Louise Riis Andersen

PhD, MSc, Political Science
Postdoc, research unit on Defence and security
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Personal CV

Expertise

Security-development nexus; International policies towards fragile states; Peacebuilding and statebuilding; Security Sector Reform; UN peace operations.

Selected projects and programmes

UN Peace Operations at a Crossroads.

Local-level democratic structures and processes in fragile states. (In Danish)

Selected publications

Louise Riis Andersen (forthcoming) “Something’s Gotta Give: United Nations Peace Operations and Security Sector Reform”, forthcoming in African Security.

Louise Riis Andersen (2012) “Statebuilding as tacit trusteeship: the case of Liberia”, chapter 7 in Statebuilding and State-Formation – the political sociology of intervention, edited by Berit Bliesemann de Guevera, New York: Routledge.

Louise Riis Andersen (2011) Security Sector Reform and the Dilemmas of Liberal Peacebuilding, DIIS Working Paper 2011/31.

Louise Riis Andersen (2010) Post-Conflict Statebuilding in Africa: From State Failure to Tacit Trusteeship. PhD Thesis. Copenhagen: Copenhagen University, Department of Political Science.

Louise Riis Andersen (2010) 'Outsiders inside the State: Liberia between Partnership and Trusteeship', Journal on Intervention and Statebuilding, 4(2): 129-152.

Louise Riis Andersen (2010) 'Hvad er egentlig en fejlslagen stat?', Udenrigs, 2010(4): 6-18.

Selected commissioned work

Louise Andersen: Fragile States on the International Agenda, DIIS Report 2008: 11. sw63932.asp

Louise Andersen: UN Peace Operations in the 21st Century, DIIS Report 2007: 11. sw44521.asp

Selected research related activities

Visiting Scholar at the Center on International Cooperation, New York University, September-December 2007

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