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Helge Blakkisrud
[Head of Departement]
E-post:
hbSPAMFILTER@nupi.no
Direkte:
(+47) 22 99 40 25
Mobil:
(+47) 909 80 284
Postadresse:
Pb 8159 Dep, 0033 Oslo
Besøksadresse:
C.J. Hambros plass 2 D
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News
- [2007-11-15]
- New course for Russia?” Debate, Studentersamfunnet, Univ. of Bergen [link]
- [2007-11-20]
- “Russia and the High North.” Foredrag på "Conference of The High North: Resource Exploitation and Environmental Challenges In A Changing Arctic", University of California, Berkeley
- [2007-11-28]
- “Northern administration and federalism”. Lecture, Centre for Russian Studies’ Annual Conference, NUPI
- [2007-12-09]
- St. Petersburg until 19 December
Current research
Working on the projects: The energy Complex and a project financed by the oil sector on petroleum in High North. In addition he is involved in Phd-related issues, plus completing a book on implementation of international regimes in Russia.
Formal education
- [1995]
- Cand.Polit. (Political Science) from University of Oslo. Dissertation: De russiske minoritetene i Estland og Latvia. Minoriteters responsstrategier ved endrede rammebetingelser
- [1996- ]
- PhD-programme (Political Science), University of Oslo
Professional experience
- [1994]
- Member of the CSSE Mission in Latvia. Leader of the Mission's mobile team
- [1994- ]
- Editor in Chief, Nordisk Østforum (Nordic Journal of East European and Post-Soviet Studies
- [1995]
- Research fellow/head of department
- [1995-]
- OSCE Election Observer (various elections in Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Publications
Articles (in books and journals)
- Blakkisrud, Helge (2006). En guide til den fjerneste av våre nærmeste naboer, Forord til Katerina Smetanina, Russland og russere. En guide til vårt nabofolk i øst. . Oslo,Orion.p. .
- Blakkisrud, Helge , Geir Hønnesland (2005). The Burden and Blessing of Space, in Helge Blakkisrud and Geir Hønneland, ed., Tackling Space. Federal Politics and the Russian North . Lanham,University Press of America.p. 193-203.
- Blakkisrud, Helge , Indra Overland (2005). The Evolution of Federal Indigenous Policy in the Post-Soviet North, in Helge Blakkisrud and Geir Hønneland, ed., T ackling Space. Federal Politics and the Russian North . Lanham, University Press of America. . Lanham,University Press of America.p. 163-192.
- Blakkisrud, Helge , Geir Hønnesland (2005). The Russian North - an Introduction, in Helge Blakkisrud and Geir Hønneland, eds., Tackling Space. Federal Politics and the Russian North . Lanham,University Press of America.p. 1-24.
Books and reports
- Blakkisrud, Helge [ed.] (2006). Towards a Post-Putin Russia. Oslo, NUPI. 77 pages. NUPI-report. The contributors of this report discuss the prospective political developments in Russia after the end of Putin 's presidency in 2008.
- Blakkisrud, Helge , Geir Hønneland [ed.] (2005). Tackling Space: Federal Politics and the Russian North. Lanham and Oxford, University Press of America. 222 pages. This book represents the first comprehensive study in the Western literature of federal politics towards the Russian North.
- Blakkisrud, Helge , Pål Kolstø [ed.] (2005). Nation-building and common values in Russia. Latham, Roman & Littlefield. 382 pages. The book analyses Vladimir Putin's nation-building initiatives which is explicitly based on the assumption that there exists a vast pool of common values in Russia that cut across ethnic and regional divides.