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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 kilian.spandler@gu.se

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.