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Claudia Emilie Aanonsen

Senior Research Fellow
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claudia.aanonsen@nupi.no
+47 40616676
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Summary

Claudia Emilie Aanonsen is a Senior Research Fellow at NUPI and part of the research group on security and defence. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and an MSc in International Politics from SOAS, University of London. 

Her research explores cybersecurity, digital politics and governance, contemporary warfare, and technology within international politics as well as the European Union. She employs critical approaches within International Relations (IR) theory and Science and Technology Studies (STS) to examine how technologies shape security practices, political authority, and power dynamics in global and regional contexts.

Expertise

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Globalisation
  • Foreign policy
  • Governance
  • The EU

Education

2022-2025 PhD in Political Science, University of Amsterdam

2018-2019 Master of Science, International Politics. Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London, England

2016 Visiting Student, Political Science. Department of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

2014-2017 Bachelor of Arts, Religious Studies. Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Work Experience

2025- Senior Research Fellow, NUPI 

2022-2025: Doctoral Fellow, NUPI 

2021-2022 Junior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

2020-2021 Project Manager, Cappelen Damm Undervisning

2018 Assistant Programme Manager, Turning Tables Jordan

2017 Trainee, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Arab States

2017 Trainee, The Royal Embassy of Denmark in Beirut

Aktivitet

Research project
2021 - 2025 (Completed)

Cyber security, knowledge and practices (CYKNOW)

CYKNOW will promote better understanding of cyber security, as well as develop novel theoretical and methodological tools for cybersecurity research in particular. ...

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Globalisation
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Globalisation
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
Et digitalt verdenskart med illustrerte cyberangrep
Forskningsprosjekt
2020 - 2022 (Completed)

Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa (C3SA)

C3SA informs policy through cybersecurity research to build national cyber capacity and resilience across Africa. ...

  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Development policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Fragile states
  • International organizations
  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Development policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Fragile states
  • International organizations
Articles
Articles

Research group for Security and Defence

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Cyber
  • Intelligence
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Articles
Articles

Research group for Security and Defence

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Cyber
  • Intelligence
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