Dr Marjo Koivisto
BSc Econ, MSc Econ (Aberystwyth), PhD (LSE)
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Lecturer in International Relations
Marjo Koivisto studied International Relations Aberystwyth University and Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and was awarded her doctorate from the London School of Economics (LSE) International Relations Department in August 2009. She specialises in International Relations theory, international ethics, and the philosophy of social science. Her PhD research drew on realist philosophy of social science to rethink the central issue of normativity of state power in world politics. The thesis identified prevailing cultures of science and expertise in international policy networks as a key driver of innovation in state power across the Atlantic in the 1930s and the 1990s.
Dr. Koivisto's postdoctoral research projects include co-directing an international collaborative research network on Liberalism and world order, with Trine Flockhart (Danish Institute for International Studies) and Tim Dunne (Queensland), and research for a series of articles on global ethics from a philosophical realist perspective. She also continues to research and publish on multi-lateralism and the foreign policy trajectories of the Nordic states (for some previous work, see 'Constructing Nordic Internationalism' in Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 357-361). Dr. Koivisto is also the co-founder and the co-convenor of the British International Studies Association (BISA) working group on 'IR as a Social Science' with Colin Wight (Sydney).
During summer 2010, Dr. Koivisto was a visiting scholar at American University in Washington DC and at Brown University in Providence, USA. She spends Spring 2011 as a visiting scholar at Harvard University.
Marjo Koivisto's recent publications include:
'State theory in International Relations: Why realism matters', in C. Wight and J. Joseph (eds.) Scientific Realism in International Relations. (London: Palgrave, 2010)
'Crisis, what crisis? Liberal Order Building and World Order Conventions', with Tim Dunne, in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 38., no. 3
'Towards a second 'Second Debate'?: rethinking the relationship between science and history in international theory', with Simon Curtis, in International Relations, 2010, vol. 24, no. 4.
