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Deputy Director at NUPI from September 2000, acting Head of the
UN Programme as of 1 March 2001. Ulriksen studies Western, mainly
European, defence policy with a particular focus on military theory
and defence related co-operation and integration.
His main (Dr.Polit.) project, "Brothers in Arms? European
defence policy after the Cold War", concentrates on European
co-operation in three interlinked fields; the defence policy field;
the development of an ESDI, the EU/WEU/NATO questions etc. the
military field: the rise of an integrated multinational military
structure in Europe, the defence industry: questions concerning the
integration of the European defence market and the embryonic
development of a transnational defence industry.
Additional interests are exemplified by three ongoing projects:
The present and historical formation of Norwegian defence identity
and doctrine, dilemmas raised by the combination of Foreign Policy
Activism and Alignment, and an evaluation of the Revolution in
Military Affairs from a non-great power perspective. Furthermore a
project on European military involvement in Africa and an analysis
of the Congo war are in the early stages of development.
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