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Glenn Diesen

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Glenn Diesen
Born
Glenn Eric Andre Diesen

1979 (age 44–45)
Academic background
Education
ThesisInter-democratic Security Institutions and the Security Dilemma: EU and NATO Relations with Russia after the Collapse of the Soviet Union (2014)
Doctoral advisor
  • Wolfgang Wagner
  • Steve Wood
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical scientist
Institutions
Main interests

Glenn Eric Andre Diesen (born 1979) is a Norwegian political scientist.[1] He is a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway.[2] He is a regular commentator on the Russian state-controlled international news television network RT. Academics as well as Scandinavian media have criticized him for promoting Russian propaganda.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

Education and career

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Diesen obtained a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Wollongong in 2001 and a Master of Business from the University of Sydney in 2004. He studied Russian language and literature at Saint Petersburg State University in 2004. Diesen went on to obtain a master's degree in international relations from Macquarie University in 2009 and a PhD in politics and international relations jointly from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Macquarie University in 2014, with a dissertation under the supervision of Wolfgang Wagner and Steve Wood[9][10] entitled Inter-democratic Security Institutions and the Security Dilemma: EU and NATO relations with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.[11] His dissertation addressed the ideational and institutional influence on the rationality of EU and NATO decision-makers from a neoclassical realist perspective.[12]

Diesen worked as a lecturer and scholarly teaching fellow in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University from 2011 to 2017,[13] as an adjunct research fellow in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University from 2016 to 2019[14] and as a visiting scholar and subsequently a professor in the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia from 2018 to 2020.[15][16] In 2020 he became an associate professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, where he was promoted to professor in 2021.[17] He specializes in Russian foreign policy, political economy, conservatism and Eurasian integration.[18] He is affiliated with the Valdai Discussion Club[19] and since 2018 has been an editor of the Russia in Global Affairs journal.[20]

Views on Russia and propaganda claims

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Diesen has been a regular commentator on Russia Today (RT) and has faced criticism for promoting Russian propaganda.[3][4][5][6][7][8] He also writes for Steigan.[21]

The Swedish journalist Patrik Oksanen considers Diesen to be "part of the Russian propaganda machinery."[7] Aage Borchgrevink of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee said that Diesen has "an important role in RT as the Western expert, which gives legitimacy to what clearly appears to be the Kremlin's version [...] his writings are unreliable, the factual basis is doubtful, and characterized by the content and form of Russian propaganda, as expressed in RT and Sputnik."[6] Diesen has received the support of the rector of the University of South-Eastern Norway Petter Aasen, who defended the academic’s right to free expression. Diesen is opposed to Russia's military action against Ukraine.[22]

In 2020, Diesen wrote an op-ed in Aftenposten with convicted felon and former KGB agent Arne Treholt, that stated that Russia has "legitimate interests and security needs" and said that Russia was unfairly demonized as a security threat.[23] The paper's former foreign affairs editor Kjell Dragnes wrote that Diesen and Treholt promoted Russian propaganda.[8]

Publications

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As author

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  • EU and NATO Relations with Russia: After the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Routledge. 2017. ISBN 9781138063273.
  • Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia. Routledge. 2017. ISBN 9780415791687.
  • The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia: Between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Routledge. 2020. ISBN 9780367587383.
  • Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia: Geoeconomic Regions in a Multipolar World. Rowman & Littlefield. 2021. ISBN 9781538161760.
  • Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty. Bloomsbury. 2021. ISBN 9780755607013.
  • Russian Conservatism: Managing Change Under Permanent Revolution. Rowman & Littlefield. 2021. ISBN 9781538149980.
  • Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics. Springer. 2022. ISBN 9789811914676.
  • The Think Tank Racket: Managing the Information War with Russia. Clarity Press. 2023. ISBN 9781949762808.
  • The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order. Clarity Press. 2024. ISBN 9781949762952.

As editor

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Babones, Salvatore (March 10, 2019). "Waking from the Eurasian Dream". Hungarian Review. X (2). Archived from the original on January 25, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  2. ^ "Glenn Diesen". University of South-Eastern Norway. 18 March 2020. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  3. ^ a b Bogen, Øystein (5 February 2021). "Professor beskyldes for å drive russisk propaganda fra norsk universitet: På Norges fjerde største universitet sitter en professor og taler Russlands sak" [Professor accused of spreading Russian propaganda from Norwegian university: At Norway's fourth largest university, a professor is speaking for Russia.]. TV 2 (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  4. ^ a b Øyvind Moen, Tore. "Kritiserer USN-professor som skriver for russernes propagandakanal" [USN professor who writes for Russian propaganda channel faces criticism]. Varden (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  5. ^ a b Bugge Hjorth, Christian (11 February 2021). "Sier og skriver det Russland helst vil høre" [He says and writes what Russia wants to hear] (in Norwegian). Norges Forsvarsforening. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  6. ^ a b c Christensen, Lina (4 March 2022). "I fjor skrev den norske professoren over femti artikler for den statlige, russiske nyhetskanalen RT" [Last year this Norwegian professor wrote over fifty articles for the Russian RT channel]. Forskerforum (in Norwegian). Forskerforbundet. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  7. ^ a b c Vartdal, Ragnhild (6 March 2022). "Kritiseres for å skrive i statlige, russiske RT" [Professor faces criticism for articles in Russia's RT]. Khrono (in Norwegian). Oslo Metropolitan University. Archived from the original on 6 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  8. ^ a b c Dragnes, Kjell (6 January 2020). "Russland med front mot Norge" [Russia is an active threat against Norway]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 4 April 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Inter-democratic Security Institutions and the Security Dilemma: EU and NATO relations with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union" (PDF). Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 April 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Inter-democratic Security Institutions and the Security Dilemma: EU and NATO relations with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union". Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  11. ^ "Glenn Diesen". University of South-Eastern Norway. 18 March 2020. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  12. ^ "Glenn Diesen". Lowy Institute. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  13. ^ "Glenn Diesen". Lowy Institute. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  14. ^ Diesen, Glenn; Keane, Conor (2018). "The offensive posture of NATO's missile defence system". Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 51 (2). JSTOR: 91–100. doi:10.1016/j.postcomstud.2018.03.001. JSTOR 48610516. Archived from the original on 3 April 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  15. ^ "Glenn Diesen". Bloomsbury Publishing. Archived from the original on 3 April 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  16. ^ "Glenn Diesen". University of South-Eastern Norway. 18 March 2020. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  17. ^ "Security in the 21st Century: Dr. Glenn Diesen – Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway". George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Archived from the original on 2021-06-20. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
  18. ^ "Glenn Diesen" (in Norwegian). University of South-Eastern Norway. 18 March 2020. Archived from the original on 18 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  19. ^ "Glenn Diesen". Valdai Discussion Club. Archived from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  20. ^ "Security in the 21st Century: Dr. Glenn Diesen – Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway". George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Archived from the original on 31 March 2024. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
  21. ^ Færseth, John (2021). Fyrtårnet i øst: Putins Russland og vestlige ekstremister [The lighthouse in the east: Putin's Russia and Western extremists] (in Norwegian Bokmål). Humanist. ISBN 9788282821704.
  22. ^ "Norwegian professor writes for Russian state channel: 'He ought to resign and apologise'". Forskerforum. 4 April 2022. Archived from the original on 3 April 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  23. ^ Diesen, Glenn; Treholt, Arne (3 January 2020). "Norge som frontlinje mot Russland" [Norway as a front line against Russia]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 28 February 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
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