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Research interests

International politics, international institutions, soft balancing, the EU’s common foreign, security and defence policy (CFSP and CSDP), including the Union’s peace support operations, EU summits (European Council), transatlantic relations, security policy processes.

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Ongoing research projects

• Security policy by committee: Policy making in the EU’s second pillar. Funded by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. Read more here.

• The European Council: Power and Negotiation in the European Union. Together with Associate Professor Jonas Tallberg, Stockholm University. Funded by the Swedish Research Council. Read more here.

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Recent events

2009-05-12: Invited guest speaker, "10 resons why the EU needs a permanent OHQ" at a seminar on Key issues within ESDP during the Swedish EU Presidency, organised by The Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Stockholm.

2009-04-24: Paper presentation, "Security Policy by Committee. The European Council’s Role in Forging a Common Foreign and Security Policy", at the EUSA Eleventh Biennial International Conference, Los Angeles (Marina Del Rey), California, April 23-25, 2009.

2009-04-20: Invited guest lecturer, "The European Council and political leadership in the EU" at Maastricht University.

2009-03-04: Guest lecturer, "EU security and defence policy", undergraduate course "International Politics: Studying World Politics in the 21st Century", Uppsala University.

2009-02-19: Speaker at book launch, "Europaperspektiv", Swedish EU Representation, Brussels.

2009-02-18: Speaker at book launch, "Europaperspektiv", Börshuset, Malmö

2009-02-04: Speaker at book launch, "Europaperspektiv", Norra Latin, Stockholm.

2008-12-05: Invited guest speaker at the TEPSA conference "Priorities and prospects for the European Union," on the occasion of the launching of the Czech Presidency of the European Union, Prague, Czech Republic.

2008-11-20: Invited guest speaker, "EU/NATO – otydliga reaktioner?" at Folk & Försvar’s conference "Krisen i Georgien - Tar säkerhetspolitiken en ny riktning?", Linköping.

2008-11-15: Invited guest speaker, "EU as a global actor," at Centerpartiets Framtidskonvent, Norrköping.

2008-10-23: Guest lecturer, "EU security and defence policy", undergraduate course "International Politics: Studying World Politics in the 21st Century", Uppsala University.

2008-10-21: Invited guest speaker, "Förvalta eller förbättra? Ordförandeskapet och den gemensamma utrikespolitiken" at Europaforskningens dag, arranged by Centre for European Sudies, Lund University.

2008-09-11: Interview, Dagens Nyheter, on the legacy of Anna Lindh five years after the murder.

2008-08-26: Interview, P1 Morgon, on the upcoming extraordinary European Council on the Russian-Georgian conflict.

2008-08-15: Interview P1, Studio Ett, on the European Union’s possibilities to help solve the conflict in Georgia.

2008-05-09: Invited guest speaker, together with Minister for EU Affairs Cecilia Malmström and Minister for Defence Sten Tolgfors, "EU as a credible global actor", Kulturhuset, Stockholm.

2008-05-07: Invited guest lecturer, "EU foreign, security and defence policy", Nordic Battlegroup’s OHQ Staff, Northwood, UK.

2008-04-29: Invited guest lecturer, "The CFSP and transatlantic relations", Swedish National Defence College.

2008-04-11: Invited guest lecturer, "EU foreign, security and defence policy", Nordic Battlegroup’s OHQ Staff, Stockholm.

2008-04-07: Interview in "Riksdag & Departement" on the Swedish government’s new strategy for Swedish participation in peace support operations (läs här).

2008-03-28: Presented paper "The adverse effects of institutionalisation" at the 49th Annual Conventon of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA.

2008-03-14: Interview in the magazine Protec (from FMV) on EU defence policy (läs här).

2008-03-12: Invited guest speaker, "EU i uniform: framväxten av EU som fredsfrämjande aktör", at Lunds Akademiska Officerssällskap, Lund.

2008-03-11: Invited guest lecturer, "EU security and defence policy", undergraduate course "International Politics: Studying World Politics in the 21st Century", Uppsala University.

2008-02-21: Interview, Svenska Freds tidning Pax, om försvarspolitiken i Lissabonfördraget (läs här).

2008-02-11: Invited guest speaker, Militära underrättelse- och säkerhetstjänsten (MUST, Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service).

2008-02-08: Interview, Danish radio P1, on the EU force (EUFOR Tchad/RCA) and the situation in Chad.

