Kristian Lundby Gjerde

• Beaumont, Paul David Hagen; Wilhelmsen, Julie Maria & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2024). Reimagining NATO after Crimea: Defender of the rule-based order and truth? Contemporary Security Policy. ISSN 1352-3260. doi: 10.1080/13523260.2024.2349393.
• Rieker, Pernille & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2021). The potential and limits of EU crisis response. In Mac Ginty, Roger; Pogodda, Sandra & Richmond, Oliver P. (Ed.), The EU and crisis response. Manchester University Press. ISSN 9781526148353. doi: 10.7765/9781526148346.00010. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The aim of this chapter is to identify the potential and limits of the EU’s external crisis response. Rather than focusing on the character of the EU as a foreign policy actor, it concentrates on the EU toolbox or repertoire applied in EU missions and activities in various external crises and conflicts in the near and extended neighbourhood, and also how the Union’s activities are perceived by local stakeholders. A key question is whether there is a match or mismatch between EU intentions, the implementation, and the perceptions of local stakeholders. The analysis in this article draws on both a series of qualitative case studies and a quantitative analysis of a large number of EU documents and statements. This mixed method has enabled us to explore the EU’s crisis response repertoire systematically and from various angles.

• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2019). corporaexplorer: An R package for dynamic exploration of text collections. Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS). ISSN 2475-9066. 4(38). doi: 10.21105/joss.01342. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article presents the 'corporaexplorer' open source software. 'corporaexplorer' is an R package that uses the Shiny GUI (graphical user interface) framework for dynamic exploration of text collections. The package is designed for use with a wide range of text collections. The intended primary audience are qualitatively oriented researchers in the social sciences and humanities who rely on close reading of textual documents as part of their academic activity. However, the package should also be useful for those doing quantitative textual research and wishing to have convenient access to the texts under study. Main elements in the interactive apps: 1) Input: The ability to filter the corpus and/or highlight documents, based on search patterns (in main text or metadata, including date range). 2) Corpus visualisation: An interactive heat-map of the corpus, based on the search input (calendar heat-map or heat-map where each tile represents one document, optionally grouped by metadata properties). 3) Document visualisation and display: Easy navigation to and within full-text documents with pattern matches highlighted. 4) Document retrieval: Extraction of subsets of the corpus in a format suitable for close reading. While collecting and preparing the text collections to be explored requires some familiarity with R programming, using the Shiny apps for exploring and extracting documents from the corpus should be fairly intuitive also for those with no programming knowledge, once the apps have been set up by a collaborator.

• Wilhelmsen, Julie Maria & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2018). Norway and Russia in the Arctic: New Cold War Contamination? Arctic Review on Law and Politics. ISSN 1891-6252. 9, p. 382–407. doi: 10.23865/arctic.v9.1334. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine has already obstructed cooperation across a range of issues. Could it also affect state interaction between Norway and Russia in the Arctic—an area and a relationship long characterized by a culture of compromise and/or cooperation? Here we start from the theoretical premise that states are not pre-constituted political entities, but are constantly in the making. How Russia views its own role and how it views other actors in the Arctic changes over time, calling for differing approaches. That holds true for Norway as well. To clarify the premises for interaction between Russia and Norway in the Arctic, we scrutinize changes in official discourse on Self and Other in the Arctic on both sides in the period 2012 to 2016, to establish what kind of policy mode—“realist,” “institutionalist,” or “diplomatic management”—has underlain the two countries’ official discourse in that period. Has Norway continued to pursue “balancing” policies undertaken in the realist mode with those in the diplomatic management mode? Which modes have characterized Russia’s approach toward Norway? Finding that realist-mode policies increasingly dominate on both sides, in the conclusion we discuss how the changing mode of the one state affects that of the other, and why a New Cold War is now spreading to the Arctic.

• Rieker, Pernille & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2016). The EU, Russia and the potential for dialogue – Different readings of the crisis in Ukraine. European Security. ISSN 0966-2839. 25(3), p. 304–325. doi: 10.1080/09662839.2016.1186013. Show summary

  Recent developments in European security have shown the growing need for a better understanding of the security dynamics on the European continent. This article presents an analysis of differing Russian and European perceptions of European security in general, and concerning the crisis in Ukraine in particular. As much of the literature on these issues has been normatively driven, we aim to provide an impartial presentation and analysis of the dominant Russian and EU discourses. This we see as essential for investigating the potential for constructive dialogue between Russia and the EU. If simplistic assumptions about the motivations and intentions of other actors take hold in the public debate and policy analyses, the main actors may be drawn into a logic that is ultimately dangerous or counterproductive. With this article we offer a modest contribution towards discouraging such a development in Russia–EU relations. After presenting an analysis of the differing EU and Russian perceptions, we discuss the potential for dialogue between such different worldviews, and reflect on potential implications for European security. As the article shows, there are tendencies of a certain adjustment in the Union’s approach that may make a partial rapprochement between the two sides more likely.

• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2015). The use of history in Russia 2000–2011: the Kremlin and the search for consensus. East European Politics. ISSN 2159-9165. 31(2), p. 149–169. doi: 10.1080/21599165.2015.1035779.
• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby & Fjæstad, Kristin (2013). «Det meste er nord»: Støres største satsing. Internasjonal Politikk. ISSN 0020-577X. 71(3), p. 385–395.
• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2013). Bruken av historie i Putins Russland: Kremls søken etter konsensus 2000–2010. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 27(1), p. 31–56.

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• Wilhelmsen, Julie Maria & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2023). Russia and the West- a new reality. Show summary

  https://www.nupi.no/en/events/2023/the-russia-conference-2023-russia-and-the-west-a-new-reality

• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2015). Putins historieskrivning. Dagens næringsliv. ISSN 0803-9372. Show summary

  URL-en lenker til korrekt versjon, som skiller seg noe fra avisteksten.

• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2015). Gjenkjennelige problemer. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 29(1), p. 3–4.
• Moen-Larsen, Natalia & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2014). Ukraina-konflikten sett fra Russland. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2014). Oppmerksomhet. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 28(4), p. 297–299.
• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby & Moen-Larsen, Natalia (2014). Sanksjoner og påvirkning. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 28(3), p. 195–197.
• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby & Moen-Larsen, Natalia (2014). Historier. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 28(2), p. 95–97.
• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby & Moen-Larsen, Natalia (2014). Olympisk fremmedgjøring. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 28(1), p. 3–5.
• Fjæstad, Kristin; Gjerde, Kristian Lundby & Moen, Natalia (2013). Norsk russlandspolitikk. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 27(4), p. 323–325.
• Rowe, Elana Wilson; Gjerde, Kristian Lundby & Moen, Natalia (2013). Modernisering i Russland. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 27(3), p. 215–217.
• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby & Moen, Natalia (2013). Teppefall i Tbilisi. Nordisk Østforum. ISSN 0801-7220. 27(2), p. 113–114.
• Moen-Larsen, Natalia & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2023). Changing or frozen narratives? The Arctic in Russian media and expert commentary, 2021–2022 . NUPI. Full text in Research Archive
• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2023). Russia, ‘double standards’, and the contestation of equivalence 2000–2019: a corpus-based exploration. Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo.
• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2020). Measuring Russia’s attention to Europe and the world. NUPI. 2020(8). Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Based on a mapping of mentions of country names in more than 30,000 Russian official speeches, press conferences, meeting transcripts, and official statements, this brief provides insights into changes to Russia’s engagement with the world during the 21st century. Without disentangling the subtleties of relations – such as their security, economic, or cultural dimensions and their benign or adversarial features – this approach allows the brief to sketch answers to questions that would otherwise be left to guesswork.

• Wilhelmsen, Julie Maria & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2018). How the New Cold War travelled North (Part II) Interaction between Norway and Russia. Norwegian institute of international Affairs. 2018(15). Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This policy brief examines changing Russian and Norwegian approaches to each other in the period 2012–2016, and discusses how the “New Cold War” spread to the North. This is an intriguing question, since both parties had initially stated that, despite the overall worsening of Russia–West relations following the crises in Ukraine, the North should be protected as a space for peaceful interaction. To address this question, watching and tracking the changing patterns of Russian exercises and military modernization is not enough; understanding the rise in tensions requires studying the effects of the interactions underway between the parties in this region. Three interaction effects need to be taken into consideration in explaining why the tense relations following the conflict in Ukraine spread to the low-tension Northern theatre. In this, we the interactive dynamics that ensues when two parties start to view each other as threats, interpreting new moves by the other as expressions of hostile intent. Further, we explain the observed New Cold War “contamination” with reference to domestic policy agendas and practices of decision-making. On both the Norwegian and the Russian sides, the new military posturing in the North, now interpreted as part of a growing conflict, has emerged partly as a side-effect of implementing what actually were longstanding national goals.

• Wilhelmsen, Julie Maria & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2018). How the New Cold War travelled North (Part I) Norwegian and Russian narratives. Norwegian institute of International Affairs. 2018(14). Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine has already obstructed cooperation across a range of issues. Could it also affect state interaction between Norway and Russia in the Arctic—an area and a relationship long characterized by a culture of compromise and cooperation? In two policy briefs we examine changes in how Russia and Norway have approached each other in the Arctic in the period 2012–2016. This first brief presents the development of official Norwegian and Russian narratives on the relations between the two countries in the Arctic. Such narratives stipulate logical paths for action. Showing how Norwegian and Russian policies have changed in line with these narratives, we conclude that what some refer to as “the New Cold War” is indeed spreading to the Arctic.

• Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2017). Russia’s turn to Asia: Myanmar seen from Moscow. Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt. Full text in Research Archive
• Rieker, Pernille & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2015). Beyond the crisis in Ukraine. Russian and EU perceptions of European security and potential implications for Europe and Norway. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt. Full text in Research Archive
• Rieker, Pernille & Gjerde, Kristian Lundby (2015). Beyond the crisis in Ukraine. Russian and EU perceptions of European security and the potential for rapprochement. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt. Full text in Research Archive
• Vakulchuk, Roman; Gjerde, Kristian Lundby; Belikhina, Tatiana & Apsalikov, Kazbek (2014). Semipalatinsk nuclear testing: the humanitarian consequences. NUPI. ISSN 978-82-7002-339-4. 2014(1).

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