Joachim Koops joined the IES as Senior Associate Researcher for European Foreign and Security Policy in January 2010. He is also Assistant Professor of Political Science and Academic Director of the European Peace and Security Studies (EPSS) Programme at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel as well as the founding Director of the Global Governance Institute (GGI). Joachim's research interests include the European Union as an international actor and 'Integrative Power', the theory and practice of (effective) multilateralism and global governance, inter-organizational cooperation and rivalry (with special focus on NATO, the EU, United Nations and African Union) as well as crisis management, peacekeeping and peacebuilding (including the Responsibility to Protect / Rebuild). 

Current research projects include the European Union as a Diplomatic Actor, the EU’s cooperation with NATO and the United Nations, theories of cooperation and rivalry among major international organisations and lessons learned from the UN Peacebuilding Commission and the Standby High Readiness Brigade for United Nations Operations (SHIRBRIG) for UN Peacekeeping.

At the IES, Joachim Koops focuses on EU Diplomacy, Cyber-security and Cyber-governance, the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), effective multilateralism and the European Union as an Inter-organizational Actor.

He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford (UK), an MSc in European Politics, Economics and Law from the University of Turku (Finland), the Postgraduate Diploma in Law/Common Professional Examination in English and European Law from Oxford Brookes University, the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice (LPC) from the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, University of Oxford and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Kiel (Germany).

IES Workshops/Conferences Convened:

'Inter-organizationalism in International Relations: Theories and Cases', international expert workshop (five panels, 22 paper-givers) exploring how, why and to what effect international organizations cooperate in the field of trade, peace & security, human rights and environmental regulation. Institute for European Studies (in cooperation with Vesalius College and the Global Governance Institute), 27-28 January 2012. More information.

IES Policy Forum: (co-organized with Gjovalin Macaj) Recalibrating the European Neighbourhood Policy:Whither EU Diplomacy Towards the EU's 'Southern Mediterranean'? More Information.

IES Spring Lecture Series 2011 (co-organized with Gjovalin Macaj): 
The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor: Policies, Processes and Performance. More information.

IES Spring Lecture Series 2012 (co-organized with Mathias Holvoet and Medlir Mema): 
The International Criminal Court's Second Decade: Quo Vadis? (in cooperation with the Global Governance Institute) More information.

EUIA Conference 2012 - Panel Convenor: 'Assessing European and American approaches to cybergovernance', 5 May 2012, Brussels.

EUIA Conference 2012 - Panel Convenor: 'The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor: Policies, Processes and Performance I + II', 5 May 2012, Brussels (co-organized with Gjovalin Macaj).

Consulting:

November 2008 - July 2009

Lessons Learned Advisor of the Chief of Staff of the Standby High Readiness Brigade for
United Nations Operations (SHIRBRIG), Hovelte, Denmark (Advising the Chief of Staff and the
Permanent Planning Element on the Lessons Learned Process and Evaluation of its 13 years of activities)


April - May 2012

Invited Expert and Evaluator for the Ethics Review Committee of the European Commission,
DG Research & Innovation (7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development).

Forthcoming:

Inter-organizational Relations in the Field of Peace and Security, in Bob Reinalda (Ed.) Routledge Handbook on International Organization, London: Routledge, forthcoming.

'Inter-organizational Approaches', in Knud Erik Jørgensen and Katie V. Laatikainen (eds.) Europe and International Institutions: Performance, Policies, Power, London: Routledge Handbook Series, forthcoming.



Published:

Daniel Fiott, Robert Zuber and Joachim Koops (eds.) (2012) Operationalising the Responsibility to Protect: Contributions to the Third Pillar Approach, Brussels: Madariaga Foundation, Global Governance Institute, Global Action to Prevent War & International Coalition for RtoP. You can download the book for free, here.

'Peace Operations Partnerships: Assessing Cooperation Mechanisms between Secretariats', ZIF Policy Briefing, March 2012, Berlin: Centre for International Peace Operations. Available online at the Website of the Center on International Cooperation,or here.

'Syria: A Responsibility to Protect? The Just Case vs. the Valid Case', Strategic Snapshot No. 5, Group on Grand Strategy, 2012,  available online, here.

