Karin Aggestam
Professor, Director, MECW Scientific Coordinator
Karin Aggestam is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). She is also the Scientific Coordinator of the Strategic Research Area on the Middle East (MECW), Adjunct Professor at Monash University, Honorary Professor at University of Queensland and Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP). Karin previously held the Samuel Pufendorf Chair and Directorship of Peace and Conflict Studies at Lund University. She has also held assignments by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the Foreign Office as part of the International Observer Mission in Hebron (TIPH) in the West Bank.
Research interests
Karin's current interdisciplinary research interests include diplomacy, foreign policy, peace and conflict analysis, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Middle East politics. She has published 10 books and numerous articles in international journals and leading international Handbooks.
Publications
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The Failure of Diplomacy and Protection in Syria
Karin Aggestam, Tim Dunne
(2024) Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases
Book chapterThe Politics of Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond, Elsa Hedling
(2024)
BookCMES Policy-Research Dialogue: Exploring Europe’s Changing Perceptions and Policies Toward Iran
Karin Aggestam, Dalia Dassa Kaye
(2024)
ReportForeign Policy Analysis and Feminism
Karin Aggestam, Jacqui True
(2024) Oxford Handbooks
Book chapterSpecial Issue: Advancing a New Research Agenda on Digital Disruption in Diplomacy
(2024) The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 19
Editor for a journalIntroduction: Advancing a New Research Agenda on Digital Disruption in Diplomacy
Karin Aggestam, Constance Duncombe
(2024) The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 19 p.1-16
Journal articleNågon militär lösning på den israelisk-palestinska konflikten finns inte
Karin Aggestam, Dalia Dassa Kaye
(2023) Sydsvenskan
Newspaper articleDigital Norm Contestation and Feminist Foreign Policy
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond, Elsa Hedling
(2023) International Studies Perspectives
Journal articleKvinnor, fred och säkerhet i Mellanöstern och Nordafrika
Karin Aggestam, Linda Eitrem Holmgren
(2023) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 125 p.401-422
Journal articleDigital Disruption and Rethinking the ‘Script’ of Peace Mediation
Karin Aggestam, Elsa Hedling
(2023) The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 19 p.84-114
Journal articleThe rise of feminist governance in foreign policy
Karin Aggestam, Jacqui True
(2023) Handbook of Feminist Governance , p.203-215
Book chapterThe rise of feminist governance in foreign policy
Karin Aggestam, Jacqui True
(2023) Handbook of Feminist Governance , p.203-215
Book chapterThe gender-resilience nexus in peace building : the quest for sustainable peace
Karin Aggestam, Linda Eitrem Holmgren
(2022) Journal of International Relations and Development, 25 p.880-901
Journal articleFeminist digital diplomacy and foreign policy change in Sweden
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond, Elsa Hedling
(2022) Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 18 p.314-324
Journal articleThird-party Intervention and International Monitoring in the City of Hebron
Karin Aggestam
(2021) The Impact of Third-Party Mechanisms in Conflict Resolution : Lessons from the Temporary International Presence in Hebron
Report chapterPeace and Feminist Foreign Policy
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond
(2021) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies
Book chapterLösningen på Israel-Palestina-konflikten står att finna i regionen
Karin Aggestam, Isabell Schierenbeck
(2021) Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Debatt
Newspaper articlePolitical leadership and gendered multilevel games in foreign policy
Karin Aggestam, Jacqui True
(2021) International Affairs, 97 p.385-404
Journal articleGender and Peaceful Change
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond
(2021) The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations
Book chapterGendering foreign policy : A comparative framework for analysis
Karin Aggestam, Jacqui True
(2020) Foreign Policy Analysis, 16 p.143-162
Journal articleEditorial
Edward Newman, Jason Ralph, Jacqui True, Karin Aggestam, Navnita Chadha Behera, et al.
(2020) European Journal of International Security, 5 p.1-4
Journal article (comment)Leadership and Normative Entrepreneurship in the UN Security Council: : Sweden’s quest for peace in the Middle East
Karin Aggestam, Lisa Strömbom
(2020) Sweden in the UN Security Council
Report chapterPeacebuilding in the Middle East
Karin Aggestam, Lisa Strömbom
(2019) Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security , p.141-153
Book chapterThe gender turn in diplomacy : a new research agenda
Karin Aggestam, Ann Towns
(2019) International Feminist Journal of Politics, 21 p.9-28
Journal articleTheorising feminist foreign policy
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond, Annica Kronsell
(2019) International Relations, 33 p.23-39
Journal articleRe-politicising the Gender-Security Nexus. Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy.
