Mats Ingulstad
Background and activities
Ongoing research projects
European integration and the quest for access to external natural resources, 1945–2015. Project Manager. Research Council of Norway, FRIPRO Young Research Talents, 2016-2019 (Project leader)
Fate of Nations. Natural resources and historical development, 1880-2015.Research Council of Norway, FRIPRO Toppforsk, 2016-2021 (Leader of sub-project on international institutions).
Organisation Todt, forced labor, and entrepreneurs in Norway during the Second World War (Contributor and co-editor of project anthology).
The high seas and the deep oceans. 3ROceans: Representations, resources and regulatory governance. (Member of the research group, co-editor of the project book)
A series of articles on international law and sovereignty over natural resources with Lucas Lixinsky, University of New South Wales (Just for fun).
The History of the Norwegian Research Council (Researcher).
The History of Statoil (Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Oslo).
Doctoral dissertation
Winning the Hearths and Mines: Strategic Materials and American Foreign Policy, 1939-1953. European University Institute, Firenze, 2011.
Supervision
David Alenga
Bjørn Bakke
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2018) The Shovel is our Weapon: The Norwegian Labour Service and the paradox of nationalist internationalism. Scandinavian Journal of History. vol. 43 (4).
- (2018) I nyordningens tegn? Organisation Todt og reguleringen av den norske byggebransjen. Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge). vol. 97 (3).
- (2017) Recyclage des déchets en aluminium : de la saisie et de la récupération pour les besoins de guerre à l’économie circulaire. Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium. vol. 56-57 (1-2).
- (2017) Regimenting Labour in Norway during Nazi Germany's Occupation. Working Papers of the Independent Commission of Historians Investigating the History of the Reich Ministry of Labour (Reichsarbeitsministerium) in the National Socialist Period.
- (2014) Forestillinger om fred : den norske Nobelkomiteen og den europeiske integrasjonsprosessens historiedidaktikk. UNIPED. vol. 37 (1).
- (2014) The Interdependent Hegemon: the United States and the Quest for Strategic Raw Materials during the Early Cold War. International History Review. vol. 37 (1).
- (2013) Raw Materials, Race and Legal Regimes: The Development of the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources in the Americas. World History Bulletin. vol. 29 (1).
- (2007) Cold War and Hot Metal; American Strategic Materials Policy, the Marshall Plan, and the Loan to the Sunndal Smelter. Cahiers d'histoire de l'aluminium.
Books
- (2019) Avhengig av forskning - De norske forskningsrådenes historie. Fagbokforlaget. 2019. ISBN 978-82-450-2132-5.
- (2016) Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe: Norway in Context. Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. ISBN 978-1-137-53422-4.
- (2014) Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: A History of "the Devil's Metal". Routledge. 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-73705-0.
- (2013) Aluminum Ore: The Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry. University of British Columbia Press. 2013. ISBN 978-0-7748-2533-7.
- (2012) From warfare to welfare : business-government relations in the aluminium industry. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. 2012. ISBN 978-82-321-0049-1. Trondheim Studies in History (Skriftserien fra Historisk institutt) (0).
Part of book/report
- (2019) "Europe cannot engage in autarchical policies": European Raw Materials Strategy from 1945 to the Present. The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015.
- (2019) Forskning og styring mot nye tider. Avhengig av forskning - De norske forskningsrådenes historie.
- (2019) Industriens råd. Avhengig av forskning - De norske forskningsrådenes historie.
- (2019) Regulating the Regulators. The League of Nations and the Problem of Raw Materials. The Political Economy of Resource Regulation: An International and Comparative History, 1850-2015.
- (2018) Under the Hard Law of War: Norwegian Social Reforms under German Influence. Nazism across Borders: The Social Policies of the Third Reich and their Global Appeal.
- (2018) Pan-American Exceptionalism: Regional International Law as a Challenge to International Institutions. The Institution of International Order. From the League of Nations to the United Nations.
- (2016) Perfecting the Art of Stealing: Nazi Exploitation and Industrial Collaboration in Occupied Western Europe. Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe: Norway in Context.
- (2016) Hitler’s Achilles Heel? Norwegian Molybdenum as a Bottleneck in the German War Economy. Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe: Norway in Context.
- (2014) Banging the Tin Drum. The United States and the Quest for Strategic Self-sufficiency in Tin, 1840-1945. Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: A History of "the Devil's Metal".
- (2014) 'New' Approaches to the Governance of Africa's Natural Resources. New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources: Insights from Africa.
- (2014) "The Path of Civilization is Paved with Tin Cans": The Political Economy of the Global Tin Industry. Tin and Global Capitalism, 1850-2000: A History of "the Devil's Metal".
- (2013) National Security Business? The United States and the Creation of the Jamaican Bauxite industry. Aluminum Ore: The Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry.
- (2013) Opening Pandora's Bauxite: A Raw Materials Perspective on Globalization Processes in the Twentieth Century. Aluminum Ore: The Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry.
- (2012) "We Want Aluminum, Not Excuses." Business-Government Relations in the American Aluminium Industry, 1917-1957. From warfare to welfare : business-government relations in the aluminium industry.
- (2012) ‘An Age of Aluminium’: The Political Economy of the Aluminium Industry in the Twentieth Century. From warfare to welfare : business-government relations in the aluminium industry.
- (2008) Sunndal Verk: Et norsk smelteverk i amerikansk storpolitikk. Globalisering gjennom et århundre, Norsk aluminiumsindustri 1908-2008.