Geir Flikke
Working on the project The Shifting Geopolitics of the Black Sea Region, and the ongoing project Engaging Ukraine: Democracy support and civic competence. Also involved in a project in cooperation with Slovak Foreign Policy Assosciation (SFPA) on the border regions between Slovakia and Ukraine. In January and February 2010 he participated in a course on the US foreign and security policy at the University of Delaware. He will be engaged in developing research projects on the US relations to the northern part of Europe and Russia.
Geir Flikke holds a position as Professor II at the High North Center for Business and Governance in Bodø, Norway.
Member of Advisory Board of the Czech journal Defence and Strategy.
Publications
- Flikke, Geir , Stina Torjesen (2009). EU og NATO: Utvidelse og naboskapspolitikk som sikkerhetspolitisk instrument,
i Rieker, Pernille og Walter Emanuel Carlsnæs [red.] Nye utfordringer for europeisk sikkerhetspolitikk. Aktører, instrumenter og operasjoner
. Oslo, Universitetsforlaget.p. 109-122. Dette kapittelet ser på nedslagsfeltet for EUs og NATOs virkemidler i landene mellom EU og Russland, med særlig vekt på Ukraina og de sydkaukasiske landene. - Flikke, Geir (2008). Pacts, Parties and Elite Struggle: Ukraine’s Troubled Post-Orange Transition,
in Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 60, no. 3,
. London,Routledge.p. 375 – 396. This article resuscitates some of the theoretical arguments of transition studies to shed light on the complex institutional and political developments in post-Orange Ukraine (2004 – 2007). - Flikke, Geir (2006). Beyond the Orange Revolution: Transitions and Factors for Consolidation,
in Geir Flikke and Sergiy Kisselyov, eds., Beyond Recognition? Ukraine and Europe after the Orange Revolution
. Oslo,NUPI.p. 9-21. - Flikke, Geir (2005). Issues in the Far North,
in Olav F. Knudsen, ed., Advancing cooperation between Northern Europe and the United States , Conference Papers, no. 33
. Stockholm,Utrikspolitiska Insitutet.p. 49-52. - Flikke, Geir (2005). Med supermaktsdialogen friskt i minne,
in John K. Skogan, ed., Hva når USA og Europa?
. Oslo,Gyldendal Akademisk.p. 51-67. - Wilhelmsen, Julie , (2005). Evidence of Russia's Bush Doctrine in the CIS,
in European Security, vol. 14, no. 3
. London,Routledge.p. 387-417 . The article discusses the emergence of a Russian version of the Bush doctrine in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Russian officials' conceptual stretching of the strategic culture embodied in the National Security Concept (NSC) and the Military Doctrine (MD) from 2000 onwards.
- Flikke, Geir (2009). Balancing Acts. Oslo, NUPI. 52 pages. Report on Russian-Chinese Relations and Developments in the SCO and CSTO
- Flikke, Geir , Julie Wilhelmsen (2008). Central Asia: A Testing Ground for New Great-Power Relations. Oslo, NUPI. 56 pages. The report analyses the emerging strategic convergence between China and Russia in security and economic questions and argues that this has supplanted US influence in Central-Asia.
- Flikke, Geir , Jakub M. Godzimirski (2007). Words and Deeds. Oslo, NUPI. 112 pages. NUPI-rapport. NUPI-rapport om Russland, russisk utenrikspolitikk og de post-sovjetiske konfliktområdene.
- Flikke, Geir (2006). The Failure of a Movement: The Rise and Decline of “Democratic Russia” 1989-1992. Oslo, University of Oslo. 296 pages.
- Flikke, Geir , Julie Wilhelmsen (2005). "Copy that..". Oslo, NUPI. 79 pages. NUPI-Report. A report on Russia's relations with the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the War on Terror as a tool in these relationships.
- Flikke, Geir [ed.] (2004). The Uncertainties of Putin's Democracy. Oslo, NUPI. 143 pages. NUPI-report. Proceedings from a conference on the position of democracy in Russia under Putin.
- Flikke, Geir (2003). Damage Limitation and Decline in Institutional Powers. Oslo, NUPI. 74 pages. NUPI-report. A report exploring Russian-European crisis management cooperation after the intervention in Kosovo.
- Flikke, Geir [ed.] (1998). The Barents Region Revisited. Oslo, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. 109 pages. Proceedings from a conference hosted by the Center for Russian Studies at NUPI in April 1998
- Flikke, Geir , Sergey Kisselyov (2006). Further Towards Post-Communism?: From ‘Left’ to Regions in Ukraine. NUPI Working Paper: 713. 23 pages. An analysis of party support among leftist movements in Ukraine, 1998-2006.
- Flikke, Geir (2010). USA og verden. Forsvarets forum, 30. July
- Flikke, Geir (2010). Fra reset til START. Forsvarets forum, mai 2010, 5. May
- Flikke, Geir (2009). The Interactive Dynamics of Regulation: Exploring the Council of Europe's Monitoring of Ukraine. Nordisk Østforum, vol. 23, nr. 1, s. 95-97, bokomtale, 22. April
- Flikke, Geir (2008). EU ser mot nord. VG, 30. December
- Flikke, Geir (2007). Retningen på Russlands forsvars- og sikkerhetspolitikk. Globale Norge - hva nå?, 6. December
- Flikke, Geir (2007). Et varslet resultat. VG, 4. December
- Flikke, Geir (2007). Demokratiet er sårbart. Aftenposten, 19. August
