Marlies Glasius

Marlies Glasius is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam. Prior to returning to Amsterdam in 2008, she worked at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) as a lecturer in Global Politics. She was previously the managing editor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook (2001-2003), coordinator of the Study Group on European Security (2003-2004), and a lecturer in the management of non-governmental organisations (2004-2006) at the LSE. She is a visiting fellow at the LSE’s Centre for the study of Global Governance, and continues to be an editor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook. Marlies studied English Literature and International Law at the University of Amsterdam . She holds a PhD with distinction from the University of Utrecht in association with the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research.

Dr. Glasius' research concerns both the theory and practice of global civil society, and its relationship to international law, particularly human rights law. Current projects are concerned with relations between global civil society and the International Criminal Court, with the conceptualization of civil society by East European and Latin American dissidents, and with the use made by civil society actors of economic and social human rights. Previous work has focused on human security, on social forums, and on human rights in Indonesia and East Timor under Soeharto.

In 2008-2009 Marlies Glasius is teaching a Masters’ option course on civil society theory, a Masters’ option course on contemporaryactors, issues and spaces inglobal civil society, and a dissertation project on economic and social human rights.

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