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Dr. Derek Lutterbeck   

Deputy Director (Academic Affairs) and Holder of the Swiss Chair and
Lecturer in International History

 

Dr. Derek Lutterbeck joined MEDAC in 2006 as lecturer in international history and deputy director. Previously he was working as a programme coordinator at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, where he inter alia was responsible for a training programme for junior Swiss diplomats, as well as for the Centre’s training activities in southern Mediterranean countries. Before that, he worked as a consultant for the International Organisation for Migration and the International Labour Organisation, as a lecturer for the Diplomatic Studies Programme of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and as a researcher for a three-year project on Swiss foreign policy funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

 

Derek Lutterbeck earned a Masters and Ph.D in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, as well as a Masters Degree in Law from the University of Zürich. In 1999, he was awarded the Prix Arditi in International Relations from the Arditi Foundation in Geneva. His research interests include various contemporary security issues, such as transnational organised crime, recent developments in policing, and security sector reform issues, as well as migration and refugee policies. His teaching interests include 20th century international history, the transformation of violent conflict and terrorism. He has published articles in academic journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Mediterranean Politics, European Security, Cooperation and Conflict, and Bürgerrechte und Polizei.

Publications

 

Articles

 

“Policing Migration in the Mediterranean”, Mediterranean Politics, 2006, vol. 11, no. 1: 59-82.

 

“Policing the EU’s Mediterranean Borders: The Human Security Implications”, in: Peter Seeberg (ed), EU and the Mediterranean. Foreign Policy and Security (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2007).

 

“The EU and its Southern Neighbours: Promoting Security Sector Reform in the Mediterranean Region and the Middle East”, in: Philipp Fluri and David Spence (eds), The European Union and Security Sector Reform. Geneva: Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (forthcoming).

 

“Looking East and South: Looking East and South: Promoting Security Sector Reform in the EU’s Neighbourhood” in: Thanos Dokos (ed.), Security Sector Reform in Southeastern Europe, Kluwer Academic Publishers (forthcoming).

 

“Blurring the Dividing Line: The Convergence of Internal and External Security in Western Europe”, European Security, 2005, vol. 14, no. 2: 231-253.

 

“Between Police and Military: The New Security Agenda and the Rise of Gendarmeries”, Cooperation and Conflict, 2004, vol. 39, no. 1: 45-68.

 

“Catching the EC-Train. Switzerland and Austria in Comparative Perspective” (co-authored with Cedric Dupont and Pascal Sciarini), European Journal of International Relations, 1999, vol. 5, no. 2: 189-224.

 

“Der ‚weiche Unterleib’. Das Grenzkontrollregime an der Meeresenge von Otranto“, Bürgerrechte und Polizei, 2001(3): 74-79.

 

Switzerland and Cooperative Threat Reduction, GCSP Occasional Paper No. 43, Geneva, 2004.

 

 

Books

 

The Fortress Walls: Policing the EU’s External Borders, 1990-2001, Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 2003.

 

Security Governance in the Southern Mediterranean. Final report of project on Swiss Mediterranean policy, Geneva, December 2004.

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