Kilian Spandler
About Kilian Spandler
Kilian Spandler is an International Relations researcher specializing in the role of regions in world politics. His expertise covers regional governance in Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia. In his book
“Regional Organizations in International Society”
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), he provides a historical lens on the evolution of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU), and develops a theory of normative arguing for the analysis of regional organizations.
Kilian’s main research interests are:
- The transformation of national sovereignty and its impact on transboundary cooperation in the Global South;
- The role of populism in international cooperation
- The relation between regional organizations and global actors (especially the UN) in peacekeeping and security;
- Theories of regionalism;
- Normative pluralism and the ethics of global governance.
Kilian obtained his PhD from the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2016. He then worked as a Visiting Lecturer in International Relations at the Universities of Würzburg and Freiburg until mid-2017, before joining the School of Global Studies as a post-doctoral researcher.
Besides these more academic undertakings, Kilian is an advocate of making young voices heard in International Relations. From 2016 to 2019, he was a board member of the Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs and International Relations (IFAIR), a platform for transnational projects launched by students and young professionals. Within IFAIR, he also founded the EU-ASEAN Perspectives Dialogue, in which participants from Europe and Southeast Asia develop recommendations for policy-makers in the two regions.
More information on Kilian’s research is available on Researchgate and his personal website.
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Using the English School to Understand Current Issues in World
Politics
Kilian Spandler, Charlotta Friedner Parrat
International Society: The English School - 2021-01-01 -
The English School as a theory and a scholarly
community
Charlotta Friedner Parrat, Kilian Spandler, Joanne Yao
Cambridge Review of International Affairs - 2020-01-01 -
Towards genuinely localised humanitarian
action
Kilian Spandler
New Mandala: New Perspectives on Southeast Asia - 2020-01-01 -
Regionale Integration durch normative Diskurse: Die Legitimierung von Verrechtlichungsprozessen in der ASEAN und der
EU
Kilian Spandler
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen - 2020-01-01 -
Saving people or saving face? Four narratives of regional humanitarian order in Southeast
Asia
Kilian Spandler
The Pacific Review - 2020-01-01 -
UNAMID and the Legitimation of Global-Regional Peacekeeping Cooperation: Partnership and Friction in UN-AU
Relations
Kilian Spandler
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding - 2020-01-01 -
Populist Governments and the EU: An ever more Distant
Union
Kilian Spandler
School of Blogal Studies - 2020-01-01 -
Regional Organizations in Southeast
Asia
Kilian Spandler
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies - 2020-01-01 -
ASEAN's Humanitarian Cooperation: What does the Rakhine Crisis Tell
us?
Kilian Spandler
ASEAN Insights - 2019-01-01 -
Global-Regional Security Cooperation in a ’Multiplex’
World
Kilian Spandler
International Relations in the Age of Disruption: Power Shift, Power Diffusion and New Complexities. Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Students Conference IPGSC 2018 - 2019-01-01 -
Regional Organizations in International Society: ASEAN, the EU and the Politics of Normative
Arguing
Kilian Spandler
- 2019-01-01 -
Primary Institutional Dynamics and the Emergence of Regional Governance in Southeast Asia: Constructing Post-Colonial International
Societies
Kilian Spandler
International Organization in the Anarchical Society: The Institutional Structure of World Order - 2018-01-01 -
Regional standards of membership and enlargement in the EU and
ASEAN
Kilian Spandler
Asia Europe Journal - 2018-01-01 -
What Can ASEAN Teach the
EU?
Kilian Spandler
The Diplomat - 2017-01-01 -
The EU as a Global Development Actor: Three
Challenges
Kilian Spandler
Diplomatisches Magazin - 2017-01-01 -
The Political International Society: Change in Primary and Secondary
Institutions
Kilian Spandler
Review of International Studies - 2015-01-01