Mathilde Tomine Eriksdatter Giske

• Suoheimo, Mari Eveliina; Giske, Mathilde Tomine Eriksdatter; Pan, Shaohua; Fidos, Michalina & Jones, Peter (2025). Dancing with power dynamics inside systemic service design projects. In Suoheimo, Mari Eveliina (Eds.), Systemic Service Design : Design for Social Responsibility. Routledge. ISSN 9781032817194. p. 86–105. doi: 10.4324/9781003501039-6. Full text in Research Archive
• Giske, Mathilde & Pinheiro, Romulo (2021). Resiliency. In Brinkmann, Robert (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783030389482. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-38948-2. Full text in Research Archive

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• Rieker, Pernille & Giske, Mathilde Tomine Eriksdatter (2024). European Actorness in a Shifting Geopolitical Order. European Strategic Autonomy Through Differentiated Integration. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783031445460. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This is an open access book. Over the past decade, the global geopolitical context has changed significantly, with a geopolitical power shift and a more assertive Russia and China. With the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, European security has been put on high alert. The implications of the Russian military invasion are many and difficult to grasp in full. But the need for greater European strategic autonomy appears increasingly evident. But how can this be achieved in the short run? The answer to this question is often that it is impossible and that this can only be achieved in the long run. The aim of this book is to present a different perspective. It aims at showing that it should be possible to make the most out of the current European system if we adjust our understanding of how it works. The book argues that strategic autonomy may be reached—also in the short run—if differentiated integration is seen as an asset rather than a challenge. While the EU remains the core in such a system (together with NATO in the military domain), there is a multitude of other (bilateral and minilateral) regional and sub-regional integration processes that need to be taken into account to get the full idea of how European strategic autonomy can be achieved. This book starts by presenting a theoretical framework for how to study European actorness beyond the EU, then this framework will be applied both to the development towards the EU as a foreign policy actor through the mechanisms of enlargement.

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• Bøås, Morten; Giske, Mathilde Tomine Eriksdatter & Osland, Kari M. (2024). D3.1 Key concepts: Democracy and trust, hybrid regimes and resilience. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper conducts the initial conceptualisation of the key analytical concepts of democracy, trust, hybrid regimes, and resilience. Our analytical starting point is that we must understand the level of hybridity and the degrees of horizontal and vertical trust in a society to know which means are needed to reduce the room for manoeuvre enjoyed by negative internal and external influences in obstructing the EU’s democracy promotion efforts. We argue that such an approach may improve our understanding of the variation in the level of success of EU democracy promotion efforts in the Eastern Neighbourhood and the Western Balkans, as well as of how to increase the likelihood of success, moving forward. We assume that a key requirement for a resilient society is democracy built on transparent and credible elections that legitimately produce winners and losers. However, while this is a necessary condition for a resilient democratic society, it is not sufficient, as democracy must be much more than elections and some basic political rights; it must also produce security in the wider understanding, in the form of physical protection from harm and violence, as well as security in the form of economic safety, well-being, and the promise of a future where the population can thrive economically.

• Haugevik, Kristin M.; Coning, Cedric Hattingh de; Moffat, Craig; Svendsen, Øyvind; Tjønneland, Elling Njål & Rosvold, Elisabeth Lio [Show all 21 contributors for this article] (2022). Re-imagining African-Nordic relations in a changing global order. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. ISSN 9788270023646. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Ahead of the 20th Annual African–Nordic Foreign Ministers’ meeting, scheduled for 14 June 2022 in Helsinki, this study considers how turbulence in the international system may affect relations between Africa and the Nordic region (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). In particular, it examines how the special relationship between these two regions may be affected by changes in the global order, and how it may have to adapt to ensure that the relationship evolves and remains relevant for both regions. The report evaluates the levels and spheres of African–Nordic cooperation and is divided into four parts. First, an overview of African and Nordic positions and priorities is presented. Second, Africa’s strategic partnerships with various countries and regions – China, Europe, India, Russia and Turkey – are explored, in order to compare the Africa–Nordic relationship with these others. Contributors examines how these partnerships are structured, the types of initiatives or activities undertaken to sustain them, and how these partnerships have adapted to today’s global order. Third, the report analyses several elements of the Africa–Nordic relationship that may shape the direction of the partnership in future, including: - Nordic development assistance to Africa; - Migration and its potential implications for Africa and the Nordic countries, including the impact of the war in Ukraine; - Africa–Nordic trade, investment and loans; - Political, peace and security relations and cooperation; - African and Nordic support for, and cooperation in, multilateral organisations; - Climate change. Finally, the various sections of the report are synthesised, and overall findings are presented.

• Andersen, Morten Skumsrud; Giske, Mathilde & Sverdrup, Ulf (2021). Mekanismer for screening av utenlandske investeringer. Oversikt over et utvalg land. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Etter tusenårsskiftet har åpne økonomier i økende takt satt i gang prosesser for å vurdere risikoen av utenlandsinvesteringer. Bakgrunnen for dette er økende grad av investeringer fra mindre transparente økonomier, frykt for svekket konkurranse blant internasjonale aktører, samt teknologiske endringer som kan gjøre stater mer utsatte. Dette har blant annet fått EU til å vedta en regulering som etablerer et rammeverk for screeningmekanismer (Regulation (EU) 2019/452). Utviklingen de seneste årene - og særlig i løpet av COVID-19 pandemien - er at slike mekanismer ekspanderer, blir mer detaljerte og permanente, og omfatter større deler av økonomien, med lavere terskelkriterier og dermed et økende antall transaksjoner som screenes.

• Giske, Mathilde (2021). Resilience in the age of crises. Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This research paper examines the concept 'resilience' as a response to the constantly changing environments and turbulence of the world. While resilience is used by several international organisations and nation states, there is still a lack of consensus regarding what the concept really means – it denotes both resisting change and being willing to adapt at the same time. This paper offers some clarity and argues that a temporal dimension is needed when applying the concept of resilience.

• Giske, Mathilde (2020). The resilience of resilience – a shift in European Union identity? EU foreign policy through the prism of the resilience turn. Universitetet i Agder. Full text in Research Archive

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