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Julie Wilhelmsen

Research Professor
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jw@nupi.no
(+47) 481 74 328
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Summary

Julie Wilhelmsen is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. She holds a PhD in political science and conducts research in the fields of critical security studies, Russian foreign and security policies and the radicalization of Islam in Eurasia.

The two post-soviet Chechen wars have been a constant focus in her research and she is also heads projects related to conflict resolution in the North Caucasus. From 2012 to 2016 she was the editor of the Scandinavian-language journal Internasjonal Politikk, and has a wide outreach to the Norwegian public on issues related to Russia and Eurasia through frequent public talks and media comments. In 2019 – 2021 Wilhelmsen is an expert in the Cooperative Security Initiative (CSI), an initiative which is designed to generate ideas and shift momentum in favor of cooperative security and multilateralism through the OSCE in order to build a safer Europe.

Expertise

  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Arctic
  • Conflict
  • Human rights
  • Governance
  • International organizations

Education

2014 Ph.D in Political Science, University of Oslo. Areas of specialisation: Russian Politics, Critical Security Studies, Discourse Analysis

1999 Cand.Polit. (Political Science), University of Oslo

1996 Master of Science in Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science

1995 Mellomfag in Political Science, University of Oslo

1994 Mellomfag in Russian, University of Oslo

Work Experience

2022- Head of the Research group on Russia, Asia and International Trade

2022- Research professor

2014-2022 Senior Researcher, NUPI

2003-2014 Researcher, Centre for Russian Studies, NUPI

2001-2003 Researcher and Project manager, Norwegian Defence Reseach Establishment

1999-2001 Higher executive officer, Norwegian Directorate of Immigration

Aktivitet

Publications
Publications
Policy brief

Differentiating Hybrid Threats against the High North and Baltic Sea regions

Russia’s grey-zone threats and actions are a major concern for bordering countries who are on the receiving end of such actions, both physical and cyber. This policy brief examines how such hybrid threats affect countries in the High North and Baltic Sea regions and evaluates the challenges related to response and countermeasures. NATO's policy is that the member nations are responsible for building resilience and responding to hybrid threats or attacks. To avoid invalid interpretations or paralysis in assessment and response to such complex and diverse threats, they should be differentiated and dealt with separately rather than boxed into a wide cognitive basket. This Policy Brief is part of the project ‘Norway as an in-between for Russia: Ambivalent space, hybrid measures’ financed by the Norwegian MoD.

  • NATO
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
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  • NATO
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
Publications
Publications
Op-ed

Will a more humble NATO be a stronger NATO?

NATO’s narrative about itself has changed. However, this narrative is unlikely to gain much support elsewhere in the world, claim the authors of this op-ed in Aftenposten. NATO turns 75 and describes itself as "the world’s most successful military alliance". Like all other viable international actors, NATO must be able to look itself in the mirror and critically reflect on its own actions to maintain legitimacy both among its own populations and in the wider world, and, if necessary, adjust its course. This article, based on a longer analysis published in the journal Contemporary Security Policy, is an attempt to contribute to this reflection.

  • NATO
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  • NATO
Articles
News
Articles
News

NUPI’s Russia Conference 2024

Explore the highlights from the NUPI Russia Conference 2024, which was titled "Russia in Wartime – Weak or Strong?".
  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
Event
09:00 - 15:00
Forstanderskapssalen, Sentralen
Engelsk
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Event
09:00 - 15:00
Forstanderskapssalen, Sentralen
Engelsk
22. Oct 2024
Event
09:00 - 15:00
Forstanderskapssalen, Sentralen
Engelsk

NUPI’s Russia conference 2024: Wartime Russia – weak or strong?

Join us on 22 October for the annual Russia conference.

Publications

Reimagining NATO after Crimea: Defender of the rule-based order and truth?

Russia’s annexation of Crimea and war on Ukraine has led to upheaval in NATO’s discourse and practice. Taking a step back from the security debate, this article contends that the very process of responding to Russian aggression has led to the reimagining of NATO’s identity. While NATO tends to present change as continuity, this article’s mixed methods analysis illuminates how a trio of new and ambitious self-representations have risen to prominence within NATO’s post-Crimea discourse. NATO has anointed itself defender of the international rules-based order and purveyor of truth and facts amidst a world of disinformation, while pushing a resilience policy agenda that expands its authority into new domestic domains. Problematizing these shifts, the article warns that NATO’s new narrative ignores its own role in the problems it seeks to solve and thus risks undermining NATO efforts to rally global support for Ukraine.

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Europe
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  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Europe
Event
09:00 - 10:30
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
09:00 - 10:30
NUPI
Engelsk
13. Sept 2024
Event
09:00 - 10:30
NUPI
Engelsk

The South Caucasus after 2022: Domestic developments and geopolitical challenges

Armenia now appears to be turning away from Russia and towards the EU and the USA, while Georgia seems to be heading in the opposite direction and and drawing closer to countries such as China, Turkey and Iran. How are shifts in the South Caucasus redefining the region's future?

Articles
News
Articles
News

NUPI på Arendalsuka: Her finner du oss

NUPI inviterer til egne arrangementer under Arendalsuka. I tillegg skal våre eminente forskere delta i en rekke andre paneler. Få med deg hvor du finner oss i denne saken!
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • International investments
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • The Nordic countries
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states
  • International organizations
  • The EU
Fra arkivet: 20 år etter 11. september
Podcast

Fra arkivet: 20 år etter 11. september

Vi ser nærmere på utviklingen de 20 årene som har gått etter 11. september 2001.Dette er et opptak av et NUPI-seminar som ble holdt i regi av Kons...

Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina on freedom of speech in Chechnya
Podcast

Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina on freedom of speech in Chechnya

Novaya Gazeta is one of the few remaining independent media outlets in Russia - still able to provide critical, fact-oriented and objective inform...

Media
Media
Media

BRICS - en allianse mot verden

BRICS utvidast. Russland overtar samstundes leiarskapen i organisasjonen som utfordrar Vesten. Kva kan skje? NUPI-forskar Julie Wilhelmsen er ein av deltakarane i denne samtala i NRK-programmet Debatt i P2.

  • Security policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
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  • Security policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • South and Central America
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