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Ole Jacob Sending

Research Professor, Head of Center for Geopolitics
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Summary

Ole Jacob Sending is Research Professor in the Research group for global order and diplomacy at NUPI.

Sending does research on global governance, with a particular focus on the role of international and non-governmental organizations in peacebuilding, humanitarian relief, and development. His publications have appeared, inter alia, in International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, and International Theory.

Expertise

  • Development policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Peace operations
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Human rights
  • International organizations
  • United Nations

Education

2004 Dr. Polit., Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen

1998 Master of Science, Political Science. Department of Political Science, SUNY, Albany, New York

1997 Cand. Mag., University of Bergen, Norway. (Economics, Political Science, Sociology)

Work Experience

2023- Research Professor, NUPI

2012-2023 Research Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

2008-2009 Visiting Scholar, Fulbright Scholarship, Dept. of Sociology, UC Berkeley

2008- Senior Researcher, NUPI

2008-2014 Adjunct Senior Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen

2006-2008 Senior Adviser, Policy Analysis Unit, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

2003- Senior Researcher, NUPI

2002 Visiting Research Fellow, Stanford University (SCANCOR)

1999-2003 Research Fellow, NUPI, PhD Student, University of Bergen

Aktivitet

Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Nordiske svar på geopolitiske utfordringer

(Available in Norwegian only): Ukens analyse er skrevet av seniorforsker Kristin Haugevik og forskningssjef Ole Jacob Sending, begge ved Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt (NUPI). De skriver om hvordan de fem nordiske landene responderer på omveltningene i internasjonal politikk.

  • Diplomacy
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • Diplomacy
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk
11. Jun 2018
Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk

Theory Seminar: Bureaucracy and Diplomatic Representation - the case of Kosovo

Tobias Wille visits NUPI to discuss his paper on how Kosovo sought to assert its statehood through the professionalisation of its foreign service.

Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk
6. Jun 2018
Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk

CANCELLED: Theory Seminar: It Takes Time: Forecasts, Democracy, and Academia

This event has unfortunately been cancelled.

Publications
Publications
Chapter

Expertise and Practice: The Evolving Relationship between Study and Practice of Security

The chapter details the evolving relationship between the study and the practice of international security. This relationship is seen as one of differentiation: international security has proliferated into several sub-fields - cyber security, conflict management etc - with increased specialisation of techniques of governing. This specialisation is matched by a differentiation in academic research and expertise, so that there is by now a broad array of different types of security expertise. This differentiation into sub-fields reflects a broader trend also found in other issue-areas.

  • Security policy
  • Security policy
Publications
Publications
Chapter

Diplomacy as Global Governance

The chapter details how diplomacy - the case study being Norwegian diplomacy - is no longer solely about representing the state vis a vis other states. It has evolved to also include governing specific issues. This governance aspect of diplomacy becomes even more interesting as an expression of the transformation of diplomacy when we consider that what is being governed is not directly linked to the security of the state, but to ideals and principles that attain meaning as first and foremost "international" issues or goals. We find evidence of a gradual shift of diplomacy towards governing of international issues, and reflect on what this means for the presentation of the state vis a vis other states.

  • Diplomacy
  • Diplomacy
Event
10:00 - 11:30
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
10:00 - 11:30
NUPI
Engelsk
19. Mar 2018
Event
10:00 - 11:30
NUPI
Engelsk

Breakfast seminar: Global disorder and distrust – Trump as a symptom

What are the consequences of American distrust in the political elite for international politics? Daniel Drezner and Ole Jacob Sending discusses this and more as a part of NUPIs "Global disorder and distrust" series.

Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Norske svar på internasjonale utfordringer: Retorisk endring, stabilitet i tiltak

(Available in Norwegian only): Norsk utenrikspolitikk omtales ofte som preget av konsensus og stabilitet, hvor kobling til NATO og USA, støtte til FN, og en aktiv europapolitikk er hovedelementer. Inspirert av innsikter fra institusjonell teori om «organisert hykleri» – altså hvordan organisasjoner ofte må frikoble tale og handling – analyserer vi norsk utenrikspolitikk. Vi finner at det er tendenser til slikt integrert flertydighet, som ikke er overraskende gitt de motstridende krav og forventninger som preger våre omgivelser. Vi peker på hvordan et slikt perspektiv kan bidra til kritisk refleksjon rundt effektivitet i ulike virkemidler, og diskuterer også hvordan dette preger tilnærmingen til «Norden», som del av den utenrikspolitiske verktøykassen.

  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Introduksjon: Nordiske svar på geopolitiske utfordringer

(Available in Norwegian only): Denne artikkelen introduserer et temanummer om hvordan de fem nordiske landene – Danmark, Finland, Island, Norge og Sverige – fremstiller og responderer på geopolitiske utfordringer i sine omgivelser. Nordens strategiske beliggenhet – i Europas nordlige utkant, med grense mot Russland på den ene siden og store havområder på den andre – gjør at endringer i sikkerhetspolitikken og i maktbalansen mellom stormaktene er av umiddelbar relevans. Artiklene drøfter hovedtrekk ved de nordiske landenes nåværende utenrikspolitikk, hver for seg, men til dels også sammen, sett i lys både av historiske linjer og nåværende geopolitiske rammebetingelser. Med særlig vekt på de enkelte lands relasjoner til stormaktene USA, Russland, EU og Kina, og til sikkerhetsinstitusjonene FN og NATO, fremhever bidragene noen særtrekk ved den hjemlige utenrikspolitiske debatten i de enkelte land, og kartlegger hvilke ressurser og virkemidler det enkelte land typisk velger å ta i bruk i møte med ulike utfordringer.

  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • United Nations
Event
09:30 - 11:30
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
09:30 - 11:30
NUPI
Engelsk
17. Jan 2018
Event
09:30 - 11:30
NUPI
Engelsk

Breakfast seminar: Global disorder and distrust – the Middle East

New seminar series about the global distrust that has been more evident lately, and the first event will take a closer look what this development means for the Middle East.

Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk
Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk
7. Dec 2017
Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk

Theory seminar: The Emergence of Hyper-real Politics of Truth

Andreas Aagaard Nøhr, PhD Candidate on International Relations at LSE visits NUPI to talk about post-truth politics.

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