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Curriculum Vitae
Research and teaching positions
Since 09/2017 University of Gothenburg, School of Global Studies: Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher
10–12/2018 Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta: Visiting Fellow
04–06/2018 The New School, New York City, Schools of Public Engagement: Visiting Research Scholar
04–09/2017 University of Freiburg, Department of Political Science: Visiting Lecturer
04–09/2017 University of Würzburg, Institute of Political Science and Sociology: Visiting Lecturer
10/2014–04/2015 University of Tübingen, Institute of Political Science: Visiting Lecturer
06–09/2012 University of Würzburg, Institute of Political and Social Science: student mentor for
undergraduate students
10/2010–03/2012 University of Würzburg, Chair for Comparative Politics and Political Systems: teaching
assistant for the introductory lecture “Political and Social Studies”
10/2010–03/2012 University of Würzburg, Chair for Comparative Politics and Political Systems: student
assistant
02-04/2011 German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin: internship at the
Asia Research Group, participation in the research project “Die Anderen und die EU” [The
Others and the EU]
Dr Kilian Spandler
School of Global Studies
Box 700
405 30 Gothenburg
Sweden
+46 70 3120878 [email protected]
Twitter @Kilian Spandler
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Education
03/2013–06/2016 University of Tübingen, PhD in Political Science. Thesis topic: “Regional Organizations in
International Society: Decolonization, Regionalization and Enlargement in Europe and
Southeast Asia”. Supervisors: Professor Thomas Diez, Professor Gunter Schubert. Final
grade: 0,0 (summa cum laude) on a scale from 0 to 4, with 0 being the highest and 3 the
minimum for passing
10/2015–03/2016 Free University of Berlin, KFG “The Transformative Power of Europe”, PhD Completion
Grant holder. Supplementary thesis supervisor: Professor Thomas Risse
10/2006–07/2012 University of Würzburg, Magister Artium (joint undergraduate and Master degree) in
Political Science (major), Sociology and Economics (minors). Final grade of 1,6 on a scale
from 1 to 5, with 1 being the highest possible score and 4 the minimum for passing
Research grants, stipends and scholarships
Since 01/2019 Research grant by the Swedish Research Council for the three-year project “Regional
Cooperation and the Transformation of National Sovereignty in the Global South
(TRANSFORM)” (4 459 749,00 Swedish kronor/ca. 420 000,00 € co-applicant with
Fredrik Söderbaum)
09/2017–02/2020 Research fellowship by the German Research Foundation for the project “Legitimating
Global-Regional Security Cooperation: Discursive Frictions and the Success of Multilevel
Security Operations”, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg (78 330,72 €)
04–12/2018 Post-doctoral stipend by the German Academic Exchange Service for research travel in
the United States of America and Indonesia (23 103,00 €)
10/2015–03/2016 Free University of Berlin, KFG “The Transformative Power of Europe“, PhD Completion
Grant (7 800 €)
10/2013–09/2015 Doctoral stipend by the State Postgraduate Research Scholarship Programme, Baden-
Württemberg/Germany (24 000,00 €)
Travel grants
03/2019 Travel grant by the German Academic Exchange Service for participation in the ISA
Annual Convention, 27–30 March, Toronto
04/2018 Travel grant by the Knut och Alice Wallenberg Foundation for research travel in the
United States of America
04/2018 Travel grant by the International Studies Association for participation in the ISA Annual
Convention, 4–7 April, San Francisco
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04/2017 Travel grant by the German Academic Exchange Service for participation in the 5th Global
International Studies Conference, 1–4 April, Taipei
09/2016 Travel grant by the German Academic Exchange Service for participation in the 10th Pan-
European Conference on International Relations, 7–10 September, Izmir (not accessed
due to cancellation of conference)
02/2015 Travel grant by the German Academic Exchange Service for participation in the ISA
Annual Convention, 18–21 February, New Orleans
Awards
08/2014 “Review2014” essay contest of the German Ministry of the Exterior, winning essay:
Komplexität aufbauen statt abbauen – Wider eine Politik der neuen deutschen
Verantwortung [Increasing, not reducing complexity: A Critique of the Policy of a New
Germany Responsibility] (with Hanna Pfeifer)
University self-administration
05/2015–06/2016 Executive committee member of the postgraduate convent of the Faculty of Economics
and Social Sciences, University of Tübingen
09/2014–05/2015 Member of the preparation group for the postgraduate convent of the Faculty of
Economics and Social Sciences, University of Tübingen
Participation in conferences and workshops
12/2019 Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law, Annual
Conference “Beyond Western Liberalism: Mapping Blind Spots in IR Norms Research”, 2–
3 December, Giessen: paper presentation
11/2019 Research Workshop of the School of Global Studies’ Research Group on Regional and
Global Governance, 20 May, Gothenburg: paper presentation, discussant.
