Research group
GEO-Security: Governance, Geopolitics & Security
The GEO-Security research group advances comprehensive and critical approaches to vulnerability and resilience, positioning them at the core of governance, geopolitics, and security across local, national and international scales.
About the research group
Mission:
The GEO-Security research group advances comprehensive and critical approaches to vulnerability and resilience, positioning them at the core of governance, geopolitics, and security across local, national and international scales. Integrating perspectives from international relations, geography, and the broader social sciences, the group fosters inquiry that generates meaningful insights to inform decision-making and policy outcomes
Objectives:
- Advance research on the intersections of territoriality, governance structures, and security risks, with a focus on critical infrastructure, lifeline
- Develop conceptual frameworks that explain the changing dimensions of geopolitics and security to enhance state and societal resilience to the challenges of our time.
- Produce knowledge about threats to state and societal security as it relates to geopolitical developments, and how these impact formulations of foreign and security policy and diplomatic relations.
- Strengthen partnerships with actors across all sectors and scales of society from local communities to policymakers to facilitate real-world solutions.
Members
- Corine Wood-Donnelly
- Beate Steinveg
- Annelin Seppola
- Torbjørn Pedersen
- Elisabeth Pettersen
- Håkan Sandersen
- Martin Kossa
- Bjørn Olav Knutsen (FFI/Nord)
- Tanja Ellingsen
- Ivar Svar Holand
- Astrid Marie Holand
- Kristian Åtland (FFI/Nord)
Associated PhD students
Associate members
- Øystein Solvang (UiT)
- Gunhild Sætren (HHN)
- Virga Popovaite (University of Lapland)
- Majken Paulsen (Nordland Research Institute)
- Marco Krüger (Tübingen University)
- Emilie Wold (HHN)
- Rune Elvegård (HHN)
- Natalia Andreassen (HHN)
- Eivind Junker
- Charlotte Gehrke
- Normative evolution of the international system: examining how rules, norms and institutions shape governance and security.
- Explore how geopolitical change and international developments impact the formulation of foreign and security policy, as well as interstate and diplomatic relations.
- Conceptual and geographic configurations of security, risk and vulnerability: investigating how these concepts are defined, spatialised and operationalised in different contexts.
- Framings of disaster, crisis and preparedness: analysing how different actors construct, respond and recalibrate to the state of exception.
- Research projects
- Guest seminar series
- Reading seminars
- Papers in progress seminars
- Edited volume: Crisis in our Times
Name of employee Area of expertise Language Beate Steinveg, associate professor The High North/Arctic, international cooperation, Norwegian foreign and security policy, geopolitics, diplomacy English, Norwegian Corine Wood-Donnelly,
professorThe High North/Arctic, sovereignty, Arctic governance and policy, ocean politics, political legitimacy, resource politics English, Swedish Torbjørn Pedersen, professor Norwegian security policy, the High North, Svalbard, geopolitics, new world order Norwegian, English Bjørn Olav Haram Knutsen, associate professor International cooperation, military strategy, security policy, NATO, EU, US and European security interests English, Norwegian Kristian Åtland, professor II Ukraine war, Russia, the High North, Caucasus, new world order, hybrid warfare English, Norwegian Natalia Andreassen, professor Preparedness and crisis management, maritime preparedness, the High North English, Norwegian Tanja Ellingsen, førsteamanuensis Hybrid threats, terrorism, extremism, conspiration theories, populism, authoritarian regimes, democratic decline, political violence, clash of civilizations, war and armed conflict. English, Norwegian Rune Elvegård,
Senior lecturerArctic, maritime preparedness, nuclear emergency preparedness, interagency exercises Norwegian, English Gunhild Birgitte Sætren, førsteamanuensis Sikkerhetspsykologi Norwegian, English Elisabeth Pettersen, senior lecturer Democracy, democratic development, civil rights, aid and development, Arctic human security, security policy Norwegian, English James Badu, PhD student Arctic, climate change adaptation, resilience and crisis management English Charlotte Gehrke,
ResearcherConservation, cruise tourism, environmental policy / politics, journalism, science communication, science diplomacy, science policy / politics, seals, marine mammals, media, news reporting, polar bears English, German Marco Krüger
Senior ResearcherResilience, Security Ethics, Disaster Management, Security Politics, Vulnerability English, German
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