


Position: Head, Transatlantic programme
Lisa Aronsson joined RUSI as Head of the Transatlantic Programme in October 2008. At RUSI, she is responsible for leading research projects, hosting discussion meetings, arranging conferences, and commenting on matters related to transatlantic cooperation. She is also a founding Junior Fellow of the Transatlantic Project at the LSE IDEAS Centre for Strategy and Diplomacy and remains active in the academic community.
Prior to joining RUSI, Lisa completed her PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics, which was supervised by Professor Michael Cox. Her thesis assessed the mainstream positivist International Relations theories and whether they explained transatlantic cooperation and conflict in post-Cold War institution building. She has written on transatlantic security relations, the transformation of NATO, debates about the Kyoto Protocol, the International Criminal Court, and systemic change since the end of the Cold War. She is especially interested in the overlap between International History and International Relations and in the way the two academic disciplines can complement one another. As a PhD student, Lisa taught courses in International Relations and received a Teaching Award in 2007. She also worked for four years as a Programme Assistant and Web Editor at LSE IDEAS and Cold War Studies Centre.
Lisa has a Masters with distinction in the History of International Relations from LSE (2003) and a BA magna cum laude from Wellesley College (1999).
Kyoto’s Long Shadow: Transatlantic Climate Relations Twelve Years On
24 Nov 2009
Closing Guantanamo: Managing Risk and Global Expectations
20 Jan 2009
The Obama Revolution: From Hustings to Reality
5 Nov 2008
Speech summary - NATO’s Twenty-first Century Challenges: the Road Ahead
22 Oct 2008