Curriculum vitae (abreviado)
Björn Hettne
International Relations Advisor to
the Vice-Chancellor
Professor at PADRIGU
(Department of
Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University).
PhD in economic
history, previously
Dean of the Social Science Faculty, member of Social Science Council, Chairman
of the Internationalisation Committee, Göteborg University.
Member of the Executive Committee of
the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
throughout the eighties, and from 1990 to 1993 Vice President of the same.
Member of the board of United Nations
Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and of the Karl Polanyi
Institute of Political Economy.
1997: received the Bertil Östergren
prize for excellence in internationalisation.
Research
projects:
1986 – 88:
Co-ordinator of the United Nations
University European Perspectives Project.
• 1994 -
Co-ordinator of the UNU/WIDER project on the New Regionalism and the
International System.
Academic
interests:
Development and
world-system theory
The relationship between peace and
development,
European security and development
issues,
Indian
development,
the South Asian security complex.