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Aukrust, Kjerstin

Kjerstin Aukrust (1978), Ph.D., is associate professor of French literature and area studies in the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo, Norway. She has published several articles on French politics, the French sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and French contemporary literature.
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Living Alliances, Leaving Alliances

Throughout history, alliances have taken many different forms and they have been difficult to understand in their totality. As we now experience an unprecedented pandemic, which highlights the need for both external alliances between states and internal alliances between governments and populations, understanding alliances is more than ever critical to apprehend an open and interactive world that knows no borders and in which challenges imposed on humans are global.