Gothenburg Centre for Globalization and Development, Workshop “(De)Globalization
and Development in the New Age of Populisms”, 14–15 November, Gothenburg: paper
presentation
06/2019 5th Joint Nordic Conference on Development Research (NorDev), 27–28 June,
Copenhagen: co-convener of the panel section “Development Regionalism in the Global
South: Return of Sovereignty?”
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05/2019 Research Workshop of the School of Global Studies’ Research Group on Regional and
Global Governance, 20 May, Gothenburg: paper presentation, discussant.
German Political Science Association (DVPW), Standing Group on European Studies and
Comparative Regionalism, Annual Convention, 2–3 May, Magdeburg: paper presentation
03/2019 ISA Annual Convention, 6–9 April, Toronto: roundtable participant, paper presentation,
panel chair
08/2018 ECPR General Conference, 22–25 August, Hamburg: paper presentation, discussant
04/2018 ISA Annual Convention, 4–7 April, San Francisco: co-convenor of the panel “The Regional-
Global Order Nexus in International Relations”, paper presentation, discussant
10/2017 Symposium “Is the English School still an Underexploited Resource in IR?”, 12–13
October, St Andrews: paper presentation
07/2017 Tübingen Symposium on Ethics, 24–26 July, Tübingen: paper presentation
04/2017 5th Global International Studies Conference, 1–3 April, Taipei: co-convenor of the section
“Europe and Asia as Regional International Societies” and the panel “Ambiguity in
International Society”, paper presentation
09–10/2016 3-Länder-Tagung – Joint Congress of the Political Science Associations of Germany,
Austria and Switzerland, 29 September–1 October, Heidelberg: paper presentation
07–08/2016 IFAIR’s “3rd EU-ASEAN Perspectives Dialogue” (online conference), 30 July – 08 August:
convenor
06/2016 Joint UWA-EKUT Workshop “Regions in Crisis: ASEAN and the EU”, 2–3 June 2016,
Tübingen: paper presentation
04/2016 Workshop “An International Society of What? The State and Beyond”, EISA European
Workshops in International Studies, 6–8 April, Tübingen: convenor
06/2015 Workshop on the present state of regional international society research, 12 June,
Roskilde: paper presentation
03/2015 IFAIR’s “2nd EU-ASEAN Perspectives Dialogue” (online conference), 14–28 March:
convenor
02/2015 ISA Annual Convention, 18–21 February, New Orleans: paper presentation
08/2014 4th Global International Studies Conference 2014, 6–9 August, Frankfurt a. M.: paper
presentation
05/2014 4th European Union in International Affairs Conference, 22–24 May, Brussels: paper
presentation
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04/2014 UACES post-graduate conference New Horizons in European Studies, 24–25 April,
Birmingham: paper presentation
02/2014 Authors’ Workshop “The European Union’s Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective:
Policy Evaluation and Generating Hypotheses on ‘Actorness and Power’”, 7–8 February,
Berlin: paper presentation
10/2013 IFAIR’s “1st EU-ASEAN Perspectives Dialogue” (online conference), 12 and 19 October:
convenor
04/2013 International German-Norwegian Conference “The EU’s Foreign Policy in Comparative
Perspective”, 18–19 April, Berlin: paper presentation, discussant
Invited talks
12/2019 “Populismus in der EU – Populismus gegen die EU? Orbán und die Visegrád-Gruppe
[Populism in the EU – Populism against the EU? Orbán and the Visegrád Group.” Helmut
Schmidt University Hamburg, 4 December
11/2019 “Make the EU Weak again? Orbán, Populism and Regional Cooperation.” Brännpunkt
Europa lunch seminar, 18 November, Gothenburg.
12/2018 “Regional Organizations in International Society: ASEAN, the EU and the Politics of
Normative Arguing.” Book discussion, Faculty for Social and Political Science, Universitas
Indonesia, 13 December
11/2018 “ASEAN and the EU: Young Perspectives on Regional Organizations in Uncertain Times.”
Monthly discussion, Faculty for Social and Political Science, Universitas Indonesia, 1
November
11/2018 “Global-Regional Security Cooperation in a Multiplex World.” International Postgraduate
Students Conference 2018, Universitas Indonesia, 14–15 November, Depok
Policy-related volunteer work
10/2016–09/2019 Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs and International Relations (IFAIR): Member of the
Executive Board
01/2013–11/2016 Founding and Executive Board Member of the IFAIR Impact Group “EU-ASEAN
Perspectives”, a network organizing policy-related events for students and young
practitioners from Europe and Southeast Asia (http://ifair.eu/en/act/impact-group-eu-
asean-perspectives/)
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12/2014–09/2016 IFAIR Regional Director South and East Asia. Management of the regional section of the
Open Think Tank, member of the organization’s general steering committee
06/2013–11/2014 IFAIR Assistant Regional Director South and East Asia. Supporting management of the
regional section of the Open Think Tank, member of the organization's general steering
committee
Advisory activities
Since 09/2019 Member of the Editorial Board of GLOBAL – Jurnal Politik Internasional
Since 06/2019 Mentoring of research interns at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
Since 07/2018 Bürgerbeteiligung in der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik [Civil Society Participation in
Foreign and Security Policy-making]. Research project by Anna Geis and Hanna Pfeifer,
Helmut Schmidt University of Hamburg: advisory partner
Refereeing Global Change, Peace & Security, IReflect: Student Journal of International Relations,
Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of Contemporary European
Studies, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, Relaciones
Internacionales, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen
Membership in professional associations
European International Studies Association (EISA)
International Studies Association (ISA)
German Political Science Association (DVPW)
Languages
German (native)
English (fluent, IELTS band score 8.5/CEFR Level C2)
French (advanced, three years of secondary school education and 5-month stay in
France and French-speaking Switzerland)
Swedish (advanced, 3 courses at the University of Gothenburg)
Indonesian (beginner, self-educated and 3-month stay in Jakarta)
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List of publications
Monograph
2018 Regional Organizations in International Society: ASEAN, the EU and the Politics of
Normative Arguing (Palgrave Studies in International Relations): Palgrave Macmillan.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Forthc. Regionale Integration durch normative Diskurse: Die Legitimierung von
Verrechtlichungsprozessen in der ASEAN und der EU [Regional Integration through
Normative Discourses: Legitimating Legalization Processes in ASEAN and the EU], in:
Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen.
2018 Regional Standards of Membership and Enlargement in the EU and ASEAN, in: Marc
Beeson und Thomas Diez (eds.): Responding to Crises: Europe and Southeast Asia (Asia
Europe Journal Special Issue 16:2), pp. 183–198.
2016 EU, US and ASEAN Actorness in G20 Financial Policy-Making: Bridging the EU Studies–
New Regionalism Divide (with Steffen Murau), in: Journal of Common Market Studies 54:4,
pp. 928–943. Also published in the Virtual Issue: East Asia (2016). Citations: 4 (Google
Scholar), 3 (Web of Science).
2015 The Political International Society: Change in Primary and Secondary Institutions, in:
Review of International Studies 41:3, pp. 601–622. Citations: 28 (Google Scholar), 9 (Web
of Science).
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Chapters in peer-reviewed edited volumes
Forthc. Regional Organization in Southeast Asia, in: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of
International Studies. Oxford University Press.
Forthc. Using the English School to Understand Current Issues in World Politics (with Charlotta
Friedner Parrat), in: Cornelia Navari (ed.): The English School (Trends in European IR
Theory), Palgrave Macmillan.
2018 Primary Institutional Dynamics and the Emergence of Regional Governance in Southeast
Asia: Constructing Post-Colonial International Societies, in: Tonny Brems Knudsen and
Cornelia Navari (eds.): International Organization in the Anarchical Society: The
Institutional Structure of World Order (Palgrave Studies in International Relations),
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 321–355.
2016 IMF Reform Negotiations in the G20: Comparing Actorness and Power in the Foreign
Financial Policies of the EU, the U.S. and ASEAN (with Steffen Murau), in: Ingo Peters (ed.):
The European Union’s Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Beyond the ‘Actorness
and Power’ Debate (UACES Contemporary EU Studies Series), London and New York:
Routledge, pp. 41–60.
PhD thesis
2016 Regional Organizations in International Society: Decolonization, Regionalization and
Enlargement in Europe and Southeast Asia, Tübingen: Eberhard Karls Universität
Tübingen, https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10900/
71317/Spandler_Diss.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Conference proceedings
2019 Global-Regional Security Cooperation in a ’Multiplex’ World, in: International Relations in
the Age of Disruption: Power Shift, Power Diffusion and New Complexities. Proceedings
of the International Postgraduate Students Conference IPGSC 2018, Universitas
Indonesia, 14–15 November, Depok, pp. 15–18.
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Policy commentaries and other publications
2018 The Value of Diverse Societies: Lessons from EU-ASEAN Dialogue, Singapore – Insights
from the Inside, Volume III: One ASEAN Community for a Better World. Singapore: The
Nutgraf LLP, pp. 72– 75.
2017 The EU as a Global Development Actor: Three Challenges, in: Diplomatisches Magazin June
2017, pp. 40–41.
What Can ASEAN Teach the EU? ASEAN Has the Chance to Develop Normative Power
thanks to its Diversity – Assuming it Can Overcome Social Divisions, in: The Diplomat, 21
January, http://thediplomat.com/2017/01/what-can-asean-teach-the-eu/.
2015 Building Interregional Networks among Young Researchers: IFAIR's 2nd EU-ASEAN
Perspectives Dialogue, in: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Affairs 8:1.
A Foundation Stone of South-South Solidarity: The ‘Spirit of Bandung’ is still at Work 60
Years after the Asian-African Conference, in: Diplomatisches Magazin, March 2015, pp.
32–33.
2014 The Responsibility to be Responsible: Über Außenpolitik und Verantwortung [On Foreign
Policy and Responsibility] (with Hanna Pfeifer), in: Wissenschaft und Frieden 4, pp. 36–
39.
Komplexität aufbauen statt abbauen: Wider eine Politik der neuen deutschen
Verantwortung [Increasing Complexity, not Reducing it: A Critique of the Policy of New
German Responsibility] (with Hanna Pfeifer), in: Osnabrücker Jahrbuch Frieden und
Wissenschaft 21, Göttingen: V&R unipress, pp. 187-190.
2013 Indonesien und die EU: Mehr Handel als Handeln [Indonesia and the EU: a lot of Trade,
little Action] (with Howard Loewen), in: Gudrun Wacker and Kai-Olaf Lang (eds.): Die EU
im Beziehungsgefüge großer Staaten: Komplex – kooperativ – krisenhaft [The EU as part of
a Major Power Network: Complex – Cooperative – Crisis-laden] (SWP-Studie 25), Berlin:
SWP, pp. 41–52.
Dismantling the Fortress: The EU’s Immigration Flaws, The European, 2 October 2013,
http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/kilian-spandler/7500-the-eus-immigration-
flaws.
Global, but only Regionally: Indonesia on the World Stage, in: Diplomatisches Magazin
June 2013, pp. 40–41.
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2012 The Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute – Power, Institutions, and Identities in East Asia’s ‘other’
Territorial Conflict (24 November 2012), http://ifair.eu/the-dokdotakeshima-dispute-
power-institutions-and-identities-in-east-asias-other-territorial-conflict/.
Burma’s Transformation? Give ASEAN Some Credit (28 May 2012),
http://ifair.eu/think/burmas-transformation-give-asean-some-credit/.
Who’s after Hu? The Bo Xilai Incident and the Future of Political Leadership in China (6
April 2012), http://ifair.eu/think/whos-after-hu-the-bo-xilai-incident-and-the-future-
of-political-leadership-in-china/.
2011 Community Building in the Asia Pacific – A New Role for the Expanded East Asia Summit?
(8 October 2011), http://ifair.eu/think/community-building-in-the-asia-pacific-a-new-
role-for-the-expanded-east-asia-summit/.
Editorship
IFAIR "EU-ASEAN Perspectives" Policy Paper Series, Vol. 1–2, Berlin/Brussels: IFAIR,
http://ifair.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IFAIR-Unlocking-the-
Potential-of-Interregionalism.pdf, http://ifair.eu/wordpress/wp-
content/uploads/2015/06/IFAIR_Making_Interregionalism_Actionable_WEB.
pdf.
Conference and workshop papers
2019 Saving People or Saving Face? Four Narratives of Regional Humanitarian Order in
Southeast Asia. Presented at the Research Workshop of the School of Global Studies’
Research Group on Regional and Global Governance, 20 May, Gothenburg, and the
Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law, Annual
Conference “Beyond Western Liberalism: Mapping Blind Spots in IR Norms Research”, 2–
3 December, Giessen.
Contestations of the Liberal International Order: A Populist Script of Regional Cooperation
(with Fredrik Söderbaum and Agnese Pacciardi). Presented at the Gothenburg Centre for
Globalization and Development, Workshop “(De)Globalization and Development in the
New Age of Populisms”, 14–15 November, Gothenburg, the Research Workshop of the
School of Global Studies’ Research Group on Regional and Global Governance, 20 May,
Gothenburg, and the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics
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and Law, Annual Conference “Beyond Western Liberalism: Mapping Blind Spots in IR
Norms Research”, 2–3 December, Giessen.
Regional Integration through Normative Arguing: Legitimating Legalization in ASEAN and
the EU. Presented at the 5th Joint Nordic Conference on Development Research, 27–28
June, Copenhagen.
Why Cooperate? National Sovereignty Understandings and Regionalism (with Fredrik
Söderbaum). Presented at the 5th Joint Nordic Conference on Development Research, 27–
28 June, Copenhagen.
On the Meaning(s) of Norms in International Relations: Ambiguity and the Prospects for
Global Governance in a Post-Hegemonic World (with Thomas Linsenmaier and Dennis R.
Schmidt). Presented at the Research Workshop of the School of Global Studies’ Research
Group on Regional and Global Governance, 20 May, Gothenburg.
Normative Diskurse und regionale Integration: Funktionalistische Legitimierung in
rechtlichen Institutionalisierungsprozessen der ASEAN und der EU (Normative Discourses
and Regional Integration: Functionalist Legitimation in legal institutionalization in
ASEAN and the EU). Presented at the Annual Convention of the German Political Science
Association’s (DVPW) Standing Group on European Studies and Comparative
Regionalism, 2–3 May, Magdeburg.
Legitimating Global-Regional Peacekeeping Cooperation: UNAMID and the Hybridity
Paradox. Presented at the ISA Annual Convention, 27-30 March, Toronto.
2018 Norm Meanings, Ethics, and Global Governance (with Thomas Linsenmaier and Dennis R.
Schmidt). Presented at the ECPR General Conference, 22–25 August, Hamburg.
Legitimizing Global-Regional Security Cooperation: Primary Institutions, Discursive
Frictions and EULEX Kosovo. Presented at the ISA Annual Convention, 4–7 April, San
Francisco.
2017 Legitimizing Global-Regional Security Cooperation: Primary Institutions and Discursive
Frictions. Presented at the Symposium “Is the English School still an Underexploited
Resource in IR”, 12–13 October, St Andrews.
Norm Ambiguity and the Ethics of Global Governance (with Thomas Linsenmaier and
Dennis R. Schmidt). Presented at the 5th Global International Studies Conference, 1–3
April, Taipei, and the Tübingen Symposium on Ethics, 24–26 July, Tübingen.
2016 Regional ‘Standards of Civilization’ and Enlargement in the EU and ASEAN. Presented at
the 3-Länder-Tagung - Joint Congress of the Political Science Associations of Germany,
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Austria and Switzerland, 29 September–1 October, Heidelberg, and the Joint UWA-EKUT
Workshop “Regions in Crisis: ASEAN and the EU”, 2–3 June 2016, Tübingen.
2015 Comparing Regional International Societies: Regionalism and Regionalization in Europe
and Southeast Asia. Presented at the Workshop on the present state of regional
international society research, 12 June, Roskilde.
Constructing Post-Colonial International Societies: Change in the Primary and Secondary
Institutions in Southeast Asia. Presented at the ISA Annual Convention, 18–21 February,
New Orleans.
2014 Primary and Secondary Institutions in Regional Orders – an English School Framework for
Analysis. Presented at the 4th Global International Studies Conference 2014, 6–9 August,
Frankfurt a. M.
IMF Reform Negotiations in the G20: Comparing Actorness and Power in the Foreign
Financial Policies of the EU, the U.S. and ASEAN (with Steffen Murau). Presented at the 4th
European Union in International Affairs Conference, 22–24 May, Brussels, the Authors’
Workshop “The European Union’s Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Policy
Evaluation and Generating Hypotheses on ‘Actorness and Power’”, 7–8 February 2014,
Berlin, and the International German-Norwegian Conference “The EU’s Foreign Policy in
Comparative Perspective”, 18–19 April 2013, Berlin.
Pathways to Integration: Primary and Secondary Institutions in Europe. Presented at the
UACES post-graduate conference New Horizons in European Studies, 24–25 April,
Birmingham.
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