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Karsten Friis [Senior Advisor]

Karsten Friis
E-mail:
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Direct:
(+47) 22 99 40 24
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(+47) 95 29 34 16
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Pb 8159 Dep, 0033 Oslo
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C.J. Hambros plass 2 D
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[2013-04-18-20]
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Current research

Karsten Friis' main areas of expertise are security and defense policies, international military operations, civilian-military relations and cybersecurity.

He also follows the political developments in the western Balkans and the EU enlargement process . Friis has worked as political adviser at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. He has also worked as an adviser at the Norwegian Armed Forces in Oslo and in Kosovo. He has published on the European Union, Western Balkans, international operations and on peacekeeping and counter-insurgency.

Heads NUPI's MCDC program which concentrates on the development of civil-military relations in international operations.

Formal education
[1998]
Cand Polit, Political Science, University of Oslo
[1995]
Master, International Relations, London School of Economics
Professional experience
[2007-]
Senior Advisor/Advisor, NUPI
[2004 - 2007]
Political advisor for OSCE, Serbia/Montenegro
[2001-2004]
Advisor, the Norwegian Armed Forces
[2000-2001]
Political advisor, OSCE, Montenegro
[1999-2000]
Analyst/E-off, NATO/KFOR HQ, Kosovo
[1999]
OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission
 

Publications [vis kronologisk]

Articles (in books and journals)
  • Friis , Karsten (2012). Which Afghanistan? Military, Humanitarian, and State-Building Identities in the Afghan Theater,

    in Security Studies 21, no. 2

    .Routledge.p. 266-300.Ten years of international intervention in Afghanistan—why has so little been achieved? By analyzing the military, humanitarian, and state-building identities in Afghanistan through their spatial, temporal, and ethical dimensions, the article seeks to demonstrate the utility of discourse analysis for studying interventions, and to provide preliminary answers to why the results in Afghanistan have been so meager. [url]
  • de Coning, Cedric H., Karsten Friis (2011). Coherence and Coordination. The Limits of the Comprehensive Approach,

    Journal of International Peacekeeping, vol. 15

     

    .Brill.p. 243-272.This article explores why international actors assign such high importance to coherence. It argues that the assumptions on which the principle of coherence is based are flawed, and that the empirical and theoretical evidence indicates that there is much less room for coherence than generally acknowledged in the policy debate. [Full-text version] [url]
  • Friis , Karsten (2010). Peacekeeping and Counter-insurgency – Two of a Kind?,

    International Peacekeeping, vol.17, no.1.

    .London,Taylor & Francis.p. 49-66. [url]
  • Friis , Karsten , Jakub M. Godzimirski (2009). Hva skjer med OSSE? ,

    i Rieker, Pernille og Walter Emanuel Carlsnæs [red.] Nye utfordringer for europeisk sikkerhetspolitikk. Aktører, instrumenter og operasjoner

    . Oslo, Universitetsforlaget.p. 51-62.Forfatterne ser nærmere på OSSEs evolusjon gjennom årene og på dens aktuelle rolle i europeisk sikkerhetspolitikk. [url]
  • Friis , Karsten , Kari M. Osland, Helge Lurås (2009). Balkan,

    i Rieker, Pernille og Walter Emanuel Carlsnæs [red.] Nye utfordringer for europeisk sikkerhetspolitikk. Aktører, instrumenter og operasjoner

    . Oslo, Universitetsforlaget.p. 167-180. [url]
  • Friis , Karsten (2007). Konstruktivisme og nasjonale interesser,

    Internasjonal Politikk, vol. 65, nr. 3

    .Oslo,NUPI.p. 85-96.Artikkelen søker å bidra med et konstruktivistisk perspektiv på studiet av "nasjonale interesser" og "norske interesser" i utenrikspolitikken. [url]
  • Friis , Karsten (2007). The referendum in Montenegro: the EU's "postmodern diplomacy",

    in European Foreign Affairs Review, vol. 12

    .London,Kluwer Law International.p. 67-88.The article analyses the referendum on independence in Montenegro 21 May 2006, its pretext and the successful engagement of the international mediators, particularly the EU. [url]
  • Friis , Karsten (2006). The Power of the Draft: A Century of Changing Legitimacy of Norway's Armed Forces ,

    in Pertti Joenniemi, The changing face of European Conscription

    .Aldershot,Ashgate.p. 99-118. [url]
  • Friis , Karsten (2000). From Liminars to Others: Securitization Through Myths,

    I Peace and Conflict Studies Volume 7, Number 2. 

    .p. 1-16.The article discusses the rise of societal and ethnic conflicts. It focuses on some of the analytical tools designed to illuminate these processes. [url]
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