Ragnar Weilandt completed his PhD on EU democracy promotion in Tunisia at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the University of Warwick as part of the GEM programme. He is currently a Postdoc at KU Leuven’s Centre for European Studies and an Adjunct Professor at the Brussels School of Governance of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research interests include EU external action, Euro-Mediterranean relations as well as the politics and international relations of West Asia and North Africa. At the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, he teaches the courses ‘Comparative Regional Studies’, ‘Contemporary Conflicts in the Euro-Mediterranean Region’ as well as ‘History and Politics of the Modern Middle East’. At KU Leuven he teaches the courses ‘Regionalism, Inter-regionalism and the European Union’ and ‘North Africa, the Middle East and Euro-Mediterranean Relations’.
Experience
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2023–presentPostdoctoral fellow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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2019–2023Postdoc, KU Leuven
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2018–2023Adjunct professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Education
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2019Université libre de Bruxelles, Doctorat en Sciences sociales et politiques
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2019University of Warwick, PhD in Politics and International Relations
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2012London School of Economics, MSc Politics and Government in the European Union
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2011Royal Holloway, MSc International Relations
Publications
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2019Will Brexit Change the EU's Foreign Policy?, Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, 61(2), pp. 143-166
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2019Divisions within post-2011 Tunisia’s secular civil society, Democratization, 26(6), pp. 959-974
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2018Socio-economic challenges to Tunisia’s democratic transition, European View, 17(2), pp. 210–217
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- Location: Brussels, Belgium
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