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Robert Kluijver
Associate Research Fellow
Center for International Studies (CERI)
Duration: from 26 January 2023 to 25 January 2026
robertkluijver@gmail.comResearch Interest(s): Self-governance, State and society in non-Western settings, transnational governance, war on terror
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): International Relations, Political Theory
Research Group(s): State, political regimes, mobilisations, International order, foreign policy, diplomacy, Art, humanities, and international research, Violence, war and peace
Geographical Area(s): Caucasus / Central Asia, East Africa and The Horn, Global realm , Middle East
Country(ies): Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen
Language(s): English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Persian, Arabic
Biography
Born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1968. Master degrees in International Relations at the University of Amsterdam (1995, on civil society in Mexico) and Sciences Po Paris (1999, on the historiography of Tajikistan) and a PhD degree at Sciences Po (2023, on statebuilding in Somalia). Fieldwork in conflict areas since 1997: Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan with a focus on statebuilding. Secondary focus on contemporary art produced in or about these countries, with curatorial work in Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Western Europe. Lectures at Sciences Po since 2010.
Current Research
- State development in Africa (focus on Horn)
- Somali studies
- International intervention within IR theory
- Counter-hegemonic social movements (including jihadi)
Thesis topic
The State in Somalia : between self-governance and international order, supervised by Luis Martinez
publications
« Le Somaliland, la démocratie africaine aux 30 ans d’isolement », The Conversation (French edition), 17 January, 2022.
Culture Sector Mapping in the Horn of Africa, 2020-2021, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2021.
"Why did Somaliland just suspend cooperation with the UN?", African Arguments, 9 November 2020.
"Al-Shabab Governance", Zomia, 10 July 2019.
"The Artist Giving Stateless Syrians a Voice", The Art Newspaper, London, December 2015.
"Arte y Poder Blando en el Golfo", Afkar/Ideas, Issue #47, October 2015.
Afghan Perceptions on Democracy and Elections, Free and Fair Elections Forum of Afghanistan, Kabul, 2014, 142 p.
Contemporary Art in the Gulf: Contexts and Perspectives, The Farook Printing Press, Dubai, 2013, 146 p.
I am Anything, I am Everything: Ayman Yossri Daydban and the Jeddah Art Scene, Athr Gallery/Al Mohtaraf publishing, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2012, 63 p.
Borders: Contemporary Middle Eastern Art and Discourse, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2010, 140 p.
