Gabriella Kristine Bolstad
Gabriella Kristine Bolstad is a Junior Research Fellow in NUPI’s Research Group on Security and Defence. Additionally, Bolstad is working in the Consortium for Research on Terrorism and International Crime.
Bolstad holds a master’s degree in International Conflict Studies from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and a bachelor’s degree in International Politics from the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. Additionally, she studied risk analysis and counter-terrorism at the University of Stavanger.
Bolstads master’s thesis focused on the securitisation of jihadist foreign fighter returnees and the reintegration challenge. Bolstads research interests consists of violent extremism and terrorism, radicalisation-related risk assessment, China in international politics, geopolitics and the international governance in the Arctic.
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Publication
: Popular scientific article
Kan utenlandske forskere bli en trussel mot vår sikkerhet?
About international research collaboration and security. -
News
The war in Ukraine and the transatlantic relationship
13.04.2022On 5 March, a group of experts met in Washington D.C. to discuss NATO’s collective defence after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. -
Publication
: Popular scientific article
Når oppdrettslaksen utkonkurrerer norske demokratiske verdier
About Norwegian-Chinese sports cooperation. -
Publication
: Popular scientific article
Hvem skal "eie" Afrika?
About Chinese and Russian influence in Africa. -
News
The Consortium for Research on Terrorism and International Crime in 2021
13.01.2022Foreign fighters in Ukraine, 20 years after 9/11 and the role of technology in violent extremism were some of the topics on the Consortium’s agenda in 2021. -
Research project
Scandinavia as an arena for Chinese economic statecraft
2021 - 2022 (Ongoing)China's utilisation of economic statecraft as a foreign policy tool challenges the accustomed distinction between Norwegian business policies, and Norwegian security policy. This opens for a novel range of foreign policy challenges. These are challenges Norway has in common with a wide array of...