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Kristin Waage

Kristin Waage

PhD Student in the Department of War Studies

Contact details

kristin.waage@kcl.ac.uk

Biography

Kristin Waage is a PhD student in the Department of War Studies. Since 2015, she has also worked for the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)1, which is the chief adviser on defence-related issues to Norway’s political and military leadership. In her job, she has conducted analyses and provided recommendations to policy- and decision-makers in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Justice and Public Security, and the Armed Forces.

The past years, she has particularly studied issues related to the adoption of new technologies, on the one hand, and economic statecraft and national security, on the other hand. Through this work, she has seen how the two fields have started to converge as military technology innovation and adoption increasingly involve actors and resources in the civilian realm, which motivated her PhD topic.

Previously, she has also been an intern at the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva and served one year in the Norwegian Armed Forces’ Ranger Battalion (GSV), stationed in Grense Jakobselv in Finnmark.

Qualifications:

  • MA in Science and International Security, King's College London (2023)

  • BA in International Studies, University of Oslo (2021)

  • CEMS Master in International Management (2018)

  • BSc/MSc in Economics and Business Administration, Norwegian School of Economics (2015/2018)

Her PhD project investigates the role of the civilian realm in enabling military innovation and adoption, and its implications for the diffusion of military artificial intelligence (AI). She challenges the idea that civilian-driven, dual-use technologies (such as AI), in principle, are widely and equally available to any military organisation in the international system and instead investigates whether and how militaries’ position vis-à-vis leading civilian technological ecosystems affect the adoption requirements they face.

Research areas

  • Military innovation and diffusion
  • Military uses of artificial intelligence
  • Economic statecraft and national security

Publications

  • Methods of economic statecraft (w/Lindgren): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13540661261436538

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