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond
(2019) European Review of International Studies, 5 p.30-48
Journal articleFeminist Foreign Policy 3.0. Advancing Ethics and Gender Equality in Global Politics
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman Rosamond
(2019) SAIS Review of International Affairs, 39
Journal articleWPS, peace negotiations, and peace agreements
Karin Aggestam
(2018) The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security , p.815-828
Book chapterDepoliticisation, water, and environmental peacebuilding
Karin Aggestam
(2018) Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding , p.97-107
Book chapterDiplomacy - a gendered institution
Karin Aggestam, Ann Towns
(2018) Diplomacy in a Globalizing World
Book chapterWhere are the women in peace mediation?
Karin Aggestam, Isak Svensson
(2018) Gendering Diplomacy and International Negotiation , p.149-168
Book chapterConclusion : The Quest for Gender Justice in Diplomacy
Karin Aggestam, Ann E. Towns
(2018) Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations , p.277-293
Book chapterIntroduction : The Study of Gender, Diplomacy and Negotiation
Karin Aggestam, Ann E. Towns
(2018) Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations , p.1-22
Book chapterThe Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam - conflict and water diplomacy in the Nile Basin
Ronny Berndtsson, Kaveh Madani, Karin Aggestam, Dan-Erik Andersson
(2017) Water diplomacy in action. : Contingent approaches to managing complex water problems
Book chapterPreface—Hydrology and Peace in the Middle East
Karin Aggestam, Ronny Berndtsson
(2016) Hydrological Sciences Journal, 61 p.1301-1301
Journal articleDepoliticising water conflict. The quest for functional peacebuilding in the Red Sea-Dead-Sea-Water-Conveyance project.
Karin Aggestam, Anna Sundell
(2016) Hydrological Sciences Journal, 61 p.1302-1312
Journal articleSwedish Feminist Foreign Policy in the Making : Ethics, Politics, and Gender
Karin Aggestam, Annika Bergman-Rosamond
(2016) Ethics and International Affairs, 30 p.323-334
Journal articleThe failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria
Karin Aggestam, Tim Dunne
(2016) Foreign Policy : Theories, Actors, Cases
Book chapterThe Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Is There a Meeting Point between Nationalism and Hydrosolidarity?
Dalia Abdelhady, Karin Aggestam, Dan-Erik Andersson, Olof Beckman, Ronny Berndtsson, et al.
(2015) Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, 155 p.73-82
Journal articleThe Nile Basin and Hydrosolidarity
Karin Aggestam, Dan-Erik Andersson, Ronny Berndtsson, Kaveh Madani
(2015) The Middle East in London, 11
Journal articlePeace mediation and the minefield of international recognition games
Karin Aggestam
(2015) International Negotiation, 20 p.494-514
Journal articleDesecuritisation of water and the technocratic turn in peacebuilding
Karin Aggestam
(2015) International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 15 p.327-340
Journal articleTowards agonistic peacebuilding? : Exploring the antagonism–agonism nexus in the Middle East Peace process
Karin Aggestam, Fabio Cristiano, Lisa Strömbom
(2015) Third World Quarterly, 36 p.1736-1753
Journal articleGender, Nationalism, and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen
Karin Aggestam
(2014) Political Psychology, 35 p.593-594
ReviewConflict Analysis and International Relations
Karin Aggestam
(2014) Handbook of Global Political Psychology
Book chapterSituating water in peacebuilding
Karin Aggestam, Anna Sundell
(2014) Water International, 39 p.10-22
Journal articleDisempowerment and marginalisation of peace NGOs: Exposing peace gaps in Israel and Palestine
Karin Aggestam, Lisa Strömbom
(2013) Peacebuilding, 1 p.109-124
Journal articleIntroduction: The Study of Just and Durable Peace
Karin Aggestam, Annika Björkdahl
(2013) Rethinking Peacebuildning: The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans
Book chapterThe quest for recognitional peace. Reconciliation and the politics of (non)recognition
Karin Aggestam
(2013)
Conference paperRecognitional just peace
Karin Aggestam
(2013) Rethinking Peacebuildning: The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans
Book chapterUnilateralism, multilateralism and the quest for hydrosolidarity
Karin Aggestam
(2013)
Conference paperCan Integrated Water Resources Management contribute to sustainable peace in the Middle East?
