Christofer Berglund (PhD, Docent) is Senior Lecturer at Malmö University's Department of Global Political Studies and Project Researcher at Södertörn University's School of Social Sciences. He conducts research in the fields of comparative politics and international relations with a focus on: nationalism and ethnic conflicts; state-building and strategic studies; and competitive authoritarianism and democratization. He specializes in post-Soviet Eurasia and serves as principal investigator for two research projects: "Planning for Integration: Landscapes of Power in Borderland Governance" [InBorder] and "Conscription as Political Socialization in Divided Societies? Evidence from post-Soviet Estonia and post-independence Finland" [CoDS].