Kaija Schilde

Kaija Schilde is an Expert Affiliate of the Rising Powers Initiative at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, and an Associate Professor at the Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript addressing why states increasingly outsource the economic ‘public good’ of security to firms and industries, titled Outsourcing Security, Managing Risk: Hiding the National Security State in Global Markets. Her first book, The Political Economy of European Security (Cambridge University Press, 2017) theorizes EU-interest group state-society relations, identifying the political development of security and defense institutions as an outcome of industry interest and mobilization. Her research spans multiple dimensions of comparative national and European security institutions along the public-private divide, including the causes and consequences of military spending; the relationship between spending, innovation, and capabilities; the politics of defense protectionism; and the political economy of border security. She has published articles in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Global Security Studies, Security Studies, European Security, and the Journal of Peace Research. She has a policy background in defense and transatlantic security institutions.