'NATO's Influence on the Evolution of the European Union as a Security Actor', in Oriol Costa and Knud Erik Jørgensen (eds.) (2012) The Influence of International Institutions on the European Union, Basingstoke: PalgraveMacMillan.

Inconvenient Multilateralism: The Challenges of the EU as a Player in the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Jan Wetzel (ed.) (2011) The EU as a Global Player in Human Rights, London: Routledge, pp. 71 - 86 (with Gjovalin Macaj). Click here for more information.

Das Ende der Multinationalen UN-Eingreiftruppe (SHIRBRIG): Hintergruende, Lehren und Konsequenzen,
in Vereinte Nationen / German Review of the United Nations, 01/2011.

Unstrategic Partners: NATO and the European Union’, in Werner Kremp and Berthold Meyer (eds.) (2010) Entangling Alliance: 60 Jahre NATO. Geschichte, Gegenwart, Zukunft, Trier: Wissenschaftsverlag. Read it here.

The European Union and NATO: Shrewd Interorganizationalism in the Making?, in Knud Erik Jørgensen (ed.) The European Union and International Organizations, London: Routledge, 2009 (with Johannes Varwick).Browse through it on Google Books.
 

Military Crisis Management: The Challenge of Inter-organizationalism, Special Issue of Studia Diplomatica, 62, (3), Brussels: Egmont – Royal Institute for International Affairs (Editor). Read it here.  

Introduction, in Joachim A. Koops (ed.) Military Crisis Management: The Challenge of Inter-organizationalism, Special Issue of Studia Diplomatica, 62, (3), Brussels: Egmont – Royal Institute for International Affairs, 2009.

Effective Inter-organizationalism? Lessons Learned from the Standby High Readiness Brigade for United Nations Operations (SHIRBRIG), in Joachim A. Koops (ed.) Military Crisis Management: The Challenge of Inter-organizationalism, Special Issue of Studia Diplomatica, 62, (3), Brussels: Egmont – Royal Institute for International Affairs, 2009.

SHIRBRIG Lessons Learned Report, Copenhagen: Danish Ministry of Defence, July 2009 (in cooperation with the SHIRBRIG Planning Element).

Towards Effective and Integrative Inter-organisationalism’, in Kathrin Brockmann, Hans Bastian Hauck and Stuart Reigeluth (eds.) From Conflict to Regional Stability: Linking Security and Development, Berlin: Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik 2008. Read it here.

Ten Years of SHIRBRIG: Lessons Learned, Development Prospects and Strategic Opportunities for Germany, GPPi Research Paper No. 11, Berlin: Global Public Policy Institute, 2008. (with Johannes. Varwick) Read it here.

Norge bør støtte unik FN-Brigade (Norway should support unique UN-Brigade), OCGG Security Recommendation No .7, Oxford: Oxford Council on Good Governance, November 2008, (with Andre Nilsen).

UN SHIRBRIG and EU Battlegroups, OCGG Security Recommendation No.6, Oxford: Oxford Council on Good Governance, December 2007. Read it here. 

Exporting Stability or Importing Instability? The European Union at the Crossroads’, (in Johannes Varwick / Kai-Olaf Lang (eds.) European Neighbourhood Policy: Challenges for the EU Policy towards the New Neighbours, Opladen/Farmington Hills: Budrich Publishers. (with Johannes Varwick) Read it here.

 

Conference Papers/Presentations:

'New Hopes for a Strategic Partnership? Assessing EU-NATO Cooperation in the field of Cyber-Security', paper prepared for the 3rd EU in International Affairs Conference, Brussels, 5 May 2012.

'Air strikes or talking - how to deal with Iran?', The Network, Euronews, 20 March 2012. The recorded show can also be accessed on-line here.

'The Responsibility to Protect: Criteria and Conditions for the Valid and Just Case', Briefing of the Members of the  Committee of Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament, Brussels, 8 March 2012. You can watch a video recording of the presentation here.

'Should we stay or should we go? Britain and the Future of Europe', The Annual Blundell Lecture, delivered at Dartford Grammar School, UK, 29 February 2012.

‘The European Union's Relations with Core International Organizations: The Track-Record So Far', Paper presented at the conference The State of the Union(s): The Eurozone Crisis, Comparative Regional Integration and the EU Model', University of Miami European Centre of Excellence, 24 February 2012.

