Kristin Haugevik

Senior Research Fellow

kmh@nupi.no
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Kristin Haugevik is Senior Research Fellow in the Research Group on Global Order and Diplomacy. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Oslo (2014). An International Relations scholar, Haugevik’s research at NUPI revolves around international diplomacy, inter-state cooperation and friendship with a geographical focus on the Euro-Atlantic region and the foreign policies of Britain and the Nordic states. Her work has appeared in, inter alia, European Journal of International Relations, Cooperation and Conflict, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, Journal of European Integration, Politics and Governance and Global Affairs. She is also the author of Special Relationships in World Politics: Inter-State Friendship and Diplomacy After the Second World War (Routledge, 2018).

Kristin is Editor in Chief of the journal Cooperation and Conflict, 2023-2027.

Recent academic publications:

2022: United clubs of Europe: Informal differentiation and the social ordering of intra-EU diplomacy. Cooperation and Conflict (Online First).
2021: Reputation Crisis Management and the State: Theorising Containment as Diplomatic Mode (w/Cecilie Basberg Neumann). European Journal of International Relations, 27 (3), 708-729.
2020: The Nordic Balance Revisited: Differentiation and the Foreign Policy Repertoires of the Nordic States (w/Ole Jacob Sending). Politics and Governance, 8 (4), 441-450.
2019: Kith, kin and inter-state relations: International politics as family life. In Haugevik, Kristin & Iver B. Neumann (Eds) Kinship in International Relations. Routledge.
2019: Kinship in International Relations: Introduction and framework. In Haugevik, Kristin & Iver B. Neumann (Eds) Kinship in International Relations. Routledge (w/ Iver B. Neumann & Jon Harald Sande Lie).
2018: Special Relationships in World Politics: Inter-State Friendship and Diplomacy After the Second World War (monograph). Routledge.
2018: Parental Child Abduction and the State: Identity, Diplomacy and the Duty of Care, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 13, 1-21.
2017: Diplomacy through the back door: Norway and the bilateral route to EU decision-making. Global Affairs, 3(3), 277-291.
2017: Autonomy or integration? Small-state responses to a changing European security landscape. Global Affairs, 3(3), 211-221 (w/Pernille Rieker).

Full publication list here.

Education

2014 PhD, Political Science, University of Oslo

2005 MA, Political science, University of Oslo

Work Experience

2018-2022 Head, Global Order and Diplomacy, NUPI

2014- Senior Research Fellow, NUPI

Publications All publications

On safer ground? The emergence and evolution of ‘Global Britain’
Publication | 2023
- Kristin Haugevik
- Øyvind Svendsen
Why did Theresa May’s government introduce the narrative about ‘Global Britain’, and how did this narrative evolve and manifest itself in UK foreign1
Brexit, "globale Storbritannia" og Norge
Publication : Lecture | 2023
- Øyvind Svendsen
- Kristin Haugevik
Innledning for vennskapsgruppen for Storbritannia
Hjemsendte diplomater
Publication : Programme participation | 2023
- Kristin Haugevik
Norske diplomater hjemsendt fra ambassaden i Moskva.
Med krig i nærområdene, hvor går Norden?
Publication : Lecture | 2023
- Kristin Haugevik
Krigen i Ukraina har endret Norden. Med Sverige og Finland på vei inn i NATO åpnes nye muligheter for tettere nordisk samarbeid. Samtidig har Nordisk1
Norden i endring
Publication : Programme participation | 2023
- Kristin Haugevik

Projects All projects

The EU Navigating Multilateral Cooperation (NAVIGATOR)
Research project | 2023 - 2027 (Ongoing)
How should the EU navigate the increasingly complex - and conflict-laden - institutional spaces of global governance to advance a rules-based international order? And what factors should be emphasized...
Peace operations Security policy Governance Climate International organizations The EU NATO United Nations Russia and Eurasia Europe Asia Africa North America Cyber AU Migration Globalisation Regional integration
Globale Storbritannia i nord
Research project | 2022 - 2024 (Completed)
In this project we aim to contribute to the emerging research on the UK’s quest for a new foreign, security and defence policy role at the dusk of the formal Brexit process....
Security policy Defence Governance Diplomacy Foreign policy The EU NATO Europe The Nordic countries
Nye allierte, nye mulighetsrom: Norge og Finland i en endret sikkerhetspolitisk kontekst (NORFIN)
Research project | 2023 (Ongoing)
his project will study how Finland and Norway refer and relate to each other as security and defence policy allies, what opportunities they see for learning and exchange of experience going forward, a...
Security policy Conflict Defence Diplomacy Foreign policy NATO Europe The Nordic countries
Norway and Great Power Politics – Geopolitics, Technology and Climate (NISP)
Research project | 2022 - 2024 (Ongoing)
Our times are shaped by developments in geopolitical power dynamics, fast-paced technological development and climate change. In this research program NUPI analyses how these developments change the s...
Security policy NATO Defence Climate Foreign policy The Arctic North America Russia and Eurasia The Nordic countries
Defending and renewing multilateralism: Estonia and Norway in the UN Security Council
Research project | 2020 - 2021 (Completed)
This project will explore possibilities to enhance Estonian-Norwegian bilateral cooperation in promoting multilateral cooperation and a rules-based global order in the framework of the United Nations ...
Security policy Governance Climate Diplomacy Foreign policy International organizations United Nations Globalisation Europe The Nordic countries

Events All events

The Military Power Seminar 2022 – Northern-Europe in a changing security landscape
Event
Tue 18 Oct 2022
Time: 08:30 Europe/Oslo | Location: Sentralen, Oslo
What are the consequences of the changing security landscape for security in the north? At this year’s Military Power Seminar, we invite you to a debate on the important political issues related to security in Norway’s immediate neighbourhood.
Defending and renewing multilateralism: Estonia and Norway in the UN Security Council
Event
Wed 4 Nov 2020
Time: 10:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Webinar
What possibilities exist for Estonian-Norwegian bilateral cooperation in the United Nations Security Council?
Britain and Norway: Partnership in a changing world
Event
Wed 7 Oct 2020
Time: 14:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Webinar
Which areas of cooperation are being prioritised as the UK leaves the European Union, and how can the relationship be expected to develop in the coming years?
Theory Seminar: A Ritual Approach to Deterrence – NATO and its Eastern Flank
Event
Wed 23 Oct 2019
Time: 13:15 Europe/Oslo | Location: NUPI
In this theory seminar, Maria Mälksoo examines “the fourth wave” of deterrence studies.
Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing From Empires to the Global Era
Event
Tue 7 May 2019
Time: 13:30 Europe/Oslo | Location: NUPI
When do states resort to soft balancing (relying on institutional and economic instruments) rather than hard balancing (relying on formal military alliances and intense arms buildups)? When do they combine both? What are the differences and similarities between the 20th and 21st century cases of so1