Associated researchers
Professor Bengt Sundelius conducts research and teaches in a variety of scientific subjects, such as security policy, crisis management, small states in world politics, European cooperation, and international cooperation. He is the Founding Director of CRISMART as well as Professor of Government at Uppsala University and currently on leave as Research Director at the Swedish Emergency Management Agency. He was previously the Head of the Institution for Security Policy and Strategy at the Swedish National Defence Research Institute. Furthermore he is responsible for the international Security policy research program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
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.
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.
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.
