I am a Professor for Public Management at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and a Principal Investigator at the Canton of Basel-Stadt Kantons- und Stadtentwicklung.
My work focuses on international, national and urban security politics, democratic experimentalism in security and foreign affairs, and the ‘worlding’ of security concepts and International Relations theories. I draw on qualitative data, practice-oriented research and global fieldwork first and foremost, and on soft-quantitative methods secondarily. My ambition is to advance more nuanced understandings of how security and democratic politics interrelate, based on a strong combination of state-of-the-art social science theorizing and comparative empirical research.
My current works focus on bodily practices of police work, the reconfiguration of urban security dispositives, and the possibilities of translational security research. At the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, I direct a set of continuing education programs in public administration and Swiss police work, and I study national and European dispositive aimed at preventing radicalization within police forces. At the Canton of Basel-Stadt, I direct a comparative research project on the security politics of interim urban spaces.
My track record includes comparative research projects in the fields of Security Studies, International Relations and Urban Studies. I conducted fieldwork in France, Germany, Morocco, Nepal, South Africa, Switzerland and Uruguay, and co-founded the Swiss Political Science Association’s International Political Sociology Working Group. I taught in International Relations, Political Science and Police Studies curricula in Geneva, Zürich, Lucerne, Lausanne, Fribourg, Windisch, New York, Marrakech and Katmandu, and I provided scientific advisory work, such as to Foundation Botnar, the Swiss Arts Council, the Swiss Federal Government or ETH Zürich’s Future Cities Lab.
I was the Head of the Division for Police Sciences, Cantonal Police of Basel-Stadt, a Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Geneva, a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Research Group Leader and Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Science, Technology and Policy, ETH Zürich, and a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Center for Security Studies, also ETH Zürich. I held visiting positions at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Universidad de la República in Montevideo, University of Amsterdam, Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Université Cadi Ayyad in Marrakech, University of Cambridge, Sciences Po Paris, Columbia University, The New School for Social Research in New York and University of Copenhagen.
I hold a Doctorate and an MA in International Relations (Political Science) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and an MA in Law and Diplomacy and a Human Security Certificate from The Fletcher School in Boston. I received the Graduate Institute’s Alumni Association Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis, the Fletcher School’s Donald R. MacJannet Fellowship, and University of Geneva’s Best of Class Distinction in International Relations.
Prof. Dr. Jonas Hagmann
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)
Hochschule für Wirtschaft
Peter Merian-Strasse 86
4052 Basel
Email: jonas.hagmann@fhnw.ch
Phone: +41 61 279 17 95
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