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Halvard Leira
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Halvard Leira er forsker 1 og forskningssjef på NUPI.
Hovedområder i Halvard Leiras forskning er utenrikspolitikk og diplomati, med særlig vekt på Norge. Han har også forsket på internasjonale relasjoner i et historisk perspektiv og internasjonal teori. Leira fullførte doktorgraden sin i mai 2011. Avhandlingens tittel er «The Emergence of Foreign Policy: Knowledge, Discourse, History».
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2011 PhD, statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo
2002 Cand. Polit., Institutt for Statsvitenskap, Universitetet i Oslo.
2001 MSc International Relations, London School of Economics
Arbeidserfaring
2024 - Forskningssjef, NUPI
2003- Forsker/doktorgradsstipendiat/seniorforsker/forsker I, NUPI
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Old diplomacy is a term which has been used both politically and analytically since the French Revolution. Politically, it emerged as a term of abuse, used to criticize all which had been wrong with interstate interaction before 1789, in particular secrecy, duplicity, and the reliance on aristocracy. Thus, it was often contrasted with a desired new diplomacy. Political versions of the term have persisted until the present day, although the target changed. A particular spike in criticism happened in 1918–20, when old diplomacy was blamed for the outbreak of the Great War. Analytically, old diplomacy has been used to refer more neutrally to earlier forms of diplomacy. This usage emerged in the nineteenth century, but has been more prevalent from the middle of the twentieth century.
Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking
We develop scholarship on status in international politics by focusing on the social dimension of small and middle power status politics. This vantage opens a new window on the widely-discussed strategies social actors may use to maintain and enhance their status, showing how social creativity, mobility, and competition can all be system-supporting under some conditions. We extract lessons for other thorny issues in status research, notably questions concerning when, if ever, status is a good in itself; whether it must be a positional good; and how states measure it.
Caring and Carers: Diplomatic Personnel and the Duty of Care
This article deals with the duty of care that states hold in relation to their citizens abroad — more specifically, the double role of diplomatic personnel, as both providers and recipients of care. The focus of discussion is states’ duty of care for diplomatic personnel, raising questions of how this care can be balanced with the duty of care for citizens and how far this duty stretches. The article first emphasizes the threats, before focusing on the means of protection: evacuation; physical structures; and psychological care. A tension remains, for as states fulfil their duty of care towards personnel through increasing security, they might at the same time reduce their personnel’s capacity to provide care for citizens. One solution for this tension — outsourcing and local personnel — tests the limits of care.
The Making of a Classic: On Diplomacy 30 Years On.
In this article, Halvard Leira makes the case for On Diplomacy (published in 1987) being a classic in the making of International Relations, and engages the central notion of diplomacy understood as "the mediation of estrangement".
Norsk språk taper
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Fredsnasjon eller realpolitisk kameleon? Norsk tryggleiks- og forsvarspolitikk under lupa
Ansvarleg redaktør for faktisk.no, Kristoffer Egeberg, skal saman med NUPI-forskar Halvard Leira diskutere norsk tryggleiks- og forsvarspolitikk
Empires, Privateering and the sea (EMPRISE)
EMPRISE fokuserer på rollen sjømakt spilte for imperie- og statsdannelsesprosesser i perioden 1500-1856....
Political change and historical analogies
This article deals with how scholars, policy analysts and activists, striving to make sense of current political change, have turned to history for analogies and ideas for action. While it is encouraging to see the Trump presidency and other instances of upheaval leading to a strengthened interest in history, in academe and public life more generally, there nevertheless is a need to caution against facile appropriations of the historical record and the use of superficial similarity to legitimize political action. I discuss ways of historicizing the present, through some examples of historical analogies applied to the first months of the Trump presidency and other relatively current instances of change. I start with a discussion of historical analogies and concepts, stressing how they can be understood as both first order and second order constructs. Then I discuss the current usage of historical analogies and concepts as both first order and second order constructs, before I conclude.
Beskyttelsesplikt over alle grenser?
Har stater en plikt til å beskytte sine borgere utenfor landets grenser? Hvor kommer denne plikten i tilfelle fra, og hvordan ivaretas den?
Beskyttelsesplikt over alle grenser?
Denne artikkelen diskuterer hva slags beskyttelsesplikt stater har overfor sine borgere, når de befinner seg utenfor statens grenser. Argumentene forankres i generelle utviklingstrekk for moderne stater, men hovedfokus er på den norske staten og norske borgere. Artikkelen reiser to problemstillinger, for det første hvordan det ble selvsagt at staten har en beskyttelsesplikt for borgere i utlandet, for det andre under hvilke forutsetninger og på hvilke måter dette ansvaret konkret kommer på den politiske dagsorden. Den første problemstillingen besvares historisk og komparativt, med vekt på utviklingen av lojalitetsbånd mellom stat og borgere og velferdsstatlig legitimitet knyttet til statens evne og vilje til å ta seg av sine borgere. Den andre problemstillingen besvares ved analyse av en rekke «kriser» fra det siste tiåret. Her vektlegges medias rolle i kriseartikulering, behovet for rask og synlig respons fra offentlige myndigheter og spenningen mellom behovet for å vise handlekraft og ønskene om at befolkingen skal ta større ansvar for seg selv på reise.