Iver B. Neumann

Iver B. Neumann is Director of The Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway. He has previously served as professor at the University of Oslo and the London School of Economics, and been an Associate Editor of the International Studies Quarterly<i>. Neumann’s areas of expertise are social theory, qualitative methods, diplomacy and Russian foreign policy. His latest books are (with Einar Wigen) The Steppe Tradition in International Relations: Russians, Turks and European State Building, 4000 BCE-2018 CE (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018); Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties, Ann Arbor, MI: (University of Michigan Press, 2019) and Diplomatic Tenses: Past, Present, Future (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021).