Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

September 2016

Curriculum Vitae

Ole Jacob Sending

Date of Birth: 28. 02.72

Office address:

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

Po Box 8159 Dep

0033 Oslo

Norway

Private address:

Eiksstien 3

1359 Eiksmarka

Norway

Positions Held

2012- / Research Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
2010-2012 / Director, NUPI Centre for Global Governance
2008-2009 / Visiting Scholar, Fulbright Scholarship, Dept. of Sociology, UC Berkeley
2008- / Senior Researcher, NUPI
2008-2014 / Adjunct Senior Researcher, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen
2006-2008 / Senior Adviser, Policy Analysis Unit, Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway
2003 / Senior Researcher, NUPI
2002 / Visiting Research Fellow, Stanford University (SCANCOR)
1999-2003 / Research Fellow, NUPI
Education
2004 / Dr. Polit., Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen
1998 / Master of Science, Political Science. Department of Political Science, SUNY, Albany, New York
1997 / Cand. Mag., University of Bergen, Norway. (Economics, Political Science, Sociology)
Project Management
2011-2015 / Project leader, “Armed violence in Urban Settings” Funded by the Research Council of Norway (5 million NOK)
2005-2006 / Interim program leader “Hegemony and World Order” Strategic Institute Program. Research Council of Norway.(10 Mill NOK)
2009-2010 / Project leader, “Learning to Build a Sustainable Peace: Ownership and
Everyday Peacebuilding” Comparative study of Afghanistan, Haiti,Liberia, and Sudan. Funded by the Norwegian MFA ( 4.5 million NOK)
2010 / Project leader, “Global Changes and Norwegian Foreign policy”, Trend
analysis for the Norwegian MFA
2009 – 2010 / Lead consultant for the Multilateral Bank Section of the Norwegian MFA on the World Bank’s “performance based allocation system”
2010 / Lead author on background paper on “Global trends and implications for policy coherence in the field of development” Commissioned by the Parliamentary Commission on Policy Coherence (“Utviklingsutvalget”)
Fellowships and Awards
2010 / Kjetil Stulands Forskningspris
2012
2008-2009 / Best Book Award (with Iver B. Neumann) of International Political Sociology Section, International Studies Association.
Research Council of Norway (RCN). Leiv Eriksson Grant, UC Berkeley, USA
2008-2009 / Fulbright Scholarship
2003-2005 / Research Council of Norway (RCN). Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
1999-2003 / Research Council of Norway (RCN). Doctoral Fellowship
2002 / Research Council of Norway (RCN), Leiv Eriksson Grant, Stanford University
1996-1997 Fulbright Student Scholarship
Supervision and Doctoral Defense
Member of doctoral committees:
Olaf Corry (2006): Constructing a Global Polity. University of Copenhagen.
MarjoLindroth (2015): Governing Indigeneity. University of Lappland.
Jelena Cupac (2016): International Organizations as Order Making Practices. European University Institute.
Supervision:
Total of 5 master students (completed), and 1 PhD student (ongoing).
Other
2015- Board Member, European International Studies Association
2016- Associate Editor, Hague Journal of Diplomacy
2015 Member, Advisory Council, Development Policy Project, CIVITA, Oslo
2014 Member, Program Plan Committee, Research Council of Norway
2014- / Associate Editor, International Studies Quarterly
2013-2014 / Chair, International Political Sociology Section of the International Studies Association (ISA)
2012-2013 / Program Chair, International Political Sociology Section of the International Studies Association (ISA)

Publications

Citation statistics (Google Scholar, September 2016)

H-index: 13

G-index: 32

Total citations: 1178

Books, authored:

1)Sending, Ole Jacob (2015)The Politics of Expertise: Competing for Authority in Global Governance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

2)Neumann, Iver B. and Ole Jacob Sending (2010) Governing the Global Polity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Winner of the International Political Sociology Book Award 2012 of the International Studies Association.

3)Bellina, Severine, Dominique Darbon, Stein S. Eriksen and Ole Jacob Sending (2010) L'Etatenquête de légitimité - Sortircollectivement des situations de fragilité Paris: Charles Leopold Mayer.

