Main research interests – conflict and conflict resolutuion and identity studies. Special area focus on Nagorno-Karabakh and Chechnya
Märta-Lisa Magnusson has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages (University of Gothenburg, 1986) and has been a senior lecturer at the Department of East-West Research, Sydjysk University Center, Esbjerg (1987-2000), senior lecturer and external lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (2002-2010) and senior lecturer at IMER and Caucasus studies, Malmö University (2006-2017). She has published several books, edited and wrote articles in a number of anthologies, wrote a large number of magazine articles and taught about Russian literature, Soviet cultural and nationality policy, center-periphery relations in post-Soviet Russia and, after 1991, in rising degree focused on developments in the post-Soviet Caucasus. In 1992-2000, she contributed articles on Russia and the Caucasus to the Great Danish Encyclopedia and has also contributed to the Swedish National Encyclopedia. She has written a large number of articles in the Danish daily press and was 1981-94 reviewer of Russian literature at the daily newspaper Politiken. In 1993-99 she was editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal Vindue mod Øst, Center for Öst-Vest Forskning, Sydjysk Universitetscenter. 1988-92 member of the board of the Danish Center for Human Rights, 1997-2010 board member and 2003-2006 chairman of the Danish Society for Caucasus Research. Magnusson is one of the organizers behind the establishment of the university subject Caucasus studies at Malmö University.
Fieldwork: Western Siberia, Armenia and Georgia. A large number of study trips to, among others, the North Caucasus with Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan; Volga region with Tatarsan, Bashkortostan and Udmurtia; Transnistria (Moldova) and the Russian Far East with Birobidzhan, Buryatia, Tuva, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa. (1986). Gränsens funktioner och manifestationer i Valentin Rasputins Povesti, Institutum Slavicum Universitatis Gothoburgensis, Göteborg.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa. (1989). Krisen i Kaukasus, Folk og Forskning, Nr 4, s. 7-10. (även tryckt i Fyens Stiftstidende, 27 januar 1990)
Magnusson, Märta-lisa. (1989). Krisen i Kaukasus. Vindue mod Øst, Nr. 10, s. 21-22.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa. (1990). De jäser bland Bergen. Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 15 januari.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa. (1990). Sista striden mot Det Stora Odjuret Sydsvenska Dagbladet. Januari, 1990.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa. (1995). Den sovjetiske nationalitetspolitik og det føderala princip. I: Jens-Jörgen Jensen och Märta-Lisa Magnusson (red.). Rusland – Samling eller sammenbrud? Esbjerg: Sydjysk universitetsforlag, s. 69-100.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa. (1995). Nordkaukasus. I: Jens-Jörgen Jensen och Märta-Lisa Magnusson (red.). Rusland – Samling eller sammenbrud? Esbjerg: Sydjysk universitetsforlag, s. 218-261.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa og Faurby Ib (1995). Revner Rusland? Udenrigs nr. 2, 1995.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa (with Essaied Abderrazakh, Henze Paul). (1992). Chechnya. Report of An International Alert Fact-Finding Mission, (September 24-October 3, London.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa. (1998). The Negotiation Process between Russia and Chechenia – Strategies, Achievements and Future Problems. In: Ole Høiris and Sefa Martin Yürükel (eds.), Contrasts and Solutions in the Caucasus, Aarhus University Press.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa (1999). The Failure of Conflict Prevention and Management – The Case of Chechnya. Part 1: Conflict Assessment and Pre-War Escalation. In: Tom Trier & Lars Funch Hansen, Conflict and forced displacement in the Caucasus. Danish Refugee Council, Copenhagen 1999
Faurby, Ib and Märta-Lisa Magnusson. (1999). The Battle(s) of Grozny, Baltic Defence Review, No. 2, pp. 75-87.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa og Ib Faurby. (1999), Endlösung i Tjetjenien? Udenrigs, nr. 4, s. 39-52. https://web.archive.org/web/20051219131102/http://kaukasus.dk/publikation7.htm
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa og Ib Faurby. (2000). Hvorfor ville russerne krig? Mediernes rolle under de to russisk-tjetjenske krige, Nordisk Østforum, nr. 3, pp. 31-46. https://web.archive.org/web/20051219135027/http://kaukasus.dk/publikation20.htm
Faurby, Ib og Märta-Lisa Magnusson. (2000). Europarådet, Rusland og krigene i Tjetjenien. Udenrigs nr. 2. (Sovet Evropi, Rossia i voyny v Chechne) https://web.archive.org/web/20051219142443/http://kaukasus.dk/publikation15.htm
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa (2000). Comments on Contributions, In: International Community and Strategies for Peace and Stability in and around Chechnia (On the Results of the Joint Conference organized by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Journal Central Asia and the Caucasus. Central Asia and the Caucasus. Journal of Social and Political Studies, no. 4. pp. 115-116.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa (2003). Karabakh- den besværlige brik i de stores spil. I: Ib Faurby og Märta-Lisa Magnusson (red.), Korsvej og minefelt. Kultur og konflikt i Kaukasus. Århus: Systime, s. 166- 213.
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa (2006). Prospects for peace in Chechnya. In: Rita Grünenfelder and Heinz Krummenacher (eds.): Searching for peace in Chechnya – Swiss Initiatives and Experiences. Swiss Peace Conference, pp. 4-13. https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/26646/CP_2006Jahreskonferenz.pdf
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa. (2010). Why No Settlement in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict? – Which are the obstacles to a negotiated solution? In: Vamling, K. (ed.) Language, History and Cultural Identities in the Caucasus. Papers from the Conference, June 17-19, 2005 Malmö University. Caucasus Studies 2. Malmö: Department of IMER, Malmö University, pp. 114-143. http://dspace.mah.se/handle/2043/12518
Magnusson, Märta-Lisa. (2014). De facto’ states in the context of the current international law and international politics (2014). Paper prepared for the international conference ‘De facto entities in the post-Soviet space: Dynamics and Prospects’, September 4-5, 2014, Sevan, Armenia. Academia.edu
Märta-Lisa Magnusson. (2016). Georgia’s territorial integrity in the context of a (changing?) normative consensus against dismemberment of existing states. Paper presented at Seminar on ‘State and Society Building in Georgia: Context and Challenges’, The Danish Foreign Policy Society and European Foundation. academia.edu