Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson
Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson is a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), and part of the IFS Asia Programme. His res...
Henrik Stålhane Hiim
Henrik Stålhane Hiim is Head of Centre for International Security. Hiim’s research focuses on Chinese foreign and security policy. He also has a s...
Rebekka Åsnes Sagild
Rebekka Åsnes Sagild is a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), and part of the IFS Asia Programme. Her research...
Jo Inge Bekkevold
Jo Inge Bekkevold is a Senior China Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS)/Norwegian Defence University College, where he tea...
Øystein Tunsjø
Øystein Tunsjø is Professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), which is part of the Norwegian Defence University College. Tunsj...
Andreas Østhagen
Andreas Østhagen is a Research Professor at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI). He conducts research on the political dynamics of the Arctic and...
Konfliktspiral og stormaktsrivalisering i nordområdene
I dette kapitlet skriver Andreas Østhagen (FNI) om konfliktspiral og stormatsrivalisering i nordområdene.
IKOS GeoPol PhD course: China and the Future of Geopolitics
This PhD course will explore the state and potential future of geopolitical developments under the influence of a rising China and its increasingly mobile actors, and how this influence is being felt around the globe.
Global militær integrasjon i Indo-Stillehavet
Kinas militære opprusting, mer provoserende adferd mot nabostater, og økende grad av samarbeid med Russland, Nord-Korea og Iran har vært katalysatorer for tettere militær integrasjon mellom stater i flere verdensdeler som alle har en felles interesse av å balansere Kina. Den sikkerhetspolitiske dialogen og det militære samarbeidet i Indo-Stillehavet foregår ikke innenfor rammen av en internasjonal organisasjon eller allianse, men i all hovedsak mellom stater i både Asia, Stillehavet, Nord-Amerika, Sør-Amerika og Europa. Nasjonalstatene har inngått et stort antall bilaterale, trilaterale og multilaterale avtaler som har resultert i fremveksten av et omfattende og komplisert sikkerhetsnettverk i Indo-Stillehavet. Samvirket på tvers av landegrensene skjer i hovedsak i rammen av en rekke flernasjonale militære øvelser i Indo-Stillehavet. I tillegg er det et samarbeid innen forsvarsindustrien. Forsvarssamarbeidet resulterer i en stadig økende grad av integrasjon og interoperabilitet, som igjen legger forholdene til rette for å kunne etablere militære ad hoc koalisjoner ved behov. Oppdatert versjon ble publisert 28.04.25.
Malian women's experiences with violent extremism. What is known and how is it known?
This chapter analyses knowledge production about Malian women’s experiences in the context of the global agenda on Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE). Research increasingly asserts that global discourse about women’s roles in preventing violent extremism tends to represent women in highly gender-stereotypical and limited ways, and women’s lived experiences with violent extremism are often missing from these accounts. The chapter suggests that these limitations are related to whose voices are heard, and how knowledge is produced, and circulated. Starting from an understanding of the omissions and silences in the global episteme as forms of epistemic violence, the chapter discusses the ways in which knowledge about Malian women’s experiences challenges, expands and feeds into the P/CVE episteme (or not). The analysis is based on a combination of sources, including reports and published accounts, reports from international and Malian human rights NGOs and statements by Malian activists to the UN Security Council.