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Kristin Haugevik
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Kristin Haugevik is Research Professor and Research Director at NUPI. 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.
Recent academic publications:
- 2024: From the incoming editors: A leading International Relations journal with a Nordic touch. Cooperation and Conflict, 59 (2), pp. 131-134 (w/ Benjamin de Carvalho, Paul Beaumont & Øyvind Svendsen).
- 2024: Friendship in World Politics. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press.
- 2023: On Safer Ground? The emergence and evolution of ‘Global Britain’, International Affairs, 99 (6), pp. 2387–2404 (w/ Øyvind Svendsen).
- 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.
Expertise
Education
2023 Professorial Competence, NUPI
2014 PhD, Political Science, University of Oslo
2005 MA, Political science, University of Oslo
Work Experience
2024 - Research Director, NUPI
2023 - Research Professor, NUPI
2023 - Editor, Cooperation and Conflict
2018-2022 Head, Global Order and Diplomacy, NUPI
2014-2024 Senior Research Fellow, NUPI
2012-2016 Editor, International Politics
2006-2014 Research Fellow, NUPI
2005 Research Assistant, NUPI
2005 Intern, The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington D.C.
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Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing From Empires to the Global Era
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 soft balancing, one under multipolarity, the other under near-unipolarity?
Sheltering, security and small states: Nordic responses to a changing geopolitical context
How do Nordic states respond to current geopolitical changes in their neighborhood, and what are their options?
Norden i verden
(Only in Norwegian). Hver for seg er de nordiske landene relativt små, men sammen er de på størrelse med en stormakt. Og med en verdenspolitikk i endring er samarbeidet mellom disse statene enda viktigere enn på lenge.
Kinship in International Relations: Introduction and framework
This chapter identifies and discusses some of the ways in which kinship may be of use to IR scholars. The chapter offers examples of how kinship relations have manifested themselves historically in international relations, seeking to demonstrate how blood kinship from the beginning has been accompanied, reinforced and challenged by metaphorical kinship – that is, how certain non-blood related relations in or via practice come to be treated as kin, with the duties, obligations and expectations that entails.
Kinship in International Relations
While kinship is among the basic organizing principles of all human life, its role in and implications for international politics and relations have been subject to surprisingly little exploration in International Relations (IR) scholarship. This volume is the first volume aimed at thinking systematically about kinship in IR – as an organizing principle, as a source of political and social processes and outcomes, and as a practical and analytical category that not only reflects but also shapes politics and interaction on the international political arena. Contributors trace everyday uses of kinship terminology to explore the relevance of kinship in different political and cultural contexts and to look at interactions taking place above, at and within the state level. The book suggests that kinship can expand or limit actors’ political room for maneuvereon the international political arena, making some actions and practices appear possible and likely, and others less so. As an analytical category, kinship can help us categorize and understand relations between actors in the international arena. It presents itself as a ready-made classificatory system for understanding how entities within a hierarchy are organized in relation to one another, and how this logic is all at once natural and social.
Utenforkameratene
Skilsmisseavtalen mellom Storbritannia og EU er ferdigforhandlet, men det er fortsatt mye usikkerhet rundt veien videre. Om knappe to uker skal Underhuset stemme over avtalen. Resultatet kan tippe begge veier. Mens brexit-prosessen for EUs del er blitt en historie om institusjonell suksess og 27 land som har stått overraskende samlet, er bildet som tegnes av Storbritannia det motsatte. I den britiske debatten har frontene vært så skarpe og de røde linjene så mange, at statsminister Mays jobb med å finne et nasjonalt kompromiss har fremstått som en tilnærmet umulig oppgave.
Theory seminar: Face-to-Face Diplomacy: Social Neuroscience and International Relations
Marcus Holmes visits NUPI to talk about his new book on face-to-face diplomacy.
Balancing between integration and autonomy. Understanding the drivers and mechanisms of EU's foreign, security and defense policy (EUFLEX)
The project will investigate the ongoing process towards differentiated integration in European foreign, security and defence policy. ...
Nordiske svar på geopolitiske utfordringer
(Available in Norwegian only): Ukens analyse er skrevet av seniorforsker Kristin Haugevik og forskningssjef Ole Jacob Sending, begge ved Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt (NUPI). De skriver om hvordan de fem nordiske landene responderer på omveltningene i internasjonal politikk.
Kith, kin and inter-state relations: International politics as family life
This chapter discusses what analytical value kinship may add to the academic study of inter-state dynamics. The chapter reviews how kinship has been contended with in key contributions to IR theory on inter-state cooperation and alliances, before it proceeds to discussing, firstly, how kinship might be of use as an analytical category and classification system in IR and, secondly, how kinship, as a practical category, is used in and impacts on everyday international political and diplomatic life.