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Lars Bo Kaspersen

Lars Bo Kaspersen
Professor , PhD
Lars Bo Kaspersen

Department of Business and Politics

Steen Blichers Vej 22
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3590
Cell phone: +45 3124 6161
Fax:+45 3815 3555
E-mail: lbk.dbp@cbs.dk

Leave of absence: 1.5 2011 - 30.4 2013


Link to this homepage: uk.cbs.dk/staff/lbk


My central interest is state theory, state-marked relations, political theory, and sociological theory. My current research is historical-sociological comparative analyses of state formation processes in Europe including the importance of warfare for social change. Moreover, I work with globalization in particular the role of the state in historical as well as current processes of globalization. Furthermore, I have an interest in theories of modernity, processes of individualization, and the Danish welfare state in a historical and comparative perspective. Currently I have a special interest in the competitiveness of the small states in the global world. In particular I am studying the level of internationalization among large Danish companies.

Primary research areas

  • The State under transformation
  • State-market relations
  • Globalization
  • State formation processes in a historical and comparative perspective
  • National political culture
  • Internationalization and the large Danish Companies
  • Warfare as a Social phenomena
  • Small states and their competitiveness in the world market
  • Civil society
  • Social and Political theory

Administrative functions

Head of Department, Department of Business and Politics


Selected publications

  • Mellem offentlig og privat (Between Private and Public). Kaspersen, Lars Bo, Lund, Joachim & Petersen, Ole Helby (eds), DJØF Publishing, 2010 (forthcoming)
  • “De territoriale forudsætninger for offentlig-privat samarbejde” (co-authored with Jeppe Strandsbjerg). In Mellem offentlig og privat (Between Private and Public). Kaspersen, Lars Bo, Lund, Joachim & Petersen, Ole Helby (eds), DJØF Publishing, 2010 (forthcoming)
  • “Responding to Globalization: Changing the State Strategy from Infrastructural Power to Authoritarian Liberal Power” (co-authored with Linda Thorsager). In Michael Böss (ed.), The Nation-State in Transformation – Economic Globalisation, Institutional Mediation and Political Values. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus (2010)
  • Klassisk og moderne politisk teori (Classical and Modern Political Theory). Kaspersen, Lars Bo & Loftager, J. (eds.), Hans Reitzels Publishers, Copenhagen, 2009, 1273 pages.
  • “The Spatial Practices of State Formation: Territorial Space in Denmark and Israel” (Co-authored with Jeppe Strandsbjerg, CBS). Journal of Power, Volume 2 Issue 2, 235, 2009.
  • “The Importance of Survival Units for Norbert Elias’ Figurational Perspective” (Co-authored with Norman Gabriel, University of Plymouth). Sociological Review, 56:3, August 2008, pp 370-387.
  • “Why No Religious Politics? The Secularization of Poor Relief and Primary Education in Denmark and Sweden (Co-authored with Johannes Lindvall, Oxford University). Archives européennes de sociologie/European Journal of Sociology, XLIX, I, 2008, pp. 119-143.
  • Danmark i verden! (Denmark in the World!). Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Publishers, 2008.
  • “Globalization and Institutional Competitiveness” (Co-authored with Martin Marcussen, University of Copenhagen). Regulation and Governance, vol. 1, No. 3, September, 2007


Last updated by Mette Grue Nielsen 02/05/2011