Skip to content
NUPI skole

Researcher

Minda Holm

Senior Research Fellow
Minda_1-1.jpg

Contactinfo and files

minda.holm@nupi.no
+(47) 452 82 951
Original image

Summary

Minda Holm is a Senior Research Fellow with the research group Global Order and Diplomacy. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Copenhagen (September 2023), a monography on ideology in global politics titled Towards a Social Theory of International Ideology, Ideological Scripts, and Counter-Ideology: Rethinking Liberal International Order and the Far Right’s critique.

Holm does social- and political theoretical work on liberalism in global politics (historically and present), anti-liberal forces globally including the far right’s global visions, global order, ideology, state ideals and sovereignty. She has also done research and published on Norwegian, Russian and U.S. foreign policy, misrecognition, morality in global order, international conceptual history and diplomacy.

She is an editor of the Scandinavian-language IR journal Internasjonal Politikk, an Associate Editor of New Perspectives, and from June 2024 an Associate Editor of Cooperation and Conflict. Holm also has a monthly column in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen. As of fall 2023 she is working on the Research Council-funded projects CHOIR and ANGER.

See her personal webpage for more, including publications. 

Expertise

  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Historical IR

Education

2018 – 2023 PhD, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Submitted November 2022, defended after maternity leave September 2023. 

2015 – 2016 MA George Washington University, USA (Fulbright scholar)

2013 – 2014 MSc London School of Economics and Political Science, England

2008 – 2013 BA (2, in parallel), Political Science and Russia studies, University of Oslo and American University in Cairo, Oslo/Egypt

Main work experience

2023 – Senior Research Fellow, NUPI

2018 – 2022 PhD Fellow, NUPI, University of Copenhagen and Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS)

2017 – 2018 Research Fellow, NUPI 

2012 – 2017 Research Assistant, NUPI (fulltime from January 2016)

2012 – 2012 Intern, Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Tajikistan

2010 – 2011 Trainee, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kazakhstan (covering all of Central Asia)

2009 – 2010 Journalist, Radio Nova

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aktivitet

Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Russlands nye maktposisjon

(Available in Norwegian only): Russland forsøker å markere seg i Midtøsten – også utenfor Syria. Kong Salmans første besøk til Moskva bekrefter hvor vellykket den russiske strategien er.

  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Middle East and North Africa
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Ytre Høyre, Foren Eder!

Ytre høyre forfekter nasjonalstaten, men er stadig mer internasjonale. Båndene er særlig sterke mellom bevegelser i USA og Russland.

  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • North America
  • The Nordic countries
  • Governance
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • North America
  • The Nordic countries
  • Governance
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Legitimering gjennom (selektiv) felles fortid: russisk bruk av historie i Ukraina-konflikten

How has Russia used history to justify its actions in the conflict in Ukraine? Through an analysis of official statements of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as speeches and remarks by Putin, this article argues that history has played an important but varying role in official rhetoric. With Crimea, the emphasis was on the ‘sanctity’ of the territory for Russian Orthodox identity, drawing on history dating back to the baptism of Prince Vladimir in 10th century AC. The shared past of the two states has not been as central in official Russian policy justification regarding Ukraine outside Crimea: the ‘brotherhood’ of the two nations has been noted repeatedly, but usually secondary to arguments pertaining to economic and political interests. The two world wars have been used as a cautionary tale, with Russia effectively seeking to delegitimize the new Ukrainian government by evoking carefully selected elements of its past. Finally, the author looks at the use of international precedence as a form of justification, turning the history of Western – US in particular – actions back on Russia’s critics. The official usage of history is placed within broader strategies of legitimation, as it is not enough to study propaganda and manipulation strategies as part of information warfare to explain how the Kremlin achieves support for its policies. The ‘thick’ historical narratives of Crimea play on elements linked to issues of national identity, making it difficult to dispute using the type of counter-propaganda and rebuttal of disinformation proposed by some. Article in Norwegian only.

  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
Research project
2017 - 2018 (Completed)

Instruments of State Power: History and Theory (ISPO)

The ISPO Workshop Series will develop new and innovative analytical tools and vocabularies to help understand current developments in global politics. ...

  • NATO
  • International economics
  • Trade
  • Diplomacy
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • NATO
  • International economics
  • Trade
  • Diplomacy
  • International organizations
  • The EU
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Thinking about Women’s Violence in Global Politics

Det er ofte fokus på offerrollen når det snakkes om kvinner i krig og konflikt. Det er en viktig del av den kjønna erfaringen av konflikt, og var lenge neglisjert i både akademia og politikken. Samtidig overser mange fremdeles kvinners aktive deltagelse i politisk vold. Det analytiske utgangspunktet i «Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Thinking about Women’s Violence in Global Politics» er at feminisme ikke handler om å argumentere for at kvinner er mindre voldelige enn menn, eller at verden automatisk ville vært et bedre sted om kvinner styrte den. Det handler om å analysere manifestasjoner av kjønn i global politikk. Kvinner som voldelige politiske aktører går imot de dominerende bildene av kvinner som fredelige, moderlige, emosjonelle, rene, uskyldige, fredselskende. I konfliktsituasjoner er de dermed gjerne fremstilt som enten årsaken (det som skal beskyttes) eller ofrene. Hvis det er først er fokus på kvinner som voldsutøverer, blir det gjerne individualisert og knyttet til dem som kvinner. De er ikke bare voldsutøverer, de er kvinnelige voldsutøverer – både voldelige, og dårlige som kvinner, sjelden fremstilt som «bare» terrorister eller soldater. Tilsvarende blir de sjelden fremstilt som «rasjonelle» aktører, og deres valg tolkes gjerne som noe personlig, ikke politisk.

  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Conflict
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Conflict
The entrance to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the snow
Research Project
2014 - 2018 (Completed)

Duty of Care: Protection of Citizens Abroad (DoC:PRO)

How can Norwegian society best be protected, when increasing numbers of citizens are found outside the borders of the state?...

  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Peace operations
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Peace operations
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • International organizations
view not found
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Erika Fatland: Sovjetistan

En diskusjon som lenge har pågått i forskningen på postsovjetisk Sentral-Asia er hvor mye mening det gir å avgrense det som et eget forskningsfelt. Hvor like er egentlig Kasakhstan, Kirgisistan, Tadsjikistan, Turkmenistan og Usbekistan, og bør man inkludere Afghanistan i regionsdefinisjonen? Den samme ambivalensen gjenspeiles i måten styresmaktene snakker om seg selv på. Forsøkene på regionalt samarbeid – ofte initiert av eksterne aktører – har som regel feilet på grunn av en blanding av manglende tillit og manglende vilje til å gi avkall på kontroll over interne affærer vis-a-vis sine naboland. Dyrkingen av den nasjonale identiteten har vært i sentrum siden uavhengigheten, blant annet i forsøk på å integrere de mange subnasjonale identitetene. Det er ikke ofte man møter på folk i disse landene som ser seg selv som en del av et større sentralasiatisk felleskap: de mange andre identitetsmarkørene er langt viktigere.

  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Russia and Eurasia
71 - 78 of 78 items