The Higher Research Seminar: ‘Democracy, Autocracy, and International Cooperation’ – Jonas Tallberg, Stockholm University

Wednesdays 13.15 to 14.30 in Eden 367, unless otherwise indicated. 

Chair: Professor Jonathan Polk

The Department’s Higher Research Seminar Series | Department of Political Science

Jonas Tallberg | Stockholm University

Jonas Tallberg is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, where he coordinates the research group on global and regional governance, selected as a leading area of research at SU. His primary research interests are global governance and European Union politics. He currently directs the research program Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov), funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond; the research project The Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence, funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, and the research project Democracy, Autocracy, and International Cooperation, funded by the Swedish Research Council.

Tallberg’s book publications include Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance (Oxford University Press, forthcoming, co-authored), Legitimacy Politics: Elite Communication and Public Opinion in Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, co-authored), Legitimacy in Global Governance: Sources, Processes, and Consequences (Oxford University Press, 2018, co-edited), The Opening Up of International Organizations: Transnational Access in Global Governance (Cambridge University Press, 2013, co-authored), Leadership and Negotiation in the European Union (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and European Governance and Supranational Institutions (Routledge, 2003).

His articles have appeared in journals such as American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, British Journal of Political Science, Review of International Organizations, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, and West European Politics. He currently serves on the editorial boards of International Organization, European Political Science Review, West European Politics, and Political Research Exchange.

Tallberg has won numerous awards for his research, including the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the German Humboldt Foundation in 2012, the JCMS Prize for the best articles in Journal of Common Market Studies in 2000 and 2004, and the Forskraft Award for the best Swedish dissertation on international relations 1998-2003. He has been awarded research grants from, among others, the European Research Council, the Fulbright Commission, the Swedish Research Council, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, and the Nordic Research Academy.

Tallberg has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, Stanford University, McGill University, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, Centre for Advanced Study in Oslo, and the European Commission. From 2009 to 2011, he chaired the Democratic Audit of the Centre for Business and Policy Studies (SNS Demokratiråd), and from 2009 to 2015, he served on the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). In 2019, Tallberg was elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities.