Read about the Center for War Studies' Honorary Fellowship and its members below.
About the CWS Honorary Fellows
The Center for War Studies (CWS) awards Honorary Fellowships to persons who have made a significant contribution to the field War Studies in a professional capacity or in an educational role. Some of our fellows have extensive experience from the military; others have made distinguished contributions to, for instance, the study of international law and the history of armed conflict. The Honorary Fellows are thus not part of the center’s permanent faculty but take part in CWS activities on an ad-hoc basis. Current members of the Center for War Studies' Honorary Fellowships are listed below.
Michael Hesselholt Clemmesen
Brigadier General, MA History
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1964: Entered national service in the Danish Army
1965: Started at the Military Academy in 1965, where he was promoted in 1968
From 1968 he followed a versatile career at different regiments and headquarters, including one year as a military observer in India and Pakistan
1989-1994: he was Director of different staff courses at the Royal Danish Defence College
1994-1998: Appointment as Defence Attaché in the Baltic countries
1998-2004: Appointment as Commandant of the Baltic Defence College
2005-: Senior Researcher and lecturer at the Institute for Military History at the Royal Danish Defence College
Alongside his military career he was a member of the Chairmanship of the Danish Commission for Security and Disarmament Affairs (1981-1983) and Defence Commission (1988-1989). He has authored books and articles on, among other things, military history and strategic studies, and in 2005 he was rewarded with the St. Germain Medal (Gold) of the Military Science Society
Ole Espersen
Doctor of Law
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1971: Doctor of Law
1971-2004: Professor of Constitutional and International Law at Copenhagen University,
1971-1974; 1978-1981: Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Danish Radio and Television
1973-1994: Member of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) for Social-Democratic Party
1981-1982: Minister of Justice
1986-1996: Chairman of the International Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims
1994-2000: Commissioner of the CBSS on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, including the Rights of Persons belonging to Minorities
Ib Faurby
MA Political Science
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1969-1986: Associate professor of international relations, University of Aarhus, Denmark
1976: Fulbright-Hays Scholar, University of Southern California
1979: Guest Professor, University of Stockholm
1982-1983: Director of the Secretariat of the Danish Commission on Security and Disarmament Affairs
1984-1986: Co-Chairman of the Secretariat of the Danish Commission on Security and Disarmament Affairs
1986-1997: Editorial writer for the Danish newspaper “Politiken”
1987-1996: Member of the Council for International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London
Since 1995: Honorary Member, The Royal Swedish Academy of War Science
1997-2007: Chief Adviser, Royal Danish Defense College
Knud J. V. Jespersen
Dr. phil., Historiographer to the Royal Danish Orders of Knighthood, Professor (Emeritus)
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Today, Professor (Emeritus) in history at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
In the 1970's he was among the initiators for the re-establishment of war and military history as equal academic discipline at the universities.
Since then, he has conducted research in, among other things, Danish and European military history in a wide sense with a particular emphasis on early new age military revolution and its societal impact, as well as in the armed conflicts between Denmark and Sweden 1560-1720.
Among other things, he has been co-editor of and contributor to the big reference work Danmarks krigshistorie, volume 1-2 (2008). He is the author of several pieces on the Danish resistance struggle 1940-45 as well as reference works such as Stat og nation. Den europæiske civilisation 1500-1900 (1999) and A History of Denmark 1500-2000 (2004, 2nd edition 2011).
Karsten Jakob Møller
Major
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After studies in classical philology, he was drafted to the Army Language School where he went through training as a Russian linguist. Afterwards, he went through the officers’ education at the Royal Military Academy and served in the infantry as company commander, and battalion commander. In 1996 he was appointed colonel and commander of an armored brigade, and in 1997 he commanded the Nordic-Polish Brigade in Bosnia.
He has served as Head of the NATO Department in the Danish Ministry of Defence, Director of Danish Defence Research Institution, Defence attaché in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, and ended his military career as Commandant of the Danish General Staff Academy.
Since his retirement from the Armed Forces in 2007, he has been a Senior Analyst at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Head of the Department for Defence & Security Studies.