Minda Holm
Research FellowMinda Holm is a research fellow with the Research Group on Global order and Diplomacy. She is also affiliated with 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 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, and a monthly foreign affairs columnist for Dagsavisen. Please see her personal webpage for more information.
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Liberale verdifellesskap og selvbilder i praksis: Hvordan Norge gikk til krig og hva vi kan lære
2019(In norwegian only) Hvilke lærdommer kan vi trekke av bombingen av Libya i 2011? Var krigføringen i tråd med krigens folkerett? Brøt norske myndigheter grunnloven i forbindelse med krigsdeltagelsen? Levde media opp til sitt samfunnsoppdrag så lenge krigføringen i Libya pågikk? Ble det norske folk holdt... -
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The Politics of Diasporas and the Duty of Care: Legitimizing interventions through the protection of kin
2019This book offers a first overarching look at the relationship between states and their citizens abroad, approached through the concept 'Duty of Care'. How can society best be protected, when increasing numbers of citizens are found outside the borders of the state? What are the limits to care... -
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Ethnic Diversity in the Recruitment of Diplomats: Why MFAs Take the Issue Seriously
2019Diversity and its management have become an issue in all organisations. Ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs) do not escape the issue. In the 2000s, states decided to consider more ethnic diversity in the recruitment of their diplomats. In some countries, this new goal requires affirmative action programs.... -
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Russland og det ytre høyre
2019(Available in Norwegian only): Båndene mellom Russland og ytre høyre i Europa er mer kompliserte enn man kan få inntrykk av i vestlig media, skriver Minda Holm i denne kronikken. -
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Tungt skyts
2019(Available in Norwegian only): Minda Holm anmelder Jon Hellesnes’ bok ‘NATO-komplekset: Om militærpolitikk, atomvåpen og norsk USA-servilitet’ i Klassekampens bokmagasin. Holm skriver her om de sannhetene som tas for gitt i norsk sikkerhets- og forsvarspolitikk, deriblant forholdet til USA og NATO. Hva... -
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Mutual Lack of Introspection and the ‘Russia Factor’ in the Liberal West
2019Minda Holm makes three claims in this article: one about the representation of Russia as an external enemy and the reflex to blame Russia for unwanted domestic developments; one about the liberal Western Self’s continuous violation of the principles it judges others by; and one about the seemingly deliberate... -
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Farlige forbindelser?
2019Den påståtte koblingen mellom franske høyrenasjonalister og Kreml er overdrevet. Men de felles interessene er der. -
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Taliban i Moskva og Doha
2019Forrige uke møttes en delegasjon fra Taliban og sentrale afghanske politikere til samtaler i Moskva. Møtet var det mest omfattende av sitt slag siden 2001, året da USA gikk til krig mot Taliban. Møtet kom like etter at Taliban har vært i banebrytende forhandlinger med USA i seks dager i Doha, Qatar.... -
Research project
A Conceptual History of International Relations (CHOIR)
2019 - 2023 (Ongoing)The purpose of CHOIR is to investigate taken-for-granted concepts of international relations.
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Forum: In the beginning there was no word (For It): Terms, concepts, and early sovereignty
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the concept sovereignty for international relations (IR). And yet, understanding the historical emergence of sovereignty in international relations has long been curtailed by the all-encompassing myth of the Peace of Westphalia. While criticism of this myth... -
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What does foreign policy really mean?
07.12.2018This, with other widely used IR concepts, is what Halvard Leira and his project CHOIR team have received funding to explore. -
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States before relations: On misrecognition and the bifurcated regime of sovereignty
The symbolic structure of the international system, organised around sovereignty, is sustained by an institutional infrastructure that shapes how states seek sovereign agency. We investigate how the modern legal category of the state is an institutional expression of the idea of the state as a liberal... -
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Familien i internasjonal politikk
2018(Available in Norwegian only). «Tradisjonelle familieverdier» blir stadig oftere brukt for å rettferdiggjøre systematisk stigmatisering av homofile i vidt forskjellige land verden over. -
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Hatet mot George Soros
2018(Available in Norwegian only): Ingen enkeltperson er hatet så mye av både det nasjonalistiske og ekstreme høyre som ungarsk-amerikanske George Soros. -
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Visions of an Illiberal World Order? The National Right in Europe, Russia and the US
2018The rise of a national Right in both Europe and the US is disrupting the security agendas of Western foreign– and defense ministries. Long accustomed to directing the gaze and measures of Western security only outwards – towards Africa, the Middle East, China – these centers of policy formulation now... -
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Norge, USA og folkeretten
2018(Available in Norwegian only): Når det gjelder USA og folkeretten, er problemet ikke så mye Trump, som at USA konsekvent bryter de verdiene de selv forfekter, skriver Minda Holm i denne kronikken. -
Thu 30 Aug 2018Event
Theory seminar: The Crisis of Liberal Memory
Time: 13:15 Location: NUPIVibeke Schou Tjalve presents the introduction chapter to a new book as part of the project “World of the Right”.
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Ideologenes kamp
2018(Norwegian only): To innflytelsesrike ideologer – en russisk, en amerikansk – bygger høyreradikale nettverk i Europa. Selv om ideologien springer ut fra like kilder, har de ulike visjoner. -
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What, When, and Where, Then, is the Concept of Sovereignty?
2018It is difficult to overstate the importance of the concept sovereignty for international relations (IR). And yet, understanding the historical emergence of sovereignty in international relations has long been curtailed by the all-encompassing myth of the Peace of Westphalia. While criticism of this myth...