Kjetil Selvik

About

Selvik has been a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) since 2017, working on issues related to struggles over states and regimes in the Middle East. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po in Paris.

Selvik har previously worked as researcher at Fafo and at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and been an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, and at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Language at the University of Oslo.

Selected publications

  • Høigilt, J., and Selvik, K. (2020) ‘Debating terrorism in a political transition: Journalism and democracy in Tunisia.’ International Communication Gazette. Sage Journals. 18pp.
  • Selvik, K. (2018) ‘Autocratic legitimation in Iran: Ali Khamenei’s discourse on regime insiders and outsiders.’ Democratization 25(7): 1114-1131.