Nadia Gerspacher

Nadia Gerspacher joined the Education and Training Center/Domestic in January 2008. Her focus is on strengthening local capacity and on security and protection in fragile states. Prior to joining the Institute, she taught compared criminology at Catholic University of America and international relations courses at American University’s School of International Service.

She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology at the University of Montreal where she conducted a research project of international investigations in drug trafficking cases. She also served as policy adviser for the Montreal-based International Institute for Crime Prevention where she produced a comparative analysis on community policing approaches in the UK, France, the U.S., Canada and Australia. Gerspacher was a visiting fellow at the University of Grenoble, France as part of the CNRS (national center for research of France) where she completed a project on the lack of capacity of many national police structures to cooperate across borders.

Her research focus is international cooperation, international policing, capacity building by international police organizations and transnational crime. She has published in both international relations and policing/criminology journals in English and in French on various issues of international police cooperation. Gerspacher also teaches in the police science program at George Washington University.

She holds a Ph.D. in political science/international relations from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Publications:

• "Market-oriented Explanation of the Expansion of the Role of Europol: Filling the Demand for Criminal Intelligence through Entrepreneurial Initiatives,? Police Cooperation: Emerging Issues, Theory and Practice edited by F. Lemieux (Willan Publishing, 2009).
• The History of International Police Cooperation: A 150-year Evolution in Trends and Approaches,? Global Crime (February 2008).
• "The Nodal Structure of International Police Cooperation: An Empirical Exploration of Transnational Security Networks,? co-author Global Governance (2007).
• "Beyond Mandates, Toward Unintended Roles: International Police Organizations do their part in the Fight against Transnational Crime,? European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (13:3, 2005).