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Niels Nagelhus Schia
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Niels Nagelhus Schia (PhD fra Universitetet i Oslo) er forsker 1 ved NUPI, hvor han over flere år har fordypet seg i spørsmål som omhandler global styring, internasjonale organisasjoner, og statsbygging.
Niels Nagelhus Schia er forskningsprofessor med spesialisering i skjæringspunktet mellom ny teknologi og internasjonale relasjoner. Han leder Forskningsgruppen for sikkerhet og forsvar ved NUPI, og han er også medleder i instituttets senter for forskning på ny teknologi. Med en doktorgrad i sosialantropologi fra Universitetet i Oslo og et gjesteforskeropphold fra New School for Social Research (NSSR), kombinerer Schia akademisk innsikt med praktisk erfaring innen global og nasjonal politikkutforming.
Schia har ledet initiativer som den norske regjeringens ekspertgruppe for kunstig intelligens, demokrati og valg (2024–2025). Han var koordinator for referansegruppen om Norges rolle i FNs sikkerhetsråd (2021–2022), og han har vært prosjektleder for flere større forskningsprosjekter. Han er også en aktiv bidragsyter til internasjonale konferanser, diskusjoner i FN og ulike arbeidsgrupper.
Utover forskningen er Schia dypt engasjert i å forme den globale akademiske og politiske arenaen. Han var medredaktør for Internasjonal Politikk, det ledende skandinaviske tidsskriftet om internasjonale relasjoner, i nesten et tiår (2017–2025). Han er medlem av Holberg-debattens arbeidsgruppe, og fagrådet til FN-sambandet. Schia er ogsåtidligere Fulbright-stipendiat og styremedlem i Fulbright Association i Norge og andre fora dedikert til å fremme kunnskap og dialog innen sitt felt.
Ekspertise
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2015 Doktorgrad, sosialantropologi, Universitetet i Oslo
2004 Cand.polit., Universitetet i Oslo, Sosialantropologi
Arbeidserfaring
2022- Leder, Forskningsgruppen for sikkerhet og forsvar
2017- Redaktør for Internasjonal Politikk - Skandinavisk Tidsskrift for Internasjonale Studier.
2015- Leder, NUPIs Forskningssenter på cybersikkehet.
2010 Gjesteforsker ved The New School for Social Research, New York, Leiv Eirikson mobilitetsprogram (Norges forskningsråd), og Fulbright scholar.
2009 Rådgiver, Civil Affairs, Policy Best Practices Services (PBPS), UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, New York.
2003- Forsker 1 / Seniorforsker / Forsker / Vit. ass., NUPI.
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2012-2016 Styremedlem Fulbright Alumni Association of Norway.
2013-2016 Leder, vitenskapelig komité for Fulbrights årlige forskningspris.
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Tøm alle filtreTre grunner til at Norge bør med i FNs sikkerhetsråd
Norge har meldt seg på i kampen om en plass i FNs Sikkerhetsråd i 2021-2022. Kronikken presenterer 3 grunner til at Norge bør med i Sikkerhetsrådet.
Cyber Security Capacity Building in Myanmar
Digitalization is exposing developing countries to a growing number of risks, as well as opportunities associated with connecting to the Internet. Myanmar stands out as a critical case of both the pitfalls and the benefits Internet connection can bring. Amidst a political transition from military rule to a functioning democracy Myanmar is adding ICT to key areas like banking and e-government. Having been one of the least connected countries in the world only five years ago the country is now connecting to the Internet at an unprecedented pace, with little or no institutions in place to ensure the transition goes smoothly. Using the framework of Cyber Security Capacity Building (CCB) we examine the risks and potential benefits of Myanmar’s embracement of digital technologies.
Internasjonal politikk og cyberspace
Karsten Geier, internasjonal ekspert på cyber og tryggleik, besøkjer NUPI for å gi deg ei oversikt over det som er verd å vite om internasjonalt cyberdiplomati.
Everyday sovereignty: International experts, brokers and local ownership in peacebuilding Liberia
The present article investigates how sovereignty is performed, enacted and constructed in an everyday setting. Based on fieldwork and interviews with international embedded experts about the elusive meaning of ‘local ownership’, we argue that while sovereignty may, indeed, be a model according to which the international community ‘constructs’ rogue or failed polities in ‘faraway’ places, this view overlooks that these places are still spaces in which contestations over spheres of authority take place every day, and thus also spaces in which sovereignty is constructed and reconstructed on a daily basis. Local ownership, then, becomes our starting point for tracing the processes of the everyday enactment of sovereignty. We make the case that sovereignty should not be reified, but instead be studied in its quotidian and dynamic production, involving the multiplicity of actors reflecting the active production of the state beyond its presumptive existence as a homogeneously organized, institutionalized and largely centralized bureaucracy.
