Areas of expertise:

Leif Kalev is a professor of state and citizenship theory at Tallinn University. His research interests include citizenship, democracy, the state as a political community and the modes of its governance, and politics-policy-polity interrelations. From 2012-15 he worked as the secretary general and the deputy secretary general on public order and migration policy in the Estonian Ministry of the Interior. In 2019-20 prof. Kalev was a visiting research fellow at MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, USA. He is the head of the editorial board of Bibliotheca Politica book series of Tallinn University Press. His more recent publications include a co-edited three-volume book on public policy that received the best university coursebook award of Estonia, an edited special issue in Acta Politica Estica, articles in the International Journal of Public Policy, Comparative Migration Studies, Social Sciences, and edited volumes published by Routledge and Springer.

List of publications: https://www.etis.ee/CV/Leif_Kalev/eng?lang=ENG&tabId=Publications.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5714-0966