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Claudia Emilie Aanonsen

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Summary

Claudia Emilie Aanonsen is a Doctoral Fellow at NUPI and part of the research group on Security and Defence. She was previously a Junior Research fellow at the Centre for Digitalisation and Cybersecurity Studies. 

Aanonsen’s PhD analyses the formation of cybersecurity policy and strategy as part of the CYKNOW project. With theories of IR and methods of STS and critical security and data studies, she explores how cybersecurity is understood and problematised though processes configured by actors, practises, technologies, and discourses. Her additional research interests include information and cyberwarfare, digital governance, and surveillance capitalism. 

She has a master’s degree from SOAS, University of London. Her thesis explored how digitalization affects governance and distribution of power, particularly in terms of ‘big tech’ and modern surveillance mechanisms. Aanonsen has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Copenhagen where she studied religion and politics in the Middle East.

 

Expertise

  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Globalisation
  • Foreign policy
  • Governance

Education

2018-2019 Master of Science, International Politics. Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London, England

2016 Visiting Student, Political Science. Department of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

2014-2017 Bachelor of Arts, Religious Studies. Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Work Experience

2022 - Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) 

2021 - 2022 Junior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

2020-2021 Project Manager, Cappelen Damm Undervisning

2018 Assistant Programme Manager, Turning Tables Jordan

2017 Trainee, United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Arab States

2017 Trainee, The Royal Embassy of Denmark in Beirut

Aktivitet

Publications
Publications
Chapter

Stuxnet - et paradigmeskifte?

More than a decade after Stuxnet was made publicly known, it remains the most vigorous example of a cyber attack causing both serious kinetic damage and as means to assert political pressure. Based on an analysis of the operation and its aftermath, this chapter argues that Stuxnet represents a paradigm shift. In view of advancements made to develop offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, particularly in the US, Israel and Iran, the shift refers to how states understand and use cyber capabilities during times of conflict. We illustrate how cyber operations can in certain contexts function as a supplement between diplomacy and the use of military means, but also in some cases as a substitute for conventional military force. The article is in Norwegian.

  • Cyber
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  • Cyber
Angst i Athen: En forskerspires frykt for å feile
Podcast

Angst i Athen: En forskerspires frykt for å feile

Møt Claudia Aanonsen, doktorgradsstipendiat ved NUPI, som for første gang skal delta på en internasjonal forskerkonferanse. Hun gruer seg, og er e...

Publications
Publications
Op-ed

Hva er det vi egentlig løser ved å slette TikTok?

Hvilke apper må Nasjonal sikkerhetsmyndighet vurdere i neste runde?

  • Cyber
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  • Cyber
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Cyber security in Norway

As one of the world's most digitized countries, cyber attacks against Norway are something we should be well prepared for. But are we sufficiently secured? This edition of Hvor hender det? answers the questions: - What exactly is a cyber attack? - Does Norway have good cyber security? - What kind of Russian cyber attacks have we seen in Ukraine and Europe? - And why is it so important that Norway protects itself against cyber attacks now?

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Foreign policy
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  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Foreign policy
Publications
Publications
Op-ed

Verdens rikeste mann har geopolitiske ambisjoner. Derfor bekymrer Twitter-kjøpet.

Elon Musk's involvement in the Ukraine war and take-over of Twitter raise a number of questions and dilemmas (in Norwegian).

  • Security policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
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  • Security policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
Research project
2021 - 2025 (Ongoing)

Cyber security, knowledge and practices (CYKNOW)

CYKNOW will promote better understanding of cyber security, as well as develop novel theoretical and methodological tools for cybersecurity research in particular....

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Globalisation
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Globalisation
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
Et digitalt verdenskart med illustrerte cyberangrep
Forskningsprosjekt
2020 - 2022 (Completed)

Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa (C3SA)

C3SA informs policy through cybersecurity research to build national cyber capacity and resilience across Africa....

  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Development policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Fragile states
  • International organizations
  • Security policy
  • Cyber
  • Development policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Fragile states
  • International organizations
Articles
Articles

Research group for Security and Defence

How can we best handle current and future wars and crises? What kind of threats are we likely to face in the years to come? Who are the future actors on the security policy arena? NUPI’s research on security and defence issues seeks to answer these questions.
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Cyber
  • Intelligence
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Articles
Articles

Research group for Security and Defence

How can we best handle current and future wars and crises? What kind of threats are we likely to face in the years to come? Who are the future actors on the security policy arena? NUPI’s research on security and defence issues seeks to answer these questions.
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Cyber
  • Intelligence
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