Paul Beaumont
Senior Research FellowPaul Beaumont holds a Ph.D. in International Relations/International Environmental Studies and Development from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He is a senior researcher on the Lorax project, which investigates transnational ecosystem system politics. At NUPI, Paul is working in the Research group on Russia, Asia and international trade.
Paul’s general research interests include the (dis)functioning of international institutions, hierarchies in world politics, and interpretivist research-methods. Paul has monograph in press with Palgrave Studies in International Relations, titled "Performing Nuclear Weapons: How Britain Made its Bomb Make Sense".
He has published peer-reviewed articles in Third World Quarterly, Global Affairs, and New Perspectives, as well as policy-orientated research on behalf of the International Law and Policy Institute, and several op-eds in Klassekampen and Aftenposten. He is currently finalizing a book-project based upon his PhD: "The Grammar of Status Competition: International Hierarchies as Domestic Practice." Paul is an associate editor of New Perspectives Journal of International Relations.
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Thu 19 May 2022Event
Theory Seminar: Lea Ypi on Solidarity, immigration and social class
Time: 14:30 Location: Microsoft TeamsJoin us online on 19 May when Professor Lea Ypi will talk about class-based solidarity.
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Publication
: Book review
Matt McDonald, Ecological Security: Climate Change and the Construction of Security (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 240 pp., US$ 99,...
2021This is a book review of Matt McDonald's book titled "Ecological Security: Climate Change and the Construction of Security". This book provides a radical and unusually comprehensive normative framework–an ‘ecological security’ approach—for guiding efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate... -
Publication
: Editorial
Redd kulturlivet – planlegg en post-koronafest!
2020A debate is raging about how to save Norwegian cultural life from Corona. The government’s rescue package is widely considered insufficient and thus the argument is concentrated upon how much is needed and to whom it should go. This is sensible, but the depressive terms of the debate have blinded everyone... -
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: Editorial
Nye våpen, gamle vrangforestillinger: Hvordan forstå Boris Johnsons atomvåpen-politikk
2021If you want to make Britain’s nuclear weapon policy make sense, you need to look inwards not outwards. Just as go-faster stripes please the owner, Britain’s new nuclear policy is better understood as a symbolic gesture performed mainly for its domestic audience. It is crucial here to understand the political... -
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: Academic article
Grading greatness: evaluating the status performance of the BRICS
2018An impressive portfolio of case-study research has now demonstrated how and through what means the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) countries have sought higher social status. However, this field of research lacks systematic means of evaluating this status-seeking. This article fills... -
Publication
: Academic lecture
Three EISA Conference Paper Presentations
Presented three papers: 1. Symmetry over Strategy: How Status Suckered the Superpowers at SALT; 2. Status Symbols in World Politics (Co-authored with Pål Røren) 3. The Curse of Reflexivity: A Genealogy of ‘Turn-Talk’ in IR (and Beyond) Served as chair on three panels: 1. Expertise and Politics... -
Publication
: Editorial
Hvem har tid til å delta?
2021A debate around the internationalization of Norwegian universities was clumsily set into motion last week by Cecilie Hellestveit from Folkerettsinstituttet. In short, she argued that the Norwegian public sphere is impoverished as a result of foreign scholars taking all the Norwegian academic jobs and... -
Publication
: Editorial
Hvis ikke Norge går i bresjen for en grønn omstilling, hvem da?
The faster Norway embarks on a responsible but speedy end to its reliance on oil, the greater the potential reputational, diplomatic, and commercial gains for Norway, write three NUPI researchers in this op-ed. -
News
What is at Stake in Norway's Post-election Climate Negotiations
21.09.2021The faster Norway embarks on a responsible but speedy end to its reliance on oil, the greater the potential reputational, diplomatic, and commercial gains for Norway, write three NUPI researchers in this op-ed. -
Tue 14 Sep 2021Event
Virtual Book Talk: Towards An Ecosystems Approach to Climate Security?
Time: 10:30 Location: Microsoft TeamsMatt McDonald discusses his radical new ethical framework for reckoning with the climate crisis and how it can be put into practice.
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News
Transnational Ecosystems Cooperation is Taking off
19.08.2021Do these efforts to govern border-crossing ecosystems have unique effects that matter for global politics more generally? -
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Studying Nuclear Storytelling: How Britain Makes Its Bomb Make Sense
09.08.2021How did consecutive British governments maintain the idea that its nuclear weapons are a legitimate, desirable and a sensible way to spend scarce resources? This is the key question in Senior Research Fellow Paul Beaumont's new book. -
Publication
: Academic article
The Rankings Game: A Relational Approach to Country Performance Indicators
2021As the number of international rankings has risen dramatically since the 1990s, a large body of scholarship has emerged to examine and understand them. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of this body of work and to chart out fruitful directions for future research. In short, prior scholarship... -
Publication
: Academic monograph
Performing Nuclear Weapons: How Britain Made Trident Make Sense
This book investigates the UK’s nuclear weapon policy, focusing in particular on how consecutive governments have managed to maintain the Trident weapon system. The question of why states maintain nuclear weapons typically receives short shrift: its security, of course. The international is a perilous... -
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Re-imagining the world after the pandemic
06.07.2021Senior Research Fellow Paul Beaumont was invited by the European Studies Assocation to participate in a plenary discussion about the Corona's transformative implications. These are his opening remarks. -
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Britain’s Inward Facing Nuclear Politics
25.05.2021Boris Johnson’s government decided to increase its nuclear stockpile from 180 nuclear warheads to 260. Taking a closer look at this decision in new op-ed, NUPI’s senior researcher Paul Beaumont argues that to make Britain’s nuclear weapon policy make sense, you need to look inwards not outwards. -
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Lorax in Motion: Mapping Amazon Ecosystem Networks
16.04.2021This is the second in our “Lorax in Motion” series, which reports on our reflections from the project as it unfolds. -
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Lorax in Motion: Building the Transnational Ecosystem Politics Database
17.03.2021Lorax in Motion is a series whereby we report and reflect upon the Lorax project’s ongoing research activities. Here, we zoom in upon Lorax’s Dr Cristiana Maglia, who recently received her PhD in Political Science Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), after a stay as a visiting scholar at... -
Research project
Climate-related Peace and Security Risks (CPSR)
2020 - 2023 (Ongoing)The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) are collaborating on a climate, peace and security project that is aimed at backstopping the work of Norway during their period as an elected member of the Security Council.
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News
Launching Norway’s Plan for the UN’s “Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development”
08.01.2021NUPI’s Centre for Ocean Governance is ready to step up to challenge.