Henrik Selin
Henrik Selin
Department of International Relations
156 Bay State Road
Room 403
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
(617) 358-2590
(617) 353-9290 fax
selin@bu.edu
Director of Graduate Studies; Assistant Professor of International Relations. (MA, Lund University; PhD, Linköping University)
Specialization: International Environmental Politics, Sustainable Development, Global Governance and International Institutions, Scandinavia, and Europe.
Henrik Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. His book Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management is forthcoming with MIT Press. He is the co-editor of two books, Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policy Making and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press, with Stacy VanDeveer) and Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (Ashgate, with Miranda Schreurs and Stacy VanDeveer). He is also the author and co-author of more than two dozen peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters.
Selin is the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of International Relations and the Coordinator of the Master of Arts in International Relations and Environmental Policy program. He is also a Core Faculty member of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University; a Fellow with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, Boston University; and an Affiliated Researcher with the Center for Climate Science and Policy Research, Linköping University.
Prior to his current faculty position, Selin was a Wallenberg Research Fellow in Environment and Sustainability in the Environmental Policy and Planning Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001-04), an Associate with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2001-03), and an Associate with the Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2003-04).
Professor Selin’s personal webpage can be found at: people.bu.edu/selin.
Professor Selin teaches the following courses:
Global Governance and International Organization (IR 373)
European Environmental Policy (IR/GE 536)