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Dr Christian Kaunert

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Email: c.kaunert@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1382 384591

Dr. Christian Kaunert is Senior Lecturer in International Relations & Politics. He was previously Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute Florence, and Senior Lecturer in EU Politics & International Relations,University of Salford.  He has been awarded with a prestigious Jean Monnet Chair in EU Justice and Home Affairs Policy (in July 2012), and received a prestigious Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (from 2012-2016), the latter to be held at the University of Dundee.  He is also Editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER), Executive Committee member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), and an Expert for the European Parliament. His successful application for a Marie Curie Senior research fellowship at the EUI was ranked in the top 1% of all applications received (98.5% as total score).  Dr Kaunert holds a PhD in International Politics & an MSc in European Politics from the University of Wales Aberystwyth, a BA (Hons) European Business from Dublin City University, ESB Reutlingen and a BA (Hons) Open University.

Dr  Kaunert has researched and taught in many international departments, such as Aberystwyth (Wales), ULB Brussels (Belgium, 2004, UACES Research Fellow), Maastricht (Netherlands), Salford (England), EUI Florence (Marie Curie Fellowship), as well as a guest professor in Barcelona (Spain), Turin (Italy),Yerevan (Armenia, at the UNDP mission),Cairo (Egypt), and Jinan (China).  Dr Kaunert has acted as primary PhD supervisor to 8 PhD students successfully, with 4 PhD candidates already successfully completed.  His research has a clear focus on the Global Security role of the EU, especially in the area of EU Justice and Home Affairs, including its external dimension, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism, and International Relations more generally. He is the author of several articles on EU Justice and Home Affairs, EU counter-terrorism, EU asylum and migration, and wider EU global security matters. His articles have appeared in journals, such as European Security, Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, European Political Science, and the Journal of Contemporary European Research. His monograph ‘European Internal Security: towards supranational governance’ has been published with Manchester University Press, whilst a few more monographs have been contracted.  

He is appointed editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER) and a member of the executive committee of UACES. He has frequently commented for UK and international media (Al-Jazeera, USA Today) on terrorism issues.

Teaching

 Undergraduate Modules

Postgraduate 

Research

Publications

Books

Justice and Home Affairs Policy: an ever increasing Area of Freedom, Security and Justice? (with S. Leonard) (Basingstoke: Palgrave; European Union Series, forthcoming 2014/15 [under contract]).

The EU as a Global Counter-Terrorism Actor (with A. MacKenzie) (forthcoming 2014).

Agency Governance in European internal security – supranational transgovernmentalism? (with S. Leonard) (Basingstoke: Palgrave; Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics series, forthcoming 2014 [under contract]).

The EU as a Global Security Actor – a comprehensive analysis beyond CFSP and JHA (with K. Zwolski) (Basingstoke: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics, forthcoming 2013).

Refugees, Security and the European Union (with S. Leonard) (London: Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies Series, forthcoming 2013).

European Security, Terrorism, and Intelligence: Tackling New Security Challenges in Europe (ed. with C. Kaunert) (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2013).

European Security Governance and the European Neighbourhood after the Lisbon Treaty (ed. with C. Kaunert) (London: Routledge, 2012).

European Homeland Security: A European Strategy in the Making? (ed. with C. Kaunert and P. Pawlak) (London: Routledge, 2012).

Developing European Internal Security Policy: After the Stockholm Summit and the Lisbon Treaty (ed. with C. Kaunert) (London: Routledge, 2011).

European Internal Security: Towards Supranational Governance in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice? (Manchester: Manchester University Press, Europe in Change Series, 2010), 270 pp.

Special Journal Issues

‘Rethinking the Middle East? Values, Interests, and Security Concerns in Western Policies toward Iraqand the Wider Region?’ (with S. Leonard, L. Berger, and  G. Johnson), Cambridge Review of International Affairs (forthcoming 2013; accepted for publication)

'Supranational Governance and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice' (with J. Occhipinti and S. Leonard), Cambridge Review of International Affairs (forthcoming 2013; accepted for publication)

'Ten Years of EU Counterterrorism Policy and Intelligence Cooperation: A Critical Assessment' (with J. Argomaniz and O. Bures) , Intelligence and National Security (forthcoming 2013; accepted for publication)

'Agency Governance in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice' (with S. Leonard) , Perspectives on European Politics and Society, (forthcoming 2013; accepted for publication)

'Migration in the European Union's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice after the Treaty of Lisbon and the Stockholm Programme' (with P. Cardwell and S. Leonard), International Migration (forthcoming 2013; accepted for publication)

'Refugee Protection in the European Union' (with S. Leonard), Journal of Refugee Studies (forthcoming 2013; accepted for publication)

'Refugees, the European Union, and the Neighbourhood' (with S. Leonard), Refugee Survey Quarterly (forthcoming 2012-13; accepted for publication)