The cyber frontier and digital pitfalls in the Global South
How does digitalisation lead to new kinds of global connections and disconnections in the Global South? And what are the pitfalls that accompany this development? Much of the policy literature on digitalisation and development has focused on the importance of connecting developing countries to digital networks. Good connection to digital networks may have a fundamental impact on societies, changing not only how individuals and businesses navigate, operate and seek opportunities, but also as regards relations between government and the citizenry. However, the rapid pace of this development implies that digital technologies are being put to use before good, functional regulatory mechanisms have been developed and installed. The resultant shortcomings – in state mechanisms, institutions, coordination mechanisms, private mechanisms, general awareness, public knowledge and skills – open the door to new kinds of vulnerabilities. Herein lie dangers, but also opportunities for donor/recipient country exchange. Instead of adding to the already substantial literature on the potential dividends, this article examines a less studied issue: the new societal vulnerabilities emerging from digitalisation in developing countries. While there is wide agreement about the need to bridge the gap between the connected and the disconnected, the pitfalls are many.
Franchised States and the Bureaucracy of Peace
This book examines a new type of state formation evoked by the rise of transnational rule, what Schia calls franchised states. Turning the UN into a field site and drawing on an anthropological fieldwork of the UN organization, he demonstrates how peacebuilding activities turned Liberia into an object of governing, whereby the UN, in seeking to build the state, also became the state. The sovereign state of Liberia here emerges as a franchise rather than a self-contained entity. Two implications follow: First, that international peacebuilding turns post-conflict countries into clients of the international community. Second, that “sovereignty” is no longer exclusively associated with the state: it is organized in and through specific practices of governing where a state actor is only one among a range of actors. With these findings, the book moves beyond previous work on peacebuilding by focusing on the unbundling of sovereignty. It contributes to the literature on the changing forms of sovereignty by showing the specific ways in which sovereignty is organized, packaged and enacted, often by actors working under international auspices. Others about the book: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Professor of Social Anthropology University of Oslo, Norway): "This is a challenging and creative contribution to the anthropology of the state. By necessity basing his analysis on multisided fieldwork, Schia shows how the Liberian state is entangled in multiscalar transnational institutions, encounters, ambitions and misunderstandings. Of particular value are the concepts of "ownershipping" and "franchised state", which shed light on the vulnerability of the postcolonial state and the power exerted by non-state, supranational actors. By using these concepts Schia offers a fresh perspective on the African state and forces us to rethink the concept of sovereignty." Anette Nyqvist (Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden): "With its unique insight of the bureaucratic processes at UN and in Liberia, this monograph is not just a study of peacebuilding in practice, but an innovative contribution to the anthropology of policy and to organisational anthropology. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in political anthropology and global processes of peace building." Séverine Autesserre, (Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA): "A very interesting ethnography of international intervention and state building in Liberia, with many useful insights for scholars and policymakers." Palgrave Macmillan: - Examines how peacebuilding has been turned into a series of management processes and the implications this has for the state. - Offers a fresh approach through looking at policy processes from the perspectives of both UN HQ and the case study country, Liberia. - Addresses an important gap in the literature – the gap between the operational and policymaking levels of statebuilding and peacebuilding.
Cyberetterretning og nordisk tryggleik
Cybertrusler påverkar i stadig større grad tryggleiken og velstanden i dei nordiske landa, også i Noreg. NUPIs Cyber Security Centre arrangerer derfor dette foredraget som ser på kvar desse truslane kjem frå, og kva rolle cyberetterretning har i det internasjonale samfunnet
Global styring av cyberspace - moglegheiter og utfordringar
Kva er dei viktigaste og mest akutte globale utfordringane når det gjeld cyberspace? I kva grad kan normer og politikk bidra til ansvarleg statslig og ikkje-statleg åtferd i cyberspace? Korleis kan det internasjonale samfunnet bidra til auka cyberstabilitet? Og kva for nokre internasjonale arenaer er best eigna til å handtere desse spørsmåla?