Magnus Ekengren is Professor of Political Science at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium. He is a former Swedish diplomat and was previously Deputy Director at the Policy Planning Unit of the Swedish Foreign Ministry. His publications include The Politics of Security Sector Reform: Challenges and Opportunities for the Eropean Union's Global Role, co-edited with G. Simons (2011), and The European Union as Crisis Manager: Patterns and Prospects, with A. Boin and M. Rhinard (Cambridge, 2013).