'European Security and Supranational Governance after the Lisbon Treaty' (with S. Leonard), Cooperation and Conflict, 47:4 (forthcoming 2012)

'Developments in European Security' (with M. O’Neill and s. Leonard), Journal of Contemporary European Research, 7:4 (2011), 429-574

'European Security Governance after the Lisbon Treaty: Neighbours and New Actors in a Changing Security Environment' (with C. Kaunert), Perspectives in European Politics and Society, 12:4 (2011), 359-508

'Internal Security Policies in the European Union - After the Stockholm Programme: An Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union?' (with C. Kaunert), European Security, 19:2 (2010), 143-336

Journal Articles

‘The European Parliament in the External Dimension of EU Counter-terrorism: More Actorness and Accountability 10 Years on?’ (with S.Leonard and A. MacKenzie), Intelligence and National Security (forthcoming: under review)

'Securitisation and Regional Organisations: Comparing the European Union (EU) and the Association for South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN)’  (with M. Barthwal-Datta), Journal of IR and Development (forthcoming: under review)

‘EU Counter-terrorism and the Southern Mediterranean Countries after the Arab Spring: new potential for cooperation?’ (with S.Leonard and A. MacKenzie), Democracy and Security (forthcoming: under review)

‘The EU Counter-terrorism Coordinator: An Agency within an Institution?’ (with A. MacKenzie, S.Leonard and O. Bures), Perspectives on European Politics and Society (forthcoming: under review)

‘The agencification of EU policing – Europol as a policing actor’ (with A. MacKenzie and S. Rozee), Perspectives on European Politics and Society (forthcoming: under review)

'The Role of the NGOs in the Development of the EU Asylum Policy'  (with S. Leonard and U. Hoffmann), Journal of Refugee Studies(forthcoming: under review)

'EU Asylum Policy after the Lisbon Treaty and the Stockholm Programme: Restrictiveness vs a Common Area of Protection?’ (with S. Leonard), Refugee Survey Quarterly (forthcoming: under review)

'Supranational Governance and European Security after the Lisbon Treaty Evaluated'  (with S. Leonard), Cooperation and Conflict, 47:4 (forthcoming 2012)

‘The EU and the Gulf monarchies: Normative Power Europe in search of a strategy for engagement’ (with T. Demmelhuber), Cambridge Review of International Affairs, (2012: accepted for publication)

2012 (accepted for publication): ‘Evaluating the Arab Spring - Values, Interests, and Security Concerns in Western Policies toward Iraq and the Wider Region?’ (with S. Leonard, L. Berger, and  G. Johnson), Cambridge Review of International Affairs, (2012: accepted for publication)

'Supranational Governance and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice' (with J. Occhipinti and S. Leonard), Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2012: accepted for publication)

‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place?’ The European Union’s Financial Sanctions against Suspected Terrorists, Multilateralism and Human Rights’  (with S. Leonard), Cooperation and Conflict,  47:4 (forthcoming 2012)

'The Development of the EU Asylum Policy: Venue-shopping in Perspective' (with S. Leonard), Journal of European Public Policy, iFirst, DOI:10.1080/13501763.2012.677191 (2012)

'Somalia versus Captain 'Hook': Assessing the EU’s Security Actorness in Countering Piracy off the Horn of Africa' (with K. Zwolski),Cambridge Review of International Affairs, iFirst, DOI:10.1080/09557571.2012.678295 (2012)

'Assessing the external dimension of EU counter-terrorism: 10 years on', European Security, iFirst, DOI:10.1080/09662839.2012.688810 (2012)

'The Social Construction of an EU Interest in Counter-terrorism: US Influence and Internal Struggles in the Cases of PNR and SWIFT' (with S. Leonard and A. MacKenzie), European Security, iFirst, DOI:10.1080/09662839.2012.688812 (2012)

'The EU and Climate Security: A Case of Successful Norm Entrepreneurship?' (with K. Zwolski), European Security, 20:1 (2011), pp. 21-43

'Counter-Terrorism in the European Neighbourhood Policy'  (with S. Leonard), Terrorism and Political Violence, 23:2 (2011), pp. 286-30

'The European Union and Refugees: Towards More Restrictive Asylum Policies in the European Union?' (with S. Leonard), GRITIM - UPF Working Paper Series,  (2011)

'European Security Governance after the Lisbon Treaty: Neighbours and New Actors in a Changing Security Environment' (with S. Leonard),Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 12:4 (2011), p. 351-370

‘Developments in European Security’ (with M. O'Neill and S. Leonard),  Journal of Contemporary European Research, 7:4 (2011)

'The External Dimension of EU Counter-Terrorism Relations: Competences, Interests & Institutions'', Terrorism and Political Violence, 22:1 (2010), pp. 41-61

