Revisiting the past, looking to future – Moving beyond the fiscal contract?
For over a decade, the TaxCapDev network has brought together scholars and practitioners to examine how taxation shapes governance, state-building, and development. This final conference (21–23 October 2025) offers both a moment of reflection and an opportunity to ask where research and policy should go next.
Shifting Geopolitical Dynamics in East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Norway
This roundtable will explore the shifting geopolitical dynamics between the Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific and what this means for Norway’s relations with regional partners. Perspectives from Taiwan, China and Japan.
Roundtable: Constructivism in an Era of Geopolitics
What is the relevance of constructivist scholarship in a world shaped by great power competition, war, and security concerns?
Annual Lecture: Dictating the Agenda – How Authoritarians are Transforming Global Governance
Based on their new book "Dictating the Agenda", Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis reveal the important authoritarian changes underway across various global governance domains.
Annual Lecture: Dictating the Agenda – How Authoritarians are Transforming Global Governance
Based on their new book "Dictating the Agenda", Alexander Cooley and Alexander Dukalskis reveal the important authoritarian changes underway across various global governance domains.
Arctic ambitions: Norway’s new High North strategy
How does the new Norwegian High North strategy situate Norway and its northernmost countries in Arctic and global politics? What are the new prior...
Breakfast seminar: Is international cooperation still possible?
This seminar discusses the power