Julie Wilhelmsen
Senior Research FellowJulie Wilhelmsen is a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. She holds a PhD in political science and conducts research in the fields of critical security studies, Russian foreign and security policies and the radicalization of Islam in Eurasia.
The two post-soviet Chechen wars have been a constant focus in her research and she is also heads projects related to conflict resolution in the North Caucasus. From 2012 to 2016 she was the editor of the Scandinavian-language journal Internasjonal Politikk, and has a wide outreach to the Norwegian public on issues related to Russia and Eurasia through frequent public talks and media comments.
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Publication
: Academic article
Violent Mobilization and Non-Mobilization in the North Caucasus
2020Introduction and overview over violent mobilization in the North Caucasus: Recent developments and context, conflicting identities, state and sub-state violence, causes and limits of violent mobilization in the region. -
Publication
: Academic article
Exclusion and Inclusion: The Core of Chechen Mobilization to Jihad
2020The article explores the broad social and relational drivers behind mobilization of Chechens into armed jihad in the Levant. It suggests that the core mobilizing tool in a process toward violent (re-)action is a narrative that projects the Other as so different from, and so dangerous to the Self that... -
News
Common fears, common opportunities?
05.03.2020How do Czechia and Norway assess and respond to a changing international political context? -
News
PODCAST: – Putin has no magic mind control powers
24.01.2020By blaming Vladimir Putin for everything that we dislike in the West, we will fail to address the real issues, according to Mark Galeotti, author of the book We Need to Talk About Putin. -
Wed 22 Jan 2020Event
Breakfast seminar: We Need To Talk About Putin
Time: 09:00 Location: NUPIWhat do we really know about one of the most powerful men in the world after two decades in power?
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News
Has the West forgotten about Chechnya?
06.12.2019PODCAST: Ramzan Kadyrov’s reign in Chechnya has cast a wave of fear and oppression across this Russian republic. What does that mean for the people living there, and for those who have fled the region in fear? And why don’t we talk more about this in the West? -
Research project
Common Fear Factors in Foreign Policy (COMFEAR)
2019 - 2020 (Ongoing)COMFEAR aims to identify key issues of common concern and shared threats as perceived by publics and policymakers in Czechia and Norway.
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Mon 11 Nov 2019Event
Theory Seminar: “Traditional” institutions and polity-building in Chechnya and Ingushetia
Time: 14:00 Location: NUPIDr Ekaterina Sokirianskaia, will present her book project on the situation in North Caucasus.
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Publication
: LEDER
Norge må tenke nytt i Persiabukta
2019(In norwegian only) I stedet for å si ja til å bidra militært i Persiabukta, er det mulig å tenke seg en mye mer proaktiv og klok norsk linje. Sommertid er glemselstid. Verden går tilsynelatende i sine vante spor. Og når vi endelig vender tilbake til kontorpulten, synes beste måte å takle jobbens utfordringer... -
Publication
: ARTIKKEL
Putin's Power Revisited: How identity positions and great power interaction condition strategic cooperation in Syria
2019This article investigates how Russian foreign policies are shaped in a two-level interactive social game. Russian foreign policies take their cue from ingrained identity positions articulated by the state leadership and negotiated in domestic debates, but they are also informed by interaction with other... -
Tue 4 Jun 2019Event
Breakfast seminar: The global war on journalism
Time: 09:00 Location: NUPIJournalist Peter Greste was in 2014 arrested in Egypt and charged with terrorism. It ended with 400 days behind bars. Greste argues that this is an extreme example of a much wider global assault on the media, and he emphasizes why it is important that we fight back.
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Wed 15 May 2019Event
The International Criminal Court and the 2008 Russo-Georgian War
Time: 13:30 Location: NUPIWhat is the impact of the International Criminal Court's investigation of Russia and Georgia?
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Research project
Competency through Cooperation: Advancing knowledge on Georgia's strategic path (GEOPATH)
2019 - 2022 (Ongoing)GEOPATH is a collaborative research project which aims to build competency in the Georgian research sector as well as producing new insights into the crucial question of Georgia's future strategic path between Russia and the EU.
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Publication
: Del av bok/rapport
Russian Governance of the North Caucasus: Dilemmas of force and inclusion
2019While Vladimir Putin’s Russia struggles to strike a balance between security and freedom within the Russian polity, nowhere is the problem as acute as in the eastern parts of the North Caucasus. This chapter reviews Russia’s approach to the republics in that region since Putin came to power, and asks... -
Publication
: Del av bok/rapport
Colonized Children: Chechnya in Russia
2019This chapter explores how kinship relations have functioned as a source of social power in Chechnya and, since the end of the second post-soviet Chechen war, constituted a bond between Moscow and Grozny that allowed Russian governance over Chechnya. -
Publication
: ARTIKKEL
Inside Russia’s Imperial Relations: The Social Constitution of Putin-Kadyrov Patronage
2018This article analyses how Moscow has extended its rule over Chechnia since the beginning of this century. Within the larger understanding of this rule as imperial in form, the current distinct contractual relation between the Russian center and Chechnia is substantiated as one based on kinship. I argue... -
Publication
: ARTIKKEL
Norway and Russia in the Arctic: New Cold War Contamination?
The standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine has already obstructed cooperation across a range of issues. Could it also affect state interaction between Norway and Russia in the Arctic—an area and a relationship long characterized by a culture of compromise and/or cooperation? Here we start... -
Publication
: NUPI Policy Brief
How the New Cold War travelled North (Part II) Interaction between Norway and Russia
This policy brief examines changing Russian and Norwegian approaches to each other in the period 2012–2016, and discusses how the “New Cold War” spread to the North. This is an intriguing question, since both parties had initially stated that, despite the overall worsening of Russia–West relations following... -
Publication
: NUPI Policy Brief
How the New Cold War travelled North (Part I) Norwegian and Russian narratives
The standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine has already obstructed cooperation across a range of issues. Could it also affect state interaction between Norway and Russia in the Arctic—an area and a relationship long characterized by a culture of compromise and cooperation? In two policy briefs... -
Research project
Russia's strategic approaches to Europe: Addressing the puzzle through policy relevant research (StratApproach)
2018 - 2020 (Ongoing)How is Russia’s strategic approach to Europe shaped by its reading of Western intentions and actions and what implications does this approach has for Norway?