Gabriella Gricius

Dr. Gabriella Gricius is a Fellow and the Media Coordinator with the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network (NAADSN) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Arctic Institute. At the University of Konstanz, she is currently working on a project covering Nordic security community formation and the conceptualization and coordination of responses to hybrid threats to critical infrastructure in the European Arctic region.

She received her Ph.D. from Colorado State University’s Political Science Department where her dissertation explored the prevalence of low-tension discourse in Greenland, Svalbard, the Northern Sea Route, and the Northwest Passage. Her research interests broadly cover international relations, Arctic security, the potential for desecuritization during great power competition, and the role of experts in security decision-making processes. 

Outside of academia, she also works with the European Leadership Network (ELN) on research on hybrid threats and is a Fellow with the Younger Generation Leaders Network on Euro-Atlantic Security (YGLN). She was recently a participant with the Newport Arctic Scholars Initiative and a Summer Associate with the RAND Corporation and has consulted with the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. She also continues to act as an Adjunct Lecturer at Colorado State University and co-organized a specialized workshop at the University of Bielefeld on German Polar Arctic expertise.

Her writing is published in Foreign Policy, the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, International Politics, European Security, Global Studies Quarterly, among other outlets. Previously she was a Guest Researcher at both the University of Copenhagen and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, a Fellow with Bridging the Gap, a Junior Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, a Senior Research Associate at the Public International Law and Policy Group’s Netherlands Office, and worked with the International Criminal Court and the Hague Center for Strategic Studies. She received her BA from Boston University and MA from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

If you’d like to contact me or follow my work, you can find me at:

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6252-6882

Email: gabriella.gricius@gmail.com

X/Twitter: @ModernFledgling

Personal Website: https://www.gabriellagricius.com

University of Konstanz Profile: https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/community/postdoctoral-fellows/

NAADSN Profile: https://www.naadsn.ca/people/gabriella-gricius/

Selected Publications:

Gricius, Gabriella. (2024). “The Shortest Nuclear Route to Climate Change to Great Power Competition: Tracing Arctic Security.” Ocean and Society 2(8846) (2024): 1-20.

Gricius, Gabriella. (2024). “Scoping Arctic expertise: The mismatch between traditional theories of expertise and Indigenous expertise.” Polar Record 60 (e12) (2024): 1-8.

Gricius, Gabriella & Fakhoury, Renato. (2024). “Security for the small: materializing securitization in Finland and Norway.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies (2024).

Marinova, Iren and Gricius, Gabriella . (2024). “The Arctic Potential: Cutting the Gordian Knot of EU-Russia Relations?” European Security (2024).

Gricius, Gabriella. (2023). “Whose Anxiety? What Practices? The Paris School and Ontological Security Studies.” International Politics (2023).

Gricius, Gabriella. (2020). “Russia’s New Soft Power: The Mir Card System.” The Journal of Liberty and International Affairs 6(2): 32-44.

Gricius, Gabriella (2020). “Russian Ambitions In the Arctic: What to Expect.” Global Security Review https://globalsecurityreview.com/russia-arctic-ambitions/.

Gricius, Gabriella (2020). “How US foreign policy is failing in the Arctic.” Responsible Statecraft https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/09/09/how-us-foreign-policy-is-failing-in-the-arctic/.