Julie Wilhelmsen

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Julie Wilhelmsen is a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. She holds a PhD in political science and conducts research in the fields of critical security studies, Russian foreign and security policies and the radicalization of Islam in Eurasia.
The two post-soviet Chechen wars have been a constant focus in her research and she is also heads projects related to conflict resolution in the North Caucasus. From 2012 to 2016 she was the editor of the Scandinavian-language journal Internasjonal Politikk, and has a wide outreach to the Norwegian public on issues related to Russia and Eurasia through frequent public talks and media comments. In 2019 – 2021 Wilhelmsen is an expert in the Cooperative Security Initiative (CSI), an initiative which is designed to generate ideas and shift momentum in favor of cooperative security and multilateralism through the OSCE in order to build a safer Europe.
EDUCATION:
2014 Ph.D in Political Science, University of Oslo. Areas of specialisation: Russian Politics, Critical Security Studies, Discourse Analysis
1999 Cand.Polit. (Political Science), University of Oslo
1996 Master of Science in Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science
1995 Mellomfag in Political Science, University of Oslo
1994 Mellomfag in Russian, University of Oslo
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2014 - Senior Researcher, NUPI
2003 - 2014 Researcher, Centre for Russian Studies, NUPI
2001 - 2003 Researcher and Project manager, Norwegian Defence Reseach Establishment
1999 - 2001 Higher executive officer, Norwegian Directorate of Immigration
Publications All publications
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Liberal halvtime: En lang samtale med Julie Wilhelmsen om Russland
Publication : Podcast | 2022(This podcast episode is in Norwegian). In episode 343 of the think tank Civita's 'Liberal halvtime', Senior research Fellow Julie Wil1
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Identification and physical disconnect in Russian foreign policy: Georgia as a Western proxy once again?
Publication : Academic article | 2022Evolving official Russian identifications of Georgia amount to a dangerous securitisation of this small neighbour – achieved through a focus not on G1
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How War Becomes Acceptable: Russian re-phrasing of Chechnya
Publication : Academic monograph | 0This dissertation investigates how violence against a given territory or group of people becomes acceptable to leaders and their publics. Some wars a1
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Russian Certainty of NATO Hostility: Repercussions in the Arctic
Publication : Academic article | 2022How does a security dilemma dynamic between parties deemed not to hold hostile intentions toward each other emerge and escalate? This article investi1
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Russian reframing: Norway as an outpost for NATO offensives
Publication | 2021Moscow increasingly views the ‘Collective West’ as an offensive actor and the High North as terrain for NATO ‘expansion’. Norway figures as an active1
Projects All projects
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Russian Repertoires of Power in the MENA region (RUSMENA)
Research project | 2021 - 2024 (Ongoing)The main objective of the RUSMENA project is to examine Russian power practices in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region between 2011 and 2021....
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Norway as an in-between for Russia: Ambivalent space, hybrid measures
Research project | 2020 - 2023 (Ongoing)This three-year project addresses the acutely relevant question of whether Norway is acquiring the precarious status of an ‘in-between’ state in the Kremlin’s eye after the watershed events of 2014 (A...
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When every act is war: Post-Crimea conflict dynamics and Russian foreign policy (WARU)
Research project | 2020 - 2023 (Ongoing)Tension between great powers in world politics is escalating rapidly. What are the driving forces behind deteriorating relations? Can we explain them solely by the ‘aggressiveness’ of the other (be th...
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Common Fear Factors in Foreign Policy (COMFEAR)
Research project | 2019 - 2020 (Completed)COMFEAR aims to identify key issues of common concern and shared threats as perceived by publics and policymakers in Czechia and Norway....
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Competency through Cooperation: Advancing knowledge on Georgia's strategic path (GEOPATH)
Research project | 2018 - 2022 (Completed)GEOPATH is a collaborative research project which aims to build competency in the Georgian research sector as well as producing new insights into the crucial question of Georgia's future strategi...
Events All events
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Norwegian Foreign Policy Conference 2023: Response – Norwegian foreign policy for a new era
EventTue 21 Mar 2023Time: 09:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Marmorsalen på Sentralen, OsloThe Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and NUPI have the pleasure of inviting you to the Norwegian Foreign Policy Conference 2023, 21 March at Sentralen, Oslo.
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Breakfast seminar: The war-time foreign policy debate in Russia and Europe
EventTue 28 Feb 2023Time: 08:30 Europe/Oslo | Location: NUPI/Livestream to Facebook and YoutubeHow has the Russian foreign policy debate changed, and how is it shaped by the European debate on Russia?
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Georgia’s strategic choices after the elections
EventWed 14 Oct 2020Time: 10:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: WebinarGeorgia wants closer integration in Western institutions and is also Russia's neighbour. How does this affect Georgia’s foreign policy?
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Breakfast seminar: We Need To Talk About Putin
EventTue 21 Jan 2020Time: 09:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: NUPIWhat do we really know about one of the most powerful men in the world after two decades in power?
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Theory Seminar: “Traditional” institutions and polity-building in Chechnya and Ingushetia
EventSun 10 Nov 2019Time: 14:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: NUPIDr Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, will present her book project on the situation in North Caucasus.
Articles All articles
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RUSMENA round tables in Rome and Florence on 1 and 2 June 2022
14 Jun 2022The NUPI project 'Russian repertoires of power in the MENA region' (RUSMENA) organized a two-day roundtable in Italy.
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The Consortium for Research on Terrorism and International Crime in 2021
13 Jan 2022Foreign fighters in Ukraine, 20 years after 9/11 and the role of technology in violent extremism were some of the topics on the Consortium’s agenda i1
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PODCAST: Is this the end of academic freedom in Russia?
21 Apr 2022Freedom of speech in Russia has gradually been shrinking over the years, with a turn for the worse after Putin’s invasion in Ukraine. In this episode1
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Management
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Russia, Asia and International Trade
3 Jan 2022What is the role of Russia, the Arctic and Asia in global politics? How are these societies developing? How do international trade, innovation and po1