Areas of Interest: theories of international relations, border politics, illicit markets, illicit political economy, international organizations.
Christian Schneider comes to the Watson Institute from the International Relations Department of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Zurich, where he is a PhD student and a research fellow.
At the Institute, he will continue research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, on the role of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime and the International Narcotics Control Board in narcotic drug markets and drug policies.
His recent experience includes a year as intelligence officer at the Swiss Military Intelligence Service’s mission in Pristina, Kosovo, where he focused on drugs and serious crime.
Among his publications is “Irregular Migration and Human Smuggling at the EU’s Eastern External Border: An Analysis of Border Apprehension Data 2002-2007,” which is a chapter in The Governance of Borders and Borderlands in an Era of Security (Ottawa University Press, forthcoming in 2010).