Tore Wig

Tore Wig is a Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, specializing in conflict studies, political violence, and authoritarian regimes. His office is located in Eilert Sundts hus, and he holds weekly office hours on Mondays. Wig teaches courses on quantitative causal analysis, causes of war, autocratic politics, and research methodology at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

His educational background includes a PhD in Political Science (2015), Master's in Political Science (2011), and Bachelor's in Political Science (2009), all from the University of Oslo. He previously held positions as Senior Researcher at PRIO (2016-2017), postdoctoral fellow at UiO (2015-2016), and visiting researcher at Harvard University (2019).

Wig's research examines armed conflict, regime stability, democratization processes, and mass mobilization using quantitative methods and institutional analysis. His work spans historical patterns of regime breakdown, the relationship between education and protest, autocratic elections, and the political economy of conflict. Recent publications explore moral dimensions of civil resistance, business elites in interstate conflicts, and autocratic capital relocations.

He has received several prestigious awards including the Fridtjof Nansen Award for Young Researchers (2024), APSA Best Paper Award (2021), King's Gold Medal for best PhD thesis (2016), and NEPS Medal for best peace science publication (2018).

Wig leads or participates in multiple research projects including 'Moral Beliefs about Violent Political Conflict (MoViCon)', 'Policies of Dictatorships (PoD)', and 'The Emergence, Life, and Demise of Autocratic Regimes (ELDAR)'. He co-directs the Comparative Institutions and Regimes (CIR) research group and contributes regularly to public discourse through op-eds in Morgenbladet, Washington Post's Monkey Cage, and major Norwegian newspapers.