Geir Hønneland

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My academic focus has centred on two main pillars: i) international fisheries management, with an emphasis on enforcement and compliance issues; ii) relations between Russia and the West, primarily Norway, in the European North. Within these two pillars, my main interest has gradually narrowed in on the legal aspects of international fisheries management (law of the sea) and the identity aspects of Russian foreign policy. I also have some experience in international Arctic politics more widely.

BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE

Academic background

Master of Laws (LL.M.) (Law of the Sea), UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (2020)
Full professor competence (2004)
Dr. polit. (PhD, political science), University of Oslo (2000)
Cand. polit. (MA, political science), University of Tromsø (1993).
Cand. mag. (BA, political science , Russian and Polish languages, East European studies), University of Oslo (1990)

Professional experience

Research professor, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (2022 - ongoing)
Secretary General, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (2021-2022) (adjunct research professor at FNI)
Senior Project Manager for Russia and Northern Europe, Lloyd’s Register (2019-2020)
Chairman of the Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association (2018-2021)
Director, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (2015-2019)
Deputy Director, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (2014-2015)
Research Director, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (2006-2014)
Head of Russia and Polar Programme, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (2000-2005)
Research Fellow and PhD Student, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (1996-2000)
Researcher, Norut Research (1994-1995)
Interpreter and fisheries officer, Norwegian Coast Guard (1988-1993)
Various adjunct professorships at Norwegian universities and guest research stays abroadAdjunct Professor ("Professor II") at the Dept. of Political Science, University of Tromsø since 2005.

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BOOKS

Russisk politikk: En innføring ('Russian Politics: An Introduction')

Geir Hønneland and Jørgen Holten Jørgensen

Fagbokforlaget, 2023, 224 p. In Norwegian.
Makt og avmakt: Norge og Russland tilbake til normaltilstanden

Lars Rowe, Geir Hønneland and Jørgen Holten Jørgensen

Novus Forlag, 2022, 170 p.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Marine Stewardship Council Certification of Northeast Atlantic Mackerel: Processes and Outcomes

Geir Hønneland

In Olav Schram Stokke, Andreas Østhagen and Andreas Raspotnik (eds), Marine Resources, Climate Change and International Management Regimes. Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 77-96
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Certification of Arctic Fisheries: Processes and Outcomes

Geir Hønneland

Arctic Review on Law and Politics, Vol 11, 2020, pp. 133-156.
MSC Certification of Russian Arctic Fisheries

Geir Hønneland and Lars H. Gulbrandsen

In Svein Vigeland Rottem and Ida Folkestad Soltvedt (eds), Arctic Governance: Energy, Living Marine Resources and Shipping. Volume 2. London, I.B. Tauris, 2018, pp. 138-161.
Norway and the High North: Foreign Policy Strategies since the Cold War

Geir Hønneland

Current Politics and Economics of Europe, Vol 28, No 1, 2017, pp. 31-54.
Foreign Policy Strategies: Norway and the High North

Geir Hønneland

In Noralv Veggeland (ed), Administrative Strategies of our Time. Happauge (USA), Nova Science Publishers, 2017, pp. 261-288.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Fiction and reality in Russian politics

Anna Valberg

Science Norway, September 20, 2023.
Arctic Research and its Actors: A Pre-study Mapping of Research Strategies and Priorities

Serafima Andreeva and Geir Hønneland

FNI-rapport 6/2023. Lysaker, FNI, 2023, 40 p.
Fiksjon og virkelighet i russisk politikk (Fiction and Reality in Russian Politics)

Anna Valberg

Forskning.no, September 12, 2023. In Norwegian.
Russland og Norge er enige! (The joint Norwegian-Russian fisheries commission has reached an agreement)

Geir Hønneland

Nordnorsk debatt, October 26, 2022. In Norwegian.
Hva skjer hvis delelinjeavtalen med Russland ryker? (What happens if the maritime delimitation treaty breaks down?)

Geir Hønneland

Aftenposten, July 10, 2022. In Norwegian.

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NEWS

Meet FNI at the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø 26.01.2024
Researching Barents Sea Fisheries Management after 2022 07.08.2023
FNI lagde åpent dialogmøte om fiskeri på Svalbard 20.10.2021
FNI henter friske midler fra Norges Forskningsråd 16.12.2020
Arctic book series completed: Conflict or cooperation ahead? 26.02.2020

IN MEDIA

Fisch zwischen den Fronten: Der Ukrainekrieg und der Kabeljau in der Barentsee (The Ukraine War and Cod in the Barents Sea)
Deutschlandfunk (radio/podcast), February 1, 2024. In German.
Russia threatens to withdraw from fishery deal with Norway. Little to worry about, says expert
The Barents Observer, October 27, 2023.
Årets norsk-russiske økosystetokt i Barentshavet er over (This Year's Norwegian-Russian Ecosystem Expedition in the Barents Sea Ends)
NRK Nordnytt (TV/radio), October 4, 2023. In Norwegian.
Over 80 prosent av russiske fiskekvoter i Barentshavet fiskes i norske havområder (More than 80 percent of Russian fishing quotas in the Barents Sea are fished in Norwegian waters)
NRK Troms og Finnmark, June 1, 2023. In Norwegian.
Barents Spektakel løfter spørsmål om tillit og tvil (Barents Spektakel Raises Questions of Doubt and Trust)
High North News, February 22, 2023. In Norwegian. English version here.