Minda Holm
Research FellowMinda Holm is a research fellow with the Research Group on Global order and Diplomacy. She also has a position at the Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS), and is doing a PhD at the University of Copenhagen.
Minda Holm does research on questions related to global order, international ideology, security politics and sovereignty. She is particularly interested in social and political theory connected to these topics, as well as political realism, state power, liberalism and conservatism in international affairs, both historically and present. She has done research and published on Norwegian, Russian and US foreign- and security policy, with a focus on the idea of liberal international politics and counter-reactions to liberal foreign policy. In addition, Holm has published more theoretical work on conceptual history, sovereignty and global order in Review of International Studies and International Studies Review.
At NUPI she leads a 3-year research project funded by the Ministry of Defence that looks at the international visions of the national right in Russia, Europe and the US. As of 2018 Holm is also a Ph.D. fellow in Political Science at the University of Copenhagen (supervisor Ole Wæver), connected to an international research project on “The World of the Right” (with V.S. Tjalve, DIIS; JF Drolet, Queen Mary; and M.C. Williams, University of Ottawa). In addition to NUPI and the University of Copenhagen she is associated with the Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS) and their research group on International Security. At NUPI she is also part of the research project titled A Conceptual History of International Relations (CHOIR).
Holm is a co-editor of the peer-reviewed Scandinavian IR journal Internasjonal Politikk, an Associate Editor (as of August 2020) of New Perspectives, and a monthly foreign affairs columnist for Klassekampen (formerly for Dagsavisen). Please see her personal webpage for more information.
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Publication : Popular scientific article
Når krig blir hverdag
2020On Scandinavian military activism. -
Publication : Interview
Khrono kårer Årets navn i akademia
Who deserves to be awarded the 2020 This year's name in academia? -
Publication : Feature article
Kristne først
2020When the Norwegian Progress Party Frp argues for prioritising the protection of Christians, they are following in the footsteps of the national right in the US, Europe and Russia. -
Publication : Interview
Seks å se opp for
They impressed us in the year that has been. Klassekampen have chosen a few young people we think will have an impact in the news and in culture in the years to come. -
Publication : Feature article
USAs autoritære vending
2020US institutions that were created to spread democracy internationally, are now increasingly turning the criticism inwards. -
Publication : Popular scientific article
Hvor radikale er de høyreradikale?
2020To be both radical and conservative is not necessarily a contradiction, writes Minda Holm in this op-ed published in Klassekampen. -
Publication : Academic article
Hvor radikale er de egentlig? Om det populistiske radikale høyre som motideologisk prosjekt
2020How radical is the populist radical right really? On the populist radical right as a counter-ideological project. -
Publication : Popular scientific article
Er vi iboende gode?
2020(Available in Norwegian only): Mektige stater anklager hverandre for være dobbeltmoralske, og verden blir et dårligere sted, skriver Minda Holm i denne Klassekampen-kronikken. -
Publication : Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
States of exception: Freedom of Speech, Liberal Identities, and European Politics of Security
This chapter deals with dilemmas of current European Security Politics in relation to freedom of speech and liberal values more broadly, in what I call the ‘double exceptionalism’ of liberal security policy. Empirically, I focus on the Norwegian balance after the terrorist attack on 22 July 2011. The... -
Publication : Academic article
What Liberalism? Russia’s Conservative Turn and the Liberal Order
2020Through a regime that increasingly promotes a conservative domestic agenda and at times portrays the West as decadent and lost, the Russian state has been cast as the front man in a new international conservative revolt. Yet, calling the Russian state ‘anti-liberal’ misses the complexity of its critique... -
Publication : Feature article
Hvilken liberal orden?
2020The West has to critically examine its own contributions to the crisis of the 'liberal order'. -
Publication : Feature article
Hvordan påvirker pandemien den liberale orden?
2020Covid-19 puts more pressure on the liberal order. -
News
COVID-19 and the consequences for international relations
28.04.2020Read our briefs and expert commentary on how Covid-19 affects developing countries and international affairs. -
Publication : Popular scientific article
Ytre høyre normaliseres
2020The far right is increasingly normalised, and gets away with it - also in Norway. -
Publication : Report
Brothers in Arms and Faith? The Emerging US-Central and Eastern Europe ‘Special Relationship’
2020In this policy note, we explore the nature, strength and tensions of the contemporary US-Central Eastern Europe relationship. We describe the expanding US-CEE ‘brotherhood in arms’: growing trade relations, intensified military cooperation, and rekindled diplomatic ties. Further, we unpack the striking... -
Publication : Feature article
Om å være kvinne i akademia
2019Reflections on being a woman in academia. Published in longer version with Forskerforum, Agenda Magasin and Nupi.no. -
Publication : Popular scientific article
Drømmen om å gjenkristne Europa
2019The political leadership in Hungary, Poland and Russia talks of protecting Christians abroad - and about saving Europe from itself. -
Publication : Popular scientific article
Står den liberale epoken for fall?
201930 years after the fall of the wall the world is more about continuity than change. -
Research project
Common Fear Factors in Foreign Policy (COMFEAR)
2019 - 2020 (Completed)COMFEAR aims to identify key issues of common concern and shared threats as perceived by publics and policymakers in Czechia and Norway.
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Publication : Popular scientific article
Kreml og den liberale idéen
2019How radical is Kremlin's anti-liberalism?