4)Lunde, Leiv, Henrik Thune, Eiler Fleischer, Leo Andreas Grunfeld og Ole Jacob Sending (2008) Norske Interesser. Utenrikspolitikk for en globalisert verden. Oslo: Cappelen Damm.

5)Ole Jacob Sending (2004) How Does Knowledge Matter? The Formation, Content, and Changes of International Population Policy . Dr. Polit Thesis. University of Bergen, Norway.

Books/special issues, edited

6)Sending, Ole Jacob, Vincent Pouliot, and Iver B. Neumann (eds) (2015)Diplomacy and The Making of World Politics. Cambridge Series in International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

7)Carvalho, Benjamin de and Ole Jacob Sending (eds) (2013) The Protection of Civilians in UN Peacekeeping. Baden Baden: Nomos Verlag.

8)Sending, Ole Jacob, Vincent Pouliot, and Iver B. Neumann (eds) The Future of Diplomacy (2011)Special Issue, International Journal Vol. LXVI, no. 3. Summer.

9)Fonn, Birgitte K., Iver B. Neumann og Ole Jacob Sending (red) (2006) Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Praksis. Oslo: CappelenForlag.

10)Neumann, Iver B. og Ole Jacob Sending (red)Regjering i Norge.Oslo: Pax Forlag

Peer reviewed articles and books chapters

11)Neumann, Iver B. and Ole Jacob Sending (2016) “Roving elites and sedentary subjects: The hybridized origins of the state” in Hurt, Shelley L. and Ronnie Lipschutz (eds) Hybrid Rule and State Formation. London: Routledge. pp. 39-58.

12)Sending, Ole Jacob and Jon Harald Sande Lie (2015) “The Limits of Global Authority: World Bank Benchmarks in Ethiopia and Malawi” Review of International Studies, 41, vol. 5. pp 993-1010.

13)Sending, Ole Jacob, Vincent Pouliot, and Iver B. Neumann (2015) “Introduction” in Ole Jacob Sending, Vincent Pouliot and I. B. Neumann (eds) Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-28

14)Sending, Ole Jacob (2015)“Diplomats and Humanitarians in Crisis Governance” in Ole Jacob Sending, Vincent Pouliot and Iver. B. Neumann (eds) Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 256-283

15)Schia, Niels N. and Ole Jacob Sending (2015) “Status and Sovereign equality: Small states in multilateral settings” in Carvalho, Benjamin de and Iver B. Neumann (eds) (2015) Small state status seeking: Norway’s quest for international standing. London: Routledge. pp. 73-85.

16)Sending, Ole Jacob (2014) “The International Civil Servant” (2014) International Political Sociology, Volume 8,Issue 3,September, pp. 338-340.

17)Reid-Henry, Simon and Ole Jacob Sending (2014) “The Humanitarization of Urban Violence” Environment and Urbanization, vol 26, no. 2: pp. 427-442.

18)Eriksen, Stein S. and Ole Jacob Sending (2013) “There is no Global Public: The idea of the public and the legitimation of governance” International Theory vol. 5, no. 2: pp 213-237.

19)Leira, Halvard and Ole Jacob Sending (2013) “Maktforskyvning, global organisering og norsk utenrikspolitikk» i Mølster, Odd og Åsmund Weltzien (red) Norge og det nye verdenskartet. Oslo: Cappelen Damm. pp. 15-36.

20)Sending, Ole Jacob, Vincent Pouliot, and Iver B. Neumann (2011) “The Future of Diplomacy: Changing practices, evolving relationships” in International Journal, special issue. Vol. 66, no. 3: pp. 527-542.

21)Sending, Ole Jacob (2011) “United by Difference: Diplomacy as a Thin Culture” in International Journal, special issue. Vol. 66, no. 3: pp. 643-659.

22)Sending, Ole Jacob (2011)“The Effects of Peacebuilding: Sovereignty, Patronage, and Power” in Campbell, Susanna, David Chandler and Meera Sabaratnam (eds)A Liberal Peace? London. Zed Books. pp: 55-68.

