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Welcome! Ueli Staeger is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam, in the Political Economy and Transnational Governance research group.

Ueli Staeger holds a PhD in International Relations/Political Science from the Geneva Graduate Institute. Before, he studied at the University of Geneva, SOAS University of London, and College of Europe. He previously taught at the University of Geneva as a postdoctoral senior lecturer and researcher.

Ueli Staeger’s research agenda is broadly interested in how international organizations (IOs) shape the provision of security, with a focus on the funding, reforms, and geopolitics of the African Union. He is particularly interested in how diversified resource mobilization in multilateral organizations affects their secretariat and executive organs. Additional research streams include the EU’s foreign policy in Africa, postcoloniality in EU-Africa relations, the multilateral politics of so-called ‘small states’, as well as Africa’s role in multilateral negotiations on the regulation of cyberspace. Ueli Staeger is particularly interested in interview-based and participatory methods and has conducted more than 200 interviews with diplomats, IO officials, military staff and civilian experts from Africa and elsewhere.

Ueli Staeger’s research was published in African Affairs, Journal of Common Market Studies, Cooperation and Conflict, West European Politics, International Spectator and by Routledge.

Ueli is affiliated with the Global Governance Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute and the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies.

Occasionally, Ueli provides media commentary on African international relations. He also works with public sector organisations, think tanks and civil society organisations on multilateralism, IO funding, and African Union affairs.

In case you’re wondering, Ueli is pronounced [ˈuəli] with a diphtong, not as an umlaut.

In his free time, Ueli’s passion is hiking in the mountains – it runs in the family.

Contact on u.staeger [at] uva.nl or on Twitter.