Research Groups

• Political instability and armed conflicts - coordinator Charles Butcher
• SPECTRE - coordinator Espen Moe

Projects

• American Exceptionalism. Espen Moe
• Rise and Decline of Great Powers. Espen Moe
• War as Creative Destruction. Espen Moe
• The Politics of Caveats in Multinational Military Operations. Gunnar Fermann
• Communicating War Participation. Gunnar Fermann
• Foreign Policy Analysis and Transnational Actors. Gunnar Fermann
• Geographical patterns of military spending. Jo jakobsen
• Patterns, changes, and effects of U.S. overseas military bases. Jo Jakobsen
• Geopolitical risk for international business. Jo Jakobsen
• Ways of Knowing. Torbjørn Knutsen and Jonathon Moses
• The Origins of the Study of International Relations: Ancient Greece, Rome, and the League of Nations. Torbjørn Knutsen

Publications

Here are some relevant publications. Please see the researchers' NTNU profiles for more. 

• Jo Jakobsen and Thomas Halvorsen (2019): Geographical and Temporal Patterns of Interstate Security Competition: Global and Regional Evidence. International Area Studies Review.
• Fermann, Gunnar (2019): Coping with Caveats in Coalition Warfare: An Empirical Research Program. Palgrave MacMillans
• Espen Moe and Jo-Kristian Røttereng (2018): The Post-carbon Society: Rethinking the International Governance of Negative Emissions. Energy Research and Social Science
• Gunnar Fermann and Per Marius Frost-Nielsen (2018): Conceptualizing Caveats for Political Research: Defining and Measuring National Reservations on the Use of Force During Multinational Military Operations. Contemporary Security Policy. 
• Torbjørn Knutsen (2018: The Origins of IR: Idealists, Administrators and the Institutionalization of a New Science, in Andreas Gofas, Inanna Hamati & Nicholas Onuf, Eds., SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations. SAGE.
• Torbjørn Knutsen (2018): At studere krig (On the Study of War).Tidsskriftet Politica.
• Jo Jakobsen (2018): Is European NATO Really Free-Riding? Patterns of Material and Non-Material Burden-Sharing after the Cold War. European Security.
• Marko Valenta and Jo Jakobsen (2018): Nexus of Armed Conflicts and Migrations to the Gulf: Migrations to the GCC from War-torn Source Countries in Asia, Africa and the Arab Neighbourhood. Middle Eastern Studies
• Per Marius Frost-Nielsen (2018): Bringing Military Conduct out of the Shadow of Law". Journal of Military Ethics.
• Jo Jakobsen and Tor Georg Jakobsen (2018): Tripwires and free-riders: Do forward-deployed U.S. troops reduce the willingness of host-country citizens to fight for their country?Contemporary Security Policy. 
• Jo Jakobsen and Thomas Halvorsen (2018): The Durability of the Security Dilemma: An Empirical Investigation of Action-reaction Dynamics in States' Military Spending 1988-2014. The Chinese Journal of International Politics. 
• Indra de Soysa (2017): Predatory Government and the Feasibility of Rebellion: A Micro Logic og the Capitalist Peace. Oxford Research Encyclopedias. Politics. 
• Indra de Soysa (2017): Proxy Wars: Implications of Great-Power Rivalry for the Onset and Duration of Civil War. Oxford Research Encyclopedias. Politics. 
• Torbjørn Knutsen (2017): Cumulative Knowledge, Science, and the Emergence of the Study of International Relations, in William Thompson, Ed.: Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Per Marius Frost-Nielsen (2017): Conditional Commitments: Why States Use Caveats to Reserve Their Efforts in Military Coalition Operations", Contemporary Security Policy 
• Per Marius Frost-Nielsen (2017): Caveats in Coalition Operations. Blog post. Contemporary Security Policy
• Torbjørn Knutsen (2016): A history of International Relations Theory. Manchester University Press.

Courses

We offer the following courses: 

Bachelor level:

• POL1000 Introduction to Political Science: International Relations and Comparative Politics
• POL1005 Geopolitical risk
• POL2013 Specialization in Political Science: International Relations
• POL2014 Specialization in Political Science: Comparativ Politics

Master level:

• POL3502 Causes of War
• POL3508 Foreign Policy
• POL3521 The Rise and Decline of Great Powers

Phd:

• POL8502 Causes of War
• POL8508 Foreign Policy
• POL8519 The Rise and Decline of Great Powers