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Staff Profile: Daniel Korski

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Daniel Korski joined the European Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Policy Fellow in October 2007. Previously, he was a Senior Adviser in the U.S State Department, a position he was seconded to by the British Government.

He spent the first quarter of 2007 in Basra in southern Iraq as Head of the UK/US Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). Prior to his US posting, Daniel was the Deputy Head of the UK's Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit (PCRU), an inter-departmental organization set-up up by the Ministry of Defense, the Foreign Office and Department for International Development. Daniel has also worked in Afghanistan as a Policy Adviser to the Minister for Counter-Narcotics. He remains a Special Adviser to the U.S Project on National Security Reform (http://www.pnsr.org/).

Before joining the Civil Service, Daniel worked as Policy Adviser to the UK House of Commons Defense Select Committee; and as the Head of Political-Military Affairs for Lord Paddy Ashdown, the then-High Representative of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Bosnia, he also served as a Political Adviser to the Chairmen of the Bosnian Defense Reform Commission, the Expert Commission on Intelligence Reform and the Commission on Police Restructuring. Daniel started as an intern with the UN in Geneva and the International Crisis Group (ICG).

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, he has an MPhil from Cambridge and a BSc (First Class) from the LSE, both in international relations and history. Daniel currently blogs for the Spectator Magazine, GlobalDashboard and is a regular contributor to the Guardian's Comment is Free, UPI and Politiken.

Languages: Danish, English, Swedish, French, Serbo-Croat

Areas of expertise: Common Foreign Security and Defence Policy; Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans, International Development and Post-conflict Reconstruction, National Security, Military Restructuring, Security Sector Reform

Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Mob: +44 78 7661 6302

ECFR publications:

Can the EU rebuild failing states? A review of Europe's civilian capacities, report, 15 October 2009

Shaping Europe's Afghan Surge, policy brief, 25 March 2009

Re-wiring the US-EU relationship,policy memo, 8 December 2008

Afghanistan: Europe's forgotten war, report, 21 January 2008 

Other recent publications include:

Trans-atlantic "AfPak" policy: One Year Later, Policy Brief, No 40, February 2010, FRIDE

Old Myths to New Missions, with Richard Gowan, International Politik, February 2010

British civil-military integration - the history and next steps, RUSI Journal, Volume 154, December 2009

A New Agenda for US-EU Security Cooperation, with Dan Serwer and Megan Chabolowski, Working Paper No 92, November 2009, FRIDE

Shaping a New NATO-Russia Partnership, World Defence Systems, Issue 18, October 2009

Vesten har ikke råd til at tabe Tyrkiet, with Torsten Hertig, RAESON, December 2009

NATO's "Whack-a-Mole" World, SDA Discussion Paper, 1 July 2009

Opskrift. Sådan kan Fogh sikre Nato's fremtid, Politiken, 3 March 2009

The EU, So Far, with Richard Gowan in 'What can Europe do in Iraq', Heinrich Böll Foundation Democracy Series, Volume 11 - 2009

Somalia. Sådan kommer vi piraterne til livs, Politiken, 8 January, 2009

Velkommen til Opbruddet, RÆSON, December-January 2008-9

Diplomati. Tid til en udenrigskommission?, Politiken, 16 December 2008

Afghanistan. Er EU klar til ny oprustning?, Politiken, 3 December 2008

Pakistan. Europa skal ud af starthullerne nu, Politiken, 19 November 2008

Depende: Afganistan, Foreign Policy (Spain), December-January 2009

No es hora de retirarse de Afganistán, with Paddy Ashdown, El Pais, 3 December 2008

Time for a European Civilian Reserve, IPPR, October 2008

Creating a NATO Military Advisory Corp, World Defence Systems, Issue 17, November, 2008

Serbia deserves to feel proud, The Guardian, 22 July 2008 

Serbia's climate change, Open Democracy, 1 July 2008 

New Deal - Boosting Europe's engagement in Afghanistan, Think Global Act European

The challenges of 'hot' stabilisation, Comparative Perspectives on Civil-Military Relations in Conflict Zones , RUSI Occassional Paper

The Boston blueprint, The Guardian, 18 April 2008 

The rise of the Neo-Coins, The Guardian, 9 April 2008 

The summit of NATO's ambitions, The Guardian 2 April 2008 

Targeted relief, The Guardian, 26 March 2008 

National security is not enough, The Guardian, 20 March 2008 

A checklist for enhanced EU-NATO cooperation, Revisiting NATO-ESDP Relations, Discussion Paper, Security & Defence Agenda 

The EU is united over Kosovo, UPI, 29 February 2008 

Belgrade's bite is worse than its bark, The Guardian, 22 February 2008 

Europe's independence day, The Guardian, 19 February 2008 

The end of NATO and the danger of U.S unilateralism, RUSI, 8 February 2008 

The EU is missing in action, Today's Zaman, 1 February 2008 

Afghan impasse, UPI, 29 January 2008 

Europe's Afghan Test, Open Democracy, 22 January 2008 

Europe's security record in 2007, UPI, 28 December 2007 

Where is Europe in America's latest African adventure?, EU Observer, 19 December 2007 

From Bosnia to Afghanistan?, The Guardian, 17 December 2007 

EU must up the ante on Iran, UPI, 26 October 2007 

A civilian covenant, The Guardian, 18 October 2007

A European Third Way on Iran?, EU Observer, 15 October 2007 

Stabilising the Balkans: Cataloguing the International Community's Efforts

Bosnia: NATO Triggers False Alarm, IWPR, 15 May 2002 

Forfatningsmaessige Aendringer i Bosnien-Hercegovina: Paa taersklen til stabilitet?