Karsten Friis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1174235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karsten Friis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karsten |
| FAMILY NAME | Friis |
| SIGNATURE | FRIIS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian Institute of International Affairs |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1667-3643 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Greenland in Arctic security: (De)securitization Dynamics Under Climatic Thaw and Geopolitical Freeze
The defence of northern Europe: New opportunities, significant challenges
With Finland and Sweden joining NATO, the Nordics will be united for the first time in a military alliance encompassing not only northern Europe but also the broader transatlantic region. It will eventually fortify northern European security, but several obstacles must be overcome first. NATO has done a formidable job since 2014 in updating its defence plans, cumulating in the Deterrence and Defence of the Euro-Atlantic Area (DDA) family of plans…
Innledning. Fokus: Krigen og forskningen
Russlands angrep på Ukraina 24. februar kom overraskende på mange. Det medførte flere debatter i media, der forskere kritiserte hverandre for å ikke ha sett hva som var på gang, for å ha vist for stor forståelse for Putin-regimets posisjoner, og for å la sine politiske holdninger farge analysen. I denne Fokus-spalten vil vi forsøke å løfte disse diskusjonene opp på et akademisk nivå. Ikke for å fordele skyld, men for å ta faglig lærdom. I denne i…
Analyzing Security Subregions: Forces of Push, Pull, and Resistance in Nordic Defense Cooperation
How can we best analyze security subregions? The most commonly used theory of regional security in the discipline of international relations, the regional security complex theory, focuses on large regions, such as Europe, Asia, or the Middle East. It pays less attention to smaller regions within these. This is unfortunate, because the security dynamics of these subregions often are a result of more than their place in the larger region. At the sa…
Tilbake til fortiden: Forsvarspolitikken og norsk identitet
Denne artikkelens hovedargument er at norsk forsvarspolitikk i stor grad er formet av norsk identitet og av norske verdier. Denne sterke koblingen ble særlig tydelig på 1990-tallet, da den bidro til kontinuitet i Forsvarets oppgaver og innretting til tross for store endringer i Norges sikkerhetspolitiske omgivelser. Som et resultat av fremveksten av en ny norsk forsvarspolitisk diskurs inntraff et forsvarspolitisk paradigmeskifte rundt årtusenski…
Militæraktivisme: Uklare definisjoner og politisk slagside
I en fersk Fokus-spalte i Internasjonal Politikk diskuteres begrepet «militæraktivisme» i en skandinavisk kontekst. Dessverre lider flere av bidragene av en uklar og dels politisert bruk av begrepet. Militæraktivisme sidestilles i det store med internasjonale operasjoner, og bringer dermed ingen nye analytiske bidrag. Spalten viser at begrepet kan ha noe for seg i det danske tilfellet, men klarer ikke å påvise at militæraktivisme er noe skandinav…
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses
How did Chinese 5G providers, such as Huawei, become a security concern in the USA and Europe? Were the security concerns related to 5G and Chinese suppliers based upon technological features of the systems, or were they a product of geopolitical rivalry? How did European approaches to 5G distinguish themselves from those of the USA? This article addresses these questions using an interdisciplinary approach via the framework of securitization the…
Blikket i glasskulen: Nato de neste 70 år
Hvordan vil det gå med NATO? Vil alliansen overleve de neste 70 år? Hvilke utfordringer vil alliansen i så fall måtte håndtere? Artikkelen spekulerer på fremtiden og forsøker å se inn i glasskulen og peke på noen mulige utviklingstrekk. Jeg argumenterer at NATO trolig vil bestå, men dens relevans vil avhenge av hvor tilpasningsdyktig den er i forhold til nye utfordringer. I tillegg må verdifellesskapet og solidariteten bestå om alliansen skal vær…
Conflict in Cyber Space: Theoretical, Strategic and Legal Pespectives
Harald Høiback og Palle Ydstebø (red.): Krigens vitenskap – en innføring i militærteori
Jens Bartelson: A Genealogy of Sovereignty
Which Afghanistan? Military, Humanitarian, and State-Building Identities in the Afghan Theater
Ten years of international intervention in Afghanistan—why has so little been achieved? This fundamental question cannot be answered by focusing only on certain key actors, such as the armed forces. It requires a holistic analysis that covers several sets of actors and various sectors of the intervention. The analysis must also go beyond the day-to-day issues of coordination and resource allocation, and look into the basic questions of how the di…
Peacekeeping and Counter-insurgency – Two of a Kind
