Good intentions, mixed results – A conflict sensitive unpacking of the EU comprehensive approach to conflict and crisis mechanisms (EUNPACK)
The EUNPACK project unpacks EU crisis response mechanisms, with the aim to increase their conflict sensitivity and efficiency. ...
ASEAN as a regional foreign policy actor and norm-setter
How does ASEAN as a regional foreign policy actor influence wide-ranging topics like regional integration, migration, maritime security and security policy?
Issues of concern on the NPT Review Conference Agenda
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Duty of Care: Protection of Citizens Abroad (DoC:PRO)
How can Norwegian society best be protected, when increasing numbers of citizens are found outside the borders of the state? ...
Tensions in Asia: Understanding Japan’s Foreign Policy and Security Measures
What is Japan's perspective on the current situation of Asia as a whole?
We Saw it Coming: Jihadist Terrorism, Challenges for the European Union
Nothing about the recent Paris or Copenhagen terrorist attacks was totally unexpected. Indeed, they were the sort of thing that security apparatuses in Europe had been preparing to have to deal with. Although security responses to terrorism are traditionally considered a quintessential national sovereignty prerogative, in the past ten to fifteen years the recognition that highly asymmetric security threats respect no borders has heightened the EU’s role as a coordinator in this policy domain. Some claim that counter-terrorism has changed the role and functioning of the EU itself towards a more operational character in security matters. Both old and new security responses to terrorism have (re-)emerged on the agenda of the EU and its member states in the ‘post-Paris attacks’ phase.