Andreas Østhagen

Andreas Østhagen is an Affiliate with wih the Belfer Center's Arctic Initiative and a Senior Researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo (2017-). He is also a part time Associate Professor at High North Center at Nord University Business School in Bodø, North Norway (2014-) and teaches the course ‘Geopolitics and the Arctic’ at Oslo New University College (2018-). Østhagen is also an affiliated senior fellow at The Arctic Institute (2011-) and a global fellow at the Wilson Center (2021-) in Washington, DC.

Østhagen’s work focuses on geopolitics, security and ocean governance and resource management in the Arctic and beyond, under the larger framework of international relations and law. Østhagen is the author of Norway’s Arctic Policy: Geopolitics, Security and Identity (Edward Elgar, 2023), Ocean Geopolitics (Edward Elgar, 2022) and Coast Guards and Ocean Politics in the Arctic (Palgrave, 2020). He holds a PhD in international relations from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver; a Master of Science from the London School of Economics; and a BA from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Østhagen has worked in Brussels for the North Norwegian European Office (2010-2014) and for the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (2014-2017). He has also had shorter work-stints at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC (2011), the Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation in Toronto, Canada (2013), and the Bren School of Environmental Science at University of California Santa Barbara (2019). Moreover, in 2021-2022, Andreas was a Fulbright Scholar with the Arctic Initiative at the Belfer Center, Harvard University, and at the Polar Institute at the Wilson Center.