Ole Wæver
Ole Wæver is a professor of international relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively in the field of international relations, and is one of the main architects of the Copenhagen School in International Relations.
Prior to joining the University of Copenhagen, Wæver was a senior research fellow at Copenhagen Peace Research Institute. His areas of research include:
- Theories of international relations
- The study of conflicts, what creates the conflict and how to mediate and resolve them
- Danish security and defence policy
- The history of concepts
- Security theory
- Post-structural realism
Wæver is director of the Danish Ph.D. school, Politologisk Forskerskole. He has written several pieces together with Barry Buzan. These include the two books:
- Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security, Cambridge University Press 2003.
- Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver, and Jaap de Wilde, Security: A New Framework for Analysis, Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers 1998.