Associated researchers

Fredrik Bynander was scientific coordinator at Crismart between 2004-2007, and acting director in the spring of 2007. He is now a research fellow with the department of government at Uppsala university and has retained a role as researcher and lecturer with Crismart on a part-time basis. Since February of 2009, Bynander is a Special Advisor with the Swedish Prime Minister's Office. He defended his doctoral dissertation in 2003 at the Department of Government, Uppsala University: The Rise and Fall of the Submarine Threat: Threat Politics and Submarine Intrusions in Sweden 1980-2002. His latest publications include texts on party leadership change, civil-military relations, and the security policies of Poland and the Czech Republic.

Paul 't Hart is senior research fellow at the Political Science Program of the Australian National University and professor of public administration at the Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, Netherlands. Whilst at Leiden University from 1987-2004, he was one of the founders of the its Crisis Research Center, which provided a model for CRISMART's subsequent development. He was adjunct professor at the Swedish Defence College, located at CRISMART from 2002-2005, running a regular research training seminar for its junior members and collaborating on various CRISMART projects. He co-authored, with Eric Stern, Bengt Sundelius and Arjen Boin the Cambridge UP book The Politics of Crisis Management: Public Leadership Under Pressure (2005). He acts as PhD supervisor to several CRISMART researchers. Having moved to Australia he retains an interest in crisis management research, and is currently finishing a co-edited volume called Crisis and After: The Politics of Investigation, Accountability and Learning.

Bertjan Verbeek is Professor of International Relations at Radboud University Nijmegen. He studied political science at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and international relations at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University at Bologna, Italy. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He previously taught political science at John Cabot University, Rome, Italy, and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He taught International Relations at the Department of Law, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and has published on the comparative analysis of foreign policy, crisis decision making, the European policy process, and international organizations.

Lisa Ekevärn is currently employed at the Swedish Government Offices. She has studied political science with a concentration in international and comparative politics at Uppsala University. Since receiving her Bachelor’s degree in 2002, she has been enrolled in the Doctoral program at Uppsala University’s Department of Political Science. Her dissertation is focused on institutional design and national crisis management systems. Lisa’s political science research has been complemented with courses in, inter alia, French and rhetoric. Beyond her research and analyst work, Lisa has participated in CRISMARTs education and training activities and teaches methodology at the Department of Political Science in Uppsala. Her research interests include international crisis management, national level crisis management, symbolic crisis management, French foreign policy, and methodology.  

Annika Brändström holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Stockholm University. She has written about the crisis management of the discovery of minks in the submarine defense in 1994,  Minkar eller ubåtar i den svenska ubåtsjakten, 2000, and the crash of the fighter aircraft JAS in Stockholm 1993, Coping with a Credibility Crisis: The Stockholm JAS Fighter Plane Crash, 2001. Another of her research interests is the development and consequences of politicization processes in crises. Annika is currently engaged in Ph. D studies at Utrecht University, while also working at the Swedish Government Offices.

Thomas Preston is a professor of international relations at Washington State University specializing in security policy, foreign affairs, and political psychology. He is also currently a Faculty Research Associate at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, New York as well as at CRISMART. He is the author of The President and His Inner Circle:  Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Affairs (Columbia University Press, 2001), 'From Lambs to Lions':  Future Security Relationships in a World of Biological and Nuclear Weapons (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007/2009), co-author of Introduction to Political Psychology (Erlbaum, 2004/2009), and has written numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters on leadership, international security, the use of active-learning simulations in the classroom, and foreign policy analysis.  His current research involves a number of projects on nuclear/biological weapons proliferation, the affect of expertise on political leaders, and bioterrorism.  He frequently serves as a consultant for various U.S. governmental departments and agencies.