Projects & centers
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Norway and the EU towards 2030
Research project | 2022 - 2023 (Ongoing)This project takes a closer look at developments on key areas in the relationship between Norway and the EU towards 2030....
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Norway and Great Power Politics – Geopolitics, Technology and Climate (NISP)
Research project | 2022 - 2024 (Ongoing)Our times are shaped by developments in geopolitical power dynamics, fast-paced technological development and climate change. In this research program NUPI analyses how these developments change the s...
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Strengthening Fragile States through Taxation (FRAGTAX)
Research project | 2021 - 2024 (Ongoing)How is the political authority to tax established, exercised and maintained over time? State-building requires predictable income. Without a domestic revenue base, even core activities states are expe...
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Scandinavia as an arena for Chinese economic statecraft
Research project | 2021 - 2022 (Ongoing)China's utilisation of economic statecraft as a foreign policy tool challenges the accustomed distinction between Norwegian business policies, and Norwegian security policy. This opens for a nove...
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Understanding and Strenthening EU Foreign & Security Policy in a Complex and Contested World (JOINT)
Research project | 2021 (Ongoing)The JOINT project analyses these dynamics while addressing the question of how the EU and its member states can make their foreign and security policy structures more joined-up and sustainable....
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A new European security and defence architecture in the making: What does it look like and what are the implications for Norway? (EURODEFENCE)
Research project | 2021 - 2024 (Ongoing)This project will study the implications of the new European defence initiatives for Norway particularly, as an allied and closely associated non-member of the EU. Despite the incremental nature of th...
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Reactions to state regulation of Islam in times of Daesh (STATEISLAM)
Research project | 2021 - 2025 (Ongoing)In recent years, in response to the rise of ISIS, governments in the Middle East have begun to control the religious spheres in their countries more tightly. In Egypt, for example, President Abdulfatt...
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Cyber security, knowledge and practices (CYKNOW)
Research project | 2021 - 2025 (Ongoing)CYKNOW will promote better understanding of cyber security, as well as develop novel theoretical and methodological tools for cybersecurity research in particular....
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Chinese Anger Diplomacy (ANGER)
Research project | 2021 - 2024 (Ongoing)Do liberal-democratic states yield to public criticism by China? ANGER approaches this question by focusing on China's use of "anger diplomacy" - public, vehement displays at the state ...
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Cybersecurity Capacity Centre for Southern Africa (C3SA)
Research project | 2020 - 2022 (Ongoing)C3SA informs policy through cybersecurity research to build national cyber capacity and resilience across Africa....