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The latest news on NUPI's research.
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ANALYSIS: Resolving Brexit
19 Dec 2018- Nick Sitter
Brexit is in crisis. The options are limited, and they have not changed much since 2016. Now, time is running out. Exiting the EU without an agreement, widely recognized as the worst option, is the default. Moreover, this is no longer simply a question about how to deal...
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What does foreign policy really mean?
7 Dec 2018This, with other widely used IR concepts, is what Halvard Leira and his project CHOIR team have received funding to explore.
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New book: UN Peace Operations in a Changing Global Order
23 Oct 2018In this book launch interview, editors Mateja Peter and Cedric de Coning reflect upon findings from their most recent book, identifying four global transformations and their implications for UN peace operations.
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Four global transformations are changing UN peace operations
23 Oct 2018The global order is changing – how will that uncertainty impact UN peace operations?
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The Russia Conference: Cold Peace in the Arctic?
14 Sep 2018On September 14, NUPI’s Russia Conference took place in Oslo. Couldn’t be there? Watch the entire event, including Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide's key note speech, on YouTube.
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PODCAST: Friendships that move the world
5 Sep 2018What did two of the world’s most important state leaders – Barack Obama and David Cameron – signal by this image? Senior Research Fellow Kristin Haugevik has examined how relationships between states become ‘special’ in a new book.
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WORLD PEACEKEEPING DAY: UN Peacekeeping at 70
28 May 2018UN peacekeeping faces significant challenges and some question whether it can remain relevant, but most countries agree on the importance of the UN as the centrepiece of global governance, and that peacekeeping is its flagship enterprise.
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PODCAST: Cyberspace, international norms, and a new initiative in the UN?
23 May 2018In this NUPI podcast, cyber-expert Karsten Geier proposes a new way forward.
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PODCAST: What will Europe look like after Brexit?
7 May 2018This was the key question for EU expert Caroline de Gruyter’s NUPI talk.
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Asia is booming – what are the implications?
6 Mar 2018Connectivity has become a buzzword today. It topped the agenda at the joint conference on trade, infrastructure and Europe–Asia relations, organized by NUPI and the MFA to mark ASEM day.
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FRIPRO funding for risk-research project
8 Feb 2018Who influences how states manage risks, such as conflicts?
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The UN we need?
24 Oct 2017Is UN Peace Operations adapting fast enough to remain relevant in today’s rapidly changing global landscape?
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The challenge of taxation in African countries
18 Oct 2017Tax is the key to development, but African countries are facing several domestic as well as international challenges. What may be the solutions? This was the main question discussed among leading researchers at the plenary session in Bergen in August.
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New book: Rising Powers may fundamentally change peacebuilding
13 Sep 2017What exactly is new and innovative about the peacebuilding approach of the rising powers from the Global South?
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China meets the Nordics at NUPI
6 Sep 2017How does the world appear seen from China and the Nordics?
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Global tax justice at crossroads
8 Aug 2017In a world of Trump and Brexit – who makes international tax policy?
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G20s development is important for Norway
6 Jul 2017Today, the G20 summit is being held in Hamburg. The power of the G20 as an arena for shaping global governance represents both a challenge and an opportunity for Norway.
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New era for French exceptionalism?
16 Jun 2017France still has a deep desire to play a major international role. Will President Macron succeed? In her new book, Senior Research Fellow Pernille Rieker takes a closer look at French foreign policy.
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How to stop illicit financial flows
26 May 2017Tax evasion and terror financing are among the issues that make up illicit financial flows.
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Nordic perspective on the G20
8 May 2017Would expanding the G20 format, such as by including the Nordic countries, solve issues regarding the group's legitimacy and inclusivity? Ulf Sverdrup and Joachim Nahem explores the Nordic perspective on G20 in new working paper.
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NUPI researchers brief UN Security Council
31 Mar 2017Dr. Patrick Cullen and Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud briefed the UN Security Council on hybrid war.
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Green future – risks and opportunities
23 Mar 2017NUPI has partnered with Columbia University and Harvard University.
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Special Issue: Forum for Development Studies
21 Mar 2017What is new and different about development as it goes more global today?
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Turning point for UN peacekeeping?
