Øyvind Svendsen
Senior Research FellowØyvind Svendsen is Senior Research Fellow in the Research group for global order and diplomacy at NUPI. He holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen and he has a master’s degree in International Relations Theory is from the London School of Economics.
Recent publications:
2020: ‘Practice time!’ Doxic futures in security and defence diplomacy after Brexit. Review of International Studies 46(1): 3-19.
2019: Spin-off av EØS? Norge og europeisk utenriks-, sikkerhets- og forsvarssamarbeid. Internasjonal Politikk 77(4): 378-387. (med Pernille Rieker)
2019: Differentiated (Dis)integration in Practice: The Diplomacy of Brexit and the Low Politics of High Politics. Journal of Common Market Studies 57(6): 1419-1430. (med Rebecca Adler Nissen)
2019: Brexit and the Future of European Defence: Towards a Practice Approach to Differentiated Defence Integration. Journal of European Integration 41(8): 993-1007.
2016: Stigma i Internasjonal Politikk: Norge, EU og søken etter «det normale» i en post-sovjetisk sikkerhetskontekst. Internasjonal Politikk 74(1): 1-20.
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Research project
A new European security and defence architecture in the making What does it look like and what are the implications for Norway?
2021 - 2024 (Ongoing)This project will study the implications of the new European defence initiatives for Norway particularly, as an allied and closely associated non-member of the EU. Despite the incremental nature of the European initiatives and the steadfast NATO loyalty in Norway, the European initiatives have changed...
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Publication
: Academic lecture
Norden og alliansene: Sikkerhetspolitisk debatt og veivalg i 2021
Presentation of findings from the research project "Norden and the alliances". -
Publication
: Academic article
Security Communities in Crisis: Crisis Constitution, Struggles and Temporality
2021How do we approach a security community in crisis? This article theorises crisis dynamics in and on security communities. How do security communities evolve during crises, and how can we best approach such crises analytically? Responding to a lack of focus and knowledge of crisis dynamics in the literature... -
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: Academic article
The Politics of Competence in Global Health: The European Commission’s Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
2021What was the European Commission’s (EC) global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and how did it use the crisis to claim competence in the area of global health? This article explores the EC’s global coronavirus response. In so doing, it suggests studying the crisis response in terms of how the EC struggled... -
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: Report
Utenriks- og sikkerhetspolitiske holdninger i valgåret 2021
2021Hva opplever befolkningen som de største utfordringene for Norge? Og hvordan bør de håndteres? Hvor står befolkningen i spørsmålet om tilknytningen til Europa og EU? Og hva slags tillit har velgerne til de utenrikspolitiske programmene til de ulike partiene før stortingsvalget? Har partienes utenrikspolitiske... -
Publication
: Rapport
EUs grønne giv – implikasjoner for norsk europapolitikk
EU lanserte mot slutten av 2019 European Green Deal. Dette er en klimastrategi for å nå målene i Parisavtalen, men også en økonomisk vekststrategi, og forventes å definere EUs sentrale prioriteringer i årene fremover. Hvordan vil dette påvirke Norge, og norsk europapolitikk? En ny NUPI-rapport, forsøker... -
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: Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
The Security and Defence Aspect of Brexit: Altering the Third Country Balance?
What room is there for inclusion of third countries in EU security and defence initiatives and how does Brexit alter the politics of such inclusion? This chapter turns to the emergent power politics of third country participation in EU security and defence and makes a comparison between past EU practices... -
Thu 8 Oct 2020Event
Britain and Norway: Partnership in a changing world
Time: 14:00 Location: WebinarWhich areas of cooperation are being prioritised as the UK leaves the European Union, and how can the relationship be expected to develop in the coming years?
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Publication
: Academic article
FOKUS: 25 år med EØS
Special edition of Internasjonal Politikk with focus on the 25 year anniversary of the EEA agreement. -
Publication
: Report
Norwegians adapting to a changing world
The world as we have come to know it is changing. Some of the core principles of the rules-based liberal international order are being challenged. The established truths and practices that we have based our foreign policies on are put into question. How do Norwegians respond to these changes? What are... -
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Norwegians adapting to a changing world
17.06.2020The world as we have come to know it is changing. How do Norwegians respond to these changes? What are their views of Norwegian foreign policy? -
Publication
: Report
Common Fears, Common Opportunities? Czechia and Norway in the changing international context
With long-dominant structures in flux, European states – and perhaps smaller ones in particular – are now forced to rethink their foreign policy approaches and practices. This policy briefs outlines how one small Northern European state, Norway, and one Central European state, Czechia, assess and respond... -
News
Common fears, common opportunities?
05.03.2020How do Czechia and Norway assess and respond to a changing international political context? -
Research project
Consequences of Investments for National Security (COINS)
2019 - 2023 (Ongoing)How can liberal open societies reap the benefits of open economies, but at the same time protect their legitimate security interests? In the project “Consequences of Investments for National Security” (COINS) we are examining how liberal economies can attract foreign investments whilst at the same time...
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Publication
: Academic article
‘Practice time!’ Doxic futures in security and defence diplomacy after Brexit
2019Time constitutes social life and time management is central to the everyday conduct of international politics. For some reason, however, the practice turn in International Relations (IR) has produced knowledge about how past practices constitute international politics but not about how the future is... -
Research project
Common Fear Factors in Foreign Policy (COMFEAR)
2019 - 2020 (Completed)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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Publication
: Interview
Brexit - hva nå?
Contribution to NRK Nyhetsmorgen on recent developments in the UK process of leaving the EU. -
News
Rethinking differentiated integration
17.09.2019Several NUPI researchers contributed to the debate about differentiated integration in the area of security and defence at the annual conference of the European International Studies Association (EISA) in Sofia, Bulgaria last week. -
Research project
The Nordics and the International
2019 (Ongoing)Why is there not more Nordic cooperation on the international arena, when Nordic politicians so often express a willingness to develop cooperation in this field further? This project aims to build new knowledge, stimulate debate and inform the wider public about opportunities and limitations for strengthened...