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2026
Chapters

Icesave and the Financial Crisis: Legality, Sovereignty, and Diplomacy Under International Pressure in Iceland’s 2008 Collapse. In: Sigurjonsson, T.O., Loftsdóttir, K., Wendt, S. (eds) Crisis in Context. Palgrave Macmillan.

2024
Chapters

‘The Weaponization of Conspiracy Theories‘. In Butter et al (Eds.). Populism and Conspiracy Theories: Case Studies and Theoretical Perspective. Routledge.

2023
Chapters

‘Lessons from two island nations: Re-reading the Icelandic deliberative constitutional process in Light of the success of the Irish Constitutional Convention.’ In Min & Yanina (Eds). Deliberative Constitution-making: Opportunities and Challenges. Routledge.

2023
Chapters

‘Nordic Populism: Conjoining Ethno-Nationalism and Welfare Chauvinism’. In Carlos Rivero (ed.), Democracy Fatigue. Central European University Press.

2023
Chapters

Chapter 10: ‘Will the Covid-19 Crisis Lead to a Fourth Wave of Neo-Nationalism’ Rising? In Titlestad, van Wyk and Musila (Eds). The Plague Years: Reflecting on the Pandemics. Routledge.

2022
Chapters

‘Iceland’s deep-rooted nationalism and recent quasi-populism‘. In Decker et al (Eds). Aufstand der Außenseiter. Nomos: doi.org/10.5771/9783845297996

2020
Chapters

‘Populism and Conspiracy Theories’. In: Butter, M., and Knight, P. (Eds). Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London: Routledge.

2020
Chapters

‘Society and politics: Introduction’. In: Butter, M. and Knight, P. (Eds). Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories. London: Routledge.

2018
Chapters

Iceland in Europe – Keeping its distance. In Moreau, P. & Wassenberg, B. (Eds), European Integration and new Anti-Europeanism III: Perceptions of External States on European Integration. Stuttgart: Frans Steiner Verlag. Pp. 65-86.

2018
Chapters

The New Political Order in Post-Crash Iceland: Refoundation, continuity or status quo? In Bellina S (Ed). Refounding State Legitimacy: When experience and practice speak. Paris: Foundation Charles Leopold Mayer. Vol 1 (2018). Pp 77-88.

2017
Peer-reviewed

Við og hinir – Þjóðernispopúlismi á Norðurlöndum [e. Us and Them – Nationalist Populism in the Nordic Countries] Skírnir – Journal of the Icelandic Literature Society. Spring 2017

2017
Peer-reviewed

The Icesave Dispute: A Case Study into the Crisis of Diplomacy during the Credit Crunch Nordicum-Mediterraneum. Akureyri: University of Akureyri. Nordic-Mediterraneum. Vol. 12, No 1 (2017)

2016
Chapters

Participatory Constitutional Deliberation in the Wake of Crisis: The Case of Iceland In Reuchamps and Suiter (Eds) (2016). Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe. ECPR Press.

2016
Conference & working paper

The Icesave dispute: case study into crisis of diplomacy during the Credit Crunch Draft paper under review. Presented at the conference “No-one is an island”. University of Akureyri, March 19th 2016

2015
Peer-reviewed

Populism in Iceland: Has the Progressive Party turned populist? Icelandic Review of Politics and Administration. Reykjavik: University of Iceland. Vol. 11, No 1 (2015), 33-54

2015
Chapters

La nouvelle donne politique de l’Islande post-krach: Refondation, continuité ou statu quo? (New political situation in post-crisis Iceland: reorganisation, continuity or status quo?). In Severine Bellina (Ed.). Refonder la légitimité de l’État. IRG – Institut de recherche et débat sur la gouvernance. Karthala: Paris. March 2015

2015
Reports

Citizens Assemblies in Response to Crisis of Democratic Representation In Democracies XXI: A Paradigm Shift. Moscow: ISEPR, Rethinking Russia, June 2015. (Pages 194 – 218) [See version in Russian, pages 227-254].

2015
Peer-reviewed

Belfrage, Claes, Eirikur Bergmann, and David M. Berry (2015). A critique of neo-mercantilist analyses of Icelandic political economy and crisis. Capital & Class.

2014
Peer-reviewed

Togstreita íslenskra stjórnmála – áhrif pólitískrar sjálfsmyndar þjóðarinnar á efnahagsstjórnmál landsins (e. Internal dilemma of Icelandic politics) Skírnir – Journal of the Icelandic Literature Society. Spring 2014

2014
Conference & working paper

Citizens Assemblies in response to crisis of democratic representation: The Case of Iceland Conference paper. Economic Recession, Democratic Recession? ECPR joint sessions. Salamanca, Spain, April 11. 2014. [Here is slide presentation].

2013
Chapters

A threat to democracy and independence? Perception of the EU in Icelandic discourse In Rye, Lise (Ed.). Distant Voices: Ideas of democracy and the Eurozone crisis. [ISBN: 9788232103546]. Trondheim: Akademika publishing. December 2013

2013
Conference & working paper

The Icesave dispute: Study into crisis of diplomacy and international legality of the financial sector during the Credit Crunch Conference paper, presented at COST action 1003 conference: Globalization and the Boundaries of Legality. Hosted by Erfurt University in Weimar, Germany, December 11.–13. 2013

2013
Conference & working paper

Reconstituting Iceland – constitutional reform caught in a new critical order in the wake of crisis Conference paper. Political Legitimacy and the Paradox of Regulation. Leiden University, January 24-25, 2013

