Events
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Revisiting the past, looking to future – Moving beyond the fiscal contract?
For over a decade, the TaxCapDev network has brought together scholars and practitioners to examine how taxation shapes governance, state-building, and development. This final conference (21–23 October 2025) offers both a moment of reflection and an opportunity to ask where research and policy should go next.
Breakfast seminar: Is international cooperation still possible?
This seminar discusses the power and possibility for international cooperation with a focus on the role of transnational networks in galvanizing change.
Annual Lecture: Dictating the Agenda – How Authoritarians are Transforming Global Governance
Based on their new book "Dictating the Agenda", Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis reveal the important authoritarian changes underway across various global governance domains.
Breakfast seminar: Space diplomacy and Transatlantic Relations
Is the space domain increasingly characterised by militarisation – or are we witnessing the emergence of a new realm of transatlantic cooperation based on diplomacy?
Economic Security at Stake: Investment Screening and the Future of Globalization
Who gets to invest – and on what terms?
Breakfast seminar: Why America Needs Europe
Is the Western alliance drifting apart, or is it growing stronger?
Roundtable: Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics
What is the relevance of constructivist scholarship in a world shaped by great power competition, war, and security concerns?
NUPI IR Theory Conference 2025
Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics: Social Construction in Turbulent Times
Breakfast seminar: The Past and Future of Europe-China relations
Which role has Europe played in shaping China’s political identity?
Ukrainian counter voices: Conflicts and contradictions in Ukrainian politics
The war in Ukraine continues to rage, yet the country’s internal political dynamics remain an open question.