Anders Nordström has a Ph.D. in political science and is post doctoral researcher at CBEES since 2010. His main specialisation is European politics, transnational regulation and international organisations monitoring of states with a focus on the Council of Europe and the Eastern Enlargement of this organisation. In his ongoing research project the Council of Europe's monitoring of new members as a form of cosmopolitan politics. In the project the monitoring processes of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan is compared. Anders Nordström views the drawn out monitoring processes as the creation of a sustained form of critical dialouge on what "European values" means in specific cases. The monitoring brings together a number of independent monitoring processes and actors to a continuous and open creation of soft regulation concerning how states in Europe ought to act in relation to their residents. He suggests that this is an example of cosmopolitan politics in the sense that European and national regulative processes are intertwined and interacts with each other in a quasi-legal space that is both national and European.

Publications:

"Soft powers (in a community of the willing)." In Bengt Jacobsson (ed.)The European Union and the Baltic States: Changing forms of governance, London: Routledge, 2010 [with Bengt Jacobsson]

"Ukraina –Stat och nation under förhandling." In Fredrika Björklund och Johnny Rodin (eds.), Det nya Östeuropa: Stat och nation i förändring. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2009 [with Margrethe Søvik]

The Interactive Dynamics of Regulation: Exploring the Council of Europe's Monitoring of Ukraine. Stockholms Universitet. 2008 [doctoral dissertation].

"Europeanization of Ukraine in the Sphere of Local Self-Governance? The Monitoring of ECLSG Compliance in Ukraine." in Egle Rindzeviciute (ed.) Contemporary Change in Ukraine. Huddinge: Södertörns Högskola, Baltic and East European Studies 5, 2006

"God vilja och stora problem i Ukraina". Folk och Försvar, nr 6 2005, s. 18-19.

"Attentat och ryktesspridning i valet i Ukraina". Folk och Försvar, nr 6 2004, s. 17.

"Reglerare, reglerade och regelskapande processer." in Göran Ahrne och Nils Brunsson (eds.) Regelexplosionen. Stockholm: EFI, Handelshögskolan, 2004

Fredsskapande och demokrati. Den Höge Representanten i Bosnien Hercegovina. Occasional paper no 20, Utrikespolitiska Institutet. 2001