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Anni Roth Hjermann

Researcher
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AnniRH@nupi.no
+47 908 93 479
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Summary

Anni Roth Hjermann is a PhD fellow at the University of Cambridge, where she is working on a monograph provisionally entitled The global politics of scapegoating: Russia’s ambivalent contestation of the international social order 1999-2022. At NUPI, Anni works in the Research group for Russia, Asia and interntational trade.

Anni is interested in critical IR theory (widely conceived), in particular critical approaches to international socialisation structures (recognition, status, stigmatisation and norms, in particular human rights and democracy) and their contestation, and how socialisation/contestation relate to state identity, sovereignty and sovereign agency, and international (dis)ordering. Her empirical work is focused on Russia and the former Soviet Union.

In her doctoral research, Anni studies Russia’s narrative(s) about its international socialisation, historically and presently – especially about the experience of adjusting to externally (western) set standards and giving up agency and authentic identity in this process. The monograph develops the argument that Russia’s narrative constructs scapegoats that difficult socialisation experiences (self-betrayal, but also failing at westernisation) are projected onto, and interrogates the wider implications of scapegoating in the context of international social ordering.

Anni has researched and published on Russia-NATO security relations (in Arctic Review on Law and Politics) and on Russian authoritarianism and its internal-external dynamics (in New Perspectives and Internasjonal Politikk). Anni is also the former co-Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed IR journal Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA).

Expertise

  • Security policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Nationalism
  • Governance
  • Historical IR

Education

2021- PhD, Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge

2018 – 2020 MA, Political Science, University of Oslo

2015 – 2018 BA, Political Science, University of Oslo

2014 – 2018 BA, Russian Area Studies, University of Oslo

Work experience

2022-2024 Managing Editor and co-Editor-in-Chief, Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA)

2022-2023 Supervisor (small group teaching) for undergraduate students, University of Cambridge.

2019-2021 Graduate Research Fellow and subsequently Advisor, NUPI

2018-2020 Teaching assistant, Research Assistant, and Student ambassador, University of Oslo

2020 Intern, Royal Norwegian Embassy in Moscow

Aktivitet

Articles
Articles

Research group for Russia, Asia and International Trade

What is the role of Russia, the Arctic and Asia in global politics? How are these societies developing? How do international trade, innovation and policy change interact in the global economy? And how does this interplay affect the performance of companies, industries and countries? NUPI has a strong community of scholars working on these topics, and an extensive international network in these regions.
  • International economics
  • Trade
  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Asia
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Articles
Articles

Research group for Russia, Asia and International Trade

What is the role of Russia, the Arctic and Asia in global politics? How are these societies developing? How do international trade, innovation and policy change interact in the global economy? And how does this interplay affect the performance of companies, industries and countries? NUPI has a strong community of scholars working on these topics, and an extensive international network in these regions.
  • International economics
  • Trade
  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Asia
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Research project
2020 - 2023 (Ongoing)

Norway as an in-between for Russia: Ambivalent space, hybrid measures

This three-year project addresses the acutely relevant question of whether Norway is acquiring the precarious status of an ‘in-between’ state in the Kremlin’s eye after the watershed events of 2014 (A...

  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Nordic countries
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Nordic countries
Research project
2020 - 2024 (Completed)

When every act is war: Post-Crimea conflict dynamics and Russian foreign policy (WARU)

Tension between great powers in world politics is escalating rapidly. What are the driving forces behind deteriorating relations? Can we explain them solely by the ‘aggressiveness’ of the other (be th...

  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • North America
  • The Nordic countries
  • Conflict
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • North America
  • The Nordic countries
  • Conflict