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Fredrik Söderbaum
Professor
School of Global StudiesAbout Fredrik Söderbaum
Professor in peace and development research at the School of Global Studies (SGS).
Research
My primary research interests are comparative regionalism, the EU:s role in the world, development research, global and regional governance, and African studies. My current research centers around the following three research projects:
Regional Cooperation and the Transformation of National Sovereignty (TRANSFORM), funded by the Swedish Research Council (2019-2022)
Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov), a research programme funded by Riksbankens Jubilieumsfond (2016-2022)
External Funding of Regional Organisations in Africa (EFRO), funded by the Swedish Research Council (2016-2020)
Education
I am involved in a range of courses on different levels and in different disciplines at SGS and to a lesser extent also in other programmes and disciplines. Currently I am supervising two PhD students in peace and development research.
Other positions and responsibilities
Chair of peace and development research at SGS
Research group leader: Regional and Global Governance
Chair of the Swedish Development Research Network (SweDev)
Associate research fellow at the United Nations University Institute of Comparative Regional Integration Studies at the (UNU-CRIS), Brugge, Belgien.
Other
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Problem-Solving by Low-Authority International Organizations: ECOWAS' COVID-19
Response
Kilian Spandler, Fredrik Söderbaum, Gustavo Cadenas Delascio
GLOBAL POLICY - 2025 -
Comparative Regionalism beyond Europe versus the
rest
Tobias Lenz, Fredrik Söderbaum
Review of International Studies - 2025 -
Routledge Handbook of Water and
Development
Sofie Hellberg, Fredrik Söderbaum, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
2024 -
Legitimation struggles in international organizations: the case of the African
Union
Linnéa Gelot, Fredrik Söderbaum
Globalizations - 2024 -
Beyond exit: how populist governments disengage from international
institutions
Agnese Pacciardi, Kilian Spandler, Fredrik Söderbaum
International Affairs - 2024 -
Introduction: The Water–Development
Nexus
Sofie Hellberg, Fredrik Söderbaum, Ashok Swain, Joakim Öjendal
Routledge Handbook of Water and Development - 2024 -
Sovereignty scripts and regional governance: ASEAN's response to the Covid-19
pandemic
Kilian Spandler, J. Hartelius, Alva Monti, Fredrik Söderbaum
Pacific Review - 2024 -
The origins of legitimation strategies in international organizations: agents, audiences and
environments
Tobias Lenz, Fredrik Söderbaum
International Affairs - 2023 -
Populist (de)legitimation of international
organizations
Kilian Spandler, Fredrik Söderbaum
International Affairs - 2023 -
European foreign aid to regional organisations in Africa: bullies, overseers, micromanagers and
samaritans
S. Stapel, Fredrik Söderbaum
Third World Quarterly - 2023 -
"Something for everyone": Ownership as a moving target in Swedish and British regional foreign aid to
Africa
Fredrik Söderbaum, S. Stapel, Sally Wennergren
Development Policy Review - 2023 -
Regional international organizations in Africa as recipients of foreign aid: Why are some more attractive to donors than
others?
S. Stapel, D. Panke, Fredrik Söderbaum
Cooperation and Conflict - 2023 -
Regional Organisations and Africa’s Development
Challenges
Fredrik Söderbaum, Sören Stapel
2022 -
Agenda 2063 and the role of Africa’s overlapping regional
organisations
Fredrik Söderbaum, Sören Stapel
2022 -
Comparative
Regionalism
Fredrik Söderbaum
Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations - 2022 -
The Politics of Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance: A Theoretical
Framework
Magdalena Bexell, Fredrik Söderbaum
M Bexell, K Jönsson, and A Uhlin (eds.) Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance: Practices, Justifications, and Audiences - 2022 -
Explaining Variation in Legitimation and Delegitimation Practices: Policy Field and Institutional
Access
Karin Bäckstrand, Fredrik Söderbaum
M Bexell, K Jönsson, and A Uhlin (eds.) Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance: Practices, Justifications, and Audiences - 2022 -
Justifying Delegitimation: African Critiques of Global Governance
Institutions
Catia Gregoratti, Nora Stappert, Fredrik Söderbaum
Magdalena Bexell, Kristina Jönsson, and Anders Uhlin (eds.) Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance: Practices, Justifications, and Audiences - 2022 -
Regionalism beyond state-centrism: African regionalism in comparative
perspective
J. A. Grant, A. Issa, Fredrik Söderbaum, B. Yusuf
International Journal - 2022 -
External Actors and Security Regionalism in Africa: A New Dataset on External
Funding
Fredrik Söderbaum, Sören Stapel
J. Muntschick (ed.) Regionalism in Africa and External Partners: Uneven Relationships and (Un)Intended Effects - 2022 -
The Costs of Legitimacy for Political
Institutions
Hans Agné, Fredrik Söderbaum
Global Studies Quarterly - 2022 -
Regionalism in
