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Andreas Østhagen is Research Director for Arctic and Ocean Politics and Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) in Oslo. His research covers Arctic geopolitics and security, Norwegian High North policy, maritime boundaries, ocean governance, and the management of natural resources. He has worked on questions concerning international relations, security, legal frameworks, natural resource development, and maritime disputes in the Arctic.
Østhagen holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where his research focused on ocean politics and disputes, as well as an MSc from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a bachelor’s degree in political economy from NTNU and the University of Bergen. He previously worked at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) and the North Norway European Office in Brussels. He has also held research positions at CSIS in Washington, D.C., the Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Program in Toronto, and the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara. He is a Fulbright alumnus and has been affiliated with Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, the Wilson Center’s Polar Institute, and The Arctic Institute, an organization he helped establish in 2011.
Østhagen is the author of several books on Arctic and ocean politics, including Ocean Geopolitics (Edward Elgar, 2022), Coast Guards and Ocean Politics in the Arctic (Palgrave, 2020), and Arctic Geopolitics: A Subregional Approach to Security and Geography (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
