Iver B. Neumann

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My overarching research interest is in how polities relate to one another, in pre-history, in history, in imagined worlds, and in principle. I usually draw on Continental social theory to analyse this, and use empirical examples from Russian foreign policy, Norwegian foreign policy and, increasingly, from archaeology.

BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE

Professional experience

Director, The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (2019 - present)
Adjunct Professor, Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo (2020 - present)
Director, NOVA, OsloMet (2018-2019)
Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics (LSE) (2012-2017)
Research Professor and Research Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) (2003-2017)
Co-editor, The New International Relations Series, Routledge (2005 - present)

Academic background

Dr. Philos. (Social Anthropology), Oslo University (2009)
D.Phil. (Politics), Oxford University (1992)
21,000 citations on Google Scholar, h-index 60

Boards, memberships, prizes, and honours

Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Member, Academia Europaea
Member, Aker Scholarship Board
The Fridtjof Nansen Award for Outstanding Research (2020)

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BOOKS

Hva skjer med verden? Norge mellom stormaktene ('What is Happening to the World? Norway Between the Great Powers')

Iver B. Neumann

Pax, 2025, 160 p. In Norwegian
Knausgaard in Context

Iver B. Neumann (ed)

Scandinavian University Press, 2025, 206 p.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Polities

Iver B. Neumann

In Stacie E. Goddard, Ole Jacob Sending and George Lawson (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology. Oxford University Press, 2025, pp. 795-810.
Knausgaard and Class

Cecilie Basberg Neumann and Iver B. Nemann

In Iver B. Neumann (ed), Knausgaard in Context. Scandinavian University Press, 2025, pp. 148-166.
Introduction

Iver B. Neumann

In Iver B. Neumann (ed), Knausgaard in Context. Scandinavian University Press, 2025, pp. 11-26.
Den nye strategiske situasjonen og dens implikasjoner for Norge (The New Strategic Situation and its Implications for Norway)

Iver B. Neumann

Internasjonal Politikk, Vol 82, No 3/4, 2024, pp. 288–304. In Norwegian.
Nomads and international relations: post-sedentarist dialogues

Jaakko Heiskanen, Joseph MacKay, Iver B. Neumann, Einar Wigen , Ingrid Eskild, Martin Hall, Alice Engelhard, Hannah Owens, Jamie Levin and Franca Kappes

Cambridge Review of International Affairs, published online 18.11.2024, 35 p. DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2024.2426782

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

USA’s tiltagende unilateralisme sætter Norge i en udenrigspolitisk klemme (US growing unilateralism puts Norway in a foreign policy squeeze)

Iver B. Neumann

Udenrigs, 22 October 2025. In Danish.
Hvorfor vil Trump styre fortiden?

Marte Spangen, Iver B. Neumann, Håkon Glørstad, Lene Melheim, Steinar Solheim, Julie Lund

Dagsavisen, September 9, 2025. In Norwegian.
Norge må velge internasjonal orden fremfor Trumps vei (Norway should back international order over Trump’s path)

Iver B. Neumann

Aftenposten, August 20, 2025. In Norwegian.
Bokmelding av Iran og Israel. Gamle venner, nye fiender, av Eirik Kvindesland (Book review of Iran and Israel: Old Friends, New Enemies by Eirik Kvindesland)

Iver B. Neumann

Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning 66 (3): pp. 1–2. DOI: 10.18261/tfs.66.3.5
For å mene noe om EU, må man kunne noe (To have an opinion on the EU, you need to know something)

Iver B. Neumann

Altinget, May 6, 2025. In Norwegian.

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