Academic interests
Stambøl’s research and academic interests lay in the intersection of criminology and international relations, including:
- Transnational criminology and North-South relations
- EU Justice and Home Affairs and their external dimension
- Foreign and security policy, peacebuilding
- Borders, mobility, crime control, and state sovereignty
- Extra-legal governance and social control beyond the state
- International political economy and (penal) power
Background
Eva Magdalena Stambøl holds a PhD in Criminology from the University of Aalborg, Denmark, and Mphil and BA degrees in Criminology from the University of Oslo.
Her PhD thesis, External Projection of Internal Security: The EU's Export of Crime Control to West Africa (2020), explored how European crime definitions, policies and control models travel to Africa as part of European Union (EU) foreign policy and external action. Empirically, it is based on a comprehensive review of EU crime control projects in the wider Southern Neighbourhood the past 15 years, as well as fieldwork in Senegal, Mali, Niger and EU institutions in Brussels. Analytically, it sought to advance theory on crime control as foreign policy, travelling crime control in North-South relations, and the relationship between borders, penal power and state sovereignty. The thesis was awarded the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC)’ prize for best PhD dissertation 2020, and one of the PhD thesis articles, titled “Neo-colonial penalty? Travelling penal power and contingent sovereignty”, was awarded the journal Punishment & Society’s prize for best article 2021.
Currently, Stambøl is project leader for the project "Criminalized Peace”, funded by the Research Council of Norway’s international mobility grant. During the first years of the project, she will be based at the Center for Transnational Studies, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Free University of Berlin, where she also worked as a postdoctoral researcher prior to joining the University of Oslo. The project explores how and under what conditions the internationally driven fight against transnational organized crime supports or undermines peace processes, through fieldwork in Colombia and Mali.
Stambøl has previously worked at the University of Aalborg, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI). She has been a visiting researcher at the Brussels School of International Studies (BSIS) at Kent University, the Institute for European Studies at the Free University of Brussels, Université des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Bamako, and the University of Oxford.
Awards
- The journal Punishment & Society’s prize for best article 2021, for the article “Neo-colonial penalty? Travelling penal power and contingent sovereignty”
- The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC)’ prize for best PhD dissertation 2020
Grants
- Research project "Criminalized Peace: Are transnational crime-fighting and peace processes compatible?”, 3,9 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway – “researcher project with international mobility” (personal grant).
- Travel grants (personal) for fieldwork in West Africa 2017 from the Nordic Research Council for Criminology (NSfK), Oticon Fonden, and Christian og Ottilia Brorsons Rejselegat.
Tags:
EEA and Europe,
Globalization,
War and conflict,
Migration,
Drugs,
Security,
Criminology
Selected publications
Books
Lemberg-Pedersen, M., S. Fett, L. Mayblin, N. Sahraoui, E.M. Stambøl (eds.) (2022) Postcoloniality and Forced Migration. Mobiliy, Control, Agency. Bristol University Press.
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
Wiegratz, J. and E.M. Stambøl (2023) Afterword: The political economy of countering transnational organized crime in Africa. Trends in Organized Crime, 10.1007/s12117-023-09512-2.
Stambøl, E.M. and T. Berger (2023) Transnationally entangled (in)securities: The UAE, Turkey, and the Saharan political economy of danger. Security Dialogue, 54(5): 493–514.
Stambøl, E.M. and L. Jegen (2022) Colonial continuities and the commodification of mobility policing: French Civipol in West Africa. In: Lemberg-Pedersen, M., S. Fett, L. Mayblin, N. Sahraoui, E.M. Stambøl (eds.) Postcoloniality and Forced Migration. Mobiliy, Control, Agency. Bristol University Press.
Russo, A. and Stambøl, E.M. (2022) The external dimension of the EU's fight against transnational crime: Transferring political rationalities of crime control. Review of International Studies, 48(2): 326–345.
Stambøl, E.M. (2021) Neo-colonial penality? Travelling penal power and contingent sovereignty. Punishment & Society, 23(4): 536–556.
Stambøl, E.M. and R. Solhjell (2021) Embodiments and frictions of statehood in transnational criminal justice. Theoretical Criminology, 25(3): 493–510.
Stambøl, E.M. (2021) Borders as penal transplants: Control of territory, mobility, and illegality in West Africa. Theoretical Criminology, 25(3): 474–492.
Stambøl, E. M. (2019) The rise of crimefare Europe: Fighting migrant smuggling in West Africa. European Foreign Affairs Review, 24 (3): 287–307.
Stambøl, E. M. (2016) EU initiatives along the ‘cocaine routes’ to Europe: Fighting drug trafficking and terrorism by proxy? Small Wars & Insurgencies, 27 (2): 302– 324.
Stambøl, E. M. (2016) Governing cocaine supply and organized crime from Latin America and the Caribbean: The changing security logics in European Union external policy. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 22 (1): 1–18.
Stambøl, E. M. (2014) Menneskeskerettigheter som brekkstang i internasjonal narkotikapolitikk. [Human Rights as Lever in International Drugs Policy], Materialisten, 1/2014.
Other
Stambøl, E. M. (2021). Border externalization to West Africa: Three logics of border security technologies, Border Criminologies.
Stambøl, E. M. (2020) ‘How is the EU seeking to contain ‘irregular’ migration from the Sahel?’ and ‘How have governments and civil society in the Sahel responded to the EU strategy?’ In: L. Mouan, S. Massey and C. Thibos (eds.), ‘After the 'migration crisis': how Europe works to keep Africans in Africa’, Open Democracy.
Stambøl, E. M. (2019) ‘Projecting European penal power beyond Europe: Humanitarian war on migrant smuggling in West Africa’, Border Criminologies.
Stambøl, E. M. (2019) The EU’s fight against transnational crime in the Sahel. IES Policy Brief, Issue 2019/04. February 2019. Brussels: Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Bøås, M., A. Cissé, A. Diallo, B. Drange, F. Kvammen and E. M. Stambøl (2018) The EU, Security Sector Reform and Border Management in Mali. Working paper on the implementation of EU crisis response in Mali. Report Deliverable 7.4 EUNPACK.
Bátora, J., S. Blockmans, E. Ferhatovic, I. Peters, P. Rieker and E. M. Stambøl (2016) Understanding the EU’s Crisis Response Toolbox and Decision-making Processes. Report Deliverable 4.1 EUNPACK.
Bátora, J., S. Blockmans, E. Ferhatovic, I. Peters, P. Rieker, E. M. Stambøl and S. Kvammen (2016) Best Practices in EU Crisis Response and Policy Implementation. Report Deliverable 4.2 EUNPACK.
Strazzari, F. and E. M. Stambøl (2015) We Saw it Coming: Jihadist Terrorism, Challenges for the European Union. NUPI Policy Brief (13) 2015. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Stambøl, E. M. (2015) Heads of States Can Change the Course of International Drugs Policy in 2016: Where does the EU stand? NUPI Policy Brief (16) 2015. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
Stambøl, E. M., A. O´Neil, L. Di Censi, F. Fabi, M. Rossi, L. Villandsen and J. Lucas (2015). Estimating the Costs of Illicit Drugs to the Criminal Justice Systems in Poland, Portugal and Spain. Report Deliverable 6.2., WP6 of FP7 Addictions and Lifestyles in Contemporary Europe: Reframing Addictions Project (ALICE RAP).
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