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Natural resources and climate

What are the key questions related to natural resources and climate?
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Russia's Encounter with Globalization: Actors, Processes and Critical Moments

The chapters of this book analyse an increasingly important dimension of Russian politics, namely responses to globalization. How do Russia’s policy actors understand and seek to meet the political challenges of the 21st century? Emphasis is placed on understanding how Russian domestic politics shape this international engagement. Thematically, the focus is on Russia’s external engagement with areas of policy relating broadly to globalization, namely energy, climate, health, direct foreign investment, finance, and international terrorism.

  • Security policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Climate
  • International organizations
  • Security policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Climate
  • International organizations
Research Programme
2007 - 2013 (Completed)

Russian and Caspian Energy Developments (RUSSCASP)

RUSSCASP aims to examine driving forces shaping Russian and Caspian energy exports, energy developments in the High North and the potential role of foreign energy companies in these regions. ...

  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Arctic
  • Energy
  • Foreign policy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Arctic
  • Energy
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Scientific article

Kaperne kommer!

(Available in Norwegian only): I en kommentar i Aftenposten i februar sammenlignet Inger Anne Olsen dagens sjørøveri utenfor Somalia med kapervirksomhet utenfor norskekysten under Napoleonskrigene, en praksis hun refererte til som «piratvirksomhet med statlig velsignelse». Sammenligningen er uheldig på mange nivåer, men ikke minst fordi den visker ut skillet mellom kaper og sjørøver, et skille som kunne bety liv eller død både for de mennene som bar karakteristikkene og for de som var om bord i skipene de bemektiget seg. Sammenblandingen er imidlertid forståelig; der de fleste har et relativt klart bilde av hva en sjørøver er eller var, tror mange fortsatt at man snakker om «kaprere» når man forsøker å diskutere kapere. Og selv forfatteren av boken om norske sjørøvere, som gjør et poeng av å skille mellom sjørøvere og kapere, faller for fristelsen til å omtale de norske kaperne under Napoleonskrigene som sjørøvere (Hetland 2008). Den første målsettingen med denne artikkelen er derfor å klargjøre hva en kaper var, og hvordan de skilte seg fra sjørøvere. I et norsk perspektiv er det påfallende hvor lite kunnskap som finnes om kapere. I kystbyer på Sør-Vestlandet finnes en levende bevissthet om kapervirksomheten under Napoleonskrigene, med kaperdager og lokale spel. I den nasjonale bevisstheten er det allikevel kaptein Sabeltann og sjørøvere som assosieres med Sørlandets private voldsmakt. Historisk sett har Norge som kystnasjon imidlertid vel så mye erfaring med kapere som med sjørøvere, og den andre målsettingen med denne artikkelen er å skissere kort hvilke erfaringer vi har med kapere i Norge og å antyde noen grunner til at kaperne har blitt glemt.

  • Oceans
  • Historical IR
  • Oceans
  • Historical IR
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11:00 - 17:00
NUPI
Event
11:00 - 17:00
NUPI
13. Oct 2010
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11:00 - 17:00
NUPI

NUPI's Annual Russia Conference 2010: Russia, Europe and Energy - Rule of Power or Power of Rules?

The 2010 conference of NUPI's Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies is organized in cooperation with the RUSSCASP Programme on Energy and Power.

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Report

Global Changes and Norwegian Foreign and Development Policy 2010–2020

  • Security policy
  • International economics
  • Development policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Climate
  • Security policy
  • International economics
  • Development policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Climate
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  • Asia
  • Energy
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Book

Caspian Energy Politics

Caspian Energy Politics analyses the role of oil and gas in the development of the three main petroleum exporters in the Caspian region - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - and how energy resources influence interactions with semi-authoritarian Russia and China. Due to volatile commodity prices and competition for the resources in and around the Caspian Sea, the governments of these petroleum-exporters face a series of difficult decisions. These governments have sought to balance short-term incentives to spend oil revenues as a means to maintain power against the need for a long-term strategy for managing these assets, choices which have further implications for how these countries align themselves internationally. By illuminating important linkages between domestic and international dynamics in these states, the book provides a fresh perspective on energy politics and the impact of petroleum on the development of the Caspian petroleum producers. Expert contributors from Central Asia and the South Caucasus and international scholars provide context-specific insights into the incentives affecting decision-makers that can provide a foundation for strategies to help the countries in the region overcome the negative effects of reliance on oil and gas. As such, the book will be a valuable tool for business actors seeking to understand the role of Chinese and Russian companies in the region, as well as local and international policymakers and non-governmental organisations.

  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Energy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Energy
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  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Climate
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Book

Russian Renewable Energy: The Potential for International Cooperation

  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Energy
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Energy
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Report

Basra Crude : The Great Game of Iraq's "Southern" Oil

Concepts like “Shiite oil” and “Kurdish oil” obfuscate the debate about Iraq’s energy resources. This paper starts from the proposition that it would be better to call a thing by its name: in terms of the size of reserves, Iraqi oil is first and foremost Basra oil. Accounting for one of the world’s greatest concentrations of petroleum wealth, almost all of Iraq’s supergiant oil fields can be found near Basra or in one of its two neighbouring governorates. The other six Shiite-majority governorates of Iraq have little or no oil, and even the most optimistic estimates of new discoveries in Kurdistan pale in comparison with the reserves of Basra and the far south. This paper examines the political implications of these geopolitical realities - with an emphasis on developments after the Samarra bombing of February 2006, intra-Shiite tensions generally, and the questions of implementing federalism south of Baghdad and adopting a new Iraqi oil law in particular.

  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Energy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Energy
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