Nina Græger

Nina Græger

Director

Email: ng@prio.org

Interests and experience

  • Regional and global security and international order
  • International organisations (mainly the EU, NATO)
  • European and Nordic foreign and security policy, Norwegian defense policy, military sociology
  • International relations theory, practice theory, discourse analysis and strategy
  • Geographic focus: Europe, the Nordic region, the Arctic/'High North', the transatlantic area and the Balkans

Nina Græger is Director at PRIO. Prior to her current position as PRIO Director, she served as Head of Department and Professor in International Relations at the University of Copenhagen from 2019–2025. She has previously worked as a researcher at PRIO from 1993–⁠1996 and at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) from 1998–⁠2019.

Currently, Nina Græger is particularly interested in how geopolitics and great power rivalries affect the framework for and co-operation in Nordic and European security – including territorial, hybrid and climate security. In a journal article from 2024, '"High Politics" and Everyday Practices at the Border: Emerging Communities of Practice in the High North', she shows how local collaboration arising over time – communities of practice – often continues across national borders, despite international tension and conflict.

Education and work experience

Nina Græger holds an MSc in Economics from the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo in 1994 and a PhD (dr. polit.) from the same place in 2007 with the dissertation Norwegian Defence Discourse 1990–⁠2005: The Internationalization of the Armed Forces.

Work positions
2025–
DirectorPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
2019–2025
Head of Department and Professor in International RelationsUniversity of CopenhagenDepartment of Political Science
2013–2017
Associate ProfessorNorwegian University of Environment and Bioscience (NMBU)
2006–2019
Senior Research FellowNorwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
1998–2006
PhD Candidate and Research FellowNorwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
1995–1996
ResearcherPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
1994
Research AssistantPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
1992–1993
Graduate StudentPeace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Education
2007
PhD in Political Science University of Oslo
1994
Cand. Polit., Political Science University of Oslo
1989
Cand. mag. University of Oslo
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