2008-01-31: Invited guest speaker, seminar on "Nordic Battlegroup in the service of the EU", arranged by FOI (Swedish Defence Research Agency) (läs mer här).

2008-01-10: Invited guest speaker, "Political leadership and the adverse effects of institutionalisation" at the 4th Young Faces Conference, Lund (läs mer här).

 

Click here for a more extensive list in Swedish (opens in new window).

 

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Articles at Utrikesbloggen.se

2008-03-18: Om den nya nationella strategin för svenskt deltagande i fredsfrämjande operationer (läs här).

2008-02-26: Om ett frågetecken kring regeringens syn på EU:s krishanteringsinsatser (läs här).

2008-02-11: Om vad som (inte) är så speciellt med Nordic Battlegroup (läs här).

2008-02-05: Om EU-styrkan och rebellerna i Tchad (läs här).

2007-12-31: Om det historiska med Sloveniens EU-ordförandeskap (läs här).

2007-11-27: Om det politiska värdet av Nordic Battlegroup (läs här).

2007-10-19: Om Lissabonfördraget och utrikespolitiken (läs här).

2007-10-14: Om den snabba framväxten av EU:s fredsfrämjande operationer (läs här).

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Teaching

No regular teaching during the Spring semester 2009.

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Talks, guest lectures, outreach activities

Have, among others, included the following:

Swedish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee; Prime Minister’s Office; Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs; Swedish Ministry of Defence; Swedish Defence Commission (Swedish Parliament); United Nations Association of Sweden; European Parliament’s office in Sweden; Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST); Swedish Rescue Services Agency (SRV, Karlstad); Swedish Security Police (SÄPO); Folke Bernadotte Academy (Kramfors, Sweden); Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA, Stockholm); Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI); Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS); Forum Europa (education on the EU for civil servants, Swedish Government Offices); VERVA (education on the EU for civil servants, Swedish Government Offices); Society and Defence (Folk och Försvar, Stockholm); DIIS (Copenhagen); Halmstad University College; Humboldt University (Berlin); Kalmar Univeristy College; Karlstad University; Loughborough University (UK); Malmö University College; NUPI (Oslo); SIIA (Stockholm); Skövde University College; Swedish National Defence College (Stockholm); Umeå University; University of Limerick (Ireland); University of Pécs (Hungary); Umeå University; Uppsala University.

 

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Other

Member of the advisory board for Sieps (the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies).

Member of the "Utrikespolitiska samfundet".

Member of the Jury for Sydvenskan’s Europapris.

Member of the editorial board, Defence and Security Studies, Norweigan Institute for Defence Studies.

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Some recent publications

Strömvik, Maria (2009) ’EU i det globala fredsarbetet’ in Framtider, Nr 1, 2009. (Read here)

Strömvik, Maria (2009) ’Strävan till en gemensam utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik’, in Sverker Gustavsson, Lars Oxelheim & Lars Pehrson (eds.) Europaperspektiv 2009: Hur Gemensam är den Europeiska Gemenskapen? Stockholm: Santérus.

Björkdahl, Annika & Maria Strömvik (2008) EU Crisis Management Operations. ESDP bodies and decision-making procedures. DIIS Report 2008:8, Copenhagen: DIIS. (Read here)

Strömvik, Maria (2006) ’Starting to "think big": the Nordic countries and EU peace-building’ in Alyson J. K. Bailes, Gunilla Herolf and Bengt Sundelius (eds) The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Strömvik, Maria (2006) ’Special features of the EU common foreign and security policy’ in (Bulgarian) International Politics, Issue 1, Year III, Winter-Spring 2006.

Strömvik, Maria (2005) ’Suède: une ouverture croissante à l’action internationale’ in Patrice Buffotot (ed.) La Défense en Europe. Avancées et limites. Edition 2005. Paris: La Documentation Française.

Strömvik, Maria (2005) To act as a Union. Explaining the development of the EU’s collective foreign policy. PhD Thesis. Lund: Department of Political Science.

Elgström, Ole & Maria Strömvik (2005) ’The European Union as an international negotiator,’ in Ole Elgström & Christer Jönsson (eds) European Union Negotiations. Processes, networks and institutions. London & New York: Routledge.

Jönsson, Christer & Maria Strömvik (2005) ’Negotiations in networks,’ in Ole Elgström & Christer Jönsson (eds) European Union Negotiations. Processes, networks and institutions. London & New York: Routledge.

 

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