Contact information Address Centre de Recherche et Enseignement en Politique Internationale (REPI) Université libre de Bruxelles, 39 Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels, Belgium Phone (office) +32 2 650 39 90 Phone (mobile) +32 472 77 39 08 E-mail caroline.holmqvist@ui.se Web https://ulb.academia.edu/carolineholmqvist Appointments Current 2014 Researcher, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm 2011 Senior Lecturer in War Studies, Department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, Swedish Defence University, Stockholm Previous 2015 2016 Eric Remacle Chair in Peace Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 2010 2011 Postdoc Researcher, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) 2004 2006 Research Associate, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) 2001 2002 Researcher, Foreign Policy Centre, London 1999 2001 Researcher, British Embassy, Stockholm (periodic) Qualifications 2006-2010 Doctor of Philosophy in War Studies King s College London PhD thesis title: Policing Wars. Supervisors Professor Christopher Coker, London School of Economics and Political Science and Professor Mervyn Frost, King s College 1
London. Examiners: Professor Nicholas Rengger, University of Edinburgh and Professor Theo Farrell, King s College London. Passed with no corrections. 2002-2003 Master of Science in International Relations London School of Economics and Political Science 1998 2001 Bachelor of Science in International Relations, with 1 st Class Honours London School of Economics and Political Science Honours and Fellowships 2015 2016 Eric Remacle Chair in Peace Studies, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 2014 (on-going) Research Fellow, Centre de Recherche et Enseignements en Politique Internationale (REPI), Université Libre de Bruxelles 2011 2013 Visiting Researcher, Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science Research funding and grants Swedish Research Council Project Grant (2014) 382,000 for three-year research project entitled TIME AND DISCOURSES OF GLOBAL POLITICS (2014-2017). Joint application with Dr Tom Lundborg, Researcher, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Stockholm Hugo Raab Award, Swedish Defence University (2015) 2,275 for having revolutionised thinking about war at the Swedish Defence University, while working at the frontiers of international research Swedish Foundation of Humanities and Social Sciences (2011) 1000. Joint application with Dr Jan Bachmann, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University. Postdoctoral Research Grant, Swedish Institute of International Affairs (2010), funded by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. School of Social Sciences and Public Policy (SSPP), King s College London Full Studentship (fees plus maintenance grant) for three years of doctoral research (2006-2009). 2
Publications Monograph Policing Wars: On Military Intervention in the Twenty-First Century (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Edited volumes War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention (co-edited with Jan Bachmann and Colleen Bell) (London: Routledge, 2014). The Character of War in the 21st Century (co-edited with Christopher Coker) (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2010). Journal articles Always already war power, police power, London Review of International Law vol. 3, no. 2 (2015). War, strategic communication and the violence of non-recognition, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, vol. 26, no. 4 (2013). Undoing war: war ontologies and the materiality of drone warfare, Millennium Journal of International Studies, vol. 41, no. 3 (2013). War/space: shifting spatialities and the absence of politics in contemporary accounts of war, Global Crime, vol. 13, no. 4 (2012). Les affairs et la sécurité: quel role pour le secteur privé?, Politique Étrangère, issue 1 (2006) [ Business and security: what role for the private sector? ] Co-author with Alyson Bailes. Book chapters Enlisting Madison Avenue: contemporary war masquerading as a communications enterprise in Masquerades of War ed. Christine Sylvester (London and New York: Routledge, 2015). Perpetual policing wars in The Character of War in the 21st Century eds. Christopher Coker and Caroline Holmqvist (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2010). Engaging armed non-state actors in Security Governance and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding eds. A. Bryden and H. Hänggi (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2005). Major armed conflicts, SIPRI Yearbook 2006: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). 3
Major armed conflicts, SIPRI Yearbook 2005: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) Co-author with Renata Dwan. Reports The Increasing Role of Private Military and Security Companies, study requested by the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence (Brussels: European Parliament, 2007) Co-author with Alyson Bailes. The Private Security Industry, States, and the Lack of an International Response, study commissioned by the Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University Findings presented at seminar convened March 2007 by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI, Geneva). Private Security Companies The Case for Regulation, SIPRI Policy Paper no. 9 (Stockholm: SIPRI, 2005). Work in progress Spectres of war, invited article for Becoming War: Towards Martial Theory, Special Issue of Security Dialogue (scheduled for publication 2018), edited by Antoine Bousquet, Jairus Grove and Nisha Shah. Spectres of War: Violence, Antagonism, Reciprocity. Monograph planned for submission to Edinburgh University Press, Critical Military Studies Series. WarTime: temporalities of war, journal article, planned for submission to European Journal of International Relations. Hunted. Spectral subjects of contemporary war, journal article, planned for submission to Review of International Studies. Teaching Please note that courses listed below are those for which I have been Course Tutor/sole person responsible. Beyond this, I have contributed to courses at undergraduate as well as postgraduate levels within political science, security studies and war studies, as well as on military programmes at both officer and senior levels. I have also contributed to courses on Research Methodology and convened Dissertation seminars. Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Théories de la sécurité (Theories of Security) Postgraduate Course taught as part of the Masters in International Relations, covering theories of international security. 4
Critical War Studies (Masters International Relations) (2015) Course convenved in capacity of Chair in Peace Studies. Supervision of Mémoires (extended Masters Theses of 80-100 pages) as part of the Masters Programme in International Relations, Peace and Conflict (approx. 10 theses) Swedish Defence University (SEDU) Critical and Feminist War Studies (Course convenor: took initiative and secured funding for new course at the Defence University) Politics of Security (Political Science advanced level) (2011-2013) Supervision of Bachelor and Masters Theses (approx. 12 theses) King s College London The Causes of War Seminar instructor (2007-2008) Teaching qualifications Pedagogic qualification Higher Education 1, Swedish Defence University, Stockholm (2012) Teacher s Training, King s College London (2007) Membership editorial boards, associations 2014 (on-going) Member of editorial board of Critical Military Studies Journal (Taylor and Francis) 2010 (on-going) Member of the International Studies Association (International Political Sociology section) 2002 2003 Member of editorial board of Millennium Journal of International Studies Invited talks (recent) Guest Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. Title: The spectral subjects of contemporary war, 4 May 2016. Violent Times, Public lecture in capacity of Chair in Peace Studies at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 10 December 2015. 5
