Robert Egnell

Background

About Robert Egnell

Professor of Leadership and Vice-Chancellor of the Swedish Defence University. Also a senior fellow with the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. Previous appointments include working as a senior researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Institute (FOI) where I focused his research on African Security, peace support operations and civil-military relations. Until June 2007 I was an assistant lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where I taught International Relations, conflict management and political science. I received my doctorate in War Studies from King’s College, London in 2008 and also have an MA in War Studies from King’s College, an MA in Literature from Uppsala University and a BSc in Political Science from Stockholm University. My research focuses on the conduct and effectiveness of peace support operations, state-building and different aspects of civil-military relations. Among recent publications are ’Complex peace operations and civil-military relations: Winning the peace’, published by Routledge in 2009. Other recent publications have covered international state-building, counter-insurgency strategy, Security Sector Reform and comprehensive approaches to operations.