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Halvard Leira

Research Director, Research Professor
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Halvard Leira is Research Professor and Research Director at NUPI.

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

2024 - Research Director, NUPI

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

Aktivitet

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The History of International Thought

Being a distinct discipline entails being able to recount the disciplinary history and pre-history, and in IR this has led to a sustained engagement, first with the history of international thought in the classical sense, then with historiography. Over the last decades, scholars have increasingly come to see International Relations Theory neither as the recurrence of ancient patterns of thought nor as a miraculous conception of the early 20th century. Rather, continuous stories have been written, where IR has become tied to a wide variety of previous thought. In this volume we explore this scholarship in breadth, explicitly opposing the notion of “great traditions” and “great debates”, and focusing primarily on the challenges, and on works undermining, redirecting or expanding the canon.

  • Diplomacy
  • Historical IR
  • Diplomacy
  • Historical IR
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Historical International Relations

As a quarry for data, testing-ground for theory and site of investigation, history has been one of the unacknowledged partners of International Relations. The last two decades has witnessed both a substantial increase in the scope of historical IR scholarship and in the sophistication of methodological approaches to history, accompanied by a rapidly increasing (and multidisciplinary) interest in the history of international thought, as well as an ever more sophisticated historiography of the discipline itself. This Major Work is structured in a way to engage with the key recent developments in the field of international relations, providing the reader with an overview of approaches to history in IR; the history of international thought/historiography; and the emergence of the state and the state system.

  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Historical IR
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Historical IR
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Research Project
2013 - 2014 (Completed)

Norway and the BRICS: Mapping Opportunities and Challenges

The project is expected to contribute to strengthen NUPI’s research on emerging powers and on the interlinkages between business and foreign policy....

  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
The entrance to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the snow
Research Project
2014 - 2018 (Completed)

Duty of Care: Protection of Citizens Abroad (DoC:PRO)

How can Norwegian society best be protected, when increasing numbers of citizens are found outside the borders of the state?...

  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Peace operations
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Peace operations
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
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Norway and the BRICS (I): An Overview of Emerging Power Cooperation

  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
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Norway and the BRICS (II): The Current State of Play

  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
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Norway and the BRICS (IV): Challenges and Opportunities

  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
Research Project
2015 - 2018 (Completed)

Undermining Hegemony. The US, China, Russia, and International Public Goods

Developments in the last fifteen years have driven renewed interest in hegemonic-stability and power-transition theory. The persistence of US-centered primacy during the 1990s produced new arguments f...

  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Asia
  • North America
  • South and Central America
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Asia
  • North America
  • South and Central America
  • Governance
  • International organizations
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Undermining Hegemony? Building a Framework for Goods Substitution

The logics that we have outlined may, indeed, be applicable to a wide array of international actors and organizations that are aspiring to play public goods substitution roles. Likewise, they are applicable to a number of actors seeking alternative access to public goods. For example, supply and demand factors may help explain both the growing pains and potential power of the BRICS and recast debates about the role of alternative lenders in the developing world. Ultimately, our project is an appeal to think more precisely about the components of hegemonic order and the more hidden mechanisms that may contribute to its transformation or, in certain cases, enduring resilience.

  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • International organizations
  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • International organizations
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