2012
Chapters

The Study of European Union Seen From Outside: European Integration Studies in Norway and Iceland 1990 – 2010 [With Eliassen, Kjell and Sjøvaag Marino, Marit]. In Bindi, Federiga and Elisasen, Kjell A.(ed’s.) Analyzing European Union Politics. [ISBN: 978-88-15-14716-5]. Bologna: Il Mulino publishing house. September 2012

2012
Peer-reviewed

Svarti Pétur – Breytt hlutverk forsetans og frumvarp Stjórnlagaráðs. (e. Black Jack – Changed role of the President and the bill for a new Icelandic constitution) Skírnir – Journal of the Icelandic Literature Society. May 2012

2012
Conference & working paper

Iceland, EU, EEA, the financial crisis and democracy Work shop paper. Distant Voices project. Paris: The Norwegian Research Centre in Paris. April 26-27, 2012

2012
Public writing

Iceland’s position in the EEA Article in the EFTA-bulletin, publication of the European Economic Trade Association. Brussels: September 2012. [On pages 13-17].

2012
Public writing

Mundi það þýða endalok ESB ef evrusamstarfið liðaðist í sundur – og þá sérstaklega í ljósi fjórfrelsisins? Answer for the Euro info web in Iceland. Evropuvefurinn. August 2012

2011
Chapters

On the edge – Iceland’s national discourse and the European project In Ramos, C. T. (ed.) Ideas of Europe in national political discourse. [ISBN: 978-88-15-14720-2.]. Bologna: Il Mulino. July 2011

2011
Reports

Iceland and the EEA, 1994-2011 [Report for the Norwegian EEA Review Committee, established by the Norwegian government in January 2010.] Oslo: Europautredningen. March 2011

2010
Conference & working paper

The root’s to Iceland’s foreign relations Conference paper. Microstates in the margins of Europe: Postcolonial Sovereignty games. Centre for European Studies. Copenhagen University. May 31st to June 1st 2010

2010
Public writing

Valdakerfi riðlast – forsetinn tekur sviðið Svar við spuningu Sögu: Hverjar eru sögulegar rætur 26. greinar íslensku stjórnarskrárinnar? Sérfræðingar um sögu stjórnarskrárinnar svara spurningu Ragnheiðar Kristjánsdóttur. Í Sigrún Pálsdóttir. Saga – tímarit Sögufélagsins. Vor 2010, 16-60.

2009
Peer-reviewed

Sense of Sovereignty. How national sentiments have influenced Iceland’s European policy Icelandic Review of Politics and Administration. Reykjavik: University of Iceland. December 2009

2009
Conference & working paper

Er Ísland fullvalda? (e. Is Iceland sovereign?) Research in Social Sciences X. (In Halldór Sig. Guðmundsson and Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir, ritstj.). Institute for Social Sciences. University of Iceland. October 2009

2009
Conference & working paper

Sense of sovereignty: Iceland, a reluctant participant in the European project Conference paper. Globalization and European integration – the nature of the beast. Warwick University. June 5 & 6 2009

2009
Thesis

Sense of sovereignty – how national sentiments have influenced Iceland’s European policy. (i. “Hið huglæga sjálfstæði þjóðarinnar“). [Ph.D. dissertation]. Reykjavik: Department of political science, University of Iceland. June 2009. (370 p.)

2008
Peer-reviewed

Íslenskt þjóðerni og óttinn við innflytjendur. (e. Icelandic nationalism and the fear of immigration) Ritið – Journal of the Humanities Department. Reykjavik: University of Iceland. April 2008

2008
Conference & working paper

Óvéfengjanleg sérstaða þjóðarinnar – greining á þingræðum í aðdraganda EFTA-aðildarinnar 1970. (e. Undisputed specialty of the nation) Bifröst Journal of Social Science. September 2008

2008
Conference & working paper

Þjóðernishugmyndir Íslendinga og afstaðan til Evrópu. (e. Icelandic national identity and the attitude towards Europe) Bifröst Journal of Social Science. September 2008

2008
Conference & working paper

It‘s cold up north: Iceland, a reluctant participant in the European project Paper presented at the Global International Studies Conference in Ljubljana, July 23–27, 2008

2008
Reports

Hverju myndi ESB-aðild breyta fyrir íslenska neytendur? (e. The effect of EU-membership for Icelandic consumers.) Commissioned report for the Icelandic Consumers Association. April 2008. (Co-author is Eva Heiða Önnudótir)

2007
Conference & working paper

Deep inside the European project Negotiating Europe, foundations, dynamics, challenges. (In Anamaria Dutceac Segesgten et al.) Centre for European studies. Lund university. January 2007

2006
Conference & working paper

Ísland greiðir fyrir stækkun ESB. (e. Iceland pay’s for EU enlargement.) Research in Social Sciences VII. (In Úlfar Hauksson). Institute for Social Sciences. University of Iceland. October 2006

2006
Reports

Verktakinn í Brussel. (e. The contractor in Brussels – Iceland’s role in the European project.) Centre for European studies – Bifrost university. November 15th 2006

2005
Conference & working paper

Evrópuvæðing Íslands. (e. Europeanization of Iceland) Icelandic Review of Politics and Administration. Reykjavik: University of Iceland. December 2005

2005
Conference & working paper

Á kafi í Evrópusamrunanum (e. Deep inside the European Project) Research in Social Sciences VI. (In Úlfar Hauksson) Institute for Social Sciences. University of Iceland. October 2005

2004
Conference & working paper

Blikur á Lofti – áratugur í EES. (e. A decade of the EEA) Research in Social Sciences V. (In Úlfar Hauksson) Institute for Social Sciences. University of Iceland. October 2004

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