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Helene Sjursen

Research Professor

• Phone: +47 22 85 49 58
• Fax: +47 22 85 78 32
• E-mail: helene.sjursen@arena.uio.no

Project(s):

Helene Sjursen co-chair the work-package on the Foreign and Security Dimension of the 5-year long ARENA-led and EU Commission funded (€ 5 million) research project RECON - Reconstituting Democracy in Europe (RECON), which has 19 partner universities across Europe.

Sjursen was head of the work-packages on External Security and Justifying Enlargement of the 3-year long ARENA-led research project CIDEL Citizenship and Democratic Legitimacy in the EU, which included ten partners in six European countries, and was financed by the Fifth Framework Programme (€ 1.6 million).

Publications:

Books and special issues

• ‘What kind of power? European foreign policy in perspective’ (2006) (ed.) also available in H. Sjursen (eds) Journal of European Public Policy Special Issue Book.
• Questioning EU Enlargement: Europe in search of identity (2006) (ed.) London: Routledge.
• Contemporary European Foreign Policy (2004) ed. with W. Carlsneas and B. White, London: Sage.
• The United States, Western Europe and the Polish Crisis. International relations in the Second Cold War (2003) Basingstoke: Palgrave, Cold War History Series.
• A Common Foreign Policy of Europe? Competing Visions of the CFSP (1998) ed. with J. Peterson, London: Routledge.

Articles in books and academic journals

• ‘Introduction: Enlargement and the nature of the EU polity’ (2006) in H. Sjursen (ed.) Questioning EU Enlargement: Europe in search of identity, London: Routledge, pp. 1-15.
• (with Marianne Riddervold) ‘The importance of solidarity: Denmark as a promoter of enlargement’ (2006) in H. Sjursen (ed.) Questioning EU Enlargement: Europe in search of identity, London: Routledge, pp. 81-103.
• (with Børge Romsloe) ‘Protecting the idea of Europe: France and enlargement’ (2006) in H. Sjursen (ed.) Questioning EU Enlargement: Europe in search of identity, London: Routledge, pp. 142-64.
• ‘What kind of power?’ (2006) Journal of European Public Policy Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 169-81.
• ‘The EU as a “normative” power: how can this be?’ (2006) Journal of European Public Policy Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 235-51.
• ‘Towards a post-national foreign and security policy?’ (2005) in E. O. Eriksen (ed.) Making the European Polity: Reflexive Integration in the EU, London: Routledge, pp. 167–86.
• (with Erik O. Eriksen and John E. Fossum) ‘Widening or reconstituting the EU? (2005) in E. O. Eriksen (ed.) Making the European Polity: Reflexive Integration in the EU, London: Routledge, pp. 237–52.
• ‘On NATO’s identity’ (2004) International Affairs Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 687–703.
• 'On the identity of NATO' (2004) International Affairs Vol. 80, No. 4, pp. 687-703.
• 'Changes to European Security in a communicative perspective' (2004) Cooperation and Conflict Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 107-28.
• 'Security and defence' (2004) in Contemporary European Foreign Policy ed. with W. Carlsneas and B. White, London: Sage, pp. 59-74.
• (with Karen E. Smith) 'Justifying EU Foreign Policy: the Logics Underpinning EU Enlargement' (2004) in T. Christiansen and B. Tonra (eds) Rethinking EU Foreign Policy: Beyond the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 126-42.
• 'Understanding the Common Foreign and Security Policy: analytical building blocs' (2003) in M. Knodt and S. Princen (eds) Understanding the European Union's External Relations, London: Routledge, pp. 35-53.
• 'Why expand? The question of legitimacy and justification in the EU's enlargement policy' (2002) Journal of Common Market Studies Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 491-513.
• 'Reorganizing security in Europe' (2002) in E. Jones, P. Heywood and M. Rhodes (eds) Developments in West European Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2nd ed., pp. 56-73.
• 'Tilbake til Europa' (2002) in E. Bakke (ed.) Sentral-Europa og Baltikum etter 1989, Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget.
• 'The Common Foreign and Security Policy: Limits of Intergovernmentalism and the Search for a Global Role' (2001) in S. Andersen and K. A. Eliassen (eds) Making Policy in Europe, London: Sage Publications, 2nd ed, pp. 187-205.
• 'Coping - or not coping - with change: Norway in European security' (2000) European Foreign Affairs Review Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 539-59.
• 'Med ryggen mot Europa? Endring og kontinuitet i norsk sikkerhetspolitikk' (1999) in D. H. Claes and B. S. Tranøy (eds) Utenfor, annerledes og suveren? Norge under EØS-avtalen, Oslo: Fagbokforlaget, pp. 39-58.
• 'Enlargement and the Common Foreign and Security Policy: Transforming the EU's External Identity?' (1999) in K. Henderson (ed.) Back to Europe: Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union, London: UCL Press, pp. 37-51 .
• 'Missed Opportunity or Eternal Fantasy? The Idea of a European Security and Defence Policy' (1998) in J. Peterson and H. Sjursen (eds) A Common Foreign Policy of Europe? Competing Visions of the CFSP, London: Routledge, pp. 95-114.
• 'Conclusion: The Myth of the CFSP?' (1998) in J. Peterson and H. Sjursen (eds) A Common Foreign Policy of Europe? Competing Visions of the CFSP, London: Routledge, pp. 169-85.
• 'Enlarging the Union' (1997) in S. Stavridis et al. New Challenges to the European Union: Policies and Policy-Making, Aldershot: Dartmouth, pp. 151-71.