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2022

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D-Index
48
Citations
11636
World Ranking
276
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Norway Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Iver B. Neumann is affiliated with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs in Norway. Their research primarily spans social sciences with a focus on political science and international relations, as well as sociology and political science. Other interdisciplinary areas of study include paleontology, anthropology, and economics with econometrics.

The scientist's body of work covers several key topics, among them:

  • European and International Law Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Historical Economic and Social Studies
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Emile Durkheim and Sociology
  • Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice

Neumann has published recent papers that include:

  • Prehistorical International Relations: How, Why, What (2022) in Global Studies Quarterly
  • Geopolitical Imagination: Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia (2021) in Nordisk øst-forum/Nordisk østforum
  • Durkheim og staten (2020) in Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift
  • How old are the first European inter-polity systems? The case for the Bronze Age (2023) in Journal of International Relations and Development
  • Russia, 'double standards', and the contestation of equivalence 2000-2019: A corpus-based exploration (2023) in Nordisk øst-forum/Nordisk østforum

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Hauke Brunkhorst
  • StephanVE Stetter
  • Mathias Albert
  • Einar Wigen

Neumann's research is often published in venues such as:

  • Internasjonal politikk
  • Manchester University Press eBooks
  • Nordisk øst-forum/Nordisk østforum
  • Cambridge Review of International Affairs
  • Global Studies Quarterly

Regarding book publications, the scientist has authored titles published mainly by Transcript Verlag, which include The Social Evolution of World Politics (2023) and Competition in World Politics (2021). Other books include Diplomatic tenses: A social evolutionary perspective on diplomacy (2020), published by Johns Hopkins University and Winchester University Press.

Neumann's work also involves interdisciplinary explorations connecting social evolutionary perspectives to diplomacy and international politics.

In recognition of contributions to the field, Neumann became a Member of Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Returning Practice to the Linguistic Turn: The Case of Diplomacy:

    Iver B. Neumann

  • Governance to Governmentality: Analyzing NGOs, States, and Power

    Ole Jacob Sending;Iver B. Neumann

  • Uses Of The Other: "The East" in European Identity Formation

    Iver B. Neumann

  • Self and Other in International Relations

    Iver B. Neumann

  • A region-building approach to Northern Europe*

    Iver B. Neumann

  • The Other in European self-definition: an addendum to the literature on international society*

    Iver B. Neumann;Jennifer M. Welsh

  • At Home with the Diplomats: Inside a European Foreign Ministry

    Iver B. Neumann

  • Small States in International Relations

    Christine Ingebritsen;Iver Neumann;Sieglinde Gstohl;Jessica Beyer

  • From alliance to security community: NATO, Russia and the power of identity

    Michael C. Williams;Iver B. Neumann

  • Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality, Rationality

    Iver B. Neumann;Ole Jacob Sending

  • European Identity, EU Expansion, and the Integration/Exclusion Nexus

    Iver B. Neumann

  • Russia as a great power, 1815–2007

    Iver B Neumann

  • Russia and the Idea of Europe: A Study in Identity and International Relations

    Iver B. Neumann

  • Russia as Central Europe’s Constituting Other

    Iver B. Neumann

  • Small states status seeking: Norway's quest for international standing

    Iver B. Neumann;Benjamin de Carvalho

  • Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking

    William C. Wohlforth;Benjamin de Carvalho;Halvard Leira;Iver B. Neumann

  • Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics

    Ole Jacob Sending;Vincent Pouliot;Iver B. Neumann

  • “A Speech That the Entire Ministry May Stand for,” or: Why Diplomats Never Produce Anything New

    Iver B. Neumann

  • `The International' as Governmentality:

    Iver B. Neumann;Ole Jacob Sending

  • Untimely Russia: Hysteresis in Russian-Western Relations over the Past Millennium

    Iver B. Neumann;Vincent Pouliot

  • Undertaking Discourse Analysis for Social Research

    Kevin C. Dunn;Iver B. Neumann

  • Harry Potter and International Relations

    Daniel H. Nexon;Iver B. Neumann

  • Uses of the other

    Iver B. Neumann

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Pouliot
Vincent Pouliot University of Montreal
Ole Wæver
Ole Wæver University of Copenhagen
Daniel H. Nexon
Daniel H. Nexon Georgetown University
Leonard Seabrooke
Leonard Seabrooke Copenhagen Business School
Ian Clark
Ian Clark Rothamsted Research
William C. Wohlforth
William C. Wohlforth Dartmouth College
Michele Acuto
Michele Acuto University of Bristol
Merje Kuus
Merje Kuus University of British Columbia
William Reno
William Reno Northwestern University

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