23)Sending, Ole Jacob and Iver B. Neumann (2011) “Banking on Power: How some practices anchors others in International Organizations” in Adler, Emanuel and Vincent Pouliot (eds) International Practices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp: 231-254.

24)Andersen, Morten S. og Ole Jacob Sending “Liberia og fredsbygging: en institusjonell forskningsagenda» Internasjonal Politikk, vol. 68., no. 2. pp.: 275-286

25)Sending, Ole Jacob (2010)“The Power of Administration: Law and Politics in Global Governance” in Emberland, Marius and Christoffer Eriksen (eds) (2010) The New International Law – An Anthology. Brill Publishers. pp: 71-87.

26)Sending, Ole Jacob (2010)“From Order to Governmental Rationalities?” in Sangolt, Linda (ed) (2010) Between Enlightenment and Disaster: Dimensions of the political use of knowledge. Berlin/Brussels: Peter Lang. Pp. 47-73

27)Sending, Ole Jacob (2010) “Globalisering Pulveriserer Ansvar” (2010) Internasjonal Politikk, vol 68, no. 3, pp. 437-447.

28)Neumann, Iver B. and Sending, Ole Jacob (2007) “’The International’ as Governmentality” Millennium Journal of International Studies, vol. 35, no. 3, pp.: 677-701.

29)Sending, Ole Jacob and Iver B. Neumann (2006) “Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power” International Studies Quarterly, vol50, no. 3.pp: 651—672.

30)Ole Jacob Sending, Birgitte Kjos Fonn og Iver B. Neumann (2006) «Utenrikspolitikkens indre liv» i Fonn, Birgitte K., Iver B. Neumann og Ole Jacob Sending (red) Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Praksis. Oslo: Cappelen Forlag. pp: 7-18.

31)Fonn, Birgitte K. og Ole Jacob Sending (2006) «Forskningen og Utenrikspolitikken» i Fonn, Birgitte K., Iver B. Neumann og Ole Jacob Sending (red) Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Praksis. Oslo: Cappelen Forlag. pp.: 165-189.

32)Sending, Ole Jacob (2006) “Security, Development and UN Coordination” (2006) in Brauch, H. G. et al. (eds.) Globalization and Environmental Challenges. Chapter 53. AFES Press.

33)Sending, Ole Jacob (2004) "Policy stories and knowledge-based regimes: the case of population" in Bøås, Morten and Desmond McNeill (eds) Framing the World? On the role of Ideas in the Multilateral System. London: Routledge. pp. 56—71.

34)Nustad, Knut G. and Ole Jacob Sending (2004) "The Instrumentalization of Development Knowledge" in Stone, Diane (ed.)Banking on Knowledge -- The Genesis of the GDN. London: Routledge. pp. 44—62.

35)Sending, Ole Jacob (2003) ”Fattigdom og Politisk Rasjonalitet” i Iver B. Neumann og Ole Jacob Sending (red) Regjering i Norge. Oslo, Pax Forlag. pp. 212—232.

36)Neumann, Iver B. and Ole Jacob Sending (2003) “Conclusion” i Iver B. Neumann og Ole Jacob Sending (red) Regjering i Norge. Oslo, Pax Forlag. pp. 233—252.

37)Sending, Ole Jacob (2002) “Constitution, Choice and Change: Problems with the ‘Logic of Appropriateness’ and Its Use in Constructivist Theory” European Journal of International Relations, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 443—470.

Policy reports, book reviewsetc

1) Sending, Ole Jacob (2015) “Diplomats may lose power, but diplomacy is expanding” Border Crossing vol. 1, no. 7, pp. 20-22.

2) Sending, Ole Jacob (2015) «Beyond the “here and now” of practice theory» ISQ online symposium on practice theory.

3)Sending, Ole Jacob (2011) Roundtable Review of Vincent Pouliot. International Security in Practice: The Politics of NATO-Russia Diplomacy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.H-Diplo/ISSF Roundtable Reviews, Vol. II, No. 5, pp. 30-33.

4)Eggen, Øyvind and Ole Jacob Sending (2012) Recent contributions to research on health and foreign policy. A report of the International research initiative ’Foreign Policy as Part of Global Health Challenges’ NUPI Report. Oslo: NUPI.

