Kristin Fjæstad

Summary

Kristin Fjæstad is a Senior Research Fellow in the Research group for Russia,for Eastern Europe and Asia. She is one of the editors of the journal Internasjonal Politikk.

From August 2020, Fjæstad had a post doc position in the LORAX project. In this project, she worked on questions about how and by whom the Caspian Sea is defined as a regional ecosystem.

Fjæstad holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews (2020). The PhD traces and examines Kazakhstan’s transition from a recipient to a donor of official development assistance and discusses this process through the prism of identity-building.  

Fjæstad works predominantly on global development, development and foreign policy, as well as questions of identity, foreign policy and state formation in the former Soviet Union, in particular Central Asia.