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NUPI’s Russia Conference 2024

Explore the highlights from the NUPI Russia Conference 2024, which was titled "Russia in Wartime – Weak or Strong?".
  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • Conflict
Event
09:30 - 11:00
Litteraturhuset - Skramsalen
Engelsk
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Event
09:30 - 11:00
Litteraturhuset - Skramsalen
Engelsk
14. Nov 2024
Event
09:30 - 11:00
Litteraturhuset - Skramsalen
Engelsk

USA after the election: Consequences for the Nordics and the geopolitical landscape

On November 14, researchers from five leading foreign policy institutes in the Nordic region will gather to analyze the consequences of the U.S. election.

Event
09:30 - 10:30
Sentralen - Kronesalen (5th fl.)
Engelsk
Event
09:30 - 10:30
Sentralen - Kronesalen (5th fl.)
Engelsk
8. Nov 2024
Event
09:30 - 10:30
Sentralen - Kronesalen (5th fl.)
Engelsk

G20 and emerging powers: What does the development mean for Norway?

Emerging powers are becoming increasingly important in international politics. What does this mean for organizations like the G20? And how can and should Norway respond to this development? NUPI is pleased to invite you to an open event with the participation of Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide at Sentralen in Oslo.

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Sweden’s thorny path into NATO: a changing country is finding its new place

On 7 March 2024, Sweden joined NATO after almost two years waiting for Turkey’s and Hungary’s approval. Sweden’s difficulties joining NATO due to Turkish and Hungarian resistance and its ambivalent reactions to related pressure were symptomatic for the country’s cumbersome switch from its normative non-aligned foreign and security policy towards a more conventional hard security and collective defence policy. Along those lines, the country’s self-perception and role as an international actor has changed significantly within only two years. Sweden quickly adapted to its new role as a NATO member, prepared involvement in NATO operations, stepped up military support for Ukraine and increased military spending, strengthening its armed forces significantly. This matches Norway’s recent plans for enhancing its defence, facilitating even closer Nordic cooperation, especially in the High North.

  • Defence
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • Defence
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
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Publications
Scientific article

Prestige and punishment: Status symbols and the danger of white elephants

This article identifies and unpacks the intrinsic potential for backlash in the pursuit of status symbols. While status loss has been associated with domestic pushback and reduced legitimacy for ruling governments, the literature on status is yet to examine how status-seeking can backfire even when a state can successfully claim to have acquired a status symbol. We contend that status backlashes are an inherent risk of status-seeking due to the multivocality of costly status symbols. Our heuristic framework for studying status backlashes proposes examining modes of critique that construe status symbols as irrational or unjustified costly endeavours, undermining their legitimating capacity and potentially even transforming them into a marker of stigma. Empirically, we identify three modes of critique present in reactions to Brazil’s hosting of the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. There, despite recognizing the symbolic value of hosting these mega-events, Brazilian audiences also criticized the government for the opportunity costs, vested interests and subservience that it entailed. Undertaking two shadow case studies – on the backlash against the United Kingdom’s renewal of its Trident nuclear weapons system and Norway’s engagement in military interventions between 1999 and 2012 – we document how these modes of critique associated with status symbols can travel across contexts.

  • Foreign policy
  • Nationalism
  • Governance
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  • Foreign policy
  • Nationalism
  • Governance
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Publications
Scientific article
Kristin Haugevik, Katja Creutz, Matti Pesu, Øyvind Svendsen

Becoming allies: Finland and Norway after Russia's invasion of Ukraine

This article analyses Finland and Norway’s evolving narratives about one another as neighbours, partners, and allies against the backdrop of political and scholarly discourses about the broader Nordic security community. Drawing on International Relations (IR) theories on regional security complexes and security community formation, we find that a swift reframing of the Finnish-Norwegian relationship was possible after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 because it was formulated against the backdrop of the already established narrative about the well-functioning and trustful Nordic security community. The intense interaction dynamics between Finland and Norway in recent years have brought the Nordic security community to an unprecedented level of integration, and an all-time high sense of ‘we-ness’ now characterises Finnish-Norwegian relations.

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Training folk internationalists: Foreign policy identity and children’s news

How are new generations of policymakers and subjects introduced to ‘the world out there’ – and to their own state’s ambitions, practices, and impacts within that world? While multiple studies have explored the role of education in fostering national identities more broadly, the relationship between education, mass media and foreign policy identity has attracted limited scholarly attention. Using Norway as an exploratory case, this article takes a first stab at addressing this knowledge need. Theoretically, we institute a dialogue between scholarly work on how foreign policy identities are (re)produced through everyday representations and practice, and work on how education and mass media shape public debate and the subjects partaking in it. Empirically, we offer the first study of how foreign policy is communicated to children through tailored media outlets.

  • Foreign policy
  • Foreign policy
Event
14:00 - 16:30
Youngs
Engelsk
Event
14:00 - 16:30
Youngs
Engelsk
10. Oct 2024
Event
14:00 - 16:30
Youngs
Engelsk

The New Superpower: India's Role in the Arctic

India’s growing role in the Arctic is reshaping global dynamics. How will this influence the region and the world?

How should the EU navigate multilateral cooperation?
Podcast

How should the EU navigate multilateral cooperation?

This special episode of The World Stage is the first of a series that will give insight to the research from the NUPI-led research project The EU...

  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Governance
  • International organizations
  • The EU
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New research
Articles
New research

How should the EU navigate multilateral cooperation?

Project manager John Karlsrud gives an overview of the scope of NAVIGATOR, a EU funded project aiming to make us better understand how cooperation between countries and international organizations develop in a time where there are big changes in global politics.
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • International organizations
  • The EU
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