'Two Lisbons for the Price of One? Assessing EU-NATO Relations in the Wake of the two Reform Processes', paper presented at the workshop EU External Representation and the Reform of International Contexts: Practices after Lisbon, Clingendael Institute, The Hague, 21-22 February 2012.

'Reflections on the European Union's Role in the G8 and G20', presented at the workshop EU External Representation and the Reform of International Contexts: Practices after Lisbon, Clingendael Institute, The Hague, 21-22 February 2012.

Counterinsurgency, Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding: Implications for the United Nations, NATO and African Union, invited speech at the High-Level US-German Counterinsurgency Symposium 'The Future of Counterinsurgency', Washington, 15-17 February 2012.

Inter-organizationalism in International Relations: Towards a Theory-building Research Agenda, Concluding Remarks at the Expert Workshop 'Inter-organizationalism in International Relations: Theories & Cases, Vesalius College, IES and Global Governance Institute, 27-29 January 2012.

Peacebuilding in Libya - Implications for Germany's Foreign and Security Policies, 10. Bensberger Gespraeche der Bundeszentrale fuer Politische Bilding (BpB): Umbruch in Nordafrika: Demokratische Erneuerung und Social Media, Cologne, 23 January 2012.

NATO's Influence on the European Union's Evolution as a Security Actor: Between Isomorphism and Autonomization, Paper presented at the conference 'Transformative Power Europe: Europe From Outside In', Free University of Berlin, 15-17 December 2011.

The Impact of WikiLeaks on the Promotion of Democracy, Good Governance and Media Freedom, paper presented at the Polish EU Presidency Conference 'Freedom of Media in the EU and Neighbouring Countries', 24-25 November 2011, Cracow, Poland.

Inter-organizationalism in Peacekeeping: Assessing Inter-Secretariat Relations, paper presented at the High-Level Workshop  'New Frameworks for Peace Operations Partnerships', co-organized by NYU's Center on International Cooperation (CIC) and the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), 7-8 November 2011, Berlin. 

The European Union's Relations with NATO: History, Core Challenges and Future Prospects, invited visiting lecture at Syracuse University, UK Campus, 1 November 2011.

The European Union and Global Governance: The Inter-organizational Dimension, invited lecture at Richmond University, London, 31 October 2011.

Re-booting the Strategic Partnership? NATO-EU Relations in the Field of Cyber Security, remarks at the expert workshop The European Union in International Institutions: Power, Prestige, Shortcomings, NUPI, Oslo, 27-28 October 2011.

The European Union as an Inter-organizational Actor: Theoretical and Policy-Oriented Aspects, Paper presented at the 'Exchanging Ideas on Europe' 41st Annual Conference of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies, University of Cambridge, 5 - 7 September 2011.

Inter-organizational Cooperation in Peace and Security: Theoretical Rationale and Policy Implications, Keynote Speech at the Workshop 'The EU in the World: Towards Global Partnerships in Peace Operations', Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva, 11th July 2011.

The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission: Lessons Learned and future prospects for EU-UN 'Effective Multilateralism', presented at the Expert Workshop 'Making Multilateralism Effective: The Role of the European Union', 7th July 2011, Berlin.

New Horizons, Persisting Peacekeeping Problems: Lessons Learned from the UN Standby Arrangement System and the Standby High Readiness Brigade for UN Operations (SHIRBRIG), presented at the Expert Workshop, 'New Horizons and Old Problems for UN Peacekeeping', Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Berlin, 7th July 2011.

To Intervene or Not to Intervene? Assessing the 'Responsibility to Protect' in light of Recent Events in Africa and the Greater Middle East, Paper presented at the Conference 'Interventionism in International Relations Today: Between Banalisation and Transgression?', Institute for Sociology, ULB, Brussels, 9th June 2011

Wicked Leaks? Assessing WikiLeaks' Impact on Democracy, Diplomacy and Global Governance, invited presentation at the European Economic and Social Committee (Department for Communication), Brussels, 12 May 2011.

The Politics of Visibility: The EU's CSDP Missions as Public Diplomacy, Lecture delivered in the IES Lecture Series 'The European Union as a Diplomatic Actor: Policies, Processes and Performance', Institute for European Studies, VUB, 15 March 2011.