This article demonstrates that there are more similarities between peacekeeping and counter-insurgency than often recognized. In today's 'war among the people', the counter-insurgent cannot succeed with offensive military capabilities alone and must seek to apply also non-kinetic and defensive methods; whereas the peacekeeper often is forced to apply 'robust' and kinetic means to implement a mandate. As a result, the two concepts seem to be conve…
Konstruktivisme og nasjonale interesser
Bokspalte
From Liminars to Others: Securitization Through Myths
The article discusses the rise of societal and ethnic conflicts. It focuses on some of the analytical tools designed to illuminate these processes. More specifically it builds on the framework of the so-called "Copenhagen School of Security Studies" but seeks to develop a more flexible approach on the concept of identity. To understand how an identity gains strength, Roland Barthes’ theory of myths is examined and combined with Michel Foucault's …
Peacekeeping and Counter-insurgency – Two of a Kind
This article demonstrates that there are more similarities between peacekeeping and counter-insurgency than often recognized. In today's 'war among the people', the counter-insurgent cannot succeed with offensive military capabilities alone and must seek to apply also non-kinetic and defensive methods; whereas the peacekeeper often is forced to apply 'robust' and kinetic means to implement a mandate. As a result, the two concepts seem to be conve…
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses
How did Chinese 5G providers, such as Huawei, become a security concern in the USA and Europe? Were the security concerns related to 5G and Chinese suppliers based upon technological features of the systems, or were they a product of geopolitical rivalry? How did European approaches to 5G distinguish themselves from those of the USA? This article addresses these questions using an interdisciplinary approach via the framework of securitization the…
From Liminars to Others: Securitization Through Myths
The article discusses the rise of societal and ethnic conflicts. It focuses on some of the analytical tools designed to illuminate these processes. More specifically it builds on the framework of the so-called "Copenhagen School of Security Studies" but seeks to develop a more flexible approach on the concept of identity. To understand how an identity gains strength, Roland Barthes’ theory of myths is examined and combined with Michel Foucault's …
Which Afghanistan? Military, Humanitarian, and State-Building Identities in the Afghan Theater
Ten years of international intervention in Afghanistan—why has so little been achieved? This fundamental question cannot be answered by focusing only on certain key actors, such as the armed forces. It requires a holistic analysis that covers several sets of actors and various sectors of the intervention. The analysis must also go beyond the day-to-day issues of coordination and resource allocation, and look into the basic questions of how the di…
Greenland in Arctic security: (De)securitization Dynamics Under Climatic Thaw and Geopolitical Freeze
The defence of northern Europe: New opportunities, significant challenges
With Finland and Sweden joining NATO, the Nordics will be united for the first time in a military alliance encompassing not only northern Europe but also the broader transatlantic region. It will eventually fortify northern European security, but several obstacles must be overcome first. NATO has done a formidable job since 2014 in updating its defence plans, cumulating in the Deterrence and Defence of the Euro-Atlantic Area (DDA) family of plans…
Analyzing Security Subregions: Forces of Push, Pull, and Resistance in Nordic Defense Cooperation
How can we best analyze security subregions? The most commonly used theory of regional security in the discipline of international relations, the regional security complex theory, focuses on large regions, such as Europe, Asia, or the Middle East. It pays less attention to smaller regions within these. This is unfortunate, because the security dynamics of these subregions often are a result of more than their place in the larger region. At the sa…
Militæraktivisme: Uklare definisjoner og politisk slagside
I en fersk Fokus-spalte i Internasjonal Politikk diskuteres begrepet «militæraktivisme» i en skandinavisk kontekst. Dessverre lider flere av bidragene av en uklar og dels politisert bruk av begrepet. Militæraktivisme sidestilles i det store med internasjonale operasjoner, og bringer dermed ingen nye analytiske bidrag. Spalten viser at begrepet kan ha noe for seg i det danske tilfellet, men klarer ikke å påvise at militæraktivisme er noe skandinav…
From Liminars to Others: Securitization Through Myths
The article discusses the rise of societal and ethnic conflicts. It focuses on some of the analytical tools designed to illuminate these processes. More specifically it builds on the framework of the so-called "Copenhagen School of Security Studies" but seeks to develop a more flexible approach on the concept of identity. To understand how an identity gains strength, Roland Barthes’ theory of myths is examined and combined with Michel Foucault's …
Bokspalte
Konstruktivisme og nasjonale interesser
