Career
He has published and broadcast extensively in the field of international relations, and is one of the main architects of the so-called Copenhagen School in International Relations. Prior to his professorate at University of Copenhagen, Wæver was a senior research fellow at Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (1985-1999). His areas of research include:
Theories of international relations
The study of conflicts, what creates the conflict and how to mediate and resolve them
Danish security and defence policy
The history of concepts
Security theory
Wæver is director of the Danish Doctor of Philosophy school, Politologisk Forskerskole.
He has written several pieces together with Barry Buzan.
These include the two books:
Barry Buzan and Ole Wæver, Regions and Powers: The Structure of International Security, Cambridge University Press 2003. Barry Buzan, Ole Wæver, and Jaap de Wilde, Security: A New Framework for Analysis, Boulder Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers 1998.
Wæver has also co-edited the following book with Iver B. Neumann
The Future of International Relations: Masters In The Making? London: Routledge, 1997.
