Björn Müller-Wille

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA (UK)

b.muller-wille@rmas.mod.uk

Björn Müller-Wille, born in 1969, first pursued a career in the Swedish Armed Forces, most recently as an analyst in the Assessments Branch. In 1994, he served with Nordbat 2, BH Command, Bosnia-Herzegovina, UNPROFOR.

He was a Visiting Fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies in Paris and an Honorary Research Associate at the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham. He finished his PhD at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (Münster), entitled 'Thinking Security in Europe - Is there a European Security and Defence Identity?'. He gained his Magister Artium in Political Science, Sociology and Economic Policy (Münster) in 1998.

Björn's research at the UEA focuses on the democratic accountability of EU intelligence agencies. It analyses various models of oversight currently applied in different countries and addresses practical difficulties involved in controlling the activities of intelligence agencies, with a view to making policy recommendation for democratic control of EU intelligence agencies (Europol, the intelligence division of the EUMS, the Situation Centre and the SATCEN).

Björn is the author of:

• 'European Union intelligence cooperation -core challenges and responses', in Armand de Decker, President of the WEU Assembly (ed), Challenges for Europe's Security and Defence in the 21st Century, Paris 2004.
• 'Building a European Intelligence Community in response to terrorism', in ISIS-Europe, European Security Review, April 2004.
• 'For our eyes only? Shaping an intelligence Community within the EU', in EUISS Occasional Paper, No. 50, January 2004. Available at: http://www.iss-eu.org/occasion/occ50.pdf
• Thinking security in Europe- Is there a European Security and Defence Identity?, Münster 2003.
  Dissertation available at: http://miami.uni-muenster.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-1501/dissertation.pdf
• 'EU Intelligence Co-operation A critical Analysis', in Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 23, No. 2 (August 2002).
  Europeisk Säkerhets- och Försvarsidentitet (ESDI), HQ Swedish Armed Forces, Stockholm 1999.
  

With Hans-Christian Hagman:

• Europeiska Militära Krishanteringsförmågor, HQ Swedish Armed Forces, Stockholm 1999.
• NATOs Nya Strategiska Koncept, HQ Swedish Armed Forces, Stockholm 1999.
  

Forthcoming from the ESDP-democracy Research Training Network:

• 'Democratic accountability of EU intelligence'.