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Minda Holm

Senior Research Fellow
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Summary

Minda Holm is a Senior Research Fellow with the research group Global Order and Diplomacy. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen (September 2023), a monography on ideology in global politics titled Towards a Social Theory of International Ideology, Ideological Scripts, and Counter-Ideology: Rethinking Liberal International Order and the Far Right’s critique.

Holm does social- and political theoretical work on liberalism in global politics (historically and present), anti-liberal forces globally including the far right’s global visions, global order, ideology, state ideals and sovereignty. She has also done research and published on Norwegian, Russian and U.S. foreign policy, misrecognition, morality in global order, international conceptual history and diplomacy.

She is an editor of the Scandinavian-language IR journal Internasjonal Politikk, an Associate Editor of New Perspectives, and from June 2024 an Associate Editor of Cooperation and Conflict. Holm also has a monthly column in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen. As of fall 2023 she is working on the Research Council-funded projects CHOIR and ANGER.

See her personal webpage for more, including publications. 

Expertise

  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Historical IR

Education

2018 – 2023 PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Submitted November 2022, defended after maternity leave September 2023. 

2015 – 2016 MA George Washington University, USA (Fulbright scholar)

2013 – 2014 MSc London School of Economics and Political Science, England

2008 – 2013 BA (2, in parallel), Political Science and Russia studies, University of Oslo and American University in Cairo, Oslo/Egypt

Main work experience

2023 – Senior Research Fellow, NUPI

2018 – 2022 PhD Fellow, NUPI, University of Copenhagen and Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS)

2017 – 2018 Research Fellow, NUPI 

2012 – 2017 Research Assistant, NUPI (fulltime from January 2016)

2012 – 2012 Intern, Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Tajikistan

2010 – 2011 Trainee, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kazakhstan (covering all of Central Asia)

2009 – 2010 Journalist, Radio Nova

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aktivitet

NUPIpoddden #15: Hvilken liberal orden?
Podcast

NUPIpoddden #15: Hvilken liberal orden?

Vi hører stadig at den internasjonale liberale orden er i krise. På den ene siden er den utsatt for press utenfra, fra stater som Russland og Kina...

  • Security policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Nationalism
  • Insurgencies
  • Governance
  • Security policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Nationalism
  • Insurgencies
  • Governance
Articles
New research
Articles
New research

NUPI team to take over as editors of the prestigious journal Cooperation and Conflict

“Our aim is to consolidate Cooperation and Conflict as a platform for IR scholarship that is theoretically innovative, methodologically pluralist, empirically and historically rigorous, critical in outlook yet grounded in and with implications for key mainstream debates,” says Benjamin de Carvalho.
  • Diplomacy and foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
  • Global governance
  • Theory and method
  • Historical IR
Articles
Articles

Orbán’s racism shouldn’t come as a surpise

This op-ed was published 10.09.22
  • Europe
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Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Editorial: The New Right’s internationalism

The editorial team welcomes you to the final issue of 2021. For this issue, convened by Minda Holm, one of New Perspectives’ Associate Editors, we have brought together a group of invited essays on the Internationalism of the New Right. As an object of analysis for political science and International Relations, the New Right refers to intellectual movements that have emerged since the 1980s, including Reaganite economic conservatives, theorists and philosophers like Alexandr Dugin and Alain de Benoist, and political movements that have swept to power across the globe, but with particular successes in Central and Eastern Europe. Globally these movement include actors as diverse as Bolsonaro in Brasil, Modi in India, and Putin in Russia, and in Central and Eastern Europe are exemplified by Fidesz in Hungary and Prawo I Sprawiedliwosc in Poland. So far, academic conversations have happened mostly in parallel, rather than with each other, drawing seemingly different conclusions as to both who we are speaking of, and what their global ideas entail – both for world politics, and IR as a field (see Abrahamsen et al., 2020; Azmanova and Dakwar, 2019; De Orellana and Michelsen, 2019; Drolet and Williams, 2018). In this special issue, we bring together some leading voices to reflect on the transnational and international relations between these movements.

  • Global economy
  • Globalisation
  • Regions
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • North America
  • Peace, crisis and conflict
  • Nationalism
  • Global governance
  • Governance
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  • Global economy
  • Globalisation
  • Regions
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • North America
  • Peace, crisis and conflict
  • Nationalism
  • Global governance
  • Governance
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Russlands Kabul

Kremlin has over the last years had closer contact with Taliban.

  • Defence and security
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Regions
  • Russia and Eurasia
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  • Defence and security
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Regions
  • Russia and Eurasia
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Mistenkelig kritikk

Why is media so uncritical towards Norwegian foreign policy?

  • Diplomacy and foreign policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
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  • Diplomacy and foreign policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
Forskningsprosjekt
2021 - 2024 (Ongoing)

Chinese Anger Diplomacy (ANGER)

Do liberal-democratic states yield to public criticism by China? ANGER approaches this question by focusing on China's use of "anger diplomacy" - public, vehement displays at the state ...

  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Asia
  • Nationalism
  • Comparative methods
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Asia
  • Nationalism
  • Comparative methods
Articles
Articles

Research group for Global Order and Diplomacy

In what ways are the structures and contents of world politics changing? How do global power dynamics influence states’ foreign policy – and vice versa? What characterizes Norway’s past and present role on the international arena?
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Global governance
  • Governance
  • International organizations
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Articles
Articles

Research group for Global Order and Diplomacy

In what ways are the structures and contents of world politics changing? How do global power dynamics influence states’ foreign policy – and vice versa? What characterizes Norway’s past and present role on the international arena?
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Global governance
  • Governance
  • International organizations
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Publications
Publications

Myter om ytre høyre

They are called populists, anti-liberal and pro-Russian - but is it that simple?

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