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Trine Villumsen Berling
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Trine Villumsen Berling

Trine Villumsen Berling

Senior Researcher
Global security and worldviews
Bio

Primary research areas 

Trine Villumsen Berling's main research areas are security, the role of technology in political processes, Western security architechture, and energy security with a special focus on the Baltic Sea region, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and the role of Russia in energy politics.

Current research 

Trine Villumsen Berling is PI on a research project on the technification of security authority funded by the Carlsberg Foundation from 2020-2024. Empirically, the project focuses on energy infrastructure projects in the Baltic Sea region. 

 

Nord Stream 2

As part of the Carlsberg project Trine Villumsen Berling researches the political process concerning the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was set to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany.  

 

DIIS TECH

Trine Villumsen Berling is part of the coordination group behind the new research focus on technology at DIIS.

 

DIIS Baltic Sea Initiative

Trine took over coordination of Baltic Sea research at DIIS in 2023. Close cooperation with the Royal Danish Defence College and the War Studies at University of Southern Denmark forms an integral part of this task.

Expertise

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Russia Denmark Sweden Norway Lithuania
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Research and activites

  • Big Loop of Saar River near Orscholz, Mettlach, Saarland, Germany, Europe
    Photo/illustration by Hans-Peter Merten / robertharding / Alamy Stock Photo

    Power, practice and theory in international relations

    DIIS Auditorium
    Power, theory and practice are each inescapable for understanding international relations. In the case of all three, Stefano Guzzini's contributions have been core to advancing scholarship
  • Drone and soldier - Baltic Sea
    Photo/illustration by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
    Livestreaming

    Baltic Sea Region security challenges after Ukraine

    Highly relevant 1,5-day conference with over 20 experts on security challenges in the Baltic Sea Region
  • woman gets help from military to evacuate in the war in Ukraine
    Photo/illustration by Aris Messinis/AFP/Ritzau Scanpix
    Livestreaming

    The Ukraine War: Background and Implications

    Auditorium, DIIS
    Ukraine seminar part 1: The Prospect of Nuclear War, our dependency of Russian Oil and the refugees are important consequences of the War. But the role of China and the European and American far right and their connections to Russia are other issues worth a discussion in this first part of DIIS’s seminar on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
  • Skitse illustration af energiøen i Danmark
    Photo/illustration by Energistyrelsen
    Webinar

    Ways out of the energy crisis?

    Attend via Zoom
    How may the green transition alter energy security balance in the Baltic Sea region?
  • translations of security book cover
    Livestreaming

    BOOK LAUNCH: Translations of security

    DIIS - Auditorium
    How to understand security in chaotic times
  • Pipes for the construction of the Nord Stream 2
    Photo/illustration by Stefan Sauer, DPA, Ritzau/Scanpix
    Webinar

    Caught in gas pipeline (geo)politics?

    When do energy projects transform from everyday technical matters to security issues? Is energy increasingly becoming a matter of international security dynamics? Join this panel discussion with experts with a specific view to the two gas pipeline projects currently under construction in the Baltic Sea.
  • øvelse i Østersøen og det er en Baltisk minestryger, der bliver trukket af et dansk fartøj
    Photo/illustration by Brian Djurslev, Forsvarsgalleriet
    Webinar

    Baltic Sea Region security at a crossroad: Nordic and Baltic perspectives

    Online via Zoom
    This webinar focuses on the recent geopolitical transitions, foreign policy and energy infrastructure investments in the Baltic Sea region
  • Cover Nature Energy
    Article
    2023

    A new cooperation agenda for European Energy Security

    Europe’s approach to energy security has been historically split between the East and West. Given the rapidly evolving geopolitical energy security landscape on the continent, this article argues that a comprehensive and shared approach to energy security — which incorporates hard security considerations — is needed.
  • DIIS Tech

    DIIS Tech — Research initiative on technology and power

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    DIIS Tech examines the evolving role of technology in society and international politics.

    The initiative is coordinated by Trine Villumsen Berling, Adam Moe Fejerskov and Johannes Lang, and...

  • Securitech

    SECURITECH

    SECURITECH is a research project that zooms in on the politics of energy infrastructure and the displacement of security authority to technical experts. This deep transformative process has...