Khaldoon A. Mourad, Ronny Berndtsson, Karin Aggestam
(2013) Journal of Geosciences and Environment Protection, 1 p.1-8
Journal articleBridging the just peace gaps
Karin Aggestam, Annika Björkdahl
(2013) Rethinking Peacebuildning: The Quest for Just Peace in the Middle East and the Western Balkans
Book chapterPower in peacebuilding. Desecuritization, technocracy and water management
Karin Aggestam
(2013)
Conference paperThe Psychology of Peacemaking
Karin Aggestam
(2012) Ways out of War. Peacemakers in the Middle East and Balkans
Book chapterKrig och fred i förändring
Karin Aggestam
(2012) Om krig och fred: Introduktion till freds- och konfliktstudier
Book chapterLocal peacebuilding between fear and fatigue in Israel and Palestine
Karin Aggestam, Lisa Strömbom
(2012)
Conference paperProlonged Peace Negotiations: Spoilers' Game
Karin Aggestam
(2012) Unfinished Business: Why International Negotiations Fail
Book chapterOm studiet av krig och fred
Karin Aggestam, Kristine Höglund
(2012) Om krig och fred: Introduktion till freds- och konfliktstudier
Book chapterWhere are the women in international mediation?
Karin Aggestam, Isak Svensson
(2012)
Conference paperSecuritization of water and liberal peacebuilding: Contradictions in terms and practices
Karin Aggestam
(2012)
Conference paperJust peace postponed. Unending peace processes and frozen conflicts
Karin Aggestam, Annika Björkdahl
(2011) Building Peace, Creating Conflict? Conflictual Dimensions of Local and International Peacebuilding
Book chapterPeace and hydro-politics: Revisiting water negotiations in the Middle East peace process
Karin Aggestam, Anna Sundell
(2011)
Conference paperMind the just peace gaps: Unending conflicts and peace processes in the Middle East and Western Balkans
Karin Aggestam, Annika Björkdahl
(2011)
Conference paperHydro-politics and liberal peacebuilding in the Jordan River Basin
Karin Aggestam, Anna Sundell
(2011)
Conference paperFredsforskning och internationella relationer
Karin Aggestam
(2010) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, 112
Journal articleConclusion: Changing Roles and Practices
Karin Aggestam, Annika Björkdahl
(2009) War and Peace in Transition
Book chapterIntroduction: War and Peace in Transition
Karin Aggestam, Annika Björkdahl
(2009) War and Peace in Transition
Book chapterDiplomacy in Theory and Practice
(2009)
BookThe Arab State and Neo-Liberal Globalization
Karin Aggestam, Laura Guazzone, Helen Lindholm Schulz, Kristina Paciello, Daniela Pioppi
(2009) The Arab State and Neo-Liberal Globalization. The Restructuring of State Power in the Middle East
Book chapterDiplomacy and Peacemaking in Transition
Karin Aggestam
(2009) Diplomacy in Theory and Practice
Book chapterSecurity, Globalisation and State Transformation in the Middle East
Karin Aggestam, Helena Lindholm Schulz
(2007)
Conference paperInternal and External Dynamics of Spoiling: A Negotiation Approach
Karin Aggestam
(2006) Spoilers and Peace Processes: Conflict Settlement and Devious Objectives
Book chapterEnhancing Ripeness: Transition from Conflict to Negotiation
Karin Aggestam
(2005) Escalation and negotiation in international conflicts
Book chapterTIPH: Preventing Conflict Escalation in Hebron?
Karin Aggestam
(2005) The Al-Aqsa Intifada Between Terrorism and Civil War
Book chapterIsraelisk identitetspolitik och postsionismens utmaningar
Karin Aggestam
(2004) Med gudomlig auktoritet : om religionens kraft i politiken
Book chapterInternal and External Impact of Spoiling in Peace Negotiations
Karin Aggestam
(2004)
Conference paper(O)Rättfärdiga Krig
(2004)
BookIsrael och al-Aqsa intifadan: Självförsvar och ockupationspolitik
Karin Aggestam
(2004) (O)Rättfärdiga Krig
Book chapterTwo-Track Diplomacy: Negotiations between Israel and the PLO through Open and Secret Channels
Karin Aggestam
(2004) Diplomacy
Book chapterConflict Prevention: Old Wine in New Bottles?
