

Maria Strömvik is the director of the Centre for European Studies at Lund University (CFE), where she works to encourage cross-departmental and cross-faculty research and discussions on EU and Europe-related issues in various ways. She is also the editor of the blog Europakommentaren, where researchers from Swedish universities write about EU and Europe-related issues.
Maria has a background in several research fields related to politics and decision-making in international organizations, especially within the EU. Among other things, she has studied the forces behind the emergence and growth of the Union's foreign, security and defence policy, the EU's security-policy relations with the USA and NATO, and the Union's peace support operations. Maria currently also has a particular interest in the EU's effects on Swedish democracy and societal knowledge about the EU.
The lion's part of Maria's teaching and supervision takes place within the framework of the Master of European Affairs program.
For several periods, Maria has worked or had assignments outside the university. She worked for many years at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs on issues related to the EU's foreign, security and defence policy and the Lisbon Treaty. She has also been the Swedish government's investigator on Swedish society's participation in the EU and wrote the report EU på hemmaplan (SOU 2016:10).
Maria is also a board member of the Swedish Network for European Studies in Political Science and the Centre for Öresund Region Studies at Lund University. She has previously been a member of the Folke Bernadotte Academy's Advisory Board, the Sieps Advisory Board, and Carl Bildt's Strategic Council.
Publications
Displaying of publications. Sorted by year, then title.
Kunskap och demokrati i EU-kommuner
Maria Strömvik
(2018) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 120 p.13-39
Journal articleKommunen i EU
(2018) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 120 p.5-163
Editor for a journalInledning: Kommunen i EU
Stig Montin, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren, Maria Strömvik
(2018) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 120 p.5-12
Journal articleTaggtråden under Kastrup : Öresund i slagfältet mellan dansk, svensk och europeisk tid
Maria Strömvik
(2018) Det gränslösa samtalet : Vänbok till Magnus Jerneck , p.79-94
Book chapterEU på hemmaplan : Betänkande av Utredningen om delaktighet i EU
Maria Strömvik
(2016) Statens offentliga utredningar
ReportEU Crisis Management Operations. ESDP bodies and decision-making procedures.
Annika Björkdahl, Maria Strömvik
(2008) DIIS Report
ReportSlovenien blir historiskt som ordförande för EU
Maria Strömvik
(2007) Utrikesbloggen.se
Newspaper articleStarting to "think big": the Nordic countries and EU peace-building
Maria Strömvik
(2006) The Nordic Countries and The European Security and Defence Poicy , p.199-214
Book chapterSpecial features of the EU common foreign and security policy
Maria Strömvik
(2006) (Bulgarian) International Politics, 3
Journal articleSuède: une ouverture croissante à l’action internationale
Maria Strömvik
(2005) La Défense en Europe. Avancées et limites. , p.173-180
Book chapterTo act as a Union : Explaining the development of the EU's collective foreign policy
Maria Strömvik
(2005) Lund Political Studies
DissertationThe European Union as an Actor in International Negotiations
Ole Elgström, Maria Strömvik
(2005) European Union Negotiations
Book chapterNegotiations in networks
Christer Jönsson, Maria Strömvik
(2005) European Union Negotiations. Processes, networks and institutions. , p.13-28
Book chapterBalancing global influence: the "transatlantic conflict syndrome" and the CFSP
Maria Strömvik
(2005)
Conference paperEU - En ovanlig utmanare i världspolitiken
Maria Strömvik
(2002) Konkurrens på tre nivåer (Europaperspektiv ; 2002)
Book chapterSverige och EU:s utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik: Från aktivism till kollektivism
Maria Strömvik
(2002) Sverige i EU : dilemman, institutioner, politikområden (2., omarb. uppl.)
Book chapterDen gemensamma utrikes- och säkerhetspolitiken - Sverige i världspolitikens strålkastarljus
Rikard Bengtsson, Maria Strömvik
(2001) När Europa kom till Sverige : ordförandeskapet i EU 2001
Book chapterGlobalisering och regional integration: EU som reaktion eller drivkraft?
Maria Strömvik
(2001) Politik i globaliseringens tid
Book chapterTo Analyse a Moving Target. Explaining the Development of the European Union’s Collective Foreign Policy
Maria Strömvik
(2001)
Conference paperTo Analyse a Moving Target. Explaining the Development of the European Union’s Collective Foreign Policy
Maria Strömvik
(2001)
Conference paperDo Numbers Matter? The EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Dynamic Effects of Enlargement
Maria Strömvik
(2000) CFE Working Paper Series ; 5
Working paper’Svensk utrikespolitik efter EU-medlemskapet: om krumbuktande, neutralitetsvurmande och halvkvädna visor
Maria Strömvik
(2000) Politologen
Journal articleEU-Central American Relations at the Threshold of the New Millennium
Maria Strömvik, Caroline Boussard
(1999)
Conference paperDo Numbers Matter? The CFSP and the Dynamic Effects of Enlargement
Maria Strömvik
(1999)
Conference paperThe EU as a Unique Foreign Policy Actor. The case of EU–Central American Relations
Maria Strömvik, Caroline Boussard
(1999)
Conference paperSverige och EU:s utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik: ett intensivt men hemligt förhållande?
Maria Strömvik
(1999) Sverige i EU , p.248-265
Book chapterDo Numbers Matter? The CFSP and the Dynamic Effects of Enlargement
Maria Strömvik
(1999)
Conference paperNegotiations in Networks in the European Union
Christer Jönsson, Bo Bjurulf, Ole Elgström, Anders Sannerstedt, Maria Strömvik
(1998) International Negotiation, 3 p.319-344
Journal articleFifteen Votes and One Voice? The CFSP and Changing Voting Alignments in the UN
Maria Strömvik
(1998) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 101 p.181-196
Journal article
The EU Commission's consultations with stakeholders
How well does the EU Commission fulfil the requirement to consult stakeholders when adopting delegated acts? And which DG's are better than others? Click the heading to read the report.