Dr Gunilla Herolf
Citizenship: Sweden
Position at SIPRI: Senior Researcher
Subject expertise: European integration, European security cooperation, including the CSDP and NATO, with focus on France, Germany and the UK, Nordic security policy, transatlantic relations, the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP).
Regional expertise:
Europe, the United States
Languages: Swedish, English, German and French
Education:
PhD, Stockholm University, BA, Stockholm University.
Contact: herolf[@]sipri.org Phone: +46 9 655 97 62
Dr Gunilla Herolf is Senior Researcher within the Euro-Atlantic Security Programme at SIPRI. She joined SIPRI in 2007. Her main fields of work are European integration, European security cooperation with an emphasis on the CSDP, NATO, France, Germany and the UK, Nordic security, transatlantic relations and European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP). Many of her projects have been pursued within the framework of the Trans European Policy Association (TEPSA) of which she is a board member. She has for several years been teaching European integration and security at Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Read Dr. Herolf's biography with complete list of publications, here.
Current activities
- The Dynamics of Change in the Arab World, Globalization and the Re-Structuring of State Power, Coordinator, Cooperation project between Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA). Financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and Compagnia di San Paolo.
- The Defence of a Small State, Coordinator, The Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, since 2007.
- MERCURY, Multilateralism & the EU in the Contemporary Global Order, Member of Steering Group. The project is financed by the 7th Framework of the European Commission, since Feb. 2009.
Former positions
- Senior Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA), heading the European security programme.
- Research Assistant at SIPRI, projects on European security and on conventional military technology.
Professional affiliations
- Member of the Governing Board of the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences (Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademien), Chairman, Dept. VI, National Security.
- Member of the Swedish Society for International Affairs (Utrikespolitiska Samfundet)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)
- Member of the Faculty Board of the Department of Security and Strategic Studies, Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm.
Recent publications
- "Schweden und die Ratspräsidentschaft – ehrlicher Makler mit eigenen Interessen”, Integration, Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), Berlin, no. 2/2010.
- G Herolf, “Establishing the Knowledge Base of a Smart Power: A Blue Print for an EU Institute of Peace”, Standard Briefing, Directorate-General for External Policies, Policy Department, European Parliament, EXPO/B/AFET/FWC//2009-01/ LOT6/06, PE 433.825, April 2010.
- "ENP and External/Internal Security: A Growing and Complex Sphere of Cooperation", in U. Diedrichs, A. Faber, F. Tekin and G. Umbach (eds) Europe Reloaded: Differentiation or Fusion, Book project in cooperation with the Institute of European Politics (IEP, Berlin) in honour of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels, NOMOS, forthcoming.
- C Ekberg, G Herolf och L Vindevåg, “Svenska myndigheter och Security Sector Reform (SSR)”, Kungliga Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar och Tidskrift, Nr 1 2010.
- Swedish Perceptions” in S Aksit, Ö Senyuva and C Üstün (eds), Turkey Watch – EU Member States’ Perceptions on Turkey’s Accession to the EU, Strengthening and Integrating Academic Networks (SINAN) , Center for European Studies (CES) at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, available here. Printed version forthcoming.
- "Sweden" in EU-27 Watch, No. 8, EU-CONSENT, T. Leppik-Bork (coordination and editing), Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP), www. iep-berlin.de and www.eu-consent.net, March 2009.
- "Coming Tests for Transatlantic Security Relations", SIPRI Update, February 2009.
- "National Perceptions on EU Membership – Sweden” in C Franck (ed.) Nine among Twenty-Seven, European Policy of Medium-Size EU Member States, Comparison and Assessment, Diplomatische Akademie Wien, Organisation internationale de la francophonie, Favorita papers 02/2008
- "Sweden" in EU-27 Watch, No.7, EU-CONSENT, B Lippert and T Leppik-Bork (coordnation and editing), Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP),www.iep-berlin.de and www.eu-consent.net, September 2008
- J-Y Haine, G Herolf and Z Lachowski, "Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions and Relationships" in SIPRI Yearbook 2008, Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, Oxford University Press, 2008
- G Gya and G Herolf(eds) "EU Surveying the EU - The Future of Europe", Summary of EU-27 Watch, EU-CONSENT Issue 6, 2008, European Security Review , ISIS-Europe No.38, 2008
- R Bengtsson and G Herolf, "Sweden" in EU-27 Watch, No.6, EU-CONSENT, B Lippert and T Leppik-Bork (coordination and editing), Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP),www.iep-berlin.de and www.eu-consent.net. March 2008
- "National and Supranational Actors in European Foreign Policy" in K Y Nikolov (ed.), Adapting to Integration in an Enlarged European Union, Bulgarian European Community Studies Association (BECSA), ISBN 954-9543-08-X, 2008
- "Values, Interests and Geopolitical Realities: What Matters in Euro-Atlantic Security Policy?" in J Hedenskog and V Lavrenyuk (eds), Comparing the Baltic and Black Sea Regions: Regional Security, Energy Security and Euro-Atlantic Integration, Proceedings of a conference in Kyiv 24 April 2007, FOI and CIRS, Base Data Report, June 2007.
- "Overcoming National Impediments to ESDP", in K Brummer (ed.), The North and the ESDP, The Baltic States, Denmark, Finland and Sweden, BertelsmannStiftung, 2007
- "European Partners' Perspective on the German Presidency 2007 " Sweden", M Overhaus, H W Maull and S Haranisch (eds), Foreign Policy in Dialogue, A quarterly publication on German and European Foreign Policy, University of Trier, February 2007.
- "A New Policy for Sweden?" Europe's World, spring 2007.
- AJK Bailes, G Herolf and B Sundelius (eds), The Nordic Countries and the European Security and Defence Policy, published for SIPRI, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- G Herolf and E Lunell, "Iran och EUs kärntrio " för vem agerar den?" [Iran and the EU Core Group " For Whom Does It Act?], Internationella Studier, no. 4, 2006
- "The EU as a Global Actor" in B Huldt, M Kerttunen, J Mörtberg and Y Ericsson, Y. (eds) European Security and Defence Policy, Strategic Yearbook 2006, Swedish National Defence College, 2006.
- "Sweden" in EU-27 Watch, No. 9, edited by the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP),www.eu-27Watch.org, July 2010.
