Niels Byrjalsen

Niels Byrjalsen is PhD and academic employee at the Centre for Military Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on European, Nordic, and Danish security and defence, transatlantic relations, and concepts like trust, subversion, and international order. His PhD project examined how trust shapes the production of international order, with an emphasis on crises in transatlantic relations.

Office hours: Wednesday 1 p.m. - 2 p.m.

• International Relations
• European, Nordic, and Danish security and defence
• NATO
• Trust
• International order
• Security communities and diplomacy
• Constructivism and practice theory
• Small states
• Subversion
• Statecraft and strategy
• Foreign policy
• Great power politics
• IR theory

I supervise within all my fields of research and interest.

Employment

Academic employee at the Centre for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2023-

PhD fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 2018-

Research assistant at the Centre for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2017-2018, 2022-2023

Education

PhD in Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 2018-

Master in Political Science, Aarhus University, 2014-2016

MSc in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2014-2015

Bachelor in Political Science, Aarhus University, 2011-2014

High school diploma, Herning Gymnasium, 2007-2010

Full cv available upon request, please write to [email protected]