Menneskerettar som tryggingspolitikk? OSSEs rolle i ei usikker verd
Spiller OSSE framleis ei viktig rolle for menneskerettar og samarbeid mellom land? Det skal utanriksminister Eriksen Søreide, ODIHR-direktør Gísladóttir og to andre ekspertar diskutere 19. april.
Islamistisk radikalisering i Europa
Professor Olivier Roy gjestar NUPI for å snakke om kva som karakteriserer og driv islamistisk radikalisering i mange europeiske samfunn.
Er Russland på kollisjonskurs med Vesten?
Vladimir Putin har fleire gonger komme med utsegner der Vesten blir framstilt som den store skurken. Kva har det å seie for forholdet mellom aust og vest?
Building tax systems in fragile states. Challenges, achievements and policy recommendations
This report systematises and analyses existing knowledge on taxation in fragile states. Efforts to support domestic revenue mobilisation in conflict situations require a different approach and other means than in the more stable developing countries. On that basis, the study discusses possible entry points for Norwegian support to domestic revenue mobilisation in ways that may contribute to strengthen state-building and improve government legitimacy. Complexity, limited experience and security concerns suggest that one should be cautious to adopt bilateral technical assistance programmes of the kind implemented in other developing countries. Instead, the study argues in favour of engagement via multilateral institutions, including multi-donor trust funds and other forms of pooled resources. The report recommends nine entry points for Norwegian support to taxation in fragile states: 1. Do no harm 2. Safeguard donor coordination, but ensure a certain humility 3. Support customs administration 4. Capacitate management and taxation of natural resources 5. Support the United Nations Tax Committee 6. Improve taxpayer-tax administration relations 7. Remember the sub-national tax system 8. Support civil based organisations 9. Develop research capacity
Ti år med økonomiske reformer på Cuba og vegen vidare
Kor vellykka har økonomiske reformer vore på Cuba? Og kva alternativ finst det?
Between classical and critical geopolitics in a changing Arctic
Puzzled by how geographical changes in the Arctic might cause changes in state behavior the authors of this article have been inspired to return to the roots of geopolitical reasoning. By combining insights from the intellectual roots of the geopolitical tradition with empirical data on geographical changes as well as policy changes in the Arctic today, we investigate the degree to which geopolitics, in the sense of geography influencing politics, is still a useful approach in the discipline of International Relations (IR). In limiting our primary focus to the state level, and investigating the period since the turn of the millennium, this article seeks to develop new knowledge concerning if, how, and to what extent geography matters in international politics. Our empirical investigation indicates that geographical changes in the Arctic have indeed had an effect on power relations among several states. Overall, this article shows that geography is an important factor in IR in the sense of enabling or empowering state actors. However, while it appears that physical geography is a possible factor in the cases analyzed to explain changes in identified power potentials, it does not always account for these changes on its own. Economic, political, legal, and historical factors also play a role in the observed power shifts.
Europa etter Brexit
Korleis vil maktbalansen i Europa sjå ut etter at Storbritannia har forlate EU?