The European Union as an Inter-organizational Actor: Doing More Harm than Good?, presented at the Workshop “Effective Multilateralism? The European Union and International Institutions’, Loughborough, 13-14 January 2011.

The European Union and Global Security: An Inter-organizational Approach, Expert Workshop “Europe in Global Governance: Performance, Reform, Power”, Rapallo (Italy), 28.10-01.11. 2010

Inter-organizational Relations in the Field of Peace and Security: A Theoretical Analysis, SGIR Annual Conference, Stockholm, 9 – 11 September 2010.
 
The European Union’s Military Crisis Management Operations: An Inter-organizational Analysis, UACES Conference, Exchanging Ideas on Europe: Europe at the Crossroads, Bruges, 6 – 8 September 2010.
 
EU-UN Effective Multilateralism in the Field of Peace and Security: Potentials, Achievements and Lost Opportunities, invited Lecture at the Seminar 'Scope and Conditions for Effective Multilateralism: When and Why do the EU and UN Work Together?', European Foreign And Security Policy Studies Programme, Brussels, 25th June 2010.
 
Germany’s Role in Contemporary International Security Affairs, Invited Lecture for the Belgian High Security & Defence Studies Seminar 2010, Royal High Institute for Defence, 18th June 2010.

The EU-NATO Relationship: Whither, Whence and does it Still Make Sense?, Invited Lecture at the Hanse Office, Brussels, 2nd June 2010.

NATO’s Influence on the EU’s Evolution as an International Security Actor, Paper presented at the Workshop ‘The Influence of International Institutions on the European Union’, Institut D’Estudis Internactionales Barcelona, 5th - 6th May 2010.

The European Union’s Military Crisis Management Operations: An Inter-organizational Analysis, Paper Presented at the 2nd GARNET Conference, ‘The EU in International Affairs’, Brussels, 22th – 24th April 2010.

Training Foreign Troops: Lessons Learned from SHIRBRIG’s African Capacity-Building Scheme, paper presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, 17 – 20 February 2010, New Orleans.

Effective Multilateralism in the Fields of Human Rights? The EU’s Performance at the United Nations Human Rights Council, paper presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, 17 – 20 February 2010, New Orleans (with Gjovalin Macaj).

The Paradox of Unity: Adverse Effects of the EU’s ‘One Voice’ Approach at the United Nations Human Rights Council’, paper presented at the Conference The EU as a Global Player in the Field of Human Rights, Lincoln Law School, UK, 6 November 2009 (with Gjovalin Macaj).

Military Crisis Management in Africa: The Challenge of Effective Inter-organizationalism, paper presented at the Symposium U.S, EU, and China in African Crisis Management and Peace Operations: Competition or Collaboration?, Helsinki, 1 October 2009

Evaluating and Assessing SHIRBRIG’s Contribution to UN Peacekeeping and African Capacity-Building, Presentation at the Lessons Learned Workshop, 5th May 2009, SHIRBRIG Permanent Planning Element, Høvelte, Denmark.

EU, NATO and UN: Cooperation and the Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Management”, Panel I: Scenarios and Strategic Options for a European Security Architecture, DGAP Annual Conference: Anticipating the Future: Scenarios and Strategic Options for a New Global Order, Berlin 21st-23rd November 2008 (panelist)

Whither SHIRBRIG? Implications of the Nordic Countries’ Withdrawal from the Standby High Readiness Brigade for UN Operations.’ Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Danish United Nations Association, Copenhagen, 25th October 2008.

Overcoming the Institutional Challenges behind the Security-Development Nexus? Towards Effective and Integrative Interorganisationalism’, Paper presented at the 10th New Faces Conference From Conflict to Regional Stability – Linking Security and Development, 5th-7th November, Madrid.

Effective Multilateralism and the 'European Union as an Integrative Power': Strengthening the EU's International Actorness through NATO-EU-UN Inter-Organisationalism?, paper prepared for the Sixth Pan-European International Relations Conference, Turin, September 2007

Effective Multilateralism: The Future of the EU's External Identity in a System of Trilateral Security Governance, paper presented at the Conference 'New Europe 2020: Visions and Strategies for a Wider Europe', Turku, Finland, 27th August 2004, read it here


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