2020

  • Kazakhstan's Reforms during the Pandemic: Progress and Challenges
    Event
    Mon 14 Dec 2020
    Time: 14:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Webinar

    Covid-19 has led to a global economic crisis, but how has the pandemic affected Kazakhstan and the other countries in Central Asia?

  • WEBINAR: Launch of special issue of International Spectator
    Event
    Wed 2 Dec 2020
    Time: 14:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Microsoft Teams

    We are happy to promote the launch of a special issue of the "International Spectator" journal on Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel: A Hybrid Political Order in the Making, guest edited by Morten Bøås and Francesco Strazzari.

  • Building Tax Systems in Fragile States
    Event
    Wed 25 Nov 2020
    Time: 13:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Webinar

    How can international donors contribute where institutions are weak?

  • Small states facing the EU: The case of Swiss-EU relations
    Event
    Wed 25 Nov 2020
    Time: 12:30 Europe/Oslo | Location: Microsoft teams

    Will the Swiss-EU relation continue in harmony, or will the EU evoke the “guillotine” clause and terminate current agreements? NUPI invites you to join our seminar on the Swiss-EU relations.

  • Political violence and polarization in France: the threat, the discourse and the response
    Event
    Wed 25 Nov 2020
    Time: 09:30 Europe/Oslo | Location: Microsoft Teams

    Since 2015, more than 250 civilians have been killed in jihadist attacks in France. Is France particularly prone to jihadist violence, and how does terrorism affect French society and French politics?

  • Improving tax compliance and revenue collection: Evidence from Uganda
    Event
    Mon 16 Nov 2020
    Time: 15:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Webinar - Zoom

    Welcome to the third seminar of our Tax for Development Webinar Series where Maria Jouste will present the study "Do tax administrative interventions targeted at small businesses improve tax compliance and revenue collection? Evidence from Ugandan tax data."

  • NATO facing challenges from the Arctic to the Black Sea Region
    Event
    Wed 9 Dec 2020
    Time: 15:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Webinar

    Which challenges do NATO face on its Eastern flanks in the years to come? LSE IDEAS, the New Strategy Center Bucharest, and NUPI invite you to a one day conference.

  • Naming and shaming of cyber intruders – does it work?
    Event
    Tue 17 Nov 2020
    Time: 14:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Microsoft Teams

    Last month Norwegian authorities made the rather unusual decision to call out - to attribute - Russia for being behind a cyber operation towards the Norwegian parliament. NUPI’s Cybersecurity Centre has the pleasure to invite to a webinar with Professor Madeline Carr. She will provide an overview of why attribution in cyberspace is difficult, the challenges of not being able to attribute - and different options on how to deal with this issue.

  • Defending and renewing multilateralism: Estonia and Norway in the UN Security Council
    Event
    Wed 4 Nov 2020
    Time: 10:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Webinar

    What possibilities exist for Estonian-Norwegian bilateral cooperation in the United Nations Security Council?

  • A Europe in crisis or a Europe on the rise?
    Event
    Tue 27 Oct 2020
    Time: 14:00 Europe/Oslo | Location: Webinar

    Europe’s quiet and patient style of foreign policy is often interpreted as a sign of weakness, but it could also be its strength.