Jens Stilhoff Sörensen

Institution/Department: School of Global Studies, Peace & Development Research
Previous studies at: European University Institute; University of Lund; ­University of Leeds; University of Exeter
Thesis: State Collapse and Social Reconstruction in the Periphery: Political Economy, Ethnicity and Development in Yugoslavia, Serbia, Kosovo
Research areas: State-building; Aid Policy; Post-Conflict Reconstruction; ­Political Economy of Conflict; Civil Society; Ethnicity & Nationalism; the ­Balkan region / Yugoslav successor states
Current research: Currently working on a project entitled Civil society and the new aid-security terrain, which concerns changes within aid- and security policy since the Cold War and which role various interpretations of civil society has within this change. Central to the project is also the merger of development and security, and by implication aid- and security policy, since the early 1990s. The book “State Collapse and Reconstruction in the Periphery” is forthcoming in early 2009 (Berghahn Books) and an edited book on aid policy, with critical approaches to Western currents and Asian alternatives in international aid policy, is planned with Palgrave for 2009.

E-mail address: jens.sorensen@globalstudies.gu.se