Kjetil Selvik
Senior Research FellowKjetil Selvik is Senior Researcher in NUPI’s Research Group on Peace, Conflict and Development. He holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po in Paris and works on struggles over states and regimes in the Middle East.
Selvik har previously worked as researcher at Fafo and at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and been Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, and at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Language, University of Oslo.
See all Selvik's publications from CMI here.
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Publication
: Academic article
Introduction
2020The special issue discusses journalism and the challenge of democracy in transitional countries in Africa. We present in-depth treatments of the role of journalism in Zimbabwe and South Africa’s break with colonialism, Somalia’s breakdown after the fall of Siad Barré in the early 1990s and the recent... -
Publication
: Academic article
Debating terrorism in a political transition: Journalism and democracy in Tunisia
2020In March 2015, in the midst of a political transition, Tunisia was rocked by a terrorist attack at the Bardo Museum in downtown Tunis in which 21 people were killed. How did Tunisian journalists manage the tension between a heightened sense of insecurity and the country’s uncertain democratic development?... -
News
Drivers of violent extremism: NUPI to coordinate EU-funded project
19.12.2019PREVEX will shed light on how the various drivers of violent extremism operate. -
News
Drivers of violent extremism: NUPI to coordinate EU-funded project
19.12.2019PREVEX will shed light on how the various drivers of violent extremism operate. -
Publication
: Report
Religious authority and the 2018 parliamentary elections in Iraq
2019This research brief analyzes the discursive production of, and political struggle over, religious authority in Shia Iraq. It examines Friday sermons held in the run-up to the May 2018 parliamentary elections. -
Research project
Preventing Violent Extremism in the Balkans and the MENA: Strengthening Resilience in Enabling Environments (PREVEX)
2020 - 2023 (Ongoing)The overarching objective of PREVEX is to put forward more fine-tuned and effective approaches to preventing violent extremism.
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Thu 12 Dec 2019Event
Breakfast seminar: Street versus system – the protest wave in the Middle East
Time: 09:00 Location: NUPIOver the past months, popular protests have shaken the rulers of Algeria, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq. In this breakfast seminar, NUPI researchers discuss the nature of the protests and the prospects for change.
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Publication
: ARTIKKEL
Elite Survival and the Arab Spring: The Cases of Tunisia and Egypt
2019The article compares the survival of old regime elites in Tunisia and Egypt after the 2011 uprisings and analyses its enabling factors. Although democracy progressed in Tunisia and collapsed in Egypt, the countries show similarities in the old elite’s ability to survive the Arab Spring. In both cases,... -
News
How do Islamist movements relate to the modern state?
28.06.2019The first research notes from the HYRES project are out, analyzing several very timely questions related to Islamist movements in Mali, Iraq, Libya and Lebanon. -
Wed 26 Jun 2019Event
Turkey’s Syria policy and the refugee question
Time: 10:00 Location: NUPIHow is Turkey’s foreign policy shaped in the new presidential system? And how is Turkey’s Syria policy influenced by and influencing the refugee crisis?
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News
Podcast: Can blockchain save journalism?
04.03.2019The underlying technology behind bitcoin may help fight fake news, says Walid Al-Saqaf. -
Wed 27 Feb 2019Event
Breakfast seminar: Can blockchain save journalism?
Time: 09:00 Location: NUPIProfessional journalism is under pressure worldwide. Walid Al-Saqaf argues that the underlying technology for Bitcoin could be a solution to the problem.
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Publication
: ARTIKKEL
Autocratic legitimation in Iran: Ali Khamenei's discourse on regime 'insiders' and 'outsiders'
2018The article analyses Ali Khamenei’s discourse on insiders and outsiders in the Islamic Republic of Iran, arguing that it shows the leader of an electoral revolutionary regime striving to counter elite fragmentation and growing democratic demands. It studies identity demarcation as a tool of autocratic... -
Publication
: Del av bok/rapport
Teheran. Revolusjon og reaksjon.
2018(Norwegian only): Temaet for kapitlet er Teherans rolle og betydning i et Midtøsten i endring og konflikt. Jeg ser byen som brennpunkt for tre store slag som står i regionen: kampene over Vestens rolle, folkets makt over politiske avgjørelser og islam som samfunnskontrakt. Jeg viser hvordan kampene spilles... -
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: ARTIKKEL
Religiøs autoritet og tynnslitt stat: Valgkamp i sjia-Irak
2018(Available in Norwegian only) Artikkelen diskuterer sjia-muslimske religiøse lærdes relasjon til statsmakt og analyserer hvordan religiøs autoritet tas i bruk som politisk valuta i Irak. Den tar utgangspunkt i fredagsprekener holdt i forkant av parlamentsvalget 12. mai 2018. Religiøse ledere har måter... -
Research project
Journalism in struggles for democracy: media and polarization in the Middle East
2017 - 2020 (Ongoing)What is the role of journalists in the social and political polarization that has followed the Arab uprisings?
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Research project
Hybrid paths to resistance in the Muslim world: Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Mali (HYRES)
2017 - 2020 (Ongoing)HYRES studies the interaction between Islamist movements and the state in the cases of Iraq, Lebanon, Libya and Mali, and is designed to answer the following question: Why do some Islamist groups pursue their political and religious project within the state to which they belong – while other Islamist...
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Mon 18 Sep 2017Event
Turkey under Erdogan - a weaker state?
Time: 08:30 Location: NUPIEmre Caliskan visits NUPI to talk about Turkeys thoughts on AKP and president Erdogan after much dissatisfaction, protests and a coup attempt in the country.
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Research project
Societal Transformation in Conflict Contexts (TRANSFORM)
2017 - 2020 (Ongoing)In times of radical uncertainty and flux: how do individual actions inspire collective action or lead to new institutional practices in ways that determine the direction of a society?