Responsibilities
Current
- INP2000 - International political economy
- MET2010 - Applied qualitative methods
Previous
- SAM2000 - Social science research methods
- KVA200 - Quantiative research methods
Competences
Tarald's work has appeared in leading journals in the field of international relations such as The Review of International Organizations, International Studies Quarterly and International Political Science Review. He has also published in international law journals such as European Journal of International Law and Journal of International Economic Law.
Starting in 2027, Tarald will lead VNEG - Virtualization of multilateral negotiations, a research project that recieved funding through The Research Council of Norway's (RCN) FRIPRO funding scheme.
Tarald is also a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) through the RCN-funded project BLEND-OFF (2025-2028) and partakes in the RCN-project DEEPREAD (2026-2029) at the University of Stavanger (UiS).
Previously, he held a Adjunct Associate Professorship at the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo where he co-lead two working packages in the RCN-funded COPIID project (2022-2025). He was also an affiliated researcher on the RCN-project LEGINVEST (2019-2022) at PluriCourts, University of Oslo.
Tarald holds a PhD in Political Science from the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo (2021).
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Berge T.G and Daniel Peat (forthcoming). "Litigating the limits: Preliminary objections and State strategy in ISDS". Journal of International Economic Law.
Berge, T.G. and Jonathan W. Kuyper (2025). "Rhetorical entrapment in international negotiations: A new pathway and mechanisms". International Political Science Review, vol. 46(3): 319-335.
St John, T., Malcolm Langford, Yuliya Chernykh, Øyvind Stiansen, Tarald G. Berge and Sergio Puig (2024). "Bargaining in the shadow of awards". European Journal of International Law, vol. 35(3) (2024): 603-622.
Strain, N., Taylor St John, Malcolm Langford, Øyvind Stiansen, Tarald G. Berge and others (2024). “Compliance Politics and International Investment Disputes: A New Database”. Journal of International Economic Law. vol 27(1): 70-92.
Berge, T.G. and Øyvind Stiansen (2023). “Bureaucratic capacity and preference attainment in international economic negotiations”. The Review of International Organizations, vol. 18(3): 467-498.
Berge, T.G. and Ole Kristian Fauchald (2023). "International organizations, technical assistance, and domestic investment laws". World Trade Review, vol. 22(1): 147-172.
Berge, T.L. and Taylor St John (2021). “Asymmetric diffusion: World Bank ‘best practice’ and the spread of arbitration in national investment laws”. Review of International Political Economy, vol. 28(3): 584-610.
Berge, T.L. and Axel Berger (2021). “Do investor–state dispute settlement cases influence domestic environmental regulation? The role of respondent-state bureaucratic capacity”. Journal of International Dispute Settlement, vol. 12(1): 1-41.
Berge, T.L. (2020). “Dispute by Design? Legalization, Backlash and the Drafting of Investment Agreements”. International Studies Quarterly, vol. 64(4): 919-928.
Behn, D.F., Tarald L. Berge and Malcolm Langford (2018). “Poor States or Poor Governance? Explaining Outcomes in Investment Treaty Arbitration”. Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, vol. 38(3): 333-389.
Book Chapters
Berge, T.L. and Helge Hveem (2018). “The International Regime for Investment: A History of Failed Multilateralism” in Andreas Nölke and Christian May (eds.), Handbook of the International Political Economy of the Corporation, Edward Elgar Publishing.