Paul Beaumont
Paul Beaumont holds a Ph.D. in International Relations/International Environmental Studies and Development from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), working in the Global Order and Diplomacy research group. Paul is currently researching public private partnerships in development as part of the DEVINT project, and transnational ecosystem politics with the LORAX project.
More broadly, Paul's research interests include IR theory, the (dis)functioning of international institutions, global environmental politics, nuclear weapons, hierarchies in world politics, and interpretivist research-methods.
Paul has published a monograph with Palgrave Studies in International Relations, titled "Performing Nuclear Weapons: How Britain Made its Bomb Make Sense", and has published multiple articles in leading IR journals: European Journal of International Relations, Third World Quarterly and International Studies Review, among others. A keen contributor to policy and public debate, Paul has published multiple op-eds in Klassekampen, Aftenposten, among other Norwegian national newspapers. He is currently an associate editor of New Perspectives Journal of International Relations, and a regular guest lecturer on IR theory at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
Paul is Editor of the journal Cooperation and Conflict, 2023-2027.
Education
2020 Doctorate, International Relations/International Development and Environment Studies. The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
2014 Master of Science, International Relations. (NMBU)
2006 Bachelor, Economic History. The London School of Economics (LSE)
Work Experience
2020- Senior Researcher, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
2019 Visiting Scholar. The Department of Politics and International Studies. Cambridge University
2015-2020 PhD Candidate, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)
2015 Junior Research Fellow. NUPI
2013-2015 Academic Writing Advisor, NMBU
2006-2012 English Teacher - Prague, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, London, Gliwice
Publications All publications
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Everyday migration hierarchies: negotiating the EU’s visa regime
Publication | 2023Critical security studies have shed invaluable light on the diffuse governmental technologies and pernicious effects of the EU’s bordering practices.1
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Reflex to turn: the rise of turn-talk in International Relations
Publication | 2023The field of International Relations (IR) is being spun around by a seemingly endless number of ‘turns’. Existing analyses of turning are few in numb1
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Introduction: Is the time nigh for ecological security?
Publication | 2023Climate change and the ongoing destruction of the earth's ecosystems have increasingly been depicted as a security issue with the noble but not1
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Whose Revisionism, Which International Order? Social Structure and Its Discontents
Publication | 2023While the distinction between status quo and revisionist states is well established in International Relations, only more recently have scholars begu1
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Space, nature and hierarchy: the ecosystemic politics of the Caspian Sea
Publication | 2022The Anthropocene has given rise to growing efforts to govern the world’s ecosystems. There is a hitch, however, ecosystems do not respect sovereign b1
Projects All projects
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Public–Private Development Interfaces in Ethiopia (DEVINT)
Research project | 2021 - 2024 (Ongoing)Private actors are increasingly operating in the name of development and in partnership with international development actors. This project (DEVINT) will explore the nexus of private actors and public...
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When every act is war: Post-Crimea conflict dynamics and Russian foreign policy (WARU)
Research project | 2020 - 2023 (Ongoing)Tension between great powers in world politics is escalating rapidly. What are the driving forces behind deteriorating relations? Can we explain them solely by the ‘aggressiveness’ of the other (be th...
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The Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics (LORAX)
Research project | 2018 - 2023 (Ongoing)Do regional politics around border-crossing ecosystems share important resemblances and differ in significant ways from global politics?...
Events All events
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Theory Seminar: Lea Ypi on Solidarity, immigration and social class
EventThu 19 May 2022Time: 16:30 Europe/Oslo | Location: Microsoft TeamsJoin us online on 19 May when Professor Lea Ypi will talk about class-based solidarity.
Articles All articles
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NUPI team to take over as editors of the prestigious journal Cooperation and Conflict
12 May 2023“Our aim is to consolidate Cooperation and Conflict as a platform for IR scholarship that is theoretically innovative, methodologically pluralist, em1
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International Organisations and the Caspian Sea Ecosystem
27 Jun 2022Lorax in Motion is a series whereby we report and reflect upon the Lorax project team’s ongoing research activities. Here, we catch up with Paul Beau1
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Re-imagining the world after the pandemic
6 Jul 2021Senior Research Fellow Paul Beaumont was invited by the European Studies Assocation to participate in a plenary discussion about the Corona's tr1
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Studying Nuclear Storytelling: How Britain Makes Its Bomb Make Sense
9 Aug 2021How did consecutive British governments maintain the idea that its nuclear weapons are a legitimate, desirable and a sensible way to spend scarce res1
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Transnational Ecosystems Cooperation is Taking off
19 Aug 2021Do these efforts to govern border-crossing ecosystems have unique effects that matter for global politics more generally?