Book launch: External Powers and the Arab Spring
What was the role of external powers during the Arab Spring?
Does global activism affect public debate around conflict minerals? The case of Congo
NUPI, UNDP OGC and the Kingdom of the Netherlands Embassy to Norway have the pleasure of inviting you a seminar with Dr. Dirk-Jan Koch.
The world's first digital weapon: Stuxnet
NUPI has the pleasure of welcoming the award-winning Wired reporter Ms. Kim Zetter to speak about the use of digital weapons. The focus of her talk will be on the digital attack on the Iranian nuclear facility in January 2010. The attack, later named Stuxnet, caused physical destruction and has become the symbol of a new form of weapons in the 21th century.
Consolidating the AU-UN Strategic Partnership for an Effective International Peace and Security Architecture
The International Peace Institute, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), and the Nordic Africa Institute are pleased to invite you to a forward-looking policy forum event on the occasion of Africa Day to discuss consolidating the AU-UN strategic partnership. The event will take place at IPI, New York.
How does war become a legitimate undertaking? Re-engaging the post-structuralist foundation of securitization theory
Abstract How does war become a legitimate undertaking? This article challenges the interpretation of securitization as a narrow, linear and intentional event by re-engaging the post-structuralist roots of Copenhagen School securitization theory. To uncover the social process that makes war acceptable, the framework presented in this article is informed by securitization theory but foregrounds the web of meaning and representation between a myriad of actors in society to unearth the contents – and changes – in how war is articulated and carried out with public consent. This matters not only for the question of how war becomes a legitimate undertaking, but also for the very practices through which the war is fought: the emergency measures that are enabled in a discourse of existential threat. The article re-visits the Second Chechen War to illustrate how war is made logical and legitimate to leaders and their publics.
Rising Powers and Peacebuilding
The Rising Powers and Peacebuilding project seeks to address an important question that has not yet been thoroughly researched: what are the new approaches that rising powers have take...