Deadline: 3 February 2014
Open to: candidates with PhD degree and previous international academic experience
Fellowship: monthly stipend of Euro 1.800, a monthly allowance for health insurance of Euro 200 and a one-time travel allowance of Euro 3.500 for travel
Description
The Transatlantic Post-Doc Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR) is open to candidates who have recently received their doctorate in social and political sciences or economics and whose research focuses on topics of international relations and/or international peace and security issues. Fellowships are granted for a duration of 24 months to prepare Fellows for a career in policy-oriented and international research at renowned think tanks and political consulting research institutes. Fellows spend three eight-month stays at research institutions or think tanks participating in the program – at least one on the Eastern, and one on the Western side of the Atlantic.
Participating institutes include:
- Center for International Relations
(CIR), Warsaw; - Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Washington D.C.;
- Center for Security Studies (CSS), Zurich;
- Chatham House, London;
- European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), Paris;
- Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA), Helsinki;
- Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI), Paris;
- Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), Oslo;
- Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), Warsaw;
- RAND Corporation (RAND), Washington, D.C.;
- SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations (SAIS),Washington, D.C.;
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stockholm and Washington, D.C.; United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Washington, D.C.;
- German Institute for International and Security Affairs/Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin and Brussels.
Please read the Frequently Asked Questions page HERE for more information.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Transatlantic Post-Doc Fellowship, candidates must have successfully defended their Ph.D. by the start of the program (01 October 2014). Candidates must have a strong interest in working in a policy-oriented international environment and must demonstrate their ability to do so by previous international academic experience.
Applicants must either be citizens of the U.S., Canada or Europe (in a broader geographical definition) or must have resided in the U.S., Canada or Europe at least for two-and-a-half years in the five years before the application deadline.
Fellowship
The fellowship consists of a monthly stipend of Euro 1.800,00 a monthly allowance for health insurance of Euro 200,00 and a one-time travel allowance of Euro 3.500,00 for travel to and from the host institutions. Fees for residence permits are not included
Up to five Fellowships will be awarded in 2014. Fellows will be selected by a jury composed of members of the participating institutes. Selection criteria are the academic excellence of the candidate and the quality of the research statement.
Fellows will be supervised by a researcher at each host institute, while being integrated into the relevant research units or projects.
Fellows will have the opportunity to work on issues of major and immediate political significance, and to publish their work in journals or paper series that will be read by decision-makers at national and international levels. The Fellowship aims to involve participants actively in the work and research of leading international think tanks. It is not intended to primarily fund the completion of major individual publications or of academic peer-reviewed journal articles. .
Application
All files, including letters of recommendation, should be sent in PDF format to tapir@swp-berlin.org by 3 February 2014. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. Successful candidates will be informed by May 2014.
Applications should contain:
- A five-page research statement outlining the candidate’s current and longer-term academic interests (research proposal). This does not have to be limited to transatlantic issues.
- A terse Curriculum Vitae with a list of principal publications (max. four pages in total). Please state your citizenship if you are U.S., Canadian or European citizen OR details about your residency there.
- Two letters of recommendation (attached to your application or separately sent by your referee)
For questions or further details, please contact:
Tobias von Lossow
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Transatlantic Post-Doc Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR)
Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4
10719 Berlin
phone: +49 (0)30 88007-106
fax: +49 (0)30 88007-5106 / -100
e-mail: tobias.vonlossow@swp-berlin.org
For more details, please see the official website HERE.
