Wrenn Yennie Lindgren, Ph.D.

weyennie@gmail.com


Senior Research Fellow

Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

Year of PhD: 2021

Address: Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

City: Oslo/Tokyo

Country: Norway

About Me:

 Wrenn YENNIE LINDGREN is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of Center for Asian Research at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), as well as an Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). She was also a 2018 Japan Foundation fellow at Meiji University and visiting researcher at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Yennie Lindgren’s research focuses on foreign policy legitimation, the politics and foreign policy of Japan, international relations in East Asia, East Asian states’ interests in the Arctic, and traditional and non-traditional security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. Wrenn currently leads the multi-year project Roads to Power? The political effects of infrastructure projects in Asia (ROADS) , funded by The Research Council of Norway. She also co-leads the international research project ‘Coercive and Emotional Diplomacy in East Asia: Japanese Responses’, funded by Nordforsk.Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as The Pacific Review, Asian Politics & Policy, The Hague Journal of DiplomacyJapanese Journal of Political Science, Asian Perspective, Polar Geography and Journal of Eurasian Studies. She also co-edited the volume China and Nordic Diplomacy (Routledge, 2018), contributed a chapter on Japan to Kinship in International Relations (Routledge, 2018) and a chapter on Japan and Arctic Security to Routledge Handbook of Arctic Security (Routledge, 2020).

Research Interests

Asian Politics

Foreign Policy

Foreign Aid

Research Methods & Research Design

Political Communication

Networks And Politics

Japanese Foreign Policy

Diplomatic Practice

East Asian Security

Asia-Pacific International Relations

Critical Security Studies

Arctic Security

International Security

International Organizations

China-Japan Relations

ASEAN

Gender and Politics

Interview Research Methods

Qualitative Research Ethics

Qualitative Research Design

Legitimacy

Multilateral Diplomacy

Public Diplomacy

Sustainable Development

International Development

Countries of Interest

Japan

Norway

Myanmar

China

United States

South Korea

Taiwan