Robert Egnell
Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area
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Professor of Leadership and Vice-Chancellor of the Swedish Defence University. Also a senior fellow with the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.
Previous appointments include working as a senior researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Institute (FOI) where I focused his research on African Security, peace support operations and civil-military relations. Until June 2007 I was an assistant lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where I taught International Relations, conflict management and political science. I received my doctorate in War Studies from King’s College, London in 2008 and also have an MA in War Studies from King’s College, an MA in Literature from Uppsala University and a BSc in Political Science from Stockholm University.
My research focuses on the conduct and effectiveness of peace support operations, state-building and different aspects of civil-military relations. Among recent publications are ’Complex peace operations and civil-military relations: Winning the peace’, published by Routledge in 2009. Other recent publications have covered international state-building, counter-insurgency strategy, Security Sector Reform and comprehensive approaches to operations.
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Erfarenhet
Utbildning
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Passed with Distinction
· Studies in Diplomacy, Contemporary warfare, and peace support operations
· Master dissertation: The Soldier of the State: Rethinking the Imperatives of Civil-Military Relations -
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Aktiviteter och föreningar:Singer in V-Dalakören and Sångarbröderna
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· Dissertation: Transatlantic Decoupling: The Search for a Remedy to the Negative Consequences of the ESDP
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· Passed with distinction
· Studies in Literature, Contemporary Swedish and Musicology
Publikationer
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On Military Interventions: Options for Avoiding Counterinsurgencies
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How can the West continue to shape international order without over-committing itself to ruinous and ambiguous operations on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan? This article addresses this question by examining the failures of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, and by outlining three alternatives for future engagements: the Libya model, the indirect approach, and contingency operations in support of multilateral organizations. Each presents unique possibilities, but the imperative for strategic…
How can the West continue to shape international order without over-committing itself to ruinous and ambiguous operations on the scale of Iraq and Afghanistan? This article addresses this question by examining the failures of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, and by outlining three alternatives for future engagements: the Libya model, the indirect approach, and contingency operations in support of multilateral organizations. Each presents unique possibilities, but the imperative for strategic clarity and commitment is consistent.
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Gender, military effectiveness, and organizational change: The Swedish model
Palgrave Macmillan
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Counterinsurgency In Crisis: Britain and the Challenges of Modern Warfare
Columbia University Press
Counterinsurgency in Crisis critically examines the British military’s legacy with counterinsurgency in light of its recent operational experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan. It surveys the steps taken by the British government and armed forces in response to these challenging campaigns and asks what the future may hold for British counterinsurgency and for Britain as it redefines its role in the world.
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New Agendas in Statebuilding: Hybridity, Contingency and History
Routledge
This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new questions and starting-points, both academically and practically, for the field.
Building states has become a highly prioritized issue in international politics. Since the 1990s, mainly Western countries and international institutions have invested large sums of money, vast amounts of manpower, and considerable political capital in ventures of this…This volume connects the study of statebuilding to broader aspects of social theory and the historical study of the state, bringing forth new questions and starting-points, both academically and practically, for the field.
Building states has become a highly prioritized issue in international politics. Since the 1990s, mainly Western countries and international institutions have invested large sums of money, vast amounts of manpower, and considerable political capital in ventures of this kind all across the globe. Most of the focus in current literature is on the acute cases, such as Afghanistan and Iraq, but also to states that seem to fit the label ‘failed states’ such as Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia.
This book brings together a diverse group of scholars who introduce new theoretical approaches from the broader social sciences. The chapters revisit historical cases of statebuilding, and provide thought-provoking, new strategic perspectives on the field. The result is a volume that broadens and deepens our understanding of statebuilding by highlighting the importance of hybridity, contingency and history in a broad range of case-studies.
This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding and intervention, peacebuilding, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general.Övriga författare -
Complex Peace Operations and Civil-Military Relations: Winning the Peace
Routledge
This book explores the impact of different civil-military structures on operational effectiveness in complex peace operations. Recent operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia are examples of grand failures to enforce peace and to promote democracy and development through international interventions. A missing variable in analyses of these conflicts hitherto has been the nature of the civil-military interface and its impact.
The principal argument of this book is that the…This book explores the impact of different civil-military structures on operational effectiveness in complex peace operations. Recent operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia are examples of grand failures to enforce peace and to promote democracy and development through international interventions. A missing variable in analyses of these conflicts hitherto has been the nature of the civil-military interface and its impact.
The principal argument of this book is that the civil-military interface should ideally be integrated within the interagency arena as well as within the defence ministry. Such integration has the potential to provide joint civil-military planning and comprehensive approaches to operations. It also creates mutual trust and understanding amongst officers and civil servants from different departments, agencies and units, and thereby, a co-operative interagency culture. For the civil-military interface to function effectively within the chain of command during operations, a co-operative culture of trust is essential. Crucially, structurally and culturally integrated civil-military structures are likely to provide a more balanced view of the functional imperative of the armed forces. The results are armed forces fit for whatever purpose the political leadership decides for them - including complex peace support operations. Empirically, the book applies the theoretical framework to a comparative study of US and British patterns of civil-military relations, their strategic cultures and their operations in Iraq.
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Swedish
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English
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German
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Organisationer
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International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
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Royal United Sevices Institute (RUSI)
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