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Nina Græger

Research Professor (part time)
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Summary

Nina Græger is research professor at NUPI, in the Research group on global order and diplomacy and professor in international relations at the University of Copenhagen. From September 2019, she is on leave, holding a part time position at NUPI while she is Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests are security practices, interorganizational relations, IR, European, transatlantic and Norwegian security and defence, and military sociology.

Nina has appeared in journals such as Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of European Integration and Cooperation and Conflict. She has extensive management (e.g. Head of Department 2008-2012) and project management experience (e.g. EUPERFORM - Measuring the EU’s Performance in International Institutions 2010-2014, and GR:EEN - Global Reordering: Evolution through European Networks 2011-2015).

The title of Græger’s Ph.D. thesis is: Norsk forsvarsdiskurs 1990-2005: Internasjonaliseringen av forsvaret.

Expertise

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Regional integration
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • North America
  • The Nordic countries
  • Peace operations
  • Conflict
  • International organizations
  • Historical IR

Education

2007 Ph.D. (dr. polit.), University of Oslo

1994 M. Phil. (cand. polit), political science, University of Oslo. Title, Mphil thesis: The legitimation of supranational power

Work Experience

2019- Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen

1998-2019 Research Fellow/PhD student/Senior research fellow/Research Professor (part time), NUPI

2013-2017 Associate Professor II at The Norwegian University of Life Sciences, where she is lecturer, course convenor and supervisor at the MSc-programme in IR studies

2012-2013 Head of Research group on security and defense, NUPI

2009-2012 Head of Departement of International Politics, NUPI

1996 Political/personal advisor to the Minister of Industry and Energy.

1994-1995 and 1997-1998 Research fellow, PRIO

Aktivitet

Publications by NUPI
2016 (Completed)

NATO towards Warsaw - significance for Norway and the Nordic

This project will contribute with new perspectives and understandings in the official debate in Norway, linked to security, collective defense and NATO. The delivery is a series of three seminars link...

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Conflict
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Conflict
Research project
2013 - 2017 (Completed)

Advancing female leadership in the institute sector (NUPIBAL)

NUPIBAL promotes gender equality at NUPI....

News
News

Building Bridges with the EU

The activities that NATO has undertaken to address the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean focus on intelligence and surveillance, and are designed to complement the efforts of the EU and Turkey, writes Nina Græger for European Futures.

  • NATO
  • Europe
  • International organizations
  • The EU
The image shows Jens Stoltenberg (NATO) and Federica Mogherini (the EU)
Event
15:00 - 17:00
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
15:00 - 17:00
NUPI
Engelsk
5. Apr 2016
Event
15:00 - 17:00
NUPI
Engelsk

Expectations for the NATO Warsaw Summit: Is NATO doing the right things – and doing them right?

The Warsaw Summit is the topic of this second seminar in the series about NATO.

Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Basepolitikken gir viktige signaler

Publications
Publications
Book

Norsk forsvarspolitikk. Territorialforsvar og internasjonal innsats 1990-2015

Norsk forsvarspolitikk har gjennomgått store omstillinger siden den kalde krigens slutt, spesielt i perioden 1990–2005. Regjering og Storting sendte stadig flere soldater til fredsbevarende og fredsopprettende operasjoner i utlandet, mens Forsvaret selv fremdeles hadde forsvar av landet som sitt primære fokus. Forfatter Græger viser hvordan kaldkrig-tenkningen og etablerte praksiser i forsvaret og forsvarsmiljøer lenge bremset en politisk ønsket omstilling fra invasjonsforsvar til innsatsforsvar tilpasset internasjonale operasjoner. Boken viser hvordan norsk utenriks-, sikkerhets- og forsvarspolitikk er tett sammenvevet, og stadig utfordres av endringer i trusselbildet og i NATO, men løfter også fram de nasjonale forutsetningene for handling. Forfatteren har analysert debatter både på Stortinget og innen Forsvaret, og kombinerer dette med studier av hvordan forsvarspolitikken utformes i praksis – blant annet gjennom langtidsplanlegging, militær utdanning og profesjonsutvikling. Boken tilfører ny kunnskap om forhold av vesentlig betydning for norsk forsvars- og sikkerhetspolitikk.

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Foreign policy
Publications
Publications
Chapter

Conclusion: The EU, Energy, and Global Power Shifts

This edited collection focuses on the impact of the changing global distribution of power on the EU's energy policy and ability to project its approach to energy-related issues abroad. The authors map the EU's energy governance, its changing global position and the impact of various factors on its capacity to pursue its interests in the field of energy. They also provide insights into the internal and external energy policy of the EU, and explores how various EU institutions shape energy policy. They examine, moreover, the state of the EU's relations with its external energy suppliers, such as Russia, and with other global energy actors, such as China, the main global consumer of energy; the USA, which is going through a technologically-driven energy revolution; and Brazil, which may become a key global energy player.

  • NATO
  • Regional integration
  • The EU
  • NATO
  • Regional integration
  • The EU
Publications
Publications
Report

Still a “Strategic” EU–NATO Partnership? Bridging Governance Challenges through Practical Cooperation

The EU and NATO share a common interest in responding effectively to threats posed by Russia in the east and by Islamic extremist to the south of Europe. However, bilateral issues and the pursuit of national interests, especially those involving Cyprus and Turkey, as well as a general lack of strategic convergence have limited theeffectiveness of both organisations’ crisis-management capabilities. In times of a deteriorating security environment these limitations will be even more detrimental for Euro - Atlantic security. Poland and Norway, participants in both the EU and NATO missions and two principal countries of the GoodGov project are well positioned to break this institutional deadlock.

  • NATO
  • Regional integration
  • The EU
  • NATO
  • Regional integration
  • The EU
Research Project
2013 - 2015 (Completed)

National and European Governance: Polish and Norwegian Cooperation Towards More Efficient Security, Energy and Migration Policies (GOODGOV)

The aim of the project is to analyse the current situation in three fields of governance – national security, energy and migration – in both Polish-Norwegian bilateral and in broader European context....

  • Europe
  • Governance
  • Europe
  • Governance
Research Project
2014 - 2017 (Completed)

Europe in transition – Small states and Europe in an age of global shifts (EUNOR)

What is the significance of the EU for small states in Europe today?...

  • Regional integration
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The EU
  • Regional integration
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The EU
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