Rebecca Adler-Nissen

CV

• Professor, Dep of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2016-)
• Visiting Fellow, CISS, University of Sydney (2015)
• Associate Professor, Dep of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2013-2016)
• Visiting Scholar, CIPSS, McGill University, Montreal (2012)
• Head of Section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (2010-2011)
• PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2009)
• Research Analyst, Danish Institute for International Studies (2008)
• Visiting Researcher, European University Institute, Florence (2007)
• Project Manager, DI, Confederation of Danish Industry (2005)
• Msc, Department of Political Science, Uni of Copenhagen (2005)
• Cycle de diplome, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), Paris (2002-2003)
• BA, Department of Political Science, Uni of Copenhagen (2002)

Kort præsentation

Rebecca Adler-Nissen forsker i international politik, diplomati, digitale teknologier og EU. I øjeblikket med fokus på forholdet mellem fortrolige internationale forhandlinger, offentigheden og sociale medier. Teoretisk fokus på international politisk sociologi, the practice turn, stigma, normer samt antropologiske metoder i international politik.

Rebecca Adler-Nissen leder det ERC-financierede forskningsprojekt DIPLOFACE og forskningsgruppen Digital Disinformation, der er støttet af Carlsbergfondet. Hun er er medlem af styregruppen for Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS) ved Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet og er modtager af EliteForsk prisen i 2019.

Hun har været visiting scholar ved Centre for International Security Studies (University of Sydney), Centre for International Peace and Security Studies (McGill University/Université de Montréal) og European University Institute og arbejdet i Udenrigsministeriet med bl.a. forberedelser til det danske EU-formandskab og Det Europæiske Råds møder. I 2015 modtog hun Nils Klim-prisen og i 2016 Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Sølvmedalje. Hun er medlem af bl.a. Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab og European Council for Foreign Relations.

Supervision of PhD students

Current: Michael Bossetta (co-supervisor Ben Rosamond), Yevgeniy Golovchenko, Øyvind Svendsen, Larissa Versloot

Completed: Alexei Tsinovoi (2018)

Selected publications

Books:

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2014) Opting Out of the European Union: Diplomacy, Sovereignty and European Integration, Cambridge University Press (winner of the Susan Strange best book award 2015 of the British International Studies Association and co-winner of the International Studies Association IPS Section's 2015 book award)

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (ed.) (2012) Bourdieu in International Relations: Rethinking Key Concepts in IR, London: Routledge

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca and Ulrik Pram Gad (eds) (2013) European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games: EU's Overseas Countries and Territories, London: Routledge

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (eds.) (2008) Sovereignty Games: The Instrumentalization of State Sovereignty in Europe and beyond New York: Palgrave

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca and Rasmus Vanggaard Knudsen (2005) Forenet i mangfoldighed? EU's forfatningstraktat i demokratiteoretisk perspektiv [United in Diversity? The EU's Constitutional Treaty in a Democratic Theoretical Perspective] Copenhagen: DJØF. Awarded the Gold Medal of the University of Copenhagen

Special issues of journals:

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca and Kristoffer Kropp (eds) (2015) 'Making Europe: The Sociology of Knowledge Meets European Integration', Journal of European Integration, vol. 37, no. 5.

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca and Ulrik Pram Gad (eds) (2014) 'Postimperial Sovereignty Games in Norden', Cooperation & Conflict, vol. 49, no 1.

Journal articles and book chapters:

Adler-Nissen, R. and Drieschova, A. (2019) 'Track-change diplomacy: Technology, affordances and the practice of international negotiations', International Studies Quarterly, forthcoming

Golovchenko, Y., Hartmann, M., & Adler-Nissen, R. (2018) 'State, media and civil society in the information warfare over Ukraine: citizen curators of digital disinformation' International Affairs, 94(5), 975-994

Adler-Nissen, R., & Tsinovoi, A. (2018) 'International misrecognition: The politics of humour and national identity in Israel’s public diplomacy' European Journal of International Relations, OnlineFirst

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2016) 'Towards a Practice Turn in EU Studies: The Everyday of European Integration' Journal of Common Market Studies, vol 54, no. 1, pp. 87-103.

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2017) "Are we 'Nazi Germans' or 'Lazy Greeks'? Negotiating International Hierarchies in the Euro Crisis" In Ayse Zarakol (red.), Hierarchies in World Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Adler-Nissen, R., Galpin, C., & Rosamond, B. (2017). Performing Brexit: How a post-vol. Brexit world is imagined outside the UK. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 573-591.

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca and Vincent Pouliot (2014) 'Power in Practice: Negotiating the International Intervention in Libya', European Journal of International Relations, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 889-911.

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2014) 'Stigma Management in International Relations: Transgressive Identities, Norms and Order in International Society', International Organization, vol. 68, no. 1, 143-176.

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2014) 'Symbolic Power in European Diplomacy: The Struggle Between National Foreign Services and the EU's External External Service', Review of International Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 657-681.

Parker, Noel and Rebecca Adler-Nissen (2012) 'Picking and Choosing at the 'Sovereign' Border: A Theory of Bordering Practices by States', Geopolitics, 7:4, 773-796

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2011) "On a Field Trip with Bourdieu". International Political Sociology, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 327–330 (forum contribution) 

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2011) "The Integration Doxa and the Practice Dimension of Sovereignty", West European Politics, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1092-1113

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2009) "From Distant Dream to Joint Action: The European Security and Defence Policy", in Handbook of International Organisations, Copenhagen: Royal Danish Defence College. pp. 55-86 

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2009) "Late Sovereign Diplomacy", Hague Journal of Diplomacy, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 121-141.

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2009) "Behind the Scenes of Differentiated Integration: Circumventing National Opt-Outs in Justice and Home Affairs", Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 16, no. 1, 62-80.

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2008) "The Diplomacy of Opting Out: A Bourdieudian Approach to National Integration Strategies", Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 663-684.

Adler-Nissen, Rebecca (2008) "Organized Duplicity? When States Opt Out of the EU", Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (eds.): Sovereignty Games: Instrumentalising State Sovereignty in a European context (New York: Palgrave).

Adler-Nissen (2003) "Politologens Pionerer: En samtale med Erling Bjøl", Politologiske Studier, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 78-85. 

Selected commissioned work

Investigation on the Danish EU opt-outs, Danish Institute for International Studies (2008) De danske forbehold over for Den Europæiske Union.

Research related activities

• Member of the Danish Intelligence Oversight Board
• Member of the board of the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
• Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2017)
• Council Member of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) 
• Member of The Young Academy, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2012-2017)
• Secretary-Treasurer of the International Political Sociology Section of the ISA
• Member of the steering committee of Center of European Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (http://www.cep.polsci.ku.dk/)
• Board member of NISA (Nordic International Studies Association) 
• Board member of ECSA (Denmark) (http://www.ecsa.dk/web/)