Birgit Poopuu

Birgit Poopuu (she/her) is Associate Professor of International Relations and co-director of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub (CEEShub) at Tallinn University’s School of Governance, Law, and Society. She is currently the Principal Investigator of European Horizon Twinning grant “A critical relational perspective on peace & security in CEE”. Her main research interests include politics of knowledge production in global politics, critical approaches to security and peace and conflict studies, and critical theoretical perspectives in International Relations. She is the author of The European Union’s Brand of Peacebuilding: Acting is Everything (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and the co-editor of Knowledge and Expertise in International Relations: A Handbook (OUP, 2025).

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