Nina Græger
Senior Research FellowNina Græger is Senior Research Fellow at NUPI and Associate Professor II at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, MSc programme in IR. 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.
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European security as practice: EU–NATO communities of practice in the making?
2018This book aims to show practice approaches at work in the fields of European diplomacy and security broadly conceived. It sets out to provide readers with a hands-on sense of where research on social practices and European diplomacy, security and foreign policy currently stands. The book reviews how... -
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Need to have or nice to have? Nordic cooperation, NATO and the EU in Norway’s foreign and security policy
2018Norway is a strong supporter of Nordic cooperation, often votes with the Nordic bloc in multilateral institutions, and participates in Nordic institutions as well as in the Nordic Defence Cooperation (NORDEFCO). Yet when it comes to security, NATO and the transatlantic bonds have always come first. In... -
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The Duty of Care for Citizens Abroad: Security and Responsibility in the In Amenas and Fukushima Crises
This article analyses the state’s duty of care (DoC) for citizens who fall victim to unforeseen catastrophic or violent events abroad. The DoC highlights the challenges, dynamics and relations involved in diplomatic practice that is aimed at protecting citizens outside of state borders and where traditional... -
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Usikre rammer for norsk forsvarspolitikk
2017(Available in Norwegian only): USAs utenrikspolitikk og et militært potent Russland skaper uforutsigbare internasjonale rammevilkår. Både NATO og Norge har vendt «hjem» igjen både mentalt (forsvarsidentitet og trusselbilde) og fysisk (kollektiv sikkerhet og territorielt forsvar). Men nye internasjonale... -
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Vilje til omstilling - før og nå
2017(Available in Norwegian only): I dagens forsvarsdebatt er Forsvarets evne til å håndtere et bredt spekter av trusler under mer usikre internasjonale rammebetingelser sentralt. Det er stor oppslutning om at Forsvaret bør ha en viss avskrekkende effekt, kunne håndtere mindre episoder alene, og delta i... -
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The Challenges and Dynamics of Alliance Policies: Norway,NATO and the High North
The global system of alliances that the United States built after the Second World War underpinned the stability and prosperity of the postwar order. But during the 20th century, the multilateral NATO alliance system in Europe and the bilateral San Francisco alliance system in Asia rarely interacted.... -
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Grasping the everyday and extraordinary in EU–NATO relations: the added value of practice approaches
2017Much scholarly work seeking to explain the EU–NATO relationship emphasises conflicting national or institutional interests, strategic individuals, and operational inefficiencies and overlaps. This article offers an alternative account of how both the everyday and the extraordinary in EU–NATO security... -
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The Challenges and Dynamics of Alliance Policies: Norway,NATO and the High North
This chapter sets out to discuss two major framework conditions for Norwegian foreign, security and defence policy: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the High North. Having to address increasingly heterogeneous security concerns and agendas, how do alliances shape their members’ foreign,... -
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How does NATO shape the Norwegian policy?
05.07.2017This is what NUPI researchers Nina Græger and Wrenn Yennie Lindgren have taken a closer look at in the chapter ‘The Challenges and Dynamics of Alliance Policies: Norway, NATO and the High North’. -
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Security in Europe - Polish and Norwegian Perspectives (PISM_NUPI_Bilateral)
2017 - 2018 (Ongoing)The main aim of this collaborative project (PISM and NUPI) is to map the Polish and Norwegian approaches towards various types of security related challenges in the European and regional context.
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VIDEO: Research for a safer Europe
02.12.2016‘Europe needs a more consistent security policy’, explains senior research fellow Nina Græger (NUPI). Through an exchange programme for Nordic researchers she has been working with that issue in close collaboration with Swedish colleagues. -
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European security in practice: EU-NATO communities in-the-making?
2016European security is at a critical juncture and many have called for a more coherent and efficient response, involving both the EU and NATO. However, the primary tool for EU–NATO cooperation, “Berlin Plus”, has been stuck in a political quagmire since the mid-2000s, making a lot of scholars to conclude... -
Fri 25 Nov 2016Event
How to protect citizens abroad? The duty to help and protect
Time: 13:00 Location: NUPIStates are often placed in situations in which they have to care for their citizens abroad. The form of this care and what it encompasses, will be discussed in this seminar.
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NATO towards Warsaw - significance for Norway and the Nordic
2016 (Completed)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 linked to Policy Briefs, chronicles and other communication activities.
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Advancing female leadership in the institute sector (NUPIBAL)
2014 - 2017 (Completed)NUPIBAL promotes gender equality at NUPI.
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Building Bridges with the EU
25.04.2016The 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.