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.
- Geopolitics
- Great power politics and international order
- Norwegian foreign and Arctic policy
- Russian politics
- Social Theory
- Historic and Pre-Historic Polity Systems
- Diplomacy
- Collective Identities
- Russian and Norwegian Foreign Policies
