Oceans
Oceans cover 71% of the world’s surface. The politics and regimes of these vast global oceans are of pressing importance to Norway, which manages ocean areas six times the size its land mass.
This, combined with the fact that Norway also has one of the largest commercial shipping fleets in the world, gives Norway an outsized interest in oceanic politics at a truly global level. NUPI’s researchers have expertise in the global governance of oceans (cooperation, diplomacy), national ocean-related policymaking (Norway, Russia, China, Japan, to name a few) and the security politics of maritime space.
Want to know more about NUPI's research on oceans? Visit our Centre for Ocean Governance.
News about oceans
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NUPI Podcast: Iran can prevent ship attacks, but has no incentive to do so, says Iran FM
29 Aug 2019“Sending naval vessels to the Persian Gulf, with the clear aim of confronting Iran, will not bring security,” Mr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, told NUPI audience.
Publications about oceans
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The Geopolitics of Fish in the Arctic
2020Climate change and declining sea-ice in the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO) has brought concerns that fish stocks may expand into the high Arctic. While the sub-Arctic seas of the North Pacific and the North Atlantic have abundant fish resources subject to major commercial fisheries for generations, the CAO... -
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China in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Key environmental issues and responses
2020China is dealing with very serious pollution levels and the unsustainable use of many natural resources. Environmental issues, concerning both air, ground, and ocean, have gained increasing recognition in Chinese domestic politics, and China is stepping into more active roles in international environmental...- Gørild Heggelund
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WIN-WIN! with ODA-man: legitimizing development assistance policy in Japan
Official development assistance (ODA) constitutes one of Japan’s most important foreign policy instruments as it builds Japan’s global network and supports allies in the Southeast Asian region and beyond. In the context of a rising China and an increasingly severe fiscal and demographic situation at...
Research projects about oceans
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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...
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Photograph: Allan Hopkins/Creative Commons/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Research project
The Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics (LORAX)
2019 - 2023 (Ongoing)Do regional politics around border-crossing ecosystems share important resemblances and differ in significant ways from global politics?
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Foto: Jechstra/Creative Commons/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Research project
Great Powers and Arctic Politics (GPARC)
2017 - 2020 (Ongoing)GPARC aims to provide up-to-date academic and policy analyses of how major powers (USA, Russia, China) set parameters for and intervene in the maritime politics of the Arctic.