This guest lecture will give students an in-depth understanding of one central notion in international relations and political science disciplines: sovereignty. During the session, students will familiarize with different understandings of sovereignty. We will zoom-in on the evolution of the concept of sovereignty, from the Peace of Westphalia, to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and post-colonial perspectives, touching upon complementary concepts of legitimacy and intervention. The lecture is complemented by interactive exercises and class discussions of the readings.
Guest Lecturer:
Dr. Cornelia Baciu
Department of Political Science, Centre for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen
Wednesday, November 16th, 2022, 18.00 – 20.00
The Lecture is part of the ‘European Union Politics‘ course, MA in European Politics and Society and it is open to all the MA and Ph.D. students enrolled in the SNSPA programs. If you wish to register for the Lecture, fill out this form.
You can access the course materials here.
Bio
Dr. Cornelia Baciu is a Researcher at the Department of Political Science and Centre for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen. She specialised in international security organizations and conflict research. Cornelia Baciu is Deputy Convener of the BISA Foreign Policy Working Group and founding Director of the Research Network ‘European Security and Strategy’.
Prior to joining the University of Copenhagen, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, and DAAD-Postdoctoral Fellow in the program ‘United States, Europe, and World Order’ at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense and Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and a Teaching Fellow at the University of Maynooth. She holds degrees from Dublin City University, University of Konstanz and Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi. Cornelia Baciu conducted extensive field research in conflict zones in South Asia, as well as at NATO and EU headquarters, and at ministries of foreign affairs and defense in several European countries and the US.
Her publications include ‘Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance. Strategy, Hybrid Orders and the Case of Pakistan’ London and New York: Routledge (2021) and a co-edited volume together with John Doyle, ‘Peace, Security and Defence Cooperation in Post-Brexit Europe. Risks and Opportunities’ Cham: Springer International Publishing (2019).
