Expert on Europe

Yf Reykers is Assistant Professor (tenured) in International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Leuven International and European Studies Institute at KU Leuven, where he also obtained his PhD in 2017. He was a visiting scholar at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University and at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University. Yf studies issues relating to the accountability of security and defence policy, with a particular interest in multinational military operations. He has a genuine interest in qualitative case-oriented research methods, and process-tracing in particular. He teaches courses on International Relations and case study methods in the BA, MA and Research Master European Studies. His work has been published in, amongst others, Cooperation and Conflict, Contemporary Security Policy, European Security, International Peacekeeping, Journal of European Integration, Parliamentary Affairs and Third World Quarterly. He is co-editor of the volume ‘Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms: From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation’ (2019, Routledge Global Institutions Series). Yf is Associate Editor of the journal Contemporary Security Policy