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Anna Eriksen Rio

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Anna Eriksen Rio was a Research Fellow at NUPI.

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Anna Eriksen Rio, Ankita Barthwal

India in South Asia: Quest for regional dominance in a multipolar world

This report analyses India’s role in South Asia at a time of heightened geopolitical uncertainty and domestic volatility across the region. As India’s economic and strategic weight grows, its immediate neighbourhood has become the most consequential arena in which the opportunities and constraints of its rise are revealed.

  • Asia
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  • Asia
Event
09:00 - 10:30 Europe/Oslo
NUPI, Rosenkrantz' gate 22, OSLO
Engelsk
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Event
09:00 - 10:30 Europe/Oslo
NUPI, Rosenkrantz' gate 22, OSLO
Engelsk
21. Jan 2026
Event
09:00 - 10:30 Europe/Oslo
NUPI, Rosenkrantz' gate 22, OSLO
Engelsk

India in South Asia: Quest for regional dominance in a multipolar world

This seminar will present a new report on India's role in South Asia.

Event
09:00 - 10:30 Europe/Oslo
NUPI, Rosenkrantz' gate 22, OSLO
Engelsk
Event
09:00 - 10:30 Europe/Oslo
NUPI, Rosenkrantz' gate 22, OSLO
Engelsk
16. Dec 2025
Event
09:00 - 10:30 Europe/Oslo
NUPI, Rosenkrantz' gate 22, OSLO
Engelsk

India in the Multilateral System

With multilateral bodies challenged by competing powers, reform pressures and changing coalitions, India’s place within the system is evolving. How do these dynamics shape India’s multilateral role today?

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Scientific article

Revisiting the Case of Ethnography and International Relations

This article revisits the debate on the role of ethnography in International Relations. It primarily does this by elucidating three points of tension in the literature on ethnography in International Relations. Firstly, it tackles the challenges related to ‘getting on’ with ethnography after the reflexive methodological developments that have taken place within anthropology since the 1980s. Secondly, it investigates how to overcome certain matters of scale and how to conceptualise the ‘international’ methodologically, or more specifically, ethnographically. When looking at issues that somehow exist and operate on the international scale, the ethnographic task of immersion in local scenes does sometimes seem like an ill-suited approach. However, I argue, this problematisation is dependent on a certain methodological understanding of what the international is. I attempt to formulate an alternative methodological approach that takes seriously the idea that international relations always can be accessed locally. This paper suggests that one of the main solutions to the obstacle of scale is methodologically abandon the imaginary of totalities as a higher level. In this way, ethnography can enable important understandings of social relations that exist across scales of local and global.

  • Globalisation
  • International organizations
  • Globalisation
  • International organizations
Angst i Athen: En forskerspires frykt for å feile
Podcast

Angst i Athen: En forskerspires frykt for å feile

Møt Claudia Aanonsen, doktorgradsstipendiat ved NUPI, som for første gang skal delta på en internasjonal forskerkonferanse. Hun gruer seg, og er e...

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Publications
Report

The Humanitarian-Development Nexus: A Bridge Too Far?

In their basic and caricature forms, development aid and humanitarian assistance highlight important differences that materialize in attitudinal, institutional, and funding obstacles in the implementation of the humanitarian-development nexus. While the nexus is implemented in order to respond to new types of crises characterised by the protracted nature of the conflicts, cooperation across the aisle has proved hard to achieve in practice. However, policymakers and practitioners have different perspectives on the nexus, and depending on the individual practitioners tasked with implementing the nexus, it can still work. To achieve this, boundary work is needed in order to overcome the distinct segments of the nexus’ constituent parts working in silos. To foster such boundary work, actors responsible for implementing the nexus in practice should be given greater autonomy so that the nexus is better sensitised to local actors, contexts and concerns, rather than being driven by headquarters’ policy demands.

  • Development policy
  • Humanitarian issues
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  • Development policy
  • Humanitarian issues
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Research project
2021 - 2025 (Completed)

Public–Private Development Interfaces in Ethiopia (DEVINT)

Private actors are increasingly operating in the name of development and in partnership with international development actors. This project (DEVINT) will explore the nexus of private a...

  • Economic growth
  • Globalisation
  • Development policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Africa
  • Human rights
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • United Nations
  • Economic growth
  • Globalisation
  • Development policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Africa
  • Human rights
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • United Nations