'Towards Supranational Governance in EU Counter-Terrorism? The Role of the Commission and the Council Secretariat', Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, 4:1 (2010), pp. 8- 31

'Europol and EU Counter-terrorism: International Security Actorness in the External Dimension?', Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 33:7 (2010), pp. 652 - 671

'The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the Lisbon Treaty: Commission Policy Entrepreneurship?', European Security, 19:2 (2010), pp.169-189

'Post-9/11 EU Counter-terrorist Financing Cooperation: Differentiating Supranational Policy Entrepreneurship by the Commission and the Council Secretariat'  (with M. Della Giovanna), European Security, 19:2 (2010), pp. 275-295

'After the Stockholm Programme: An Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union?' (with S. Leonard), European Security, 19:2 (2010), pp. 143-149

'The European Union Simulation: From Problem-based Learning (PBL) to Student Interest', European Political Science, 8:2 (2009), pp. 254-265

'Liberty versus Security?: EU Asylum Policy and the European Commission', Journal of Contemporary European Research, 5:2 (2009), pp. 148-170

'The Lisbon Treaty and the Constitutionalization of the EU', Journal of Contemporary European Research, 5:3 (2009), pp. 465-471

'"Without the Power of Purse or Sword": The European Arrest Warrant and the Role of the Commission', Journal of European Integration, 29:4 (2007), pp. 387-404

'The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: The Construction of a "European Public Order"', European Security, 14:4 (2005), pp. 459-83

Book Chapters

'Towards new security challenges in Europe' (with S. Leonard), in European Security, Terrorism, and Intelligence, by C. Kaunert and S. Leonard (Basingstoke: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics series, forthcoming 2013).

'European Security Governance after the Lisbon Treaty: Neighbours and New Actors in a Changing Security Environment' (with S. Leonard) in European Security Governance and the European Neighbourhood after the Lisbon Treaty, by C. Kaunert and S. Leonard (London: Routledge, 2012).

'European Homeland Security: a European Strategy in the  making?' (with S. Leonard and P. Pawlak), in European Homeland Security: Connecting Coincidence and Strategy, by C. Kaunert, S. Leonard and P. Pawlak (London: Routledge, 2012).

'What European Homeland Security Strategy after Lisbon and Stockholm?' (with S. Leonard and P. Pawlak) in European Homeland Security: Connecting Coincidence and Strategy, by C. Kaunert, S. Leonard and P. Pawlak (London: Routledge, 2012).

'The EU Asylum Policy: Towards a Common Area of Protection and Solidarity?' (with S. Leonard) in  The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice after Lisbon and Stockholm: From myth to reality, ed. by S. Wolff, F. Goudappel and J. de Zwaan (The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2011).

'Combating the Financing of Terrorism Together? The Influence of the United Nations on the European Union’s Financial Sanctions Regime' (with S. Leonard), in The influence of international institutions on the EU: A framework for analysis, by O. Costa and K.-E. Jorgensen, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

‘After the Stockholm Programme: An Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the European Union?’ (with S. Leonard), in European Internal Security after Stockholm and Lisbon: an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, by C. Kaunert and S. Leonard (London: Routledge, 2011).

‘The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice in the Lisbon Treaty: Commission Policy Entrepreneurship?’, in European Internal Security after Stockholm and Lisbon: an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, by C. Kaunert and S. Leonard (London: Routledge, 2011).

Post-9/11 EU counter-terrorist financing cooperation: differentiating supranational policy entrepreneurship by the Commission and the Council Secretariat, European Security (with M. Della Giovanna), in European Internal Security after Stockholm and Lisbon: an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, by C. Kaunert and S. Leonard (London: Routledge, 2011).

‘Reconceptualizing the Audience in Securitization Theory’ (with S. Leonard), in  Securitization Theory: How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve, ed. by T. Balzacq (London: Routledge, 2010).

‘The European Parliament and the EU Democratic Deficit: the right solution to the wrong problem?’ (with K. Zwolski), in Reconnecting the European Parliament and its People, ed. by A. Hug (London: Foreign Policy Centre, 2010).

‘The External Dimension of Counter-terrorism Cooperation: Transatlantic Relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy’ (with S. Leonard), in European Internal Security: Towards Supranational Governance in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?, by C. Kaunert (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010).

‘The External Dimension of Asylum and Border Management – The Extra-territorial Processing of Asylum Claims’ (with S. Leonard) in European Internal Security: Towards Supranational Governance in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?, by C. Kaunert (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010).

External Responsibilities 

Suggested Areas for Postgraduate Supervision

Dr Kaunert can supervise students interested in the following topics: European Union governance; European security; security studies; terrorism and counter-terrorism; asylum and migration; international relations theory. 

He has successfully supervised the following PhD students:

He currently supervises the following PhD students:

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