Projects & centers
NUPI's research projects, research programmes, and research centres.
Undermining Hegemony. The US, China, Russia, and International Public Goods
Developments in the last fifteen years have driven renewed interest in hegemonic-stability and power-transition theory. The persistence of US-centered primacy during the 1990s produced new arguments f...
Training for Peace 2011 - 2019 (TfP)
The Training for Peace Programme (TfP Programme) is an international programme that contributes towards capacity building within the broader ambit of peace operations in Africa....
Equinor – NUPI Political and Security Risk Forum
Equinor – NUPI Political and Security Risk Forum is a collaboration between Equnor and NUPI to strengthen Equinor’s Norwegian-based knowledge hub in the field of political risk and security threat ana...
Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks (GR:EEN)
GR:EEN will study the current and future role of the EU in an emerging multi-polar world through a programme of stock-taking, multi-disciplinary research and complementary activities....
Explaining the EU's perfermance in NATO: EU-NATO relations and challenges facing the EU as a security actor (EUPERFORM)
The project explores the European Union as an international actor in various organisational settings....
Research Beyond the Ivory Tower: Policy and Communications Training for University Teams (BIT)
The project focuses on strengthening the competence of university lecturers in the South Caucasus and Central Asia....
Sustainability and Petroleum Extraction: Corporate and Community Perspectives in Northern Norway and the Russian Arctic (CSROil)
This project aims to identify and reconcile differences in perceptions and practices of sustainability in Northern Norway and Arctic Russia, providing a baseline for cross-border dialogue and collabor...
Nation-building, nationalism and the new ‘other’ in today’s Russia (NEORUSS)
This project investigates the developments of nation-building, nationalism and notions of the 'other' in today's Russia....