Adrian Rogstad lse.academia.edu/AdrianRogstad [email protected]

Summary profile

I am a PhD Candidate in International Relations at the LSE interested in sociological and historical approaches to IR and European international relations, broadly defined. My PhD project analyses the role of stigmatisation processes in shaping the norms of international society, with particular reference to Russian-Western relations. My next project will be on ‘Britain and the idea of Europe’.

Education

2015-19 PhD Candidate, International Relations School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) • Provisional thesis title: ‘Stigmatisation in International Relations: Russia, the West and International Society from the Cold War to Crimea’. • Supervisors: Dr George Lawson and Professor Iver B. Neumann.

2009-11 MPhil Russian and East European Studies – Distinction University of Oxford, St. Antony’s College • Thesis: ‘A Kaliningrad of the South? Russia and Transnistria, 1992-2008’. • Supervisor: Dr Alex Pravda.

2006-09 BSc International Relations and History – First Class Honours LSE • Thesis: ‘Strategy. Politics. Morality? Britain and the Czechoslovak Question, 1914-18’. • Supervisor: Professor Anita J. Prazmowska.

Employment

2012-15 Country Risk Analyst, Europe & CIS IHS (now IHS Markit) (London, UK and Moscow, Russia) • Analysed political and violent risks across Europe and Eurasia for private-sector clients.

2011-12 Intern, Norwegian Foreign Service ’s Permanent Delegation to the OSCE (Vienna, ) • Wrote reports and analytical briefings on European security and human rights issues.

Peer-reviewed publications

• ‘Theresa May: En uinspirerende leder i en uriaspost’ [Theresa May: an uninspiring leader in an exposed position]. Internasjonal Politikk 76:3 (2018), 279-289. • ‘The Next Crimea? Getting Russia’s Transnistria Policy Right’. Problems of Post-Communism 65:1 (2018), 49-64. • ‘Imperialistisk plan eller post-imperalistisk refleks? Russlands Transnistria-politikk revurdert’ [Imperialist plan or post-imperialist reflex? Re-assessing Russia’s Transnistria policy]. Nordisk Østforum 26:1 (2012), 31-52.

Manuscripts in progress

• ‘The End of Consensus? Folk Theory and the Politics of Foreign Policy in the Brexit Referendum’ (with Benjamin Martill). Resubmitted after R&R at Global Affairs.

1 • ‘When Stigmatisation Fails: Russia and the Waning of the Liberal Order’. In draft. Target journal: European Journal of International Relations. • ‘The Ukraine Crisis as International Political Reality Dispute’. In draft. Target journal: Review of International Studies. • ‘Vladimir Putin as Europe’s Other’. In development. • ‘Blame the Russians? The ‘pro-Russian’ label in European media discourse’. In development.

Teaching experience and qualifications

• Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy after completion of the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, 2018. • 2018-19: Class teacher, Revolutions in World Politics, LSE. Half-unit elective course. One postgraduate and one 3rd-year undergraduate class. Evaluation score: 4.8/4.5 on 5-1 scale. • 2017-18: Class teacher, Theories and Concepts of International Relations, LSE. 1st-year full-unit undergraduate introductory course to IR. Two classes. Evaluation score: 1.4 on 1-5 scale. • 2017: Class teacher, Revolutions in World Politics, LSE Summer School. Three-week course modelled on 3rd-year undergraduate module. Evaluation score: 4.6 on 5-1 scale. • 2016-17: Class teacher, Concepts of International Society, LSE. 1st-year full-unit undergraduate introductory course to IR. Two classes. Evaluation score: 1.6 on 1-5 scale.

Conference presentations

• International Studies Association (ISA): 2017, 2018, 2019. • European International Studies Association (EISA): 2018, 2019. • European Workshops in International Studies (EWIS): 2018, 2019. • British International Studies Association (BISA): 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. • Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA)-ISA: 2016. • Millennium conference: 2017. • UPTAKE Consortium Tartu Conference on Russian and East European Studies: 2018.

Professional service, elected positions and voluntary work

• Reviewer, Journal of Global Security Studies, Problems of Post-Communism. • Associate Editor, Millennium: Journal of International Studies vol. 48, 2018-19. • Editor, Millennium vol. 47, 2017-18. Conference/special issue topic: ‘Revolution and Resistance in World Politics’. • Deputy Editor, Millennium vol. 46, 2016-17. • Conference Organiser, Millennium conference 2016 ‘Racialized Realities in World Politics’. • Editorial Board Member, Millennium, 2015-2017. • Rapporteur, research workshops ‘The European Union and Its Eastern Neighbours – What Kind of Partnership?’ and ‘Prospects for the Caucasus’, University of Oxford, 2010. • Chair and Treasurer, Association of Norwegian Students Abroad Social Sciences Committee, 2008-10. • Trips Officer, Grimshaw International Relations Club: organised a two-week study trip for 14 participants to Romania, Moldova and Ukraine, April 2009. • Chair, Vice-Chair, External Relations Officer, LSESU Amnesty International Society, 2006-09.

Scholarships, honours and prizes

• Awarded a four-year LSE PhD Scholarship for 2015-19, value £18,000 per year. • Awarded a Goodwin Scholarship for 2017-18, value £800. • ‘Imperialistisk plan eller post-imperialistisk refleks?’: runner-up in publisher Universitetsforlaget’s journal article of the year competition, 2012, from 36 entries.

2 • Awarded a £1,000 annual grant towards MPhil tuition fees by the Oxford committee of the Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) consortium.

Invited speaking engagements

• Panellist, ‘Trump after 100 days – can we see any trends?’, Young Professionals in Foreign Policy event, London, May 2017 – covering Russian views of the Trump presidency. • Panellist, ‘Russia and the ‘de facto’ states in the former Soviet space: explorations in patron- client relationships’, seminar at the Norwegian University Centre, St. Petersburg, April 2017.

Short courses, training schools, colloquiums

• UPTAKE Consortium PhD training school, ‘Dividing Lines in Wider Europe’, University of Kent – Brussels School of International Studies, 9-13 January 2018. • The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR), Syracuse University, 19-30 June 2017. • Aberystwyth-LSE-Sussex PhD Theory Colloquium, ‘Making Theory Social’, University of Sussex, 9-10 May 2016. • LSE History and Theory Research Group PhD Colloquium, LSE, 7-8 May 2016. • Political Studies Association Short Course on ‘Process Tracing: Methodological Innovations and Best Practices for Qualitative Case Studies’ with Andrew Bennett, LSE, 18 March 2016. • Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and University of Oslo International Summer School in Peace Research, June-August 2009.

Languages

• Norwegian and English: native speaker. • German, Danish and Swedish: conversational. • Russian: intermediate. • French: basic.

Interests

• Playing board games, reading Russian and crime novels and watching football. • I am a keen cyclist – I completed the RideLondon- 100-mile cycling sportive in 2016. • I practise Taoist Tai Chi, an exercise form of the Chinese internal martial art Tai Chi.

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