Svend Aage Christensen

PhD, Soviet and East European History, Slavic Languages

Emeritus Researcher, research unit on Foreign policy and EU studies
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Expertise

Trained in Slavic studies and history with expertise in especially Russian and Polish history, politics and culture. Has published on foreign policy, security policy, energy policy, international legal-political issues, the Cold War, and Arctic issues. Studies in Danish, American, Polish, German, and UN archives.

Selected projects and programmes

The political economy of energy, Arctic security, historiography of the Soviet Union, the political instrumentalization of history.

Selected publications

Svend Aage Christensen, Energidialogen mellem EU og Rusland , DIIS Book, November 2007

Svend Aage Christensen, “The Danish Experience. Denmark in NATO 1949-1999” in Small States and Alliances, Erich Reiter, Heinz Gärtner (eds.), Heidelberg, Physica Verlag, 2001

Svend Aage Christensen & Ole Wæver: “Symposium on Humanitarian Intervention: The Politics of Legal Change” in Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 36(4): 430-442

Ruslands historie [A History of Russia], bd. 1 og bd. 4, bidragene om Kiev-Rusland, det 17. århundrede og sovjetisk udenrigspolitik 1980-1991, København, Politikens Forlag, 1983, 1986, 1992

Svend Aage Christensen: “Dansk-russiske forbindelser i årene 1602-1658” in Svend Aage Christensen og Henning Gottlieb (red.), Danmark og Rusland i 500 år, København, Det Sikkerheds- og Nedrustningspolitiske Udvalg, 1993. Also in Russian, Свен Оге Кристенсен и Хеннинг Готтлиб, Дания и Россия – 500 лет, Moskva, 1996. Both versions were reprinted in 2010.

Svend Aage Christensen, “Copenhague - Thulé” in Outre-Terre. Revue européenne de géopolitique, Les seigneurs de la mer, No. 25/26 : 461-474. Académie européenne de géopolitique, 2010

Selected commissioned work

Svend Aage Christensen, THE MARSHAL'S BATON. There is no bomb, there was no bomb, they were not looking for a bomb. DIIS Report 2009:18. Greenlandic summary: MARSKAL-IP AJAAPPIAA. Qaartartoqanngilaq, qaartartoqarsimanngisaannarpoq, aamma qaartartunik ujaasinngillat. DIIS Report 2010:02.

Afvikling af Grønlands kolonistatus 1945-54 [Phasing out the Colonial Status of Greenland 1945-54, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010], DIIS, 2007. Contributor

Danmark under den kolde krig [Denmark in the Cold War], bd. 1-4, DIIS, 2005. Project coordinator and contributor

Greenland during the cold war. Dansih and American Security Policy 1945-68. Danish Institute of International Affairs, 1997. Project coordinator and contributor

Flådestrategier og nordisk sikkerhedspolitik [Naval Strategies and Nordic Security Policy], bd. 1-2, København, Det Sikkerheds- og Nedrustningspolitiske Udvalg, 1986. Project coordinator and contributor

Selected research related activities

Various contributions to the website of the Parallel History Project of NATO and the Warsaw Pact (PHP). Coordinator of DIIS participation as a partner in PHP

Presentations on Cold War history in American and European fora, e.g. on Danish security policy, intelligence and strategic reconnaissance

Doctoral examiner in Denmark

Member of the Advisory Board of "Defence and Security Studies" published by the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies

Consultant on arms control and arms trade for various Danish agencies and institutions

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