The EU
The European Union (EU), established by the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, is a continuation of the European cooperation initiated after the end of the Second World War.
The basic idea underlying the founding of the EU was to draw the countries of Europe into mutual interdependence through greater cooperation. Commitment to binding agreements between members was intended to lessen the likelihood of war and conflict. This increased cooperation has been pursued in depth (by including more and more new members) and in depth (by expanding to more and more political areas). Norway is not a member of the EU, but is closely linked to it through the EEA agreement on economic cooperation, the Schengen Agreement on police cooperation and border controls, and various other agreements. Relations with the EU have become an important component of Norwegian foreign policy.
Learn more about NUPI's research on Europe on the webpage of NUPI Centre for European Studies.
EU research at NUPI focuses on questions such as:
- What is happening within EU foreign policy and defence politics?
- How does the EU handle its neighbourhood relations to the Middle East and North Africa?
- How does the EU deal with issues related to energy security?
- How can the EU handle a new global role after the financial crisis?
- What is the role of small states in shaping the EU and its policies?
NUPI has been a member of the Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) since November 2015. TEPSA is the first transeuropean research network. Click here for more information about TEPSA.
News about the eu
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Drivers of violent extremism: NUPI to coordinate EU-funded project
19 Dec 2019PREVEX will shed light on how the various drivers of violent extremism operate.
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PODCAST: Why populism? Why here? Why now?
26 Sep 2019Are we living through a populist moment, or is the term just a journalistic cliché?
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Rethinking differentiated integration
17 Sep 2019Several NUPI researchers contributed to the debate about differentiated integration in the area of security and defence at the annual conference of the European International Studies Association (EISA) in Sofia, Bulgaria last week.
Publications about the eu
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Publication
: Popular scientific lecture
Etter brexit: Storbritannia, Europa - og Norge
Guest lecture for Arendal Senior University, about how brexit will influence Britain's international role, intra-European dynamics and Norwegian foreign policy. -
Publication
: Popular scientific lecture
Brexit, Europa - og Norge
Lecture on the Brexit-process, and implications for Europe and Norwegian foreign policy. Part of the Norwegian Atlantic Committee's annual course in International Politics, held in Norway's seven largest cities. -
Publication
: Academic article
‘Practice time!’ Doxic futures in security and defence diplomacy after Brexit
2019Time constitutes social life and time management is central to the everyday conduct of international politics. For some reason, however, the practice turn in International Relations (IR) has produced knowledge about how past practices constitute international politics but not about how the future is...
Research projects about the eu
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Foto: Jørn Rune Buljo/NUPI
Research project
JOINT EFFORT: To receive project funding from the EU's research programme H2020 is quite the accomplishment. These five succeeded, and is, together with NUPI colleagues Tine Gade and Kjetil Selvik as well as an international team of partners, ready to start working on the PREVEX project. From left: Kari Osland (Senior Research Fellow), Morten Bøås (project initiatior and Research Professor), Pernille Rieker (Research Professor), Andrea Myhrbraaten (Advisor) and Henriette U. Erstad (Research Fellow). Bård Drange, former NUPI employee, now PhD candidate at PRIO, was also part of the team who drafted the application.
Preventing Violent Extremism in the Balkans and the MENA: Strengthening Resilience in Enabling Environments (PREVEX)
2020 - 2023 (Ongoing)The overarching objective of PREVEX is to put forward more fine-tuned and effective approaches to preventing violent extremism.
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Research project
Global trade policy at the crossroads (UD trade policy seminars)
2018 - 2019 (Ongoing)In this project, NUPI will contribute to address the need for knowledge on the feed on the new global trade situation.
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Photograph: Hedvig Antoinette Halgunset/Norwegian Armed Forces
Research project
Revitalizing Transatlantic Maritime Security
2018 - 2019 (Ongoing)This project will generate concrete policy proposals, particularly in the maritime domain, and look at ways for the United States and Europe, and Norway in particular, to adapt their military division...