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Halvard Leira

Research Professor
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hl@nupi.no
(+47) 928 03 854
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Summary

Halvard Leira’s main areas of research is foreign policy and diplomacy, with a special emphasis on the Norwegian varieties. He also has a long-standing research interest in historical international relations, and international thought. Leira completed his PhD thesis in May 2011, titled «The Emergence of Foreign Policy: Knowledge, Discourse, History».

Expertise

  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • Nationalism
  • Oceans
  • Historical IR

Education

2011 PhD, Political Science, University of Oslo  

2002 Cand. Polit., Political Science, Department of political Science, University of Oslo

Work Experience

2003- Research Fellow/Phd-candidate/Senior Research Fellow/Research Professor, NUPI

Aktivitet

NUPIpodden #12: Kan du forvente hjelp fra Norge hvis du kommer i trøbbel i utlandet?
Podcast

NUPIpodden #12: Kan du forvente hjelp fra Norge hvis du kommer i trøbbel i utlandet?

Skal vi hente hjem fremmedkrigere som har reist til Syria for å slutte seg til IS? Brukte norske myndigheter for mye penger på å få hjem to drapsd...

  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Governance
  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Governance
NUPIpodden #21: Hva er egentlig utenrikspolitikk?
Podcast

NUPIpodden #21: Hva er egentlig utenrikspolitikk?

Når begynte vi å snakke om utenrikspolitikk? Og hvorfor? Og spiller det noen rolle at makthaverne begynte å kalle noe for «utenrikspolitikk»? I de...

  • Foreign policy
  • Foreign policy
The ugly duckling of the foreign services
Podcast

The ugly duckling of the foreign services

Visiting prisoners, assisting lost travellers and distressed expats. Consular work is often considered the ugly duckling of the foreign services,...

  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
Event
13:15 - 15:00
NUPI
Engelsk
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13:15 - 15:00
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Engelsk
26. May 2023
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13:15 - 15:00
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Engelsk

Book presentation: The Counterinsurgent Imagination

How and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures?

Event
14:30 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk
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14:30 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk
1. Dec 2022
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14:30 - 16:00
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Engelsk

Book Launch: Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders

We invite you to this book launch with Ayse Zarakol and her new book on the rise and fall of world orders.

Event
11:00 - 13:00
NUPI
Engelsk
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11:00 - 13:00
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Engelsk
8. Sep 2022
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11:00 - 13:00
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Engelsk

CHIP Annual Lecture 2020-2021: On Becoming International

NUPI's Center for Historical International Politics (CHIP) invites you to this seminar with Jens Bartelson.

Publications
Publications

The value of diplomatic history in a changing world

This chapter argues for the value of a careful reading of diplomatic history in approaching our changing world. Diplomatic history does not hold unambiguous and clear lessons or analogies, but can alert us to both contingency and the existence of different developmental trajectories.

  • Diplomacy
  • Historical IR
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  • Diplomacy
  • Historical IR
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

The Intercity Origins of Diplomacy: Consuls, Empires, and the Sea

City diplomacy is a fairly new topic in the study of diplomacy, and, many would argue, a fairly recent empirical phenomenon. A counterpoint to this could be to reference how the alleged origin of diplomacy in Greek antiquity was city-centered, as were the earliest forms of Renaissance diplomacy in Italy. In this article we want to probe the connections between cities and diplomacy through problematizing what has counted as diplomacy. Our starting point is that cities have always mattered to what we could analytically refer to as diplomatic practice. Being conscious of the conceptual ambiguities, we are thus not starting from a specific definition of “city diplomacy,” but from a conviction that cities have mattered and continue to matter to the practice of diplomacy.

  • Diplomacy and foreign policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Theory and method
  • Historical IR
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  • Diplomacy and foreign policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Theory and method
  • Historical IR
Articles
Articles

The Board

The Ministry of Education and Research has appointed the NUPI board for the period 2022 - 2025
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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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