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Sven
Biscop
Prof. Dr. Sven Biscop was born in 1976. He completed his degree
in political sciences/public administration at Ghent University
(Belgium) by winning the best thesis award for his work on European
security and defence policy. He then gained the Paul-Henri Spaak
PhD scholarship of the Fund for Scientific Research –
Flanders, which he held from 1999 to 2002, when he defended
his dissertation, published as Euro-Mediterranean Security:
A Search for Partnership (Ashgate, 2003).
In 2002, he joined Egmont – the Royal Institute for International
Relations, the think tank associated with Belgian Foreign Affairs,
as a senior research fellow in the newly created Security &
Global Governance Programme, where he focuses on the foreign,
security and defence policy of the European Union.
He is a visiting professor for European security at the College
of Europe in Bruges (since 2007-8) and at Ghent University (2003-7
and from 2008-9 onwards). He also has lectured at the Université
Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Université de Liège
(ULG), and has been a visiting professor at Renmin University
in Beijing and Carleton University in Ottawa.
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He is co-director for Egmont of the Higher Studies in Security
and Defence, a course for security practitioners organized in
collaboration with the Belgian Royal High Institute for Defence,
and represents Egmont in the Executive Academic Board of the EU’s
European Security and Defence College (ESDC). He is also a member
of the Scientific Councils of the Flemish Peace Institute (Brussels)
and the Centre d’Etudes en Sciences Sociales de la Défense
(Paris).
He is editor in chief of Egmont’s journal Studia Diplomatica
and of its Egmont Papers; member of the board of the Flemish United
Nations Association; foreign languages book review editor of the
journal European Foreign Affairs Review; and member of the editorial
boards of the journals Internationale Spectator (Clingendael Institute,
The Hague) and Vrede & Veiligheid and of the yearbook on international
humanitarian law of the Red Cross – Flanders.
His recent research and publications have focused inter alia on
the European Security Strategy, on which he has published The
European Security Strategy – A Global Agenda for Positive
Power (Ashgate, 2005) and The EU and the European Security Strategy
– Forging a Global Europe (Routledge, 2008, co-edited with
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