Growing Pains in the Defence and Security Research Unit at DIISFabrizio Tassinari and Rens van Munster join the research unit for Security and DefenceFabrizio Tassinari and Rens van Munster have recently joined the research unit for Defence and Security (DaS) at DIIS as senior researchers, bringing the number of senior researchers up to 5 and adding new and exciting areas of expertise to the unit. Fabrizio Tassinari was previously Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Fabrizio remains also associate Fellow at the influential Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels and a non-Resident Fellow at the Centre for Transatlantic Relations of John Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, DC. He is the author of Why Europe Fears its Neighbors, forthcoming with Praeger in the autumn of 2009. His research interests are European integration and European security, in particular the politics of the wider European neighborhood, EU and US relations, relations with Russia and Turkey and EU and NATO enlargements. Rens van Munster joins DIIS from the University of Southern Denmark, where Rens was Associate Professor of International Relations. He has held a Marie Curie fellowship at the prestigious department of International Relations at University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of Immigration, Security and the Politics of Risk in the EU, forthcoming with Palgrave in the autumn of 2009. His research interests falls broadly within the discipline of security studies and focuses on the understanding of security in modern liberal societies in particular with regard to immigration and catastrophic risks. At DIIS Fabrizio and Rens will be working with the two interrelated research programmes and related seminar series in the Defence and Security unit, related to questions about Liberalism and World Order and dealing with “Wicked Problems” as security challenges of the 21st century. |
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