The President of ISMS 2024, Professor Kjell Engelbrekt, Swedish Defence University


 

 Kjell Engelbrekt is Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University, Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Lifetime Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. He has been a visiting scholar at the European University Institute, the Humboldt-Universität, Columbia University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, and between 2016 and 2021 he held a visiting professorship at Stockholm University. Engelbrekt has published in journals such as European Foreign Affairs Review, European Law Journal, The European Legacy, Ethnopolitics, Global Affairs, Global Governance, Global Policy och International Politics. Recent books are: High Table Diplomacy: The Reshaping of International Security Institutions (Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2016) and Bulgarian Democratic Institutions at Thirty: A Balance Sheet (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020), coedited with Petia Kostadinova. He is also a coauthor of Digital Media and the Dynamics of Civil Society: Retooling Citizenship in the New EU Democracies (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), published 2021.

 

 

Contact information (current president)

Swedish Defence University
Department of Political Science and Law
Political Science Division
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For routine enquiries, please contact the Secretary, Dr. David Last, at last-d@rmc.ca

For continuity, the Secretary will normally include the past and future presidents on any significant correspondence. The transition between presidencies occurs at the conclusion of the annual conference. 

Past Presidencies and Presidents

2022-2023 Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen - Professor Niels Bo Poulsen

2021-2022: Military University Institute, Lisbon - Commodore João Paulo Ramalho Marreiros

2020-2021: Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston - Dr. H.J.(Harry) Kowal

2019-2020: Finnish National Defence University, Helsinki - Professor Hannu Kari

2018-2019: Austrian National Defence College, Vienna - Brigader General Dr. Wolfgang Peischel

2017-2018:  War Studies University, Warsaw - Professor Ryszard Szpyra

2016-2017: Norwegian Defence University College, Norway - LtCol. Dr. Anders McD Sookermany

2015-2016: War Studies University, Poland - Professor Ryszard Szpyra

2014-2015: Finnish National Defence University, Finland - Professor Dr. Hannu H. Kari

2013-2014: Austrian National Defence College, Vienna - Brigader General Dr. Walter Feichtinger

2012-2013: Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen - Dr. Niels Bo Poulsen

2011-2012: Royal Military College of Canada Kingston, Ontario -  Professor Houchang Hassan-Yari

2010-2011: Baltic Defence College - Professor James Corum

2009-2010: Swedish National Defence College - Professor Dr. Maja Kirilova-Eriksson

2008-2009: Netherlands Defence Academy - Professor Alexander Bon 

Future Presidencies

2023-2024: Swedish Defence Univeristy, Stockholm,