Africa
Fredrik Söderbaum, Sören Stapel
The Edward Elgar Handbook on Regionalism and Global Governance edited by Jürgen Rüland and Astrid Carrapatoso - 2022 -
Peace research meets implementation studies: the role of implementing
actors
Meike Froitzheim, Isabell Schierenbeck, Fredrik Söderbaum
International Relations - 2022 -
Contestations of the Liberal International Order: A Populist Script of Regional
Cooperation
Fredrik Söderbaum, Kilian Spandler, Agnese Pacciardi
2021 -
Mapping and problematising external funding to the African Union and the Regional Economic
Communities
Sören Stapel, Fredrik Söderbaum
The Finances of Regional Organizations in the Global South: Follow the Money, edited by Ulf Engel and Frank Mattheis - 2020 -
Rethinking Regionalism in the 21st
Century
Fredrik Söderbaum
Global Politics in the 21st Century: Between Regional Cooperation and Conflict, edited by Andrzej Mania, Marcin Grabowski & Tomasz Pugacewicz - 2019 -
Making sense of sub-regionalism and regionalism in Southeast
Asia
Fredrik Söderbaum
Asia Dialogue - 2019 -
Legitimation and Delegitimation in Global Governance: Discursive, Institutional,
Behavioral
Fredrik Söderbaum, Karin Bäckstrand
In J Tallberg, K Bäckstrand and J A Scholte(eds) Legitimacy in Global Governance: Sources, Processes, and Consequences - 2018 -
Rethinking the links between macro-regions and
micro-regions
Fredrik Söderbaum
In: Elisabetta Nadalutti and Otto Kallscheuer (eds) Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation: New Evidence from Four Continents - 2018 -
Civil society participation in regional social policy: The case of HIV/AIDS in the Southern African Development Community
(SADC)
Andreas Godsäter, Fredrik Söderbaum
Global Social Policy - 2017 -
Swedish Development Cooperation and Ownership of African Regional
Organizations
Fredrik Söderbaum
Forum for Development Studies - 2017 -
A Changing Global Development
Agenda?
Jan Aart Scholte, Fredrik Söderbaum
Forum for Development Studies - 2017 -
Modes of Regional Governance in
Africa
Ian Taylor, Fredrik Söderbaum
The New Politics of Regionalism. Perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Asia Pacific, edited by Ulf Engel, Heidrun Zinecker, Frank Mattheis, Antje Dietze and Thomas Plötze - 2017 -
The European Union as an actor in Africa: Comparing development cooperation and
peace-building
Fredrik Söderbaum
Franck A. K. & Söderbaum F. (red.). EU as a global actor: A force for good in the world? - 2016 -
Support to Regional Cooperation and Integration in Africa — What Works and Why?. Rapport till Expertgruppen för biståndsanalys,
2016:1
Fredrik Söderbaum, Therese Brolin
2016 -
The EU as a Global Actor: 'A Force for Good in the
World?'
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Nordic Development Studies: Lessons, Pitfalls and Future
Directions
Wayne Stephen Coetzee, Fredrik Söderbaum
Strategic Review for Southern Africa - 2016 -
Rethinking
Regionalism
Fredrik Söderbaum
2016 -
Old, New and Comparative Regionalism: The History and the Scholarly Development of the
Field
Fredrik Söderbaum
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Regionalism, edited by Tanja A. Börzel and Thomas Risse - 2016 -
Interregionalism
Fredrik Söderbaum, Philippe De Lombaerde, Jens Uwe Wunderlich
The SAGE Handbook of European Foreign Policy, edited by Knud Erik Jørgensen, Åsne Kalland Aarstad, Edith Drieskens, Katie Laatikainen and Ben Tonra - 2015 -
Rethinking the politics of transboundary water management: The case of the Zambezi river
basin
Fredrik Söderbaum
International Journal of Water Governance - 2015 -
The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Relevance for International Waters and the Global Environmental
Facility
Fredrik Söderbaum, Jakob Granit
2014 -
Sverige, EU och “brandkårsutryckningar” i fredens
tjänst
Fredrik Söderbaum
Linda Berg and Rutger Lindahl (eds), Förhoppningar och farhågor — Sveriges första 20 år i EU - 2014 -
Conclusion
Fredrik Söderbaum, Francis Baert, Tiziana Scaramagli
Intersecting Interregionalism, edited by F Baert, T Scaramagli and F Söderbaum - 2014 -
Intersecting Interregionalism. Regions, Global Governance and the
EU
Fredrik Söderbaum, Francis Baert, Tiziana Scaramagli
2014 -
Introduction: intersecting
Interregionalism
Fredrik Söderbaum, Francis Baert, Tiziana Scaramagli
Intersecting Interregionalism, edited by F Baert, T Scaramagli and F Söderbaum - 2014 -
The EU as a Global Actor: "A Force for Good in the
World?"
Anja Franck, Fredrik Söderbaum
Franck A. K. & Söderbaum F. (eds.). The EU as a Global Actor: A Force for Good in the World? - 2013 -
‘What’s Wrong with Regional Integration? The Problem of
Eurocentrism’
Fredrik Söderbaum
2013 -
Rethinking Regions and
Regionalism
Fredrik Söderbaum
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs - 2013 -
The Problem of Comparison in Comparative
Regionalism
Fredrik Söderbaum, Philippe De Lombaerde, Luk van Langenhove, Francis Baert
Regionalism, 4 vol set of Sage Library of International Relations, edited by Philippe De Lombaerde and Fredrik Söderbaum - 2013
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