My core interest concerns the spatiality of the sovereign territorial state and how this is changing as a consequence of current globalisation processes. The three core concepts occupying my research are the state, globalisation and space. The territorial state came to be the defining locus of European politics in both theory and practice from the 15 century and onwards. A central tenant of the earliest period of globalisation was the expansion of this territorial model of politics and I am interested in how it was a particular territorial organisation of space that came to define the international political system, political identity and political practice. In previous research I have scrutinised how it was a particular mode of cartographic representation which, historically, provided the condition of possibility for the sovereign state as well as globally coordinated trade systems and empires. My current research has a contemporary focus while still emphasising the link between space and politics, it investigates what I call geopolitical practice in the North. This project seeks to map out territorial strategies of different actors involved in the struggle to control natural resources in the Arctic region. In more general terms, these research interests relate to the relationship between state and market in that it investigates how different practices produce different spatialities. Hence, the focus on space is a fruitful entry point to understand a possible changing relationship between business and politics in an era of complex globalisation.

I am affiliated with the Historical Sociology working group under the British International Studies Association (BISA), and the International Political Sociology group under the International Studies Association (ISA).

“World of Warcraft™ and the State of Territory in International Relations.” Paper presented at the ISA Annual Convention, Montreal Quebec, Canada, 2011.

"Geopolitik, naturlige grænser og 'kartopolitik' i Arktis" in Politik, no. 1, vol. 14, 2011

“Territory, Globalization and International Relations: the cartographic reality of space”  (2010) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

“De territoriale forudsætninger for offentlig-privat samarbejde” (2010) (co-authored with Lars Bo Kaspersen). In Mellem offentlig og privat (Between Private and Public), in Kaspersen, Lars Bo, Lund, Joachim & Petersen, Ole Helby (eds), Copenhagen: DJØF Publishing.

“ “ Cartography and Geopolitics in the Arctic Region” (2010), DIIS Working Paper 2010:20, Copenhagen, Copenhagen: Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS.

“Territory” (2010), in Warf, Barney (ed.): Encyclopedia of Geography, London: Sage publications

“ The Spatial Practice of State Formation: territorial space in Denmark and Israel ” (co-authored with Lars Bo Kaspersen) Journal of Power, 2009, 2(2): 235-54.

”The Cartographic Assemblage of the Globe” Working paper no 45, 2008. International Center for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School.

"The Cartographic Production of Territorial Space: Mapping and State Formation in Early Modern Denmark" Geopolitics, 2008, 13(2): 335 - 58.

”Criticism and Knowledge Production of the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa”  - discussion paper prepared for a conference on the Nordic Africa Institute: Collective Memory and Present Day Politics in South Africa and the Nordic Countries, Copenhagen, August 2002

"Når man taler om Staten…" (co-authored with Trine Villumsen) Politologiske Studier, 5(2), Juni 2002: 61-67. (Book review of Jens Bartelson: The Critique of the State, Cambridge University Press, 2001).

”Den glemte stat – en kritik af dominerende nationsforskning” Grus nr. 60, 2000