Section: Student Profiles

Toni Haastrup

Name
Toni Haastrup
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Studies
University of Edinburgh
Address
Rm 4.16 Crystal Macmillan Building 15A George Square Edinburgh UK
E-Mail
Research Interests
Security Cooperation,African security,Institutions and institutional change,European Union as a security actor
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/toni_haastrup
Toni Haastrup

Qualifications

  • BA International Relations and Political Science, UC Davis
  • MA International Relations, University of Cape Town

Working Title

Security as Change: EU-Africa Contributions to International Peace

Research Interests

My main research interest is in the role of the European Union in international security relations. My research project investigates the extent to which security cooperation reflects a change in the inter-regional institution of EU-Africa relations, and consequently, the impact of this change on international security. By applying historical institutionalism as an analytical tool to the concept of inter-regionalism, the project examines 2 examples of cooperation on capability building for peace support operations and non-proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons.

Supervisors

Prof. John Peterson, Politics & IR and Dr Rachel Hayman, Sociology and Centre for African Studies

Awards

Andrew Smith Memorial Foundation Scholarship, 2010 

UACES: 'Exchanging Ideas on Europe’, 2010 Scholarship (funded by UACES and EU Commission)

Small Project Grant, University of Edinburgh Development Trust, 2009

Publications 

Haastrup, T. (2009). "A Security Actor in a Changing World?" in Finn Laursen (ed) The EU as a Foreign and Security Policy Actor (Republic of Letters, 384pp)

 Assessment of the Relationship between Chapter 9 Institutions and Civil Society: Final report, (group publication) Jan, 2007. (Commissioned by the Foundation for Human Rights, South Africa).

Conference Papers

How useful is looking inwards for answers to EU external behaviour? 2nd ECPR Graduate Conference, August 2008, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

A Security Actor in a Changing World? The EU in Africa 2nd Annual Research Conference, May 2008, EU Centre of Excellence, Halifax, Canada

Ensuring ‘good governance’: the dilemma of multiple spheres of authority in South Africa, UCT-Emory First Annual Conference, Nov.2006, Atlanta, United States.

Africa, a Bedrock of Terror? Biennial SAAPS Conference, Sep. 2006, University of Western Cape, South Africa

Teaching Experience

Social and Political Theory (2nd year course)

International Political Economy (Honours Course);

International Cooperation in Europe and Beyond (2nd year course)

International Security (Honours course)

Research Group Membership

African Politics, International Politics, European Integration

 

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