11 Facts About Glenn Diesen

Glenn Eric Andre Diesen was born on 1979 and is a Norwegian political scientist, analyst, and author.

Glenn Diesen is a professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway.

Glenn Diesen was a regular commentator on the Russian state-controlled international news television network RT.

Glenn Diesen completed two years of Russian language and literature studies at Saint Petersburg State University in 2006.

Glenn Diesen was awarded a master's degree in international relations from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, in 2009 and a PhD in politics and international relations jointly from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Macquarie University in 2014, with a dissertation under the supervision of Wolfgang Wagner and Steve Wood entitled Inter-democratic Security Institutions and the Security Dilemma: EU and NATO relations with Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Glenn Diesen's dissertation addressed the ideational and institutional influence on the rationality of EU and NATO decision-makers from a neoclassical realist perspective.

Glenn Diesen worked as a lecturer and scholarly teaching fellow in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University from 2011 to 2017, as an adjunct research fellow in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University from 2016 to 2019 and as a visiting scholar and subsequently a professor in the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia from 2018 to 2020.

Glenn Diesen specializes in Russian foreign policy, political economy, conservatism and Eurasian integration.

Glenn Diesen is affiliated with the Valdai Discussion Club and since 2018 has been an editor of the Russia in Global Affairs journal.

Glenn Diesen has been a regular commentator on Russia Today and has faced criticism for promoting Russian propaganda.

In 2020, Glenn Diesen wrote an op-ed in Aftenposten with convicted felon and former KGB agent Arne Treholt, that stated that Russia has "legitimate interests and security needs" and said that Russia was unfairly demonized as a security threat.