Mikael af Malmborg
 Fil dr, forskare
 
 Born:  15 November 1962
 Dead:  20 May 2001
 
 The funeral was on 20 June 2001,
 in Lunds Domkyrka (the Cathedral
 of Lund, Sweden)
 
 Previous office at Utrikespolitiska institutet
 Tel: +46 (0)8 696 05 23,  Fax: +46 (0)8 20 10 49		  

 

Received his Bachelors degree from Lund University in 1987.

After two years in journalism he returned to academia and joined a research project directed by Prof. Sven Tägil on the crisis of the nation-state.
From 1991 to 1994 Mikael was a researcher at The European University Institute in Florence.
In 1995 he presented his PhD thesis on Sweden and West European integration 1945-59.
 
From 1995 to 1999: worked on a research project on Sweden and the Stable Peace.
During the academic year 1998-99 he was a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford.
From 1999 a research fellow in European Cultural Integration at the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSFR).
 

MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  •  The history and culture of European integration. National and European identities.
  •  Swedish neutrality and national identity. Sweden's transition from warfare to welfare state.
  •  Historical sociology and 'Begriffsgeschichte'.
     

PUBLICATIONS

  1. (1992), 'Il sistema politico svedese: una 'terza via' ormai logorata', in: Ciuffoletti Zeffiro, Noiret Serge (eds), I modelli di democrazia in Europa e il caso italiano, Firenze, Ponte alle Grazie.
  2. (1998), 'Sverige i Norden och Europa - från Kalmarunion till EG-integration' [Sweden in Norden and Europe - from the Kalmar Union to EU Integration], in Sven Tägil, (ed), Europa - Historiens återkomst, 3rd rev. edition, Gidlunds, Hedemora (first editions 1992).
  3. (1995), 'The Creation of EFTA', in Thorsten B. Olesen (ed.), Interdependence versus Integration. Denmark, Scandinavia and European Integration: 1945-1960, Odense: Odense University Press (with Johnny N. Laursen).
  4. (1997), 'From bridge building to West European economic integration - Sweden in the OEEC', in Richard T Griffiths, Explorations in OEEC History, OECD Paris/London. (also available in French: A la découverte de l'OECE).
  5. (1996), 'The Neutral Left in the Cold. Sweden and the First Attempt to Enlarge the European Community.', in Griffiths, Richard & Ward Stuart (eds.), Courting the Common Market. The First Attempt to Enlarge the European Community, 1961-1963, London: Lothian Foundation.
  6. (1994), Den ståndaktiga nationalstaten. Sverige och den västeuropeiska integrationen 1945-1959, [The Resilient Nation-State. Sweden and West European Integration, 1945-59], Lund: Lund University Press. (abstract) (summary)
  7. (2000), 'How can defence issues be avoided in European integration? Sweden, the EDC and the Eden Plan', in Michel Dumoulin (ed.), La Communauté européene de défense, leçons pour demain?/The European Defence Community, Lessons for the Future?, Euroclio, Brussels: Peter Lang.
  8. (2000), 'Sweden's long road to an agreement with the EEC, 1956-1972', in: Michael Gehler & Rolf Steininger (eds), Die Neutralen und die europäische Integration 1945-1995/The Neutrals and the European Integration 1945-1995, Wien: Böhlau Verlag.
  9. (1995), 'Den ståndaktiga nationalstaten. Formativa år för svensk Europapolitik 1945-1959', in Silva Charles & Jonter Thomas (red), Sverige inför en ny världsordning. Formativa år för svensk utrikespolitik?, Research Report 21, Stockholm: Swedish Institute for International Affairs.
  10. (1995), 'Historiska perspektiv på EUs östutvidgning' [Historical perspectives on the eastern enlargement of the European Union], in Utvidgning och samspel. EU:s östintegration ur historiskt och ekonomiskt perspektiv. Förhållandet småstat-stormakt: svenskt identitetsbyte, SOU 1995:132, Stockholm. (Research report written for the Swedish parliamentary commission on the IGC 96). (abstract)
  11. (1997), 'Swedish Neutrality, the Finland Argument and the Enlargement of "Little Europe"', Journal of European Integration History, 3 (1) (ed. Alan S. Milward). (abstract)
  12. (1999), 'Scandinavian responses to the proposed first enlargement of the EEC', in Deighton Anne & Milward Alan S. (eds.), Acceleration, Deepening, and Enlarging: the European Economic Community, 1957-1963, Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag.
  13. (1996), 'Small States and Morality in International Relations - Comparing Australasia and Scandinavia'. Report for the Sasakawa JREX Program (with Bjarne K. Lie and Stuart Ward).
  14. (1996), 'Två år i EU - en jämförelse mellan Finland och Sverige' [Two Years in the EU: a Comparison between Finland and Sweden], in: Nyhetsbrev från Utrikespolitiska institutet och Överstyrelsen för Civil Beredskap.
  15. (2001), 'Swedish Social Democracy, Neutrality, and the Visions of the Marshall Plan', in: Pharo Helge et al (eds.), Small States and the Marshall Plan, Oslo: Scandinavian University Press (forthcoming).
  16. (1998), ' "Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga com'é, bisogna che tutto cambi." Stat och nation i Italien' ['If we want things to remain as they are, we have to change everything': state and nation in Italy], in: Sven Tägil, (ed.), Europa - Historiens återkomst, 3rd rev. edition, Gidlunds, Hedemora.
  17. (1998), 'Geopolitik och kulturell konstruktion i Norden' [Geopolitics and cultural construction in Norden], in: Olsen Johan P. and Sverdrup Bjørn Otto (eds.), Europeiseringen og nordisk samarbejd, Oslo: ARENA.
  18. 'Neutrality as Political Identity ­ Rethinking Swedish Cold War History', paper presented at the conference "The Nordic Countries and the Cold War", Reykjavik 98 06 24-27. (abstract)
  19. 'Svenskarna och fredens blandade välsignelse' [The Swedes and the Mixed Blessings of Peace], Kosmopolis, 29, 1999(4): 83-87.
  20. 'Neutraliteten och den svenska identiteten', Internationella Studier, 2000(1): 55-67.
  21. (2000), 'Europas krig och fredens försvenskning', in Almqvist Kurt och Cay Glans (red.) 'Den svenska framgångssagan', Stockholm: Svenska Dagbladet/Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnson Stiftelse.
  22. Peace in One Country. Neutrality and State-Building in Sweden, Basingstoke: Macmillan (forthcoming 2001). (abstract)
  23. 'Finland and Sweden in the EU', (together with Teija Tiilikainen), in: Vaahtoranta Tapani, Huldt Bo, Teija Tiilikainen (eds), Comparing Finnish and Swedish Security Policy, Stockholm: Swedish Defence College (forthcoming).
  24. 'Sweden - History, impact of the EC/EU and state of research. Report for the project Constituting the European Union', Bonn: Zentrum für europäische Integrationsforschung (forthcoming).
  25. 'Sweden's Third Way in European Perspective', in Ilaria Favretto (ed.), Is There a European Third Way?, Oxford: St. Antony's College (forthcoming).
  26. 'Sweden ­ NATO's Neutral Ally? A Post-Revisionist Account', in: Gustav Schmidt (ed.), NATO ­ the First Fifty Years, Basingstoke: Macmillan (forthcoming 2000).
     

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. (1993), Review of Jean-Pierre Mousson-Lestang, La Scandinavie et l'Europe de 1945 à nos jours, Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1990, in Scandinavian Journal of History 18 (4).
  2. (1995), Review of Bo Stråth, Folkhemmet mot Europa. Ett historiskt perspektiv på 90-talet, Stockholm: Tiden 1993, Scandia 67 (4).
  3. (1997), 'Sverige i det fascistiska Italiens utrikespolitik' [Sweden in the Foreign Policy of Fascist Italy]. Review essay on Marcos Cantera Carlomagno, Ett folk av mänsklig granit. Sverige i den italienska utrikespolitiken 1932-36, Lund 1995 (PhD), in Historisk Tidskrift, (1).
  4. (1998), Patrick Salmon (1997), Scandinavia and the Great Powers 1890-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, The International History Review.
  5. Review Essay on Wolfram Kaiser (1997), Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans. Britain and European Integration, 1945-63, Basingstoke: Macmillan, Under Strecket, Svenska Dagbladet, 1999.
  6. 'Blir tredje vägen samlande ideologi i EU?' (Review essay on Anthony Giddens Giddens (1998), The Third Way, London: Polity Press), Under Strecket, Svenska Dagbladet, 4.8.1999.
  7. 'Svensk identitet har djupa rötter', (Review essay on Harald Gustafsson (2000), Gamla riken och nya stater. Statsbildning, politisk kultur och identitet under Kalmarunionens upplösningsskede 1512-1541, Stockholm: Atlantis; and Jonas Nordin (2000), Ett fattigt men fritt folk. Nationell och politisk självbild i Sverige från sen stormaktstid till slutet av frihetstiden, Stehag: Brutus Östling Bokförlag Symposion), Under Strecket, Svenska Dagbladet 22.9.2000.
  8. Review essay on Lizelotte Lundgren-Rydén (2000), Ett svenskt dilemma. Socialdemokraterna, centern och EG-frågan 1957-1994, Göteborg: Department of History, Under Strecket, Svenska Dagbladet, October 2000.
  9. Max Jakobson (1999), Finlands väg 1899­1999. Från kampen mot tsarväldet till EU-medlemskap, Stockholm: Atlantis, Historisk Tidskrift, 3/2000.
     

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • 'The Crisis of the Nation-State? Integration and Disintegration in Europe', Department of History, Lund University 1989-1992.
  • 'Challenge and Response. The History of European Integration', European University Institute, Florence, 1991-1994.
  • 'Sweden and the Stable Peace', 1995-1999.
  • 'Norden faces Europe. The Nordic Countries and West European Integration 1947-1973. A comparative study of the welfare states and foreign trade regimes of Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland'. A Nordic network. Coordinator together with Tapani Paavonen, Turku; Johnny N. Laursen, Århus; Hans Otto Frøland, Trondheim, and as external advisors Prof. Alan S Milward and Prof. Bo Stråth.
  • Editor for Sweden in the project 'Constituting the European Union' (coordinated by Priv-Doz. Dr. Jürgen Elvert, Kiel University, and Prof. Ludger Kühnhardt, Zentrum für europäische Integrationsforschung, Bonn. Scheduled for 2001-2004.
  • Lessons of Enlargement (co-ordinated by Prof. Fernando Guirao, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona). Scheduled for 2001-2004.
  • Co-organiser of the conference 'Is there a European Third Way?', Centre for European Studies, St Antony's College, Oxford, 30 April 1999 (together with Dr. Ilaria Favretto and Dr. Anne Deighton).
  • The Meanings of Europe in National Discourses. Understanding Europhiles and Europhobes (co-director together with Prof. Bo Stråth, EUI, Florence). A workshop was held at the EUI in May 2000. An edited volume will be published by Berg, Oxford 2001.
     

TEACHING AND MISCELLANEOUS

  • Introductory course "International history" Autumn 1993, Spring 1994, Autumn 1994.
  • Supplementary course "State Building and Nation Formation in Europe", in Swedish, Autumn 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997.
  • Supplementary course "State Building and Nation Formation in Europe", in English, Autumn 1995, 1996, 1997.
  • Supplementary course "Integration and disintegration in Europe", Spring 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998.
  • Seminar leader and examiner for the Bachelor's Degree in history, Lund, 1996, 1997, 1998.
  • Course 'Northern Europe', Master in European Affairs, Institut d'Etudes Européennes, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, October 1997 (30 h).
  • Course 'State, Nation, European integration', Helsinki University, 1998, 1999, 2000 (20h).
  • Member of an expert group on EU Enlargement to the Swedish Parliamentary Commission on the EU Intergovernmental Conference in autumn 1995.
  • Advisor for the 1997 Yearbook of the Swedish National Encyclopaedia (entries on Europe and the European Union).
  • Awarded the Hains Family Charity prize for research in the Humanities 1997.
  • Member of the Advisory-Board of the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Stockholm (Utrikespolitiska samfundet) since 1997.
     

DISCUSSANT ON DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS

  • Marcos Cantera Carlomagno (1995), Ett folk av mänsklig granit. Sverige i den italienska utrikespolitiken 1932-36, Lund: Historiska Media. Department of History, Lund University, 6.11.1995.
  • Sten Ottosson (2000), Den (o)möjliga neutraliteten. Tre politikers och tre tidningars moraliska värdering av svensk utrikespolitik 1945-1952, Stockholm: Santérus Förlag. Department of History, Uppsala University 22.3.2000.
  • Lizelotte Lundgren-Rydén (2000), Ett svenskt dilemma. Socialdemokraterna, centern och EG-frågan 1957-1994, Göteborg, Department of History, 6.5.2000.
 

 
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