Christofer Berglund
Associate Professor/Senior lecturer

Presentation

Christofer Berglund (Docent) conducts research in the subfields of comparative politics and international relations with a thematic focus on: ethnic conflicts; strategic studies; and competitive authoritarianism. He specializes in 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.

He is principal investigator for the Formas-funded project "Planning for Integration: Landscapes of Power in Borderland Governance" [InBorder], which compares the mechanisms through which transborder minorities are integrated into their respective host states, Estonia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Berglund is also tied to the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University. From there, he leads a project funded by Östersjöstiftelsen: "Conscription as Political Socialization in Divided Societies? Evidence from post-Soviet Estonia and post-independence Finland" [CoDS].

His most recent articles are published in Problems of Post-Communism, Journal of Political and Military Sociology and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. He has also contributed chapters to several books, 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 earlier been a Fulbright scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, as well as a visiting scholar at numerous research institutes, among them the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies (GFSIS) in Tbilisi and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo.