Researchers

Natasja Rupesinghe

Natasja Rupesinghe is a PhD fellow in the Research group on peace, conflict and development. She is also a DPhil candidate in International Re...

Peace operations Humanitarian issues International organizations United Nations Africa Conflict Defence and security Insurgencies

Sverre Lodgaard

Sverre Lodgaard’s expert fields are geopolitics, the Middle East, Iranian foreign policy, nuclear arms control and disarmament, the nuclear p...

Security policy International organizations The Middle East and North Africa United Nations Conflict

Helge Blakkisrud

Helge Blakkisrud’s main research interests include Russian federalism and centre–region relations, in particular, the development of th...

Russia and Eurasia The Arctic

Benjamin de Carvalho

Benjamin de Carvalho is a research professor at NUPI, working in the Research group on Global Order and Diplomacy (GOaD). His resear...

Peace operations Humanitarian issues Diplomacy Foreign policy United Nations Nation-building Historical IR Globalisation Oceans

Halvard Leira

Halvard Leira’s main areas of research is foreign policy and diplomacy, with a special emphasis on the Norwegian varieties. He also has a lon...

Diplomacy Foreign policy Oceans Historical IR The Nordic countries Europe Nationalism

Nina Græger

Nina Græger is research professor at NUPI, in the Research group on global order and diplomacy and professor in international relat...

Defence Peace operations NATO Security policy Diplomacy Foreign policy International organizations The EU North America Europe Conflict Historical IR The Nordic countries Regional integration

Kari M. Osland

Kari Margrethe Osland (PhD) is a Senior Research Fellow in the Research group on peace, conflict and development at NUPI.Osland’s work f...

Peace operations Security policy Human rights United Nations Comparative methods Africa Europe

Pernille Rieker

Pernille Rieker's research interests are European integration (EU) and European foreign and security policies. This includes the foreign and securi...

Security policy Foreign policy The EU Europe NATO Conflict The Nordic countries Regional integration

Arne Melchior

Arne Melchior’s research areas include international trade and global development; trade policy and international economic institutions; inte...

International economics Trade Economic growth Foreign policy International organizations Asia Globalisation International investments Regional integration

Hege Medin

Hege Medin earned her PhD in economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in 2013. Her main research field is international economics (trad...

International economics Trade International investments Globalisation Regional integration Economic growth