Halvard Leira

Hva er Internasjonal Politikk

Begrepet internasjonal politikk brukes både om hendelser og prosesser i verden rundt oss - og om studiet av disse. Faget dekker åpenbare temaer som krig, handel og diplomati, men det tar også for seg mer hverdagslige fenomener som turisme, innvandring og hvordan enkeltindivider påvirkes av globaliseringen. Denne...

Utenrikspolitikkens opprinnelse

I denne boka tar Halvard Leira for seg hvordan norsk utenrikspolitikk oppsto. Han viser at utenrikspolitikk er et forholdsvis nytt fenomen og mener opprinnelsen må søkes i spenningsfeltet mellom kongemakt og folkemakt i andre halvdel av 1800-tallet. Måten dette skjedde på i Norge på slutten av 1800-tallet,...

Making foreign policy foreign

A Conceptual History of International Relations

Forelesningen handlet om behovet for en begrepshistorie om internasjonal politikk, og hvordan den kan skrives.

Ethnic Diversity in the Recruitment of Diplomats: Why MFAs Take the Issue Seriously

Diversity and its management have become an issue in all organisations. Ministries of foreign affairs (MFAs) do not escape the issue. In the 2000s, states decided to consider more ethnic diversity in the recruitment of their diplomats. In some countries, this new goal requires affirmative action programs....

Stubbornly Stumbling into Making History: Constructivism and Historical International Relations

The aim of this chapter is threefold; first we try to recollect through the hazy dim of personal history and histories how we eventually became the researchers we are today. Second, we focus on what to us at the time – and, to some extent, still – appeared as contingent, random and haphazard experiences...

Introduction: The Duty of Care in International Relations

In this introduction, we lay out the premises, logics and content of the book in more detail. In the next section, we introduce a varied set of current international challenges concerning the relationship between states and citizens. In the third section, we present the historical background for why...

The Duty of Care in International Relations Protecting Citizens Beyond the Border

This book offers a first overarching look at the relationship between states and their citizens abroad, approached through the concept 'Duty of Care'. How can society best be protected, when increasing numbers of citizens are found outside the borders of the state? What are the limits to care...

The emergence of foreign policy

International relations scholarship typically treats foreign policy as a taken-for-granted analytical concept. It assumes either that all historical polities have foreign policies or that foreign policy originates in seventeenth-century Europe with the separation between the “inside” and “outside”...