DR.

PETER VAN HAM

(NLD)
Dr Peter van Ham is Director of the Global Governance Research Programme at the
Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael in The Hague, and Professor
at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He is a member of the Advisory Council on
International Affairs to the Dutch Government (Peace and Security Committee), as well as a
member of the editorial boards of Security Dialogue (Sage) and Place Branding (Henry Stewart).
He studied Law and Political Science at Leiden University . He was Professor of West
European Politics at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
(Garmisch-Partenkirchen) from 1996-2001. He has held research and teaching positions at
the EU Institute for Security Studies (Paris), the Royal Institute of International Affairs
(London), Columbia University (New York) and COPRI (Denmark).
His research focuses on European security and defense issues, transatlantic relations, WMD
proliferation, as well as on place branding.
His recent books include Mapping European Security After Kosovo (Manchester University Press,
2002); European Integration and the Postmodern Condition (Routledge, 2001) and A Critical
Approach to European Security (Pinter, 1999). He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on
Global Non-Proliferation and Counter-Terrorism: The Impact of United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1540 (Brookings). He published in The National Interest, Foreign Affairs, Security
Dialogue, NATO Review and Millennium.
April 2006