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Oliver Jütersonke
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Biography:- Oliver Jütersonke obtained his doctorate from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in 2008, and completed his Diplôme d’Etudes Superieures (DES) at the same institute in 2002. Prior to this, he studied at the University of Exeter where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Politics with First Class Honours. Before becoming the Head of Research for the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) in 2008, he was first a Research Assistant, and then Research Coordinator for the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies (PSIS). He has taught graduate-level seminars and diplomatic training sessions on the subjects of post-conflict peacebuilding, foreign intervention, the responsibility to protect, and fragile states, and is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Research Centre for Ethics (Ethik-Zentrum), University of Zurich.
In addition to his publications in various journals including Cooperation and Conflict, the Journal of the History of International Law, Security Dialogue, and Third World Quarterly, Oliver Jütersonke has also written a chapter in Realism Reconsidered: The Legacy of Morgenthau in International Relations (edited by Michael C. Williams), and co-authored the Theme Chapter in Small Arms Survey 2007: Guns and the City.
Field(s)of Interest:- • The security-development nexus in the context of post-conflict peacebuilding
• Changing notions of sovereignty in international law and politics, particularly in cases of military intervention for humanitarian purposes
• The social and spatial dynamics of urbanization and their impact on development practices
• The history of the field of International Relations, and its relation to the social sciences and law
Selected Publications:- • (with Keith Krause) “Seeking out the State: Fragile States and International Governance” Politorbis, 42, 2007, 5-12.
• “The Image of Law in Politics among Nations” in Michael C. Williams, ed. Realism Reconsidered: Hans J. Morgenthau and International Relations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 93-117.
• (with Keith Krause and Robert Muggah) “Guns in the City” Small Arms Survey 2007 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 161-195.
• (with Keith Krause) “Peace, Security and Development in Post-Conflict Environments” Security Dialogue, 34(4), 2005, 447-462.
• (with Rolf Schwarz) “Divisible Sovereignty and State Reconstruction in Iraq” Third World Quarterly, 26(4), 2005, 643-659.
- Oliver Jütersonke obtained his doctorate from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in 2008, and completed his Diplôme d’Etudes Superieures (DES) at the same institute in 2002. Prior to this, he studied at the University of Exeter where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Politics with First Class Honours. Before becoming the Head of Research for the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) in 2008, he was first a Research Assistant, and then Research Coordinator for the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies (PSIS). He has taught graduate-level seminars and diplomatic training sessions on the subjects of post-conflict peacebuilding, foreign intervention, the responsibility to protect, and fragile states, and is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Research Centre for Ethics (Ethik-Zentrum), University of Zurich.

