Hans Mouritzen

Dr. scient. pol. (Political Science) (University of Copenhagen)
Senior Researcher, head of FSE project, research unit on Foreign policy and EU studies
T: +45 3269 8790, E: , F: +45 3269 8700

Expertise

Thematic: foreign policy in general, the democratic deficit in foreign policy, small state adaptation, IGOs.
Geographical: Danish foreign policy, Euro-atlantic relations (NATO and the EU-US), Europe’s eastern neighbourhood, Caucasus, the Baltic Sea area, Sweden, the Öresund region.

Selected projects and programmes

The presence of the past: the role of history in contemporary foreign policy decisions (Head of project, financed by the FSE)

Euro-Atlantic geopolitics and the future of the European continent

Danish foreign policy

Selected publications

H. Mouritzen et al., “To the Finland Station. Is Taiwan Selling out to China?”, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2010, vol. 89 no. 3

H. Mouritzen & M. Runge Olesen, ‘The Interplay of Geopolitics and Historical Lessons in Foreign Policy: Denmark Facing German post-War Rearmament’, Cooperation and Conflict, December 2010, vol. 45 no. 4.

H. Mouritzen, ‘Past versus Present Geopolitics: Cautiously Opening the Realist Door to the Past’164-91 in Freyberg-Inan et al. (eds.), Rethinking Realism in International Relations, Baltimore, US: John Hopkins UP. 2009

H. Mouritzen & A. Wivel (eds.), The Geopolitics of Euro-Atlantic Integration, London: Routledge. Paperback 2007

H. Mouritzen, "The Nordic-Baltic Area: Divisive Geopolitics at work", Cambridge Journal of International Affairs, vol.19, no. 3, September, 495-511, 2006

H. Mouritzen, Theory and Reality of International Politics, Aldershot UK: Ashgate, 1998 (monograph)

Selected commissioned work

Hans Mouritzen, Atlantic Reform. A Euro-Atlantic and a Danish Perspective, DIIS Report 2006:3 (for Danish MoD and MFA)

Hans Mouritzen, Europas fremtid. Et euro-atlantisk geopolitisk puslespil. Booklet 2005 and part of series supported by the EU Commission

Hans Mouritzen (red.), Er vi så forbeholdne? Danmark overfor globaliseringen, EU og det nære, Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag 2003.Part of ‘Magtudredningen'
(commissioned by the Danish Parliament).

Selected research related activities

The co-editing of Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook (with Nanna Hvidt)

Textbook: (with co-authors), International politik, Danmark og u-landene. Kbh.: Columbus 2001

Textbook: Hans Mouritzen, At forklare international politik. Kbh.: DJØF 1999

Referee for international publishers and journals

Ph.D. supervision

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