Kristin Fjæstad
Senior Research Fellow, head of the Research group on Russia, Asia and international tradeKristin Fjæstad is a senior research fellow and leader of the research group on Russia, Asia and international trade.
From August 2020, Fjæstad has a post doc position in the LORAX project. In this project, she will work on questions about how and by whom the Caspian Sea is defined as a regional ecosystem.
Fjæstad holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews (2020). The PhD traces and examines Kazakhstan’s transition from a recipient to a donor of official development assistance and discusses this process through the prism of identity-building.
Fjæstad works predominantly on global development, development and foreign policy, as well as questions of identity, foreign policy and state formation in the former Soviet Union, in particular Central Asia.
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Tue 15 Dec 2020Event
Kazakhstan's Reforms during the Pandemic: Progress and Challenges
Time: 14:00 Location: WebinarCovid-19 has led to a global economic crisis, but how has the pandemic affected Kazakhstan and the other countries in Central Asia?
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: Report
Russia and Europe in memory wars
2020Russia and Europe are in a state of memory war. How did this come about? Is there a way out of this situation? In order to answer these questions, this report enquires into the dynamics of memory politics in Europe, and then takes a closer look at Russian memory politics.- Alexei Miller
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: Report
Generation Putin: Values, orientations and political participation
2019In spring 2017, many young Russians took to the streets of major cities like Moscow and St Petersburg in protest against the authorities. Since then, the generation that has grown up after the fall of the Soviet Union has captured the imagination of the general public, within the country and abroad.... -
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: NUPI Working Paper
Russian Public Opinion and the Confrontation with the West
2019What do most Russians think about President Putin, the policies of the Kremlin and the West? Is Russia on the right track? How do Russians view the future? President Vladimir Putin has, since he was elected in 2000, scored high in public opinion polls. After the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 the... -
Research project
The Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics (LORAX)
2019 - 2023 (Ongoing)Do regional politics around border-crossing ecosystems share important resemblances and differ in significant ways from global politics?
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: NUPI Working Paper
The Russian political system in transition: Scenarios for power transfer
2018In the aftermath of the March 2018 presidential elections, the Russian political system is preparing for – indeed, already entering – the next phase of its development: the transition of power. This inevitable, but still unmentionable, transition is the topic of topics in the minds of Russia’s political... -
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Cooperation between the OSCE Academy and NUPI
2020 - 2023 (Ongoing)The project consists of a wide range of activities including capacity-building of the OSCE Academy as a regional meeting point for research and education, support for two MA programmes in Politics and Security and Economic Governance and Development and research activities.
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: ARTIKKEL
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: ARTIKKEL
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: EUCAM : European National Policies Series
Norway and Central Asia
This policy brief provides an overview of relations between Central Asia and Norway, and is part of the EU-CAM National Policies Series. -
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: NUPI Policy Brief
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: LEDER
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: Rapport/avhandling
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: ARTIKKEL