Transatlantic Post-Doc Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR)

First TAPIR Fellowship Seminar
Zurich, Sept 10-13, 2007
The Transatlantic Post-Doc Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR) is open to candidates who have recently received their doctorate in social and political sciences or economics and whose research focuses on topics of international relations and security. Fellowships are granted for a duration of 24 months to prepare Fellows for an international career in policy-oriented research.  Fellows spend three eight-month stays at research institutions or think tanks participating in the program - at least one on the Eastern, and one on the Western side of the Atlantic.

Fellows will be supervised by a researcher at each host institute, while being integrated into the relevant research units or projects. The Fellowship aims to actively involve participants in the work and research of leading international think tanks, and as such is not intended to fund the completion of major individual publications.

Participating Institutes include:

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI)
• European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
• RAND Corporation
• Chatham House
• SAIS Center for Transatlanic Relations
• Institute for Strategic and International Studies (IEEI)
• Center for International Relations (CIR)
• Center for Security Studies (CSS)
• German Institute for International and Security Affairs/ Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

For more information, click here.

CTR TAPIR Fellows:

• Thomas Rid, June 07 - Jan 08, Project: "Preemptive Strike and Strategic Concept and its History"
• Oliver Hensengerth, Oct 07 - May 08, Project: "Multilevel governance and soft regionalism in transboundary river basins: the Tumen River Economic Development Area and the Qadripartite Economic Cooperation compared"
• Andreas Goldthau, Feb 08 - Sept 08, Project: "Managing China, Russia and the Gulf: Which Strategy secures European energy supply"
• Sandra Pogodda, June 08 - Jan 09, Project: "Effectiveness of EU and US soft power approaches in the Middle East"
• Patrick Muller, Feb 09 - Sept 09, Project: “European foreign policy-making and the Middle East conflict – Examining the contribution of the Franco-German alliance
• TAPIR Fellows at other institutes, click here.

TAPIR Fellows in Zurich, Sept. 2007.
From left to right: Stacy Closson, Monika Heupel, Sandra Pogodda, Lindsay Cohn, Chivvis Christopher, Thomas Rid, Andreas Glodthau, and Patrick Mueller.