Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv is Professor of Security, Peace and Conflict Studies at the Centre for Peace Studies, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She specialises in theories of security, in particular the contestation between “everyday” security (including ontological and human security) and state security perceptions. She examines perceptions of security in contexts of the Arctic, civil-military intervention (such as in Afghanistan), and hybrid threats and warfare.
Mariia Kobzeva holds a PhD in Political Science and is a postdoctoral fellow in Global Arctic studies in the Department of Social Sciences, at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Mariia focuses on Sino-Russian relations in the Arctic amid the new balance of power, as well as on Russian and Chinese foreign policies. She is a member of the War and Peace Dynamics group at UiT. In 2021, Mariia received the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship grant (MSCA-IF) for a research project on Arctic security regime adaptation, starting in fall 2022.
Marc Lanteigne is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UiT: The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, specialising in China, East Asia, and Polar Regional politics and international relations. He is also chief editor of the Arctic news blog , and his current research includes work on the comparative politics of non-Arctic states, including in the Asia-Pacific, within the Arctic policy sphere.
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Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen is Professor of Northern Studies and the inaugural Barents Chair in Politics at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø). He is a Danish national, who grew up in Reykjavik and has a deep personal and professional commitment to the North Atlantic and Arctic. Rasmus studied in Copenhagen, Reykjavik, Geneva, Lausanne and Amsterdam. His PhD is from the University of Cambridge with a year at Sciences Po. Rasmus was postdoc at Harvard, United Nations University (Yokohama) and Aalborg University. His main research interest is transnational flows of knowledge, talent and resources between the West and East. Rasmus directs the workpackage developing European science diplomacy theory and strategy in H2020 InsSciDE. Rasmus is on sabbatical at Sorbonne University for 2020-21. He coordinates the Norwegian-Russian PhD course Society and Advanced Technology in the Arctic and the Norway-EU Science Diplomacy Network.
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Christopher Coker is Director of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IDEAS and former Professor of International Relations at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.