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Jens Sörensen
Senior Lecturer
School of Global StudiesAbout Jens Sörensen
Jens Stilhoff Sörensen is Lecturer in Peace and Development Studies / International Relations. He came to the School of Global Studies in 2007 and is also a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA). He received his doctorate in History and Civilisation from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Jens has previously (1994-2000) worked for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sida, the OSCE (Organisation for Security- and Cooperation in Europe) and EUMM (European Union Monitoring Mission). Jens founded the research network INDESENT (International Development-Security Network) in 2007 and has been a member of the Swedish Research Council’s advisory group on civil society research since 2010. Jens has lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia for several years. Jens is a representative for 'Academic Rights Watch', a new organisation with the objective to promote and monitor academic freedom.
ResearchJens research interest is on changing liberal governing rationalities with focus on biopolitics, development and security. A central theme is post-conflict intervention and state-building in relation to ethnic and spatial splintering. Other general interests include the Balkan region, ethnicity, community, and critical political economy. Jens is also responsible for the network INDESENT.
TeachingCurrently teaching:
- Conflicts in the Global Order – The Global Political Economy (IR-1112)
- Development and Social Change – Actors and Strategies (US-1212)
- Practices and Methods in International Conflict Resolution (MA course for international students)
- Supervision within related fields
Publications
List of pubublications by Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
CooperationSee separate webpage INDESENT
Research Workshop 22–23 January 2009:
Aid, intervention and changing conceptions of state2nd workshop within the International Development and Security Network (INDESENT)
Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm In collaboration with School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. Supported by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Seminar 23 January 2009:
Failed states: Where Do We Stand? A Dialogue Between Scholars and Practitioners
Downloadable
"Introduction – The End of the Development-Security Nexus?" by Jens Stilhoff Sörensen and Fredrik Söderbaum "The Failure of Statebuilding" by Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
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Humanitarian Permanence: The political economy of South Sudans reign of
insecurity
Jens Sörensen
Review of African Political Economy - 2025 -
När diplomaterna lämnar träder generalerna
in
Jens Sörensen, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
Respons - 2024 -
När diplomaterna lämnar träder generalerna
in
Jens Sörensen, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
Respons - 2024 -
SWEDEN UNMASKED: Reading state and society through the
pandemic
Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment - 2023 -
Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in
Sweden
N. Brusselaers, D. Steadson, K. Bjorklund, S. Breland, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, Andrew G Ewing, S. Bergmann, Gunnar Steineck
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications - 2022 -
National health governance, science and the media: drivers of COVID-19 responses in Germany, Sweden and the UK in
2020
Claudia Hanson, Susanne Luedtke, Neil Spicer, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, Susannah Mayhew, Sandra Mounier-Jack
BMJ Global Health - 2021 -
Splitting Europe: The EU, Russia and the
West
Jens Sörensen
2021 -
Konsten att ändra
sig
Jens Sörensen, Jan Lötvall, Stefan Einhorn, Björn Olsen, Fredrik Elgh
Kvartal - 2021 -
Shadow Management: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democratic Legitimacy through Ombudsmen with Case Studies from Swedish Higher
Education
Jens Sörensen, E. J. Olsson
Societies - 2020 -
What Price Equality? The Academic Cost of Government Supervised Gender Mainstreaming at Swedish
Universities
E. J. Olsson, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen
Societies - 2020 -
Terror in Utopia: Crisis (mis-) management during the COVID-19 pandemic in
Sweden
Jens Sörensen
Serbian Sociological Review - Socioloski Pregled - 2020 -
I det ansvarslösa
Sverige
Jens Sörensen
Kvartal - 2020 -
Arendt om kärlek och ondska - Fokus på Arendts personliga relationer och
etik
Jens Sörensen
Respons - 2020 -
Peace Treaty Tensions: The Relationship between Content and Implementation of Negotiated Agreements in Former
Yugoslavia
Michael Schulz, Jens Sörensen
Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies - 2020 -
Lärdomarna från det Första Världskriget är mest relevanta
idag
Jens Sörensen
Respons - 2019 -
Antidemokratiskt att stänga ut SD från
universitetsvärlden
Claes Andersson, Jens Allwood, Tobias Hägerland, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, Filippo Valguarnera
Göteborgs-Posten - 2019 -
Farligt att utesluta oliktänkande från
universitetsvärlden
Jens Allwood, Claes Andersson, Tobias Hägerland, Jens Stilhoff Sörensen, Filippo Valguarnera
Göteborgs-Posten - 2019 -
På spaning efter det Sverige som nu tar
form
Jens Sörensen
Respons - 2018 -
Utilitarian Life: Shifting Biopolitics and the Life-Economy
Nexus
Jens Sörensen
Arena Journal - 2018 -
Tribalismens Dialektik: klan, stat, och sedvanerätt i Kosovo och
Sydsudan
Jens Sörensen
Lundberg, J & P. Brinkemo (red) "Klanen" - 2018 -
Var är rektorerna när akademisk frihet
kränks?
