Staff Profile

Associate Professor Malte Brosig

In 2008 I received my PhD from the University of Portsmouth at the Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR).  I joined the Department of International Relations at Wits one year later where I’m now working as associate professor. My main research interests focus on issues of international organization interplay, peacekeeping in Africa and norm evolution. My most recent monograph is entitled  Cooperative Peacekeeping in Africa: Exploring Regime Complexity which was published at Routledge in June 2015.  In addition to my position at Wits I’m  also a  rostered consultant for the United Nations University’s Centre for Policy Research in Tokyo and hold fellowships at the Canadian Centre for R2P at the University of Toronto, the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg.

Research interests

International Organizations, Interplay between International Organizations, African Peace and Security Architecture,  Norm Development, Responsibility to Protect, Regional Integration

Teaching

Qualitative research methodology, International Organisations, European Integration

Publications

 Peer reviewed journal articles

(2015) “Le régime de sanctions internationales à l’égard de la Libye : la quête d’un changement de régime au sein d’une gouvernance internationale fragmentée”, Revue internationale et stratégique, 2015/1 n° 97, 139-148.

(2014) "The African Peace and Security Architecture and its Partners: A Survey" African Security Review 23(3) 225-242.

 With Dimpho Motsamai (2014) “Modelling International Organisation Interplay: The African Peace and Security Regime” Journal of International Peacekeeping 18(1-2) 45-78.

(2014) "EU Peacekeeping in Africa: From Niche Selection to Interlocking Security" International Peacekeeping 21(1) 74-90.

(2013) “The African Security Regime Complex: Exploring Converging Actors and Policies” African Security 6(3-4) 171-190.

(2013) “Mediocre by Nature? Converging Actors and Policies: Some Cumulative Results” African Security 6(3-4) 317-332.

(2013) “Interregionalism at a Crossroads: African-European Crisis Management in Libya A Case of Organized Inaction” Journal of International Organization Studies 4(2) 57-74.

(2012) “No Space for Constructivism? A Critical Appraisal of the European Compliance Research” Perspectives on European Politics and Societies 12 (4) 390-407. 

(2011) “Introduction to the Special Issue on International Organisations in Africa” South African Journal of International Affairs 18(2) 143-146.  

(2011) “Overlap and Interplay in International Relations: Theories and Approaches” South African Journal of International Affairs 18(2) 147-167.

(2011) “The Interplay of International Institutions in Kosovo Between Convergence, Confusion and Niche Capabilities” European Security 20(2) 185-204.

(2011) “The Emerging Peace and Security Regime in Africa: The Role of the EU” European Foreign Affairs Review 16 (1), 107-122.

(2010) “The Multi-Actor Game of Peacekeeping in Africa” International Peacekeeping 17 (3), 327-342.

(2010) “The Challenge of Implementing Minority Rights in Eastern Europe” Journal of European Integration 32 (4), 283-301.

(2008) “A Plan for the Future? The Estonian State Integration Programme 2000-2007” Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, Issue 1 2008.

Editorships peer-reviewed journals: special issues

(2013) guest editor “The African Security Regime Complex” African Security 6(3-4) 171-332.

(2012) with T. Agarin guest editor “From Norm Adoption to Norm Implementation Minority Rights in Europe” Perspectives on European Politics and Societies 12 (4). 

(2011) guest editor “The Interplay of International Organizations in Africa” South African Journal of International Affairs 18(2).

Editorship books 

(2015) with T. Agarin (eds) The Implementation Trap? Trajectories of Minority Rights Issues in Europe. London, New York: Routledge.

(2012) editor volume The Responsibility to Protect –From Evasive to Reluctant Action?The Role of Global Middle Powers Johannesburg: Hanns Seidel Foundation, Institute for Security Studies, Konrad Adenauer Foundation and South African Institute for International Affairs.

(ed. with Agarin) (eds) (2009). Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Debating Ethnic Diversity in Eastern Europe Between Diversity and Equality. Amsterdam and New York: Ropodi. 

(ed. with Kinga Kas) (2008) Teaching Theory and Academic Writing: A Guide to Undergraduate Lecturing in Political Science, Leverkusen Opladen: Budrich Uni Press.

(ed. with Pänke, J., Schuch, G., Kocot, R., Olearius, A., Stankiewicz, .S.) (eds) (2007). Gegenwart der Verganegenheit. Die politische Aktualitaet historischer Erinnerung in Mitteleuropa, Baden-Baden: NOMOS. 

Brosig (ed.) (2006) Human Rights in Europe A fragmented Regim? Frankfurt: Peter Lang 

Book chapters *peer reviewed 

*(2013) “The African Union A Partner for Security” in Biscop & Whitman (eds) The Routledge Handbook of European Security, 292-301.

*With David Galbreath (2012) “EU and OSCE Cooperation” in Knud Erik Jørgenson and Kati Verlin Laatikainen (ed) The Routledge Handbook of European Union and International Institutions. New York, Oxon: Routledge, 271-281.

*(2012) “Implementing Soft Law: The Case of Equality Promotion” European Yearbook on Minority Rights 2010 Volume 9, 147-166.

(2012) “Introduction: Responsibility to Protect: The GIBSA Perspective” in Brosig (Ed) The Responsibility to Protect –From Evasive to Reluctant Action? The Role of Global Middle Powers, Johannesburg: Hanns Seidel Foundation, Institute for Security Studies, Konrad Adenauer Foundation and South African Institute for International Affairs, 1-10.

(2012) “Conclusion: R2P – Not Evasive but Still Reluctant Action in Brosig (Ed) The Responsibility to Protect –From Evasive to Reluctant Action? The Role of Global Middle Powers, Johannesburg: Hanns Seidel Foundation, Institute for Security Studies, Konrad Adenauer Foundation and South African Institute for International Affairs, 119-124.

*(2010). “Governance between International Institutions: Analysing Interaction Modes between the EU, the Council of Europe and the OSCE” Galbreath & Gebhardt (eds.) Cooperation or Conflict? Problematizing Organizational Overlap in Europe. London: Ashgate, 29-58. 

*with T. Agarin (2009) "Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: AN Introduction" in T. Agarin & M. Brosig (eds.) Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Diversity and Equality. Amsterdam, NY: Ropodi, 7-23.

*(2009) "The Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and Equality Promotion" in T. Agarin & M. Brosig (eds.) Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Diversity and Equality. Amsterdam, NY: Ropodi, 95-128.

with T. Agarin (2009) "Multicultural Solutions for the Central and Eastern Europe? Concluding Observations" in T. Agarin & M. Brosig (eds.) Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Diversity and Equality. Amsterdam, NY: Ropodi, 441-474.

(2009) Balla, Brosig et al. "Europäisierung der Diplomatie. Curriculare Überlegungen für ein gemeinsames Graduiertenkolleg Diplomatie der Länder Mitteleuropas" in Vogt et al. (eds) Europäisierung im Alltag, Schriften des Collegium Pontes, Band IV, Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 61-106.

(2008) "Gaining abstract knowledge through problem-based learning” in Kas and Brosig (eds) Teaching Theory and Academic Writing: A Guide to Undergraduate Lecturing in Political Science, Leverkusen Opladen: Budrich Uni Press, 45-54.

(2006) "Human Rights in Europe: An Introduction" in Brosig (ed.) Human Rights in Europe - A fragmented Regime?  Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang Verlag, 9-29

(2006) “Diffusing Fragmented Human Rights Standards: Minority Rights in Estonia" in Brosig (ed.) Human Rights in Europe - A fragmented Regime?  Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang Verlag, 137-152.

(2005) "Normdiffusion als Prozess der Europaeisisierung: Die Slowakei und europaeische Minderheitenstandards" in Salimi-Asl, C., Wrasse, E., Schuch, G. (eds) Die Transformation nationaler Politik Europäisierungsprozesse in Mitteleuropa, DGAP-Schriften zur internationalen Politik, 225-245.