Karin Aggestam
(2003) International Peacekeeping, 10 p.12-23
Journal articleTIPH: Preventing Conflict Escalation in Hebron?
Karin Aggestam
(2003) Civil Wars, 6 p.51-69
Journal articleConflict Prevention. Old Wine in New Bottles?
Karin Aggestam
(2003) Mitigating conflict : the role of NGOs
Book chapterMediating Asymmetrical Conflict
Karin Aggestam
(2002) Mediterranean Politics, 7 p.69-91
Journal articleQuasi-Informal Mediation in the Oslo Channel : Larsen and Holst as Individual Mediators
Karin Aggestam
(2002) Studies in international mediation : essays in honor of Jeffrey Z. Rubin
Book chapterNegotiating Identity-Based Conflict in a Globalised Era: The Need of a Normative Framework
Karin Aggestam
(2002)
Conference paperEine Analyse der Israelisch-Palästinensischen Verhandlungen: Motivation, Legitimät und Timing
Karin Aggestam
(2002) Gewaltspirale ohne Ende? Konfliktstrukturen und Friedenschancen im Nahen Osten
Book chapterConstructing Facts on the Ground: Positivism and the Verification of Myths in Israel and India
Karin Aggestam, Catarina Kinnvall
(2002)
Conference paperNy amerikansk Mellanösternpolitik?
Karin Aggestam
(2001) Internationella Studier , p.44-53
Journal articleMediating Asymmetric Conflict: The Case of Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
Karin Aggestam
(2001)
Conference paperIdentity and Conflict Resolution: The Construction of a Third Culture of Negotiation
Karin Aggestam
(2001)
Conference paperFrom Theory to Practice. Temporary International Presence in Hebron
Karin Aggestam
(2001) Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 14 p.53-69
Journal articleThe Challenge of Third-Party Intervention in Asymmetric Conflict
Karin Aggestam
(2001)
Conference paperReconciliation and Reinterpretation of the Past: The "New" Israeli Historians and their Critics
Karin Aggestam
(2001)
Conference paperFrom Theory to Practice: Peacekeeping in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Karin Aggestam
(2000)
Conference paperReframing and Resolving Conflict : Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations 1988-1998
Karin Aggestam
(1999) Lund Political Studies
DissertationBook review: Coping with International Conflict
Karin Aggestam
(1999) Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 7
ReviewTrends in diplomatic signalling
Christer Jönsson, Karin Aggestam
(1999) Innovation in diplomatic practice
Book chapterDet israeliska arbetarpartiet: Från dominans till anpassning
Karin Aggestam
(1998) Tidskrift för Mellanösterstudier
ReviewPolitiska vägval för staten Israel vid Milleniumskiftet
Karin Aggestam
(1998) Utrikesperspektiv
Journal articleDiplomatic Signalling
Christer Jönsson, Karin Aggestam
(1997) Discussion papers in diplomacy
Working paperA World in Transition: Feminist Perspectives on International Relations
(1997) Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift
Book(Un)ending conflict : challenges in post-war bargaining
Karin Aggestam, Christer Jönsson
(1997) Millennium, 26 p.771-793
Journal articleBook review: Media and Political Conflict
Karin Aggestam
(1997) International Journal of Conflict Managment, 8
ReviewEtt besök vid "Jerusalem Link: A Women's Joint Venture for Peace"
Karin Aggestam
(1997) Aktuellt om kvinnoforskning
Journal articleTwo-Track Diplomacy: Negotiations Between Israel and the PLO Through Open and Secret Channels
Karin Aggestam
(1996) Davis Papers on Israel's Foreign Policy
Journal articleReframing International Conflicts: "Ripeness" in International Mediation
Karin Aggestam
(1995) Paradigms: Kent Journal of International Relations, 9 p.86-106
Journal articleReframing International Conflict
Karin Aggestam
(1995) Paradigms: Kent Journal of International Relations, 9
Journal article
High Resolution Photo
High resolution photo of Karin Aggestam (Photo: Johan Persson)
Research Projects
Current Projects at CMES
Water Security and Sustainable Development (2024-)
Being Young in Conflict (2024-)
Geopolitics and Regional Cooperation in MENA (2024-)
Gendering Peacemaking in the Middle East (2021-)
Research Data Infrastructure on MENA (2024-)