.jsp


External Responsibilities (eg., membership of editorial boards and learned societies, external examining, commitments as reviewer, etc.):

  •  Editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER) from September 2009.
  • Member of the Executive Committee of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) from September 2009.
  • External Examiner MA programmes in International Relation, Development, and International Security and Conflict Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland;
  • Invited Visiting Professor: university of Cairo, Egypt (October/November 2011);
  • Invited Visiting Professor: Diplomatic Academy Yerevan, Armenia - United Nations Development Mission (UNDP) (April/May 2011);
  • Visiting Research Fellowship/Professorship: IBEI Barcelona, Spain (01/02/2010 - 30/09/2010; during sabbatical semester);
  • Invited Visiting Professor: University of Shandong, Jinan, China (November 2007);
  • Peer reviewer for European Integration Paper Online (EIOP), the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS); Security Dialogue (SD); the European Journal of International Relations (EJIR); European Security (ES); Review of International Studies (RIS); Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS); the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER): the Journal of European Integration (JEI); European Political Sciences (EPS); Millennium; Politics; Regulation and Governance; Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST); the French Journal of British Studies; Capital and Class; the JMCM Yearbook, and commercial publishers, such as Routledge.
  • Research Associate for the RIEAS (Research Institute on European & American Studies), Athens, Greece;
  • Member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), British International Studies Association (BISA), European Union Studies Association (EUSA), International Studies Association (ISA), Political Studies Association (PSA), European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on European Union Politics;
  • Professional advisory or consultancy work: Several contacts with the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada to advise staff on European asylum and migration laws;