Lars Gjesvik

Senior Research Fellow

Lars Gjesvik is a senior researcher in the Research Group for Security and Defence at NUPI, where he also serves as the co-leader of the research center for digitization and cyber security. His research focuses on the intersection of private enterprise and state interests, security challenges, and power politics related to digitalization and emerging technologies.

He recently obtained his doctorate from the University of Oslo (in 2023), where he studied the interaction between private companies and state interests in the digital space, and the role of technology companies in shaping international politics. Gjesvik's expertise also includes issues related to the global surveillance industry, digital infrastructure such as submarine internet cables and cloud services, cyber security, and technology dependency.

In his previous work, Gjesvik has addressed national approaches to cyber security and public-private cooperation, as well as disinformation and influence campaigns

Publications All publications

The subsea cable cut at Svalbard January 2022: What happened, what were the consequences, and how were they managed?
Publication : Policy Brief | 2023
- Niels Nagelhus Schia
- Ida Rødningen
- Lars Gjesvik
Svalbard is, like most other societies, largely dependent on an internet connection. The fiber connection on Svalbard consists of two separate subsea1
Loss of Tonga’s telecommunication – what happened, how was it managed and what were the consequences?
Publication : Policy Brief | 2022
- Niels Nagelhus Schia
- Lars Gjesvik
- Ida Rødningen
In January 2022 the subsea volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in Tonga had a major eruption which also cut the country’s communication lines nationall1
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout
Publication : Research Article | 2022
- Kacper Szulecki
- Lars Gjesvik
We analyse the expert debate around a cyber attack in 2016 that caused an electric power blackout in Ukraine. Two expert reports were crucial for int1
Private infrastructure in weaponized interdependence
Publication : Article | 2022
- Lars Gjesvik
The ability of states to exploit private resources at an international level is an increasingly salient political issue. In explaining the mechanisms1
Frihet, sikkerhet og autonomi i skyen
Publication : Academic chapter | 2022
- Lars Gjesvik
Cloud computing has in under two decades moved from a niche indsutry to globe-spanning infrastructure. This chapter explores the consequences for nat1

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
The Nordics and the International
Research project | 2018 - 2019 (Completed)
Why is there not more Nordic cooperation on the international arena, when Nordic politicians so often express a willingness to develop cooperation in this field further? This project aims to build new...
The Nordic countries Foreign policy Defence Security policy International organizations The EU NATO United Nations
Digital sovereignty and autonomy (GAIA)
Research project | 2019 - 2022 (Ongoing)
NUPI in collaboration with Simula Research Lab will map global data flows and their impact on national autonomy and sovereignty....
Cyber Security policy Governance International organizations Diplomacy
Critical Digital Infrastructures (KRIDI)
Research project | 2018 - 2019 (Completed)
Protecting critical infrastructures from digital threats is a key challenge for modern states, how should the state approach and make sense of the security of privately owned infrastructures?...
Defence and security Cyber Security policy
Protecting Democracies from Digital Threats (PRODEM)
Research project | 2019 (Completed)
How are states responding to the threat of using digital technologies to subvert democratic processes?...
Cyber Conflict Security policy Defence

Articles All articles

Big EU project to NUPI
6 Dec 2022
- Marie Furhovden
From March 2023 NUPI will lead a large EU-funded project on how the EU should navigate multinational cooperation in times of global uncertainty.
Foreign policy Europe
Security and defence
3 Jan 2022
How can we best handle current and future wars and crises? What kind of threats are we likely to face in the years to come? Who are the future actors1
Cyber Defence Intelligence NATO Security policy