Dr Lisbeth Aggestam
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
1 West North 2.16
Email: l.b.aggestam@bath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 3402
PhD supervision
Dr Aggestam is currently supervising three PhD students and welcomes PhD applications on related research interests.
Sabbatical Leave
Dr Aggestam will be on sabbatical leave from 1 February until 31 July 2013.
Profile
Dr Lisbeth Aggestam has been a lecturer in the Department of PoLIS since September 2010. She holds a PhD from Stockholm University, Sweden, where she also taught Political Science and International Relations. Before coming to Bath, Dr Aggestam worked as a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge between 2006-08.
She has published widely on national and European foreign policy, and more broadly on European security. Her post-doctoral research focused on Europe as a global power from ethical perspectives and was funded by the Swedish Research Council. She was the editor of a special issue of International Affairs (84) in 2008, which critically examined the idea of ‘Ethical Power Europe’. Her forthcoming research monograph, European Foreign Policy and the Quest for a Global Role: Britain, France and Germany, will be published by Routledge (2012).
Research interests
Dr Aggestam’s research interests include:
- Europeanization of national foreign policy
- Europe as a global power
- Security and identity in Europe
- Role theory analysis
- Ethics in International Relations theory
Lisbeth Aggestam was one of the first academics to be awarded sabbatical leave under a new scheme organised by the Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR), enabling her to work on a new project entitled :
"The Online Diplomat: The transformation of diplomacy in the digital age."
The project will examine the impact of new social communication technologies, such as Twitter and Blogs, on diplomatic practice and foreign policy. The research is inter-disciplinary and involves close cooperation with two other colleagues at the University of Bath: Dr Leon Watts (Computer Science) and Dr Jon Raelin (Management).
Teaching
Undergraduate
Publications
Book/s
Aggestam, L., 2012. Forthcoming. European foreign policy and the quest for a global role: Britain, France and Germany. London: Routledge.
Aggestam, L., 2004. A European Foreign Policy? Role Conceptions and the Politics of Identity in Britain, France and Germany. Vol. 106. Edsbruk: Akademitryck. (Stockholm Studies in Politics)
Aggestam, L., Engelbrekt, K., Wagnsson, L. and Winnerstig, M., 2000. Europeisk säkerhetspolitik (European Security Policy). Lund: Studentlitteratur.
Aggestam, L. and Hyde-Price, A., eds., 2000. Security and Identity in Europe: Exploring the New Agenda. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Book Sections
Aggestam, L., 2013. Global norms and European power. In: Jørgensen, K. E. and Laatikainen, K. V., eds. Routledge handbook on the European Union and international institutions: performance, policy, power. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 457-471.
Aggestam, L., 2012. New actors, new foreign policy: EU and enlargement. In: Smith, S., Hadfield, A. and Dunne, T., eds. Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases.2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 463-484.
Aggestam, L., 2009. The world in our mind: normative power in a multi-polar world. In: Gerrits, A., ed. Normative power Europe in a changing world: a discussion. The Hague, Netherlands: Netherlands Institute of International Relations "Clingendael", pp. 25-36. (Clingendael European paper; 5)
Aggestam, L., 2006. Role theory and European foreign policy: A framework of analysis. In: Elgström, O. and Smith, M., eds. The European Union's Roles in International Politics: Concepts and Analysis. London: Routledge, pp. 11-29.
Aggestam, L., 2004. Role-identity and the Europeanisation of foreign policy: a political-cultural approach. In: Tonra, B. and Christiansen, T., eds. Rethinking European Foreign Policy. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 81-98.
Aggestam, L., 2001. An end to neutrality? Continuity and change in Swedish foreign policy. In: Niblett, R. and Wallace, W., eds. Rethinking European Order: West European Responses, 1989-97. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 182-206.
Aggestam, L., 2000. A common foreign and security policy? Role conceptions and the politics of identity in the EU. In: Aggestam, L. and Hyde-Price, A., eds. Security and Identity in Europe: Exploring the New Agenda. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 86-115.
Aggestam, L. and Hyde-Price, A., 2000. Conclusion: Exploring the new agenda. In: Aggestam, L. and Hyde-Price, A., eds. Security and Identity in Europe: Exploring the New Agenda. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 234-258.
Aggestam, L., 2000. Europe puissance: French influence and European independence. In: Redefining Security? The Role of the European Union in European Security Structures. University of Oslo. (ARENA Research Report, No. 7)
Aggestam, L., 2000. Germany. In: Manners, I. and Whitman, R. G., eds. The Foreign Policies of EU Member States. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 64-86.
Aggestam, L. and Hyde-Price, A., 2000. Introduction. In: Aggestam, L. and Hyde-Price, A., eds. Security and Identity in Europe: Exploring the New Agenda. Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 1-21.
Articles
Aggestam, L., 2008. Introduction: ethical power Europe? International Affairs, 84 (1), pp. 1-11.
Aggestam, L. and Hill, C., 2008. The challenge of multiculturalism in European foreign policy. International Affairs, 84 (1), pp. 97-114.
Aggestam, L., 2007. The European Internationalist: Sweden and European security cooperation. Nação e Defesa (Journal of the Portugese National Defence Institute), 118, pp. 203-218.
Aggestam, L., 2006. Brännpunkt Ukraina (Focal point Ukraine). Internationella Studier, Journal of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, 1.
Aggestam, L., 2006. What role for the EU in security and defence? British, French and German views of the ESDP. SIIA Papers (Swedish Institute of International Affairs), 1.
Aggestam, L., 2005. Etik och utrikespolitik (Ethics and foreign policy). Internationella Studier, Journal of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, 4.
Reports/Papers
Aggestam, L., Edwards, G., Hill, C. and Rijks, D., 2008. Institutional Competences in the EU External Action. Other. Stockholm: Sieps: The Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies.
Aggestam, L., 2006. British, French and German views of the ESDP. Other. Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