Jens Sörensen, Erik J Olsson, Magnus Zetterholm
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
En rektor ska inte vara en ryggradslös
marionett
Jens Sörensen, Erik J Olsson, Magnus Zetterholm
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Det centrala glöms bort i hatet mot Trump och
Putin
Jens Sörensen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Viktigt möte - oavsett karaktär på
ledarna
Jens Sörensen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Många missförstår Rysslands
utrikespolitik
Jens Sörensen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Ett nytt kallt krig pågår - minst lika
farligt
Jens Sörensen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Migrationsbaksmällan kräver
självreflektion
Jens Sörensen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Korrumperad rekrytering hotar högskolornas
kvalitet
Jens Sörensen, Erik J Olsson, Magnus Zetterholm
Dagens Samhälle - 2018 -
Svenska forskares oberoende hotat - politiker vill driva igenom ideologiska agendor på
högskolan
Jens Sörensen, Erik J Olsson, Magnus Zetterholm
Dagens Juridik - 2018 -
Det handlar inte om vem som är god eller
ond
Jens Sörensen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2018 -
Academic freedom and its enemies: Lessons from
Sweden
Jens Sörensen, Erik J. Olsson
Halvorsen, T et al (Eds) Knowledge for Justice - 2017 -
Sverige i bottenskiktet vad gäller akademisk
frihet
Jens Sörensen, Magnus Zetterholm
Svenska Dagbladet - 2017 -
Politruker sänker tilliten till våra
myndigheter
Jens Sörensen
Göteborgsposten - 2017 -
Skadligt att Sverige drivs som ett
varumärke
Jens Sörensen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2017 -
Politruker och rättsröta sänker
myndigheterna
Jens Sörensen
Göteborgsposten - 2017 -
EU:s politiska elit har blundat för folklig
oro
Jens Sörensen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2017 -
Så blev vänstern ett hot mot
arbetare
Jens Sörensen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2017 -
Trendig styrning med NPM skadar
högskolan
Jens Sörensen, Erik J Olsson
Svenska Dagbladet - 2016 -
Raserer
utviklingsforskinga
Jens Sörensen
Forskerforum - 2016 -
Biståndet till konflikternas närområden måste
öka
Jens Sörensen
Dagens Samhälle - 2016 -
KI:s uppförandekod i strid med
meddelarfriheten
Jens Sörensen, Erik J Olsson
Dagens Samhälle - 2016 -
Ta Brexit som en läxa - annars slits Europa
isär
Jens Sörensen
Svenska Dagbladet - 2016 -
Detta skapar ett konkret hot mot forskningens
frihet
Jens Sörensen, Erik J Olsson, Magnus Zetterholm
Dagens Juridik - 2016 -
Farligt om JK uppfattas som maktens politiska instrument i juridiska
fårakläder
Jens Sörensen, Erik J Olsson, Magnus Zetterholm
Dagens Juridik - 2015 -
Människofientligt
System
Jens Sörensen
Uppsala Nya Tidning - 2015 -
Mer ekonomisk rationalitet men mindre vett och
sans
Jens Sörensen
Dagens Nyheter - 2015 -
Nidbilden är att NPM skulle vara
effektivt
Jens Sörensen
Dagens Samhälle - 2015 -
Utvärderingskulten är
människofientlig
Jens Sörensen
Dagens Samhälle - 2015 -
Politikernes forræderi mod
folket
Jens Sörensen
Information - 2015 -
The Return of Plural Society: Statebuilding and Social
Splintering
Jens Sörensen
Peacebuilding - 2014
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