Peacekeeping and Counter-insurgency – Two of a Kind
This article demonstrates that there are more similarities between peacekeeping and counter-insurgency than often recognized. In today's 'war among the people', the counter-insurgent cannot succeed with offensive military capabilities alone and must seek to apply also non-kinetic and defensive methods; whereas the peacekeeper often is forced to apply 'robust' and kinetic means to implement a mandate. As a result, the two concepts seem to be conve…
Jens Bartelson: A Genealogy of Sovereignty
Which Afghanistan? Military, Humanitarian, and State-Building Identities in the Afghan Theater
Ten years of international intervention in Afghanistan—why has so little been achieved? This fundamental question cannot be answered by focusing only on certain key actors, such as the armed forces. It requires a holistic analysis that covers several sets of actors and various sectors of the intervention. The analysis must also go beyond the day-to-day issues of coordination and resource allocation, and look into the basic questions of how the di…
Harald Høiback og Palle Ydstebø (red.): Krigens vitenskap – en innføring i militærteori
Conflict in Cyber Space: Theoretical, Strategic and Legal Pespectives
Blikket i glasskulen: Nato de neste 70 år
Hvordan vil det gå med NATO? Vil alliansen overleve de neste 70 år? Hvilke utfordringer vil alliansen i så fall måtte håndtere? Artikkelen spekulerer på fremtiden og forsøker å se inn i glasskulen og peke på noen mulige utviklingstrekk. Jeg argumenterer at NATO trolig vil bestå, men dens relevans vil avhenge av hvor tilpasningsdyktig den er i forhold til nye utfordringer. I tillegg må verdifellesskapet og solidariteten bestå om alliansen skal vær…
Analyzing Security Subregions: Forces of Push, Pull, and Resistance in Nordic Defense Cooperation
How can we best analyze security subregions? The most commonly used theory of regional security in the discipline of international relations, the regional security complex theory, focuses on large regions, such as Europe, Asia, or the Middle East. It pays less attention to smaller regions within these. This is unfortunate, because the security dynamics of these subregions often are a result of more than their place in the larger region. At the sa…
Tilbake til fortiden: Forsvarspolitikken og norsk identitet
Denne artikkelens hovedargument er at norsk forsvarspolitikk i stor grad er formet av norsk identitet og av norske verdier. Denne sterke koblingen ble særlig tydelig på 1990-tallet, da den bidro til kontinuitet i Forsvarets oppgaver og innretting til tross for store endringer i Norges sikkerhetspolitiske omgivelser. Som et resultat av fremveksten av en ny norsk forsvarspolitisk diskurs inntraff et forsvarspolitisk paradigmeskifte rundt årtusenski…
Militæraktivisme: Uklare definisjoner og politisk slagside
I en fersk Fokus-spalte i Internasjonal Politikk diskuteres begrepet «militæraktivisme» i en skandinavisk kontekst. Dessverre lider flere av bidragene av en uklar og dels politisert bruk av begrepet. Militæraktivisme sidestilles i det store med internasjonale operasjoner, og bringer dermed ingen nye analytiske bidrag. Spalten viser at begrepet kan ha noe for seg i det danske tilfellet, men klarer ikke å påvise at militæraktivisme er noe skandinav…
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses
How did Chinese 5G providers, such as Huawei, become a security concern in the USA and Europe? Were the security concerns related to 5G and Chinese suppliers based upon technological features of the systems, or were they a product of geopolitical rivalry? How did European approaches to 5G distinguish themselves from those of the USA? This article addresses these questions using an interdisciplinary approach via the framework of securitization the…
Innledning. Fokus: Krigen og forskningen
Russlands angrep på Ukraina 24. februar kom overraskende på mange. Det medførte flere debatter i media, der forskere kritiserte hverandre for å ikke ha sett hva som var på gang, for å ha vist for stor forståelse for Putin-regimets posisjoner, og for å la sine politiske holdninger farge analysen. I denne Fokus-spalten vil vi forsøke å løfte disse diskusjonene opp på et akademisk nivå. Ikke for å fordele skyld, men for å ta faglig lærdom. I denne i…
The defence of northern Europe: New opportunities, significant challenges
With Finland and Sweden joining NATO, the Nordics will be united for the first time in a military alliance encompassing not only northern Europe but also the broader transatlantic region. It will eventually fortify northern European security, but several obstacles must be overcome first. NATO has done a formidable job since 2014 in updating its defence plans, cumulating in the Deterrence and Defence of the Euro-Atlantic Area (DDA) family of plans…
Greenland in Arctic security: (De)securitization Dynamics Under Climatic Thaw and Geopolitical Freeze
Political science (15 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Global Security and Public Health (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (3 works)