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Tora Berge Naterstad

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Summary

Tora Berge Naterstad was a Researcher at NUPI

Expertise

  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Globalisation
  • Regional integration
  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Nation-building
  • Nationalism

Aktivitet

Russian youth, war, and independent journalists in exile
Podcast

Russian youth, war, and independent journalists in exile

The Russian online magazine DOXA is this year's winner of the Norwegian Student Peace Prize. The committee highlights their work exposing corrupti...

  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Human rights
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Human rights
Locating missing persons in Ukraine
Podcast

Locating missing persons in Ukraine

How do you find missing persons in the midst of war? Kathryne Bomberger, Director-General of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP...

  • Peace operations
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Peace operations
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
Articles
New research
Articles
New research

NUPI team to take over as editors of the prestigious journal Cooperation and Conflict

“Our aim is to consolidate Cooperation and Conflict as a platform for IR scholarship that is theoretically innovative, methodologically pluralist, empirically and historically rigorous, critical in outlook yet grounded in and with implications for key mainstream debates,” says Benjamin de Carvalho.
  • Diplomacy and foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
  • Global governance
  • Theory and method
  • Historical IR
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

What Now, Russologists?

Russia’s war against Ukraine has enormous consequences. First and foremost for Ukraine, but also for Russia and its neighboring states. The war has not only changed European and Norwegian security and foreign policies, it will also have a significant impact on Norwegian research on and knowledge about Russia. The opportunities for doing research in Russia have become more limited in recent years. After February 2022, it has become impossible. At the same time, knowledge about Russia is important for Norway, which shares a border and administers critical resources in cooperation with Russia. This will continue to be the case. The question now is how this knowledge is to be created given that the framework conditions under which Norwegian research on Russia has been produced during the last 30 years have dramatically changed. How are we going to update Norwegian knowledge about Russia in the coming years? What methods and data are available, and what can we expect from these?

  • Defence and security
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
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  • Defence and security
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Post Post-Sovjet, stil og opprør: Symbolikk og subversiv nasjonalisme i Gosja Rubtsjinskijs «nye Russland»

This article explores the resonance enjoyed by streetwear designer Gosha Rubchinskiy among young Russians, and the extensive network that has emerged under his wings and refers to itself as ‘the new Russia’. Analysis of Rubchinskiy’s work, with Dick Hebdige’s semiotic approach as the epistemological context, supplemented by insights from Simon Reynolds, Michel Foucault and Michel Maffesoli, reveals a continuous deconstruction of the Russian regime’s hegemonic narrative of Russianness – so-called ‘Putinism’. At the same time, Rubchinskiy constructs a countercultural form of Russian national belonging, one with room to accommodate those who feel alienated by mainstream Russian national- ism. From a social science perspective, a countercultural inclusive nation-building project is in itself a paradox – so how are we to understand Gosha Rubchinskiy’s ‘new Russia’?

  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Nationalism
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  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Nationalism
Event
09:00 - 10:30
NUPI
Engelsk
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Event
09:00 - 10:30
NUPI
Engelsk
23. Nov 2022
Event
09:00 - 10:30
NUPI
Engelsk

Russia’s New ‘War Nationalism’: How Nationalist Rhetoric Prepared the Ground for the Invasion of Ukraine

Ahead of Russia’s war on Ukraine, various nationalist tropes have gradually been incorporated into Russian official rhetoric. What can studying the regime’s emergent ‘war nationalism’ tell us about the identity dimension of the current conflict?

Articles
News
Articles
News

Podcast: How important are traditional values for Putin’s support?

Henry Hale and Tora Berge Naterstad on how the regime of President Putin has increasingly based its claims to legitimacy on support for “traditional” Russian values.
  • Russia and Eurasia
Event
10:00 - 11:30
C.J. Hambrosplass 2 D / Livestream to Facebook and Youtube
Engelsk
Event
10:00 - 11:30
C.J. Hambrosplass 2 D / Livestream to Facebook and Youtube
Engelsk
12. Nov 2021
Event
10:00 - 11:30
C.J. Hambrosplass 2 D / Livestream to Facebook and Youtube
Engelsk

The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Legitimacy of Putin’s Regime: A Biopolitical Perspective

Russia is currently experiencing record numbers of COVID-19-related deaths. The pandemic has put medical knowledge at the very centre of politics around the world and Russia is no exception. The current debate in Russia is influenced by what appears to be a new regime of medical governance combined with ‘pandemic authoritarianism’.

Bildet viser Russlands president Vladimir Putin og tidligere leder for Abkhazia, Raul Khadzhimba, i samtale foran sine respektive flagg i 2017
Research project
2020 - 2023 (Ongoing)

Dynamics of de facto state patron-client relations (DeFacto)

Almost all de facto states that survive for some time have a powerful 'patron' that provides security guarantees and economic support. Too often this has resulted in the de facto states simp...

  • Development policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • Development policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
  • Governance