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Minda Holm

Senior Research Fellow
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minda.holm@nupi.no
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Summary

Dr. Minda Holm is a Senior Research Fellow at NUPI, working on questions of global order and global governance, ideology and ideological contestation, the function of different liberalisms and dominant state ideals in international politics historically and at the present time, the tensions between liberal-democratic values and security and warfare, the global ideas of illiberal, reactionary, radical right and antiliberal forces, and the different meanings of sovereignty, morality, and (mis)recognition in global politics. She works on these topics both theoretically (social and political theory), and empirically. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen (September 2023), with a monograph titled ‘Towards a Social Theory of International Ideology, Ideological Scripts, and Counter-Ideology. Rethinking ‘Liberal International Order’ and the Far Right’s Critique’. Whilst doing her PhD, she also worked at the Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS), where she was a part of the project World of the Right.

Holm has in parallel with writing her monograph published in journals such as Review of International Studies, International Studies Review, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, and New Perspectives, in peer-reviewed anthologies, and in Scandinavian-language peer-reviewed outlets, on topics ranging from conceptual history and sovereignty, (mis)recognition and shifting state ideals within international law and politics, liberal exceptionalism, self-perceptions, and double standards, reactionary, radical right and illiberal visions of world politics, international diaspora politics, Norwegian, US, and Russian foreign policy and diplomacy, and historical and political changes within liberal internationalism. She has had a monthly column on global politics since 2017, since 2020 in Klassekampen. She holds a double master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics (LSE) and the George Washington University, where she was a Fulbright scholar. She has lived and studied in Egypt, Wales, Russia, the US, England, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Denmark, and is a board member of the Human Rights House Foundation (2018- ). She was editor-in-chief of the Scandinavian peer-reviewed IR journal Internasjonal Politikk between 2018 and 2024. See her personal webpage for more, including publications.

Expertise

  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Historical IR

Education

2018 – 2023 PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Submitted November 2022, defended after maternity leave September 2023. 

2015 – 2016 MA George Washington University, USA (Fulbright scholar)

2013 – 2014 MSc London School of Economics and Political Science, England

2008 – 2013 BA (2, in parallel), Political Science and Russia studies, University of Oslo and American University in Cairo, Oslo/Egypt

Main work experience

2023 – Senior Research Fellow, NUPI

2018 – 2022 PhD Fellow, NUPI, University of Copenhagen and Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS)

2017 – 2018 Research Fellow, NUPI 

2012 – 2017 Research Assistant, NUPI (fulltime from January 2016)

2012 – 2012 Intern, Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Tajikistan

2010 – 2011 Trainee, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kazakhstan (covering all of Central Asia)

2009 – 2010 Journalist, Radio Nova

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aktivitet

Articles
New research
Articles
New research

Trump, Global Order, and the Liberal West

What does increased ideological and geopolitical global conflict mean for the liberal West? NUPI researcher Minda Holm explores this in a new report.
  • Globalisation
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Nationalism
  • Human rights
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
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Publications
Publications
Report

A Postliberal Global Order? Challenge(r)s to the Liberal West

In a new report, NUPI’s senior researcher Minda Holm looks closer at which international order it is that is under pressure. What is the issue with seeing the world through the lens of a post-1945 Liberal International or Rules-Based Order? What do actors like Russia and China have in common with the populist radical right in their perspectives on global politics? And what does Donald Trump’s second term entail for the liberal West?

  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Asia
  • North America
  • Conflict
  • Governance
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  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Asia
  • North America
  • Conflict
  • Governance
Articles
Analysis
Articles
Analysis

Det er ikke Norge som har spilt seg selv ut over sidelinjen

Kritikken av UDs stadig mer prinsippfaste linje overfor Israel bommer grovt, skriver Minda Holm.
  • Foreign policy
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
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Articles
News
Articles
News

Trump Back in the Driver's Seat

Donald Trump is yet again President of the United States. What does this mean for us?
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Conflict
Publications
Publications
Op-ed

Maktkritikkens nødvendighet

This op-ed is in Norwegian.

  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
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  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
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Publications
Op-ed

Vi forstår ikke verden ved å dele den inn i Vesten mot resten

This op-ed is in Norwegian.

  • Foreign policy
  • Governance
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  • Foreign policy
  • Governance
Publications
Publications
Op-ed

Vestens idealiserte selvbilde ligger begravd i Gaza

This op-ed is in Norwegian.

  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
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  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
Publications
Publications
Op-ed

Der politikerne tier, reiser folket seg opp

This op-ed is in Norwegian.

  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
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  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
Publications
Publications
Op-ed

Vi dehumaniserer palestinere, de blir drept

This op-ed is in Norwegian.

  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
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  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
NUPIpoddden #15: Hvilken liberal orden?
Podcast

NUPIpoddden #15: Hvilken liberal orden?

Vi hører stadig at den internasjonale liberale orden er i krise. På den ene siden er den utsatt for press utenfra, fra stater som Russland og Kina...

  • Security policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Nationalism
  • Insurgencies
  • Governance
  • Security policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Nationalism
  • Insurgencies
  • Governance
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