脜蝉别 is newly employed as associate professor II at Sampol
脜蝉别 Gilje 脴stensen is associate professor at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, and is from August also employed as associate professor II at the department.
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聽is associate professor at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy,聽which is a department of the Norwegian Defence University College. She聽has previously held a postdoc position at聽聽and has both her Master's (2005) and her PhD (2013) from the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen.聽
Her聽research is mainly within the following fields:
- Commercialisation of security and military tasks
- Civilian-military cooperation in total defense concepts
- Gray zone warfare, with emphasis on nonstate actors
脴stensen is part of the research project "" at the ,聽a project that seeks to analyse trends and developments in the maritime domain. She is also part of a Scandinavian research project financed by the Swedish Research Council. The project compares total defense concepts in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
During the Spring semester of 2023, 脜蝉别 will teach the new course SAMPOL233 Defense and Total Defense in Established Democracies. The course aims to improve student鈥檚 knowledge聽of how state security is managed and provided within democracies, primarily in Norway. The course seeks to answer questions such as how the armed forces are rooted in the Norwegian democracy and the nation state? What is total defence and what role does civilian society play?聽Which principal and practical challenges are tied to the divsion of labour?
