Eirikur Bergmann

Eirikur Bergmann

Eirikur Bergmann (Eiríkur Bergmann Einarsson) is an Icelandic academic and writer.

Early life and education

Eirikur Bergmann was born in Reykjavík in 1969 and studied political science at the University of Iceland and Copenhagen University.

Academics

Eirikur Bergmann is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for European Studies at Bifröst University. He was awarded Cand.Sci.Pol degree from Copenhagen University in 1998 and Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Iceland in 2009. Bergmann has been a visiting fellow at many academic institutions, including Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

Bergmann has written mainly on European politics. He has published a number of academic papers and eleven books, including Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, Bust & Recovery (2014), and Nordic Nationalism and Right-Wing Populist Politics (2017). In 2018 Palgrave Macmillan published his book Conspiracy & Populism: The Politics of Misinformation.

Novels

Eirikur Bergmann's fiction writing centres on political themes. He has published three novels in Icelandic: Glapræði (Fools Errand, 2005),[1] Hryðjuverkamaður snýr heim (A Terrorist Returns Home, 2015),[2][3] and Samsærið (The Plot, 2017), a political thriller concerning terrorism and the rise of nationalist populism in Iceland and the other Nordic countries.[4]

Columnist

Eirikur Bergmann is also an active columnist. He has written for many newspapers in Iceland and for the British The Guardian.[5]

Constitutional Council

Bergmann was elected in 2010 to Iceland's Constitutional Assembly and subsequently served in 2011 as one of the 25 members of the Constitutional Council, part of the 2010–2013 reform of Iceland's constitution.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Glapræði. Eftir Eirík Bergmann Einarsson". Morgunblaðið, 8 October 2005 (in Icelandic).
  2. ↑ Karl Th. Birgisson. "Ættu prófessorar í stjórnmálafræði að skrifa skáldsögur? Já. Ef þær eru skemmtilegar".Herðubreið, 14 June 2015,
  3. ↑ Friðrika Benónýsdóttir. "Hryðjuverk hjartans". Fréttablaðið, 25 June 2015, p. 40 (in Icelandic)
  4. ↑ Kolbrún Bergþórsdóttir. "Hef reynt að losa mig við allan boðskap". Dagblaðið Vísir, 26 November 2017 (in Icelandic).
  5. ↑ "Eirikur Bergmann". Profile. The Guardian.
  6. ↑ Elkins, Z., Ginsburg, T., & Melton, J. (14 October 2012). "A Review of Iceland’s Draft Constitution". The Comparative Constitutions Project.
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