Book presentation: The Counterinsurgent Imagination
How and why counterinsurgent ideas persist, despite recurring failures?
NUPI team to take over as editors of the prestigious journal Cooperation and Conflict
“Thinking about Unthinkability in World Politics” with Jennifer Mitzen
The NUPI Center for Historical International Politics (CHIP) invites you to a seminar where Prof. Jennifer Mitzen (Ohio State University) will present work in progress for her next book, “Thinking about Unthinkability in World Politics”.
Ståle Ulriksen
Ståle Ulriksen had a 20 percent position at NUPI, in the Research Group for Security and Defence.His research areas includes: Security and defence...
The value of diplomatic history in a changing world
This chapter argues for the value of a careful reading of diplomatic history in approaching our changing world. Diplomatic history does not hold unambiguous and clear lessons or analogies, but can alert us to both contingency and the existence of different developmental trajectories.
England's Cross of Gold: Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs
The NUPI Center for Historical International Politics (CHIP) invites you to a seminar where Dr James Ashley Morrison (LSE) will present his latest book, " England's Cross of Gold: Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs."
Anna Eriksen Rio
Anna Eriksen Rio is a Research Fellow at NUPI working on the project Public-Private Development Interfaces in Ethiopia (DEVINT). Her PhD project f...
Rolf Tamnes
Professor Rolf Tamnes is a member of NUPI’s Research Group on Security and Defence. Tamnes holds a dr.philos (PhD) from 1991 and a cand.philol. (M...
Strengthening Fragile States through Taxation (FRAGTAX)
How is the political authority to tax established, exercised and maintained over time? State-building requires predictable income. Without a domestic revenue base, even core activities states are expe...
Scandinavia as an arena for Chinese economic statecraft
China's utilisation of economic statecraft as a foreign policy tool challenges the accustomed distinction between Norwegian business policies, and Norwegian security policy. This opens for a nove...