Marianne Riddervold is Professor of Political Science (International Relations/Comparative politics) at Innlandet School of Economics and Social Sciences at Innlandet Norway University of Applied Sciences and at the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs, NUPI. She is also a Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies. Riddervold holds a PhD in Political Science from ARENA – Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, where she previously was employed as a postdoctoral fellow and researcher.
Marianne Riddervold's professional interests include European integration and institutions, transatlantic relations, European foreign and security policy, EU crises, maritime security policy, and theory development within the study of international relations and European integration. Selected publications include The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises (Palgrave 2021); Special Issue on Cooperation, Conflict and Interaction in the Global Commons, in International Relations 35 (3), 2021; Special issue on Transatlantic relations in times of uncertainty: crises and EU-US relations, in Journal of European Integration, 50(4), 2018; The Maritime Turn in EU Foreign and Security Policies. Aims, Actors and Mechanisms of Integration (Palgrave, 2018).
At the moment, Riddervold is involved in several projects and networks. A selection include:
Transatlantic Relations in times of Uncertainty. Drivers and Mechanisms of EU-US relations (TransAt)
TransAt is a three-year project (2019-2022) financed by the Norwegian Research Council. The project is led by Marianne Riddervold at INN in cooperation with the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies (Akasemi Newsome), the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, KU Leuven and expert partners Mai’a K. Davis Cross, Mike Smith and Pawel Karolewski. NUPI and IFS are national partners. TransAt investigates if, how and why EU-US foreign policy relations are affected by a context of EU crises, US foreign policy changes and a more uncertain geopolitical environment. To address these questions, researchers conduct qualitative, comparative analyses across a broad range of carefully selected cases in the two key thematic areas of EU-US foreign policy relations: EU-US security relations and EU-US relations in multilateral institutions.
For more, see the TransAt web page
Also see JEI Special Issue
Politics and Governance Special Issue
A joined-up Union, a stronger Europe (JOINT)
JOINT is a three year research and dissemination project starting from March 2021 financed by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. It puts together 14 EU and extra-EU partners in a three-year joint effort coordinated by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Italy. JOINT assesses challenges to a more joined-up foreign and security policy of the EU. The aim is to gain analytical clarity of how domestic and systemic factors constrain the ability of the EU and its member states to agree on policy objectives, integrate policy instruments and coordinate with external players in a number of crises and conflicts.
For more, see the JOINT webpage
European Transoceanic Encounters and Exchanges Network (ETEE)
ETEE is a three year (2020-2022) Jean Monnet Network that aims at enhancing understanding and teaching about Europe’s place and role in today’s world by looking at its present and past transoceanic relations and connectivities. It is coordinated by KU Leuven (Belgium) and links researchers from IES/UC Berkeley, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Kobe University (Japan), São Paulo State University (Brazil), Seoul National University (South Korea), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India).
For more, see the ETEE webpage
Great Power Cooperation, Conflict and Interaction in the Global Commons
Akasemi Newsome at the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies and Marianne Riddervold coordinate the network and research project ‘Cooperation, conflict and interaction in the Global Commons’. Mai’a K. Davis Cross and Denise Garcia (Northeastern University), Marianne Takle (NOVA), Nina Kelsey (Georgetown), Kristi Govella (University of Hawai'i), and Kaija Schilde, Julie Klinger and Lori Noora (Boston University) are also partners in the project. The project explores international and transnational relations in the Global Common areas – the areas of the world who do not belong to any one state, i.e. outer space, the atmosphere, the high seas and the poles.
For more, see International Relations special issue
A new European security and defence architecture in the making (EURODEFENCE)
EURODEFENCE is a three-year research project financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, conducted by NUPI and Innlandet University. Several initiatives have been taken in recent years to strengthen European defence cooperation in capability development and capacity to act.. The aim of this project is to investigate what these new initiatives mean in the wider security and defence context and what the implications are for (1) the European security and defence institutions and (2) the broader European capacity to handle various potential security threats through different constellations, such as ad hoc coalitions of the willing, through NATO or within the EU.
For more, see the EURODEFENCE webpage
Governing Crisis in the European Union (GovernCrisis)
Governing Crisis in the European Union is a two-year cooperation project between UC Berkeley and the University of Agder, Norway. Through establishing meeting places, GovernCrisis aims make both conceptual progress and empirical contribution in accounting for the EU’s ability to govern in crisis, with relevance for the broader EU integration and political science literature.