Keynote Speaker at Virtual Zones of Peace and Conflict, international workshop held at Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts (CRIC), Copenhagen University, Denmark, 12-13 Jan. 2015. Title: The human experience of war, in a world that seems to be speeding up. Guest Lecturer at the Department of Law, Lund University, Sweden, 27 Nov. 2014. Title of speech Undoing war. Reflections on Mark Neocleous War Power, Police Power, Book symposium, London School of Economics and Political Science, 20 Nov. 2014. Workshop and conference panel organisation (select) Co-convener (with Brad Evans, University of Bristol) of Control: War Section of the European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Annual Conference (SLSA), 14-17 June 2016, Stockholm, Sweden. Section encompassed five panels and one roundtable (approx. 40 participants). Co-convenor (with Colleen Bell, Saskatchewan University, Canada and Jan Bachmann, School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden) of international workshop of approx. 30 participants entitled From defeating the enemy to creating good order? Exploring police-military assemblages in Western interventions, 25-26 Sept. 2011. Co-organiser of panel (with Colleen Bell) War, Antagonism and Reciprocity, International Studies Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2016. Co-organiser of panel (with Dan Oberg) Beyond Critical War Studies, International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 2015. Co-organiser of panel (with Tom Lundborg) Time, Temporality and the Limits of International Relations I, International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 2015. ISA 2015 Co-organiser of panel (with Tom Lundborg) Time, Temporality and the Limits of International Relations II, International Studies Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, Feb. 2015. Co-organiser of panel (with Colleen Bell and Jan Bachmann) From killing the enemy to creating 'good' order? Perspectives on the military-police nexus I, International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, March 2012. Co-organiser of panel (with Colleen Bell and Jan Bachmann) From killing the enemy to creating 'good' order? Perspectives on the military-police nexus II, International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Diego, CA, March 2012. 6
Conferences and seminars (select) Spectres of War, Research seminar given at the Centre de Recherche et Enseignement en Politique Internationale, Université libre de Bruxelles, 31 May 2016 Hunted/haunted: the spectral subjects of contemporary war, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 57th ANNUAL CONVENTION, Hilton, Altanta, Georgia, March 2016. WarTime: temporalities of war, Paper presented at Disappearing War: Cinema and the politics of erasure in the war on terror, Research workshop organised by the Department of Film, Theatre & Television and the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Reading, UK, 13 April 2015. Temporalities of war, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 56th ANNUAL CONVENTION, Hilton, New Orleans, Louisana, USA, Feb. 2015. WarTime: reading contemporary war, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 56th ANNUAL CONVENTION, Hilton, New Orleans, Louisana, USA, Feb. 2015. Automation and undoing : (re)thinking materialities and virtualities of war, paper presented at the Millennium Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Materialism and World Politics, Oct. 2012. War, strategic communication and the violence of non-recognition, paper presented at workshop From defeating the enemy to creating good order? Exploring police-military assemblages in Western interventions, Gothenburg University, Sept. 2011. Enlisting Madison Avenue, paper presented at Masquerades of War, workshop held at Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden, 8-9 May 2012. War, strategic communication and the violence of non-recognition, paper presented at workshop Wars beyond war, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, 29-31 March 2012. The study of war, paper presented at the International Relations Seminar Series, organised jointly by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Dec. 2011. Conceptualisations of space in contemporary policing wars, paper presented at the International Relations Seminar Series, organised jointly by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, June 2009. War and statebuilding in the 21st century, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE, New York Marriott Marquis, New York City, NY, USA, Feb. 2009. The policing approach to war and the trivialisation of conflict, Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 2009. 7
Presentation of The Private Security Industry, States, and the Lack of an International Response, study commissioned by the Programme on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University Findings presented at seminar convened March 2007 by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (HEI, Geneva) Analytical overview of the issue of PMCs/PSCs [private military/security companies], 7 TH BRUGES COLLOQUIUM, Private Military/Security Companies Operating in Situations of Armed Conflict, Collège d Europe (College of Europe), Bruges, Belgium, 19 Oct. 2006. Consultancy and Media Regular commentator on Swedish national public radio on issues of war, international security and terrorism. Consultant to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva and the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs in their inter-state dialogue on the use of Private Security Companies 2005-2008, resulting in the Montreux Document on Pertinent International Legal Obligations and Good Practices for States related to the Operations of Private Military and Security Companies during Conflict (17 September 2008). Invited to present research findings on the private security industry at the European Parliament, Subcommittee on Security and Defence, Brussels, 2007. Invited to present research findings on the private security industry at the European Council (Conseil d Europe), Paris, May 2008. Review assignments Reviewer for articles in, i.a., Review of International Studies*, Security Dialogue*, European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology*, Millennium Journal of International Relations*, Journal of International Relations and Development, Regulation and Governance, Critical Military Studies*, Critical Studies on Security, Sextant and for Oxford University Press (book manuscript). (*several) Languages English (fluent), French (proficient), Spanish (working level), Swedish (fluent) Absences/Parental leave Sept. 2010 Sept. 2011 Parental leave 12 months May 2013 May 2014 Parental leave 12 months Sept 2015 Dec 2015 Sick leave three months 8