Christofer Berglund
Associate Professor/Senior lecturer

Presentation

Christofer Berglund is Associate Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on ethnic conflict, security studies, and democratization, with a regional emphasis on post-Soviet Eurasia.

In his PhD, Berglund examined the efforts of the Georgian government following the Rose Revolution to integrate two ethnic borderlands. He has worked as an analyst for the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), as a SYLFF postdoc at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, and as researcher at the Department of Security Studies, Charles University. At the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, he served as principal investigator for the project "Conscription as Political Socialization in Divided Societies? Evidence from post-Soviet Estonia and post-independence Finland" [CODS].

He currently leads two research projects: "Planning for Integration: Landscapes of Power in Borderland Governance" [INBORDER] with funding from Formas and "Fighting for Rights: Ukraine's Rainbow Soldiers and the Politics of Citizenship" [INSIST] with funding from the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies.

His recent articles are published in Central Asian Survey, Armed Forces and Society, Post-Soviet Affairs and Problems of Post-Communism. He has also contributed chapters to several edited volumes, and written for Foreign Policy and Jane's Intelligence Review.

Berglund is associated with the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn. He has previously been a Fulbright scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, and a visiting scholar at multiple research institutes, including the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS) in Tbilisi and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo.