Professor Christoph Meyer
Senior Researcher
Department of War Studies
Room K7.38
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Email:
christoph.meyer@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1031
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2026
Office hours: Thursday 2:30-4:00
Areas of interest
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EU security and defence policy
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Early warning and conflict prevention
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European public sphere and political communication
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Constructivist and cognitive approaches in political science
Biography
Christoph O Meyer, MPhil, PhD (Cambridge), joined the department in January 2007. He previously held positions at Birkbeck, University of London, the Centre for European Policy Studies, the University of Cologne, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. He also worked for some time in foreign affairs journalism, writing for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau. After his transfer to the new Department of European & International Studies in January 2012, he remains closely affiliated with War Studies through leading the Research Group on Warning and Preventive Policy (FORESIGHT)
Current research & consultancy
Prof Meyer’s specialisations include European integration and governance, political communication, and constructivist approaches to foreign and security policy. He has published a monograph on the Quest for European Strategic Culture and articles in leading peer-reviewed journals. For a list of Prof Meyer’s publications, please refer to the document attached.
He has been active in providing policy advice to the European Parliament and EU Commission and contributes to public debate through commentaries and blogs. As the recipient of a major grant from the European Research Council, Dr Meyer has led a research group on “Foresight: Early Warning and Conflict Prevention” .After the end of the project, the Foresights research group continues to work on areas relating to genocide/mass atrocities as well as lessons learnt about intelligence relating to the “Arab Spring”.For more information o the Foresight project please refer to the following summary: Do Forecasts Matter? Early Warnings and the Prevention of Armed Conflict.
Doctoral supervision
Prof Meyer is generally happy to offer supervision in the area of his research interests, but is currently not accepting any new doctoral candidates:
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Early warning and conflict Prevention
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Perceptions and cognitive approaches in foreign policy
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European foreign and security policy
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European political communication
For a list of publications, please see
Meyer Publications