Charles Parker
Professor at Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Forskare och lärare
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 33 09
- E-mail:
- Charles.Parker@statsvet.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Östra Ågatan 19
753 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA - Available:
- Gamla torget 2
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-0407-3939
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Short presentation
Charles Parker is Professor of Political Science and deputy chair of the board for CNDS. He has published extensively on climate change politics, leadership, EU civil protection cooperation, crisis management success and failure, and whether disruptive disasters can contribute to meaningful policy action. His most recent publications are “The Trump Administration and the COVID-19 crisis” and “Exploring disaster impacts on adaptation actions in 549 cities worldwide.” He is on Twitter @Parker_CF
Keywords
- civil protection
- climate change
- crisis management
- european union
- global environmental politics
- hurricane katrina
- international relations
- natural hazards
- paris climate agreement
- policy reform
- public administration
- sustainable developement
- terrorism
Publications
Selection of publications
- The Trump Administration and the COVID-19 crisis (2022)
- Exposure to natural hazard events unassociated with policy change for improved disaster risk reduction (2021)
- Collaborative crisis management (2020)
- The effectiveness of national and EU-level civil protection systems (2019)
- The UN climate change negotiations and the role of the United States (2018)
- Assessing the European Union’s global climate change leadership (2017)
- Complex Negative Events and the Diffusion of Crisis (2015)
- Climate change leaders and followers (2015)
- Fragmented Climate Change Leadership (2012)
- Climate Change and the European Union’s Leadership Moment (2010)
- Bolt from the Blue or Avoidable Failure? Revisiting September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise (2005)
Recent publications
- The EU’s evolving leadership role in an age of geopolitics (2024)
- Exploring disaster impacts on adaptation actions in 549 cities worldwide (2022)
- Disaster risk reduction and the limits of truisms (2022)
- The Trump Administration and the COVID-19 crisis (2022)
- Exposure to natural hazard events unassociated with policy change for improved disaster risk reduction (2021)
All publications
Articles
- The EU’s evolving leadership role in an age of geopolitics (2024)
- Exploring disaster impacts on adaptation actions in 549 cities worldwide (2022)
- Disaster risk reduction and the limits of truisms (2022)
- The Trump Administration and the COVID-19 crisis (2022)
- Exposure to natural hazard events unassociated with policy change for improved disaster risk reduction (2021)
- Understanding Collaboration (2020)
- Collaborative crisis management (2020)
- The effectiveness of national and EU-level civil protection systems (2019)
- How trust in EU institutions is linked to trust in national institutions (2019)
- An Integrative Research Framework to Unravel the Interplay of Natural Hazards and Vulnerabilities (2018)
- Managing Crisis Collaboratively: Prospects and Problems (2018)
- The UN climate change negotiations and the role of the United States (2018)
- The European Union as a global climate leader (2017)
- Assessing the European Union’s global climate change leadership (2017)
- Social trust, impartial administration and public confidence in EU crisis management institutions (2017)
- Complex Negative Events and the Diffusion of Crisis (2015)
- Climate change leaders and followers (2015)
- The Legitimacy of Leadership in International Climate Change Negotiations (2012)
- Fragmented Climate Change Leadership (2012)
- Institutional and Political Leadership Dimensions of Cascading Ecological Crises (2011)
- Looking for Leaders (2011)
- Climate Change and the European Union’s Leadership Moment (2010)
- Att leda eller inte leda? (2009)
- Transatlantiskt ledarskap i Köpenhamn - dröm eller verklighet? (2009)
- Preventable Catastrophe? The Hurricane Katrina Disaster Revisited (2009)
- Bortom Kyoto (2008)
- När ett land blottar strupen... (2006)
- Bolt from the Blue or Avoidable Failure? Revisiting September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise (2005)
- Den påstridige amerikanen (2003)
- Blindsided? September 11 and the Origins of Strategic Surprise (2002)
- Andreas Hasenclaver, Peter Mayer and Volker Rittberger, Theories of International Regimes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 248 pp. (1999)
- Kärnprov stoppas trots Indiens nej (1996)
- Jørn Gjelstad and Olav Njølstad (eds) Nuclear Rivalry and International Order. London: Sage Publications for PRIO, Oslo, 1996, 212 pp. (1996)
Books
- Civil Protection Cooperation in the European Union (2019)
- Security regime significance in the post Cold War context (1998)
Chapters
- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021)
- Avoiding the Failures of Collaborative Crisis Management (2020)
- Healing the Ozone Layer (2019)
- The EU’s civilian crisis management capacity and the challenge of trust (2018)
- Jerry Brown and the Triumph of Leadership (2017)
- EU:s civila krishanteringsförmåga och tillitens utmaningar (2016)
- Climate Leadership (2015)
- The Public Policy Dimension of Resilience in Natural Disaster Management (2014)
- Leadership and international cooperation (2014)
- Agents, structures and international regime significance (2013)
- Hurricane Katrina (2012)
- The Purpose, Functions, and Ethical Dimensions of Postcrisis Investigations (2011)
- Compliance (2011)
- Transnationell Terrorism (2009)
- Unionens kamp för klimatet (2008)
- September 11 and post crisis investigation (2008)
- Blindsided (2008)
- Transnationell Terrorism (2006)
Conferences
Reports
