Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics

The Centre will strengthen knowledge about international power relations and the positions of the major powers, and how this affects Norway's interests and politics.

The world is in a period of sharp intensification of political and economic rivalry. Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is an expression of this, but political and economic tensions between the US and China have also increased. The rivalry now takes place under different conditions than in previous historical periods. There is a different distribution of power and geographical focal points, intertwined global investments and trade relations, several institutional players and rapid technological changes.

The rivalry will have a strong impact on Norway. Therefore, we must prepare foreign policy responses and strategies based on new forms of geopolitical analysis.

The Centre will be led by NUPI's Ole Jacob Sending and is a partnership with the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway and the University of Oslo.

Together, the Centre combines country-specific expertise on USA, China, the EU and Russia, regional expertise on the Arctic, Asia, Africa, Europe and America, and expertise on key themes such as security, multilateralism, growth and innovation, and energy and sustainability.

The Norwegian Centre for Geopolitics is financed by the Research Council of Norway.

EVENTS

• The New Superpower: India's Role in the Arctic, at Youngs, Oslo, 10 October 2024
• Arctic Security Conference 2024, at Litteraturhuset, 12 - 13 September 2024. 
• Evolving Linkages Between Indo-Pacific and European Security: Challenges and Their Dynamics at NUPI, 13 September 2024.
• The South Caucasus after 2022: Domestic developments and geopolitical challenges at NUPI, Oslo, 13 September 2024.
• USA, Kina og fremtiden at Sentralen, Oslo, 10 June 2024, 09:00 AM. 
• International order and strategy in a new geopolitical era at Sentralen, Oslo, 4 June 2024, 08:30 AM - 12:00 AM. Sign up here. 
• Global China and Infrastructure Power, The techno-politics of the ‘China Model’ of development at the University of Oslo, 29 February 2024, 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM.
• The election in Russia - what is it about? A panel conversation about the election in Russia, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 29 February 2024, 18.00 - 19.30.
• Launch of the Centre held on 26 October 2023 (in Norwegian):

PUBLICATIONS 

• OPINION: India's Arctic imperative in The Hindu, by Abhjit Singh and Andreas Østhagen (Fridtjof Nansen Institute), 16 April 2024
• OPINION: Is it time for 'developing' China to start funding UN climate aid? in South China Morning Post, by Gørild Heggelund and Iselin Stensdal, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 4 February 2024 
• OP-ED: China - fish and geopolitisk, in Framsenteret, by Professor Alf Håkon Hoel, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, 4 September 2023 

OTHER ACTIVITY

• PODCAST: Hva vil Donald Trump med Europa? (Aftenpodden, 18 September 2024)
• PODCAST: How to Become a Hegemon with Daniel Nexon and Ole Jacob Sending: