Glenn Diesen

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Glenn Diesen
Born1979 (age 44–45)
Academic background
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science

Glenn Eric Andre Diesen (born 1979) is a Norwegian political scientist[1] who is known as a regular commentator on Russia Today (RT). Scandinavian media and Western academics have criticized him for promoting Russian propaganda.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Career

Diesen earned a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with a dissertation titled Inter-democratic security institutions and the security dilemma. He was formerly based in Russia and employed by the Moscow-based Higher School of Economics,[8] and is now a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway.[8][9] He states that he specializes in Russian foreign policy, conservatism and Eurasian integration, and has written several books.[10] He is affiliated with the Valdai Discussion Club,[11] a Russian think tank that is closely associated with Vladimir Putin.[12]

Views on Russia

Diesen is widely known as a broadcaster and regular commentator on Russia Today (RT), and has been widely described as promoting Russian propaganda by Scandinavian media, Russia experts and other academics.[2][3][4][5][6][7] He also writes for Steigan, a self-described "anti-globalist" website that is known for publishing conspiracy theories and pro-Russian views,[13] and has claimed that the West is responsible for an information war against Russia.[14] Patrik Oksanen considered Diesen to be "part of the Russian propaganda machinery."[6] 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."[5]

In 2020, Diesen wrote an op-ed in Aftenposten with Arne Treholt, who was convicted of treason for spying for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, that claimed that Russia has "legitimate interests and security needs" and claimed that Russia was unfairly demonized as a security threat.[15] The paper's foreign affairs editor Kjell Dragnes wrote that Diesen and Treholt promoted Russian propaganda.[7]

Bibliography

Books

  • Glenn Diesen (2017). Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia. Routledge. ISBN 9780415791687.
  • Glenn Diesen (2017). EU and NATO Relations with Russia. Routledge. s. 240. ISBN 9781138063273.
  • Glenn Diesen (2020). The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia. Routledge. ISBN 9780367587383.
  • Glenn Diesen; Alexander Lukin (2020). Russia in a Changing World. Springer Verlag, Singapore. ISBN 9789811518942.
  • Glenn Diesen (2021). Europe As the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia. Rowman Littlefield. ISBN 9781538161760.
  • Glenn Diesen (2021). Russian Conservatism. Rowman Littlefield. ISBN 9781538149980.
  • Glenn Diesen (2021). Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781538149980.
  • Glenn Diesen; Alexander Lukin (2021). The Return of Eurasia. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9789811621789.
  • Glenn Diesen (2022). Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics. Springer Singapore. ISBN 9789811914676.

Book chapters

  • Glenn Diesen (2021). “Cooperation and Competition Among Tech Hubs Across Greater Eurasia in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, in M Patai and M Horvath (eds), Age of Eurasia, Prospektus, Budapest.
  • Glenn Diesen (2020). “The Geoeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Union’, in A Aseeva and J Gorski (eds.), The Law and Policy of New Eurasian Regionalization Economic Integration, Trade, and Investment in the Post-Soviet and Greater Eurasian Space , Brill, Leiden.
  • Glenn Diesen (2020). “Russia and COVID-19: Domestic Relief and Geoeconomic Reforms”, in C Hawksley and N Georgeou (eds.) State Responses to COVID-19, HADRI, Sydney.
  • Glenn Diesen (2020). “Neutral Power Russia?”, in H Reginbogin and P Lottaz (eds.) Permanent Neutrality, Lexington Books, Washington D.C.
  • Glenn Diesen (2019). “Narrowing the widening political gap”, in L Grigoryev (ed.) Global Governance in Transformation: Challenges for International Cooperation, Springer, London.
  • Glenn Diesen (2016). “Russia's Pivot to Asia: Constructing a Eurasian State in a Multipolar World”, in D Gopal and D Ahlawat (eds.) Indo-Pacific: Emerging Powers, Evolving Regions and Challenges to Global Governance, Aakar, New Delhi.

Academic journal articles

  • Glenn Diesen (2021). Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia, Journal of Eurasian Studies, 12(1): 19-27.
  • Glenn Diesen (2020). Russia as an International Conservative Power: The Rise of Right-Wing Populists and their Affinity towards Russia, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 28(2): 182-196.
  • Glenn Diesen (2019). The Disorderly Transition to a Multipolar World, New Perspectives, 27(3): 25-29.
  • Glenn Diesen (2019). The Geoeconomics of Russia’s Greater Eurasia Initiative, Asian Politics & Policy, 11(4): 566-585.
  • Glenn Diesen (2018). The Geoeconomics of the Territorial Dispute between Russia and Japan, Asian Survey, 58(3): 582–605.
  • Glenn Diesen and Conor Keane (2018). The offensive posture of NATO’s missile defense system, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 51(2): 92-103.
  • Glenn Diesen (2018). The ‘New Cold War’ and its Impact on Chinese Geoeconomics, Valdai Discussion Club, 21 November.
  • Glenn Diesen (2017). The Global Resurgence of Economic Nationalism, Valdai Discussion Club [republished in Russia in Global Affairs], 21 December.
  • Glenn Diesen (2017). The EU, Russia and the Manichean Trap, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 19(3): 1-18.
  • Glenn Diesen (2017). Russia, China and ‘Balance of Dependence’ in Greater Eurasia, Valdai Discussion Club [republished in Russia in Global Affairs], 31 March.
  • Glenn Diesen and Conor Keane (2017). The Two-Tiered division of Ukraine: Historical Narratives in Nation- and Region-Building, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 19(3): 313-329.
  • Ivaylo Gatev and Glenn Diesen (2016). Eurasian Encounters: The Eurasian Economic Union and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, European Politics and Society, 17(1): 133-150.
  • Glenn Diesen and Conor Keane (2016). Constraining Missile Defence, Defense and Security Analysis, 32(2): 129-143.
  • Conor Keane and Glenn Diesen (2015). Divided We Stand: The US foreign policy bureaucracy and nation-building in Afghanistan, International Peacekeeping, 22(3): 205-229.
  • Glenn Diesen (2015). Inter-democratic security institutions and the security dilemma: a neoclassical realist model of the EU and NATO after the end of the Soviet Union, East European Quarterly, 41(2-3): 137-161.
  • Glenn Diesen (2015). Coercing ‘European Integration’? Assessing the posture of the CSDP, Polis, No.6, 81-102.
  • Glenn Diesen and Steve Wood (2012). Russia’s Proposal for a New European Security System: Confirming Diverse Perspectives, Australian Journal of International Affairs, 66(4): 450-467.

See also

References

  1. ^ Babones, Salvatore (March 10, 2019). "Waking from the Eurasian Dream". Hungarian Review. X (2). Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  2. ^ 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). Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  3. ^ 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). Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  4. ^ 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. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  7. ^ a b c Dragnes, Kjell (6 January 2020). "Russland med front mot Norge" [Russia is an active threat against Norway]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  8. ^ a b Escobar, Pepe (2021-02-10). "Why Russia is driving the West crazy". Asia Times. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
  9. ^ "Security in the 21st Century: Dr. Glenn Diesen – Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway". George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
  10. ^ "Glenn Diesen" (in Norwegian). University of South-Eastern Norway. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  11. ^ "Glenn Diesen". Valdai Discussion Club. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  12. ^ Roxburgh, Angus (2013). The Strongman: Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia (2nd ed.). I.B.Tauris. p. 193.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Glenn Diesen". Steigan.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  15. ^ Diesen, Glenn; Treholt, Arne (3 January 2020). "Norge som frontlinje mot Russland" [Norway as a front line against Russia]. Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Retrieved 10 March 2022.
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