5)Sending, Ole Jacob and Andreas Stensland (2011) “Unpacking the “culture of protection” – A political economy analysis of OCHA and the protection of civilians.” Security in Practice2. Oslo: NUPI.

6)Sending, Ole Jacob (ed) (2010) Learning to Build a Sustainable Peace: Ownership and Everyday Peacebuilding. CMI Report no. 4.

7)Bellina, Severine, Dominique Darbon, Stein S. Eriksen and Ole Jacob Sending (2009) ”The Legitimacy of the State in Fragile Situations.” Oslo:Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).

8)Andersen, Morten S., Iver B. Neumann, Leonard Seabrooke and Ole Jacob Sending(2010)“Global Changes and Norwegian Foreign and Development Policy” Report to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Oslo: NUPI

9)Sending, Ole Jacob (2009)“Why Peacebuilders Fail to Secure Ownership and be Sensitive to Context” Security in Practice. Oslo: NUPI

10)Kaspersen, Anja T. and Ole Jacob Sending (2005) “The United Nations and Civilian Crisis Management in Africa”. Report Commissioned by the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the UN. Oslo: NUPI

11)Sending, Ole Jacob (2005) “FN ved et veiskille” Hvor Hender Det. Oslo: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

12)Sending, Ole Jacob (2004) “Book essay”, Stephen Schlesinger (2003) “Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations”, Internasjonal Politikk no. 4.

13)Sending, Ole Jacob (2004) “Book Review”, Stephanie Lawson (ed) (2003) The New Agenda for International Relations” ActaPolitica, vol. 40. no. 1, pp. 131—133.

14)Sending, Ole Jacob (2004) “The Neo-Conservative Moment Between Theory and Practice” Global Change, Peace and Security vol. 16, no. 3. pp. 245-247.

15)Sending, Ole Jacob (2004) “Marginjustering på et utdatert system: Kommentarer til kapitlet om ”fredsbygging, overgangsbistand og utvikling”. I Borchgrevink, Axel og Kjetil Fred Hansen (eds.) Felles Kamp mot Fattigdom? Kritiske blikk på Regjeringens utviklingsmelding. NUPI-rapport 281. pp. 99—104.

16)Sending, Ole Jacob (2001) ”Internasjonale avtaler – utilstrekkelige men viktige” Hvor Hender Det. Oktober. Oslo: Norwegian Instituteof International Affairs.

Working papers/Papers under review

Sending, Ole Jacob. “Recognition and Liquid Authority” Revise and Resubmit with International Theory

Sending, Ole Jacob. “Representation and International Authority.” Revise and Resubmit with Leiden Journal of International Law.

Neumann, Iver B. and Ole Jacob Sending. “Diplomacy as Global Governance” Book chapter for Hellmann, Günther (ed) Changing Global Order. Publisher not decided.

Ole Jacob Sending ”Contested Professionalization in a weak transnational field” Book chapter for Seabrooke, Leonard and Lasse Folke Henriksen (eds) Professional Networks in Transnational Governance. Forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.

Ole Jacob Sending. “Knowledge networks and scientific communities in humanitarian policymaking” Book chapter for Stone, Diane and Kim Moloney (eds) Oxford Handbook of Global Public Policy and Transnational Administration.Under contract with Oxford University Press.

Ole Jacob Sending. “Global Governance”. Book chapter for Bilgin, Pinar, Xavier Guillaume, and Mark Salter (eds) Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology. Under contract with Routledge.

Seabrooke, Leonard and Ole Jacob Sending (2015) “Open Systems of International Organization” GR:EEN Working Paper 51. University of Warwick.

Andersen, Morten S. and Ole Jacob Sending. “Governmentalizing Sovereignty: Ownership and liberal governing in Liberia” NUPI Working Paper.

Referee work

International Organization, International Security, International Theory, Review of International Political Economy, Review of International Studies, Hague Journal of Diplomacy, European Journal of International Relations, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Journal of Global Security Studies, International Political Sociology, Global Governance, Journal of International Relations and Development.