Anders Dramstad

Anders Dramstad (b. 1992) is employed as a scientific research assistant at the University of Copenhagen (KU) and is a visiting researcher at IFS. Dramstad has previously been employed as a scientific assistant and later researcher at IFS. 

In the time after completing his master's degree in history at UiT Norway's Arctic University in 2021, Dramstad has, in the period January 2022 to September 2023, had a research commitment at IFS' Center for security policy through the ongoing research project "Norwegian security policy in a strategic perspective". 

As a visiting researcher at IFS (2023–2025), Dramstad will primarily work with the ongoing research project "Mind the Gap: Security Scholarship between Academia and Policy, 1978–2024" at KU and the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) v/ University of Southern Denmark (SDU)).

The project aims to explore the development within the dynamics of the relationship between security policy research and the central administration and to partly challenge and nuance established notions about which security policy expertise is relevant for the policy environments.

The overall question is whether external security policy expertise has played a role in the formulation of Danish and Norwegian security policy between 1978 and 2024, and how does the central administration in Denmark and Norway benefit from security policy expertise in the same period?