14 Mar 2017The UN should stop doing stabilization operations, according to NUPI researchers.
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UN Peacekeeping under new leadership
13 Feb 2017UN will have to address several challenges in the area of peacekeeping operations.
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“Survival of the Richest”
21 Dec 2016New report evaluates Norway’s effort to curtail tax evasion: acceptable work in some areas, but completely fails in the field of tax treaties. – Norwegian tax treaties are directly harmful to developing countries, according to the report from Eurodad.
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Lifting the Veil of Secrecy - Tax Havens and Developing countries
23 Nov 2016Tax havens and developing countries – How do we curtail the increasing illicit financial flow from developing countries and which consequences do we see? Leading researchers and experts met in Bergen 21-22 November to discuss and present state-of-the-art research.
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The Arctic buffer
24 Oct 2016Indigenous peoples are safeguarding Arctic cooperation, Elana Wilson Rowe (NUPI) writes in her most recent High North News commentary.
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The cyber-frontier
10 Aug 2016How does digitalization lead to new kinds of global connections and disconnections in the developing countries? And which role does digitalization play for the UN's sustainable development goals? NUPI researchers set out to explore this in a new research project that maps...
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Good neighbours – the end of the affair?
29 Jun 2016The EU’s relationship with several neighbouring countries has shifted from harmony to tension. But might the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) have served to make security political bonds stronger? A new book edited by NUPI senior researcher Pernille Rieker looks into...
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Liberia - You'll never walk alone?
26 May 2016For the past 13 years, the UN has ensured peace and security in Liberia. Now this West African country must paddle its own canoe – but it is still a weak state, marked by recession and political rivalry.
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Peace in a world of threats
10 May 2016NUPI participates in the high-level thematic debate on UN, Peace and Security organized by the UN General Assembly 10-11 May 2016.
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A different kind of peacebuilding?
9 May 2016NUPI has, together with five partners, investigated the rising powers’ approach to peacebuilding.
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Building Bridges with the EU
25 Apr 2016The activities that NATO has undertaken to address the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean focus on intelligence and surveillance, and are designed to complement the efforts of the EU and Turkey, writes Nina Græger for European Futures.
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The future of peace in Africa
9 Mar 2016Africa does not need saviors, but partners, according to Cedric de Coning and John Karlsrud, co-editors of the recent book ‘The Future of African Peace Operations: From Janjaweed to Boko Haram’.
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Next step for the United Nations
17 Feb 2016The new Secretary-General of the United Nations takes office the 1st of January 2017. Will we be needing a new agenda?
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What's next for Europe?
4 Feb 2016How should the EU respond to the American ‘pivot’ – the strategic shift towards the Asia-Pacific?
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In the wake of the crisis
14 Jan 2016After the Ukraine crisis, the EU’s approach towards Russia has changed, according to results from a NUPI research project.
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Unpacking EU crisis response
9 Nov 2015How does the EU respond to crises? This is the key question posed by a group of NUPI researchers who have succeeded in the competition for funding within the world’s largest research programme.
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Conflicting theory and practice
30 Oct 2015Donor mechanisms for control and recipients’ desires for autonomy often collide in the development aid universe, shows a NUPI researcher in a recent book.
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Does dialogue resolve conflicts?
21 Oct 2015Dialogue has become a buzzword in international politics. But can it really carry the burden of conflict resolution?
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David versus Goliath? Small states in the EU
9 Oct 2015What direction will Europe take, and what does this move mean for small states like Norway? This was key question when EU minister Vidar Helgesen, opened NUPI’s EUNOR workshop October 8.
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Winners and losers of the refugee crisis
15 Sep 2015Emotions run strong in the global migration debate. NUPI’s Morten Bøås calls for a more sober debate in order to achieve better policy.
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Making the best of good intentions
14 Sep 2015The refugee crisis is sparking a wave of solidarity. To make the best of good intentions, these spontaneous movements should collaborate with existing humanitarian organizations.
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A diplomatized world
26 Aug 2015Diplomacy is no longer the sole preserve of states – nowadays even consultancy firms offer their services in peace-making and reconciliation. And the entire theory framework for diplomacy has become of growing importance.
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Mali at the cusp of UN peace operations reform
30 Jun 2015Whilst UN peacekeeping is more critical than ever, it is also under severe pressure, writes Cedric de Coning.
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UN peace operations at a crossroads
24 Jun 2015NUPI researchers sum up the main challenges for UN peace operations.