Copenhagen Peace Research Institute

NOTE: COPRI ceased to exist on 1 January, 2005 when it was merged into the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).

The Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (Danish name: Center for Freds-og Konfliktforskning) started operating in January 1985.

The Institutes main research programmes were: Military Restructuring (MIL); European Security (EUR); Nordic-Baltic Security in a Transforming Europe (NORD); Intra-State Conflicts: Causes and Peace Strategies (CONF); Global Governance and Peace (GOV).

Working Papers

Title: The Commodification of Violence, Private Military Companies, and African States
Author: Anna Leander
Date: June 2003

Title: Disenchanted Conscription: A Military Recruitment System in Need of Justification
Author: Anna Leander
Date: June 2003

Title: International Law and the Just and Justifiable in Secessionist Conflicts: The Cases of Tatarstan and Chechnya (1990-94)
Author: Olya Gayazova
Date: March 2003

Title: Constructivism and the Role of Institutions in International Relations
Author: Stefano Guzzini
Date: March 2003

Title: A Europe without Divides? The EU-Russia Partnership and the Case of Virtual Borders
Author: Tarja Cronberg
Date: January 2003

Title: Russian Border Policies and Border Regions
Author: Vasiliy N. Valuev
Date: December 2002

Title: The Implication of the Concept of the French State-Nation and 'Patrie' for French Discourses on (Algerian) Immigration
Author: Ulla Holm
Date: December 2002

Title: Wars and the Un-making of States: Taking Tilly Seriously in the Contemporary World
Author: Anna Leander
Date: December 2002

Title: The Cunning of Imperialist Reason: Using a Bourdieu Inspired Constructivism in IPE
Author: Anna Leander
Date: December 2002

Title: Wars and the Un-making of States: Taking Tilly Seriously in the Contemporary World
Author: Anna Leander
Date: December 2002

Title: Civil Society Romanticism: A Sceptical View
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: November 2002

Title: NATO, OSCE, EU: Role Models for Southern Africa?
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: October 2002

Title: The New NATO Response Force: Challenges for and Reactions from Europe
Author: Ronja Kempin
Date: September 2002

Title: The Russian Perception of the American "War on Terror"
Author: Vladimir Rukavishnikov
Date: September 2002

Title: A Cooperative Structure For Israel-Palestine Relations
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: August 2002

Title: Ideas, Images, and Their Producers: The Case of Region-Making in Russia's North West Federal District
Author: Andrey S. Makarychev
Date: August 2002

Title: The Internal/External Security Paradox and the Reconstruction of Boundaries in the Baltic: The Case of Kaliningrad
Author: Christopher S. Browning
Date: July 2002

Title: In Search of Monsters to Destroy? On the Liberal American Security Paradox And a Republican Way Out
Author: Vibeke Schou Pedersen
Date: July 2002

Title: Good Fences Make Good Neighbours?: A Comparison of Consociational and Integrative Conflict Regulation Strategies in Post-Dayton Bosnia
Author: Nina Fallentin Caspersen
Date: July 2002

Title: Defensive Restructuring of the Military in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: June 2002

Title: 'The Cold War is What We Make of It': When Peace Research Meets Constructivism in International Relations
Author: Stefano Guzzini
Date: June 2002

Title: Rethinking The Nature of Security: The U.S. Northern Europe Initiative
Author: Edward Rhodes
Date: June 2002

Title: Competing or Complementary Policies? Understanding the Relationship between the NEI and NDI
Author: Christopher S. Browning
Date: June 2002

Title: Human Rights and Foreign Policy Discourse in Today's Russia: Romantic Realism and Securitisation of Identity
Author: Viatcheslav Morozov
Date: June 2002

Title: The Discourses of St. Petersburg and the Shaping of a Wider Europe: Territory, Space and Post-Sovereign Politics
Author: Viatcheslav Morozov
Date: March 2002

Title: Conditional Legitimacy, Reinterpreted Monopolies: Globalisation and the Evolving State Monopoly on Legitimate Violence
Author: Anna Leander
Date: March 2002

Title: Can Europe Be Told From The North? Tapping Into the EU's Northern Dimension
Author: Pertti Joenniemi
Date: March 2002

Title: The Role of the University in Ethnic Conflict Transformation, Democratization, and Developing Human Rights in the Balkans
Author: Zlatko Isakovic
Date: March 2002

Title: "Realisms at war": Robert Gilpin's political economy of hegemonic war as a critique of Waltz's neorealism
Author: Stefano Guzzini
Date: March 2002

Title: "Power" in International Relations: concept formation between conceptual analysis and conceptual history
Author: Stefano Guzzini
Date: March 2002

Title: The Enduring Dilemmas of Realism in International Relations
Author: Stefano Guzzini
Date: December 2001

Title: European [security] Union: from existential threat to ontological security
Author: Ian Manners
Date: December 2001

Title: Realism and Foreign Policy Analysis
Author: S. Rynning and S. Guzzini
Date: December 2001

Title: Short and Long-Term Dynamics in the EU's Northern Dimension
Author: Nicola Catellani
Date: December 2001

Title: The 'Difference Engine': Constructin and Representing the International Identity of the European Union
Author: Ian Manners
Date: December 2001

Title: The Construction of Europe in the Northern Dimension
Author: Christopher S. Browning
Date: December 2001

Title: The European Union and Globalisation: Reflections on Strategies of Individual States
Author: Morten Kelstrup
Date: December 2001

Title: The New Saint Petersburg: A Case of Border-Making or Border-Breaking?
Author: Pertti Joenniemi
Date: November 2001

Title: On the Encounter Between the Nordic and the Northern: Torn Apart but Meeting Again?
Author: P. Joenniemi and M. Lehti
Date: October 2001

Title: NATO and the South-Eastern Europe — Powerless of Powerfuls and Power of Weaks in Ethnic Conflicts
Author: Zlatko Isakovic
Date: September 2001

Title: Intrastate Conflicts, International Interventions and their Implications on Security Issues, Case of Kosovo
Author: Enika Abazi
Date of Paper; September 2001

Title: Turkey and Europe: Ongoing Hypocrisy?
Author: Dietrich Jung
Date: September 2001

Title: Globalisation and the Eroding State Monopoly of Legitimate Violence
Author: Anna Leander
Date: August 2001

Title: Europe and the Crises in the Great Lakes Region
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: August 2001

Title: Another Sociology for IR? An Analysis of Niklaus Luhmann's Conceptualisation
Author: Stefano Guzzini
Date: August 2001

Title: French Military Doctrine in the 1990s
Author: Sten Rynning
Date: August 2001

Title: Raising Armies in a Rough Neighbourhood: Soldiers, Guerillas, and Mercenaries in Southern Africa
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: August 2001

Title: Structural Geopolitics in Europe: Constructing Geopolitical Subjectivity for the EU and Russia
Author: Pami Aalto
Date: July 2001

Title: Global Conditions and Global Constraints: The International Paternity of the Palestinian Nation
Author: Dietrich Jung
Date: July 2001

Title: Democracy, Human rights and Ethnica Conflicts in the Process of Globalisation
Author: Zlatko Isakovic
Date: June 2001

Title: Global Ungovernance: Mercenaries, States and the Control over Violence
Author: Anna Leander
Date: June 2001

Title: Globalization, Transnational Polities and the Dislocation of Politics
Author: Anna Leander
Date: April 2001

Title: A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Regional Cooperation: The United States and the Northern European Initiative
Author: Christopher S. Browning
Date: April 2001

Title: American Policy in the South East Europe
Author: Radovan Vukadinovic
Date: October 2000

Title: Challenges to Security in the South East Europe
Author: Radovan Vukadinovic
Date: October 2000

Title: Security Cooperation in Southern Africa: Lessons From the European Experience (NATO, EU, OSCE)
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: September 2000

Title: BALTBAT: The Emergence of a Common Defence Dimension to Nordic Co-operation
Author: Annikab Bergman
Date: August 2000

Title: The Imposition of Governance: Transforming Foreign Policy through EU Enlargement
Author: Thomas Diez
Date: August 2000

Title: Analysing European Integration, Reflecting on the English School: Scenarios for an Encounter
Author: Thomas Diez and Richard Whitman
Date: August 2000

Title: The Concept of Security: The Pros and Cons of Expansion and Contraction
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: August, 2000

Title: Kosovo and the Just War Tradition
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: August, 2000

Title: Borders, Territoriality and the Military in the Third Millennium
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: August, 2000

Title: A Response to Recent Critiques of Conflict Resolution: Is Critical Theory the Answer?
Author: Marta Martinelli Quille
Date: August 2000

Title: Civil-Military Relations In Macedonia
Author: Biljana Vankovska
Date: August 2000

Title: Civil-Military Relations in the Third Yugoslavia
Author: Biljana Vankovska
Date: August 2000

Title: Integration Policy: Between Foreign Policy and Diffusion
Author: Morton Kelstrup
Date: July 2000

Title: Civil-Military Relations In Macedonia
Author: Biljana Vankovska
Date: July 2000

Title: NATO War Over Yugoslavia: Civilian Control in Focus
Author: Biljana Vankovska
Date: July 2000

Title: Does The EU Offer Security?: European Integration In The Estonian Identity Discourse
Author: Merje Feldman
Date: June 2000

Title: Danish Integration Policies: Dilemmas and Options
Author: Morten Kelstrup
Date: June 2000

Title: Peace and/or Human Rights?
Author: Zlatko Isakovic
Date: June 2000

Title: The Kaliningrad Puzzle: A Russian Region within the European Union
Author: Pertti Joenniemi, Stephen Dewar and Lyndelle D. Fairlie
Date: June 2000

Title: Last Exit to Paradise?
Author: Thomas Diez
Date: June 2000

Title: Identity Beyond the State: The Case of the European Union
Author: Peter van Ham
Date: June 2000

Title: 'Protectorate Democracy' in South-East Europe
Author: Michael Pugh
Date: May 2000

Title: Writing Post-Soviet Estonia onto the Modern World
Author: Eiki Berg
Date: December 1999

Title: Security Ranges Of Nato Intervention In Kosovo
Author: Miroslav Hadzic
Date: September 1999

Title: The UN, the USA and NATO: Humanitarian Intervention in the Light of Kosovo
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: September 1999

Title: Estonia: Nation Building And Integration. Political And Legal Aspects
Author: Aleksei Semjonov
Date: August 1999

Title: Russia’s Systemic Transformation: Trajectories and Dynamics?
Author: Graeme P. Herd
Date: August 1999

Title: Bridging the Iron Curtain? Co-Operation around the Baltic Rim
Author: Pertti Joenniemi
Date: August 1999

Title: Will the EU use Northern Dimension to solve its Kaliningrad dilemma?
Author: Lyndelle D. Fairlie
Date: August 1999

Title: Alliance Theory: The Case of Turkey and Israel
Author: Wolfango Piccoli
Date: August 1999

Title: The Security Policy of Lithuania and the 'Integration Dilemma'
Author: Grazina Miniotaite
Date: May 2000

Title: Turkey at the Crossroads
Author: Dietrich Jung
Date: March 1999

Title: Kaliningrad As a Discursive Battle-Field
Author: Pertti Joenniemi
Date: March 1999

Title: From ‘Total Strategy’ to ‘Human Security’: The Making of South Africa’s Defence Policy 1990-98
Author: Gavin Cawthra
Date: March 1999

Title: The Never-Ending Iraqi Crisis: Dual Containment and the “New World Order”
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: March 1999

Title: Iran in the Emerging Greater Middle East
Author: Gulshan Dietl
Date: January 1999

Title: Three Futures for Israel and Palestine
Author: Bjørn Møller
Date: January 1999

Title: The Impact of the European Union on Baltic Co-operation
Author: Zaneta Ozolina
Date: January 1999

Title: Contentious Politics and Regime Change: New Perspectives on Democratization
Authors: v
Date: January 1999

Title: ‘Schleswig-Holstein goes international’: The German ‘Bundesland’ as a regional actor in the Baltic Sea region
Author: Axel Krohn
Date: December 1998

Title: Resolving the Security Dilemma in the Persian Gulf, With a postscript on The 1997/98 Iraqi Crisis
Author: Björn Möller
Date: June 1998

Title: Liberalism and Security: The contradictions of the liberal Leviathan
Authors: Barry Buzan and Ole Waever
Date: April 1998

Title: Representations of Northernness—Spatial Politics and Political Spaces in a Nordic Journal
Author: Pirjo Jukarainen
Date: April 1998

Title: Conceptualisation of the Adaptation Policy Model of Poland Towards the European Union
Author: Teresa Los-Nowak
Date: April 1998

Title: Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution : The Role of Subregional Organizations and of Pan-African Ngos in Subsaharan Africa
Author: Félix Nkundabagenzi
Date: April 1998

Title: The Pariah Comes in From the Cold: South Africa’s Changing Security Environment
Author: Susan Willett
Date: April 1998

Title: The Economic Community Reading of Europe: Its Discursive Nodal Points and Ambiguities towards “Westphalia”
Author: Thomas Diez
Date: March 1998

Title: Norden, Europe and Post-Security
Author: Pertti Joenniemi
Date: March 1998

Title: Mediation Activities by non-State Actors: an Account of Sant’Egidio’s Initiatives
Author: Marta Martinelli
Date: March 1998

Title: Russia: A Long Way to the National Security Doctrine
Author: Alexander A. Sergounin
Date: March 1998

Title: The First Indian Government in the Americas Caught up in Neglect, Confusion and Disunity—Ways Out?
Author: Christian P. Scherrer
Date: March 1998

Title: Countertrade and Offsets Policies and Practices in the Arms Trade
Authors: Susan Willett and Ian Anthony
Date: September 1997

Title: The Post-Cold War (Ir)Relevance of Non-Offensive Defence
Author: Björn Möller
Date: April 1997

Title: Preconditions For Nato Enlargement From A Common Security Point Of View
Author: Björn Möller
Date: April 1997

Title: Costs of the Polish Integration with the Euroatlantic Structures
Author: Pawel Wieczorek and Katarzyna Zukrowska
Date: March 1997

Title: Erich Fromm’s Concept of Aggression and the ‘Missing Element’ of Ethnonational Mobilisation in the Second Yugoslavia
Author: Zlatko Isakovic
Date: March 1997

Title: International Position of Macedonia and Balkan Security
Author: Zlatko Isakovic
Date: March 1997

Title: Nordic Involvement in the Baltic States Security: Need, Motives and Success
Author: Clive Archer
Date: January 1997

Title: Russia’s Regionalization: The International Dimension
Author: Alexander A. Sergounin
Date: January 1997

Title: The United States and the ‘New World Order’: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution
Author: Björn Möller
Date: January 1997

Title: Competing Regionalizations? French/European and Maghreb Views on Regionalization
Author: Ulla Holm
Date: November 1996

Title: UN Military Demands and Non-Offensive Defence: Collective Security, Humanitarian Intervention and Peace Support Operations
Author: Björn Möller
Date: July 1996

Title: Post-Communist Security Thinking in Russia: Changing Paradigms
Author: Alexander Sergounin
Date: July 1996

Title: The Societal Security Dilemma
Author: Paul Roe
Date: June 1996

Title: Norden: A Community of Asecurity
Author: Pertti Joenniemi
Date: June 1996

Title: Ways of Managing Border Disputes in Present-Day Europe: The Karelian Question
Author: Pertti Joenniemi
Date: June 1996

Title: Ethnic Conflict and Postmodern Warfare: What Is the Problem? What Could Be Done?
Author: Björn Möller
Date: April 1996

Title: The French Garden Is No Longer What It Used To Be
Author: Ulla Holm
Date: April 1996

Title: Lessons Learned from Former Yugoslavia
Author: Wolfgang Biermann and Martin Vadset
Date: April 1996

Title: Sub-Regional Security Cooperation: The Southern African Development Community in Comparative Perspective
Author: Gavin Cawthra
Date: April 1996