Christofer Berglund
Associate Professor/Senior lecturer

Presentation

Christofer Berglund is Associate Professor of Political Science. His research focuses on ethnic conflict, security studies, and competitive authoritarianism, 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. While at the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Berglund served as principal investigator for the project "Conscription as Political Socialization in Divided Societies? Evidence from post-Soviet Estonia and post-independence Finland" [CoDS].

At present, he leads the Formas-funded project "Planning for Integration: Landscapes of Power in Borderland Governance" [InBorder], which examines how transborder minorities are integrated into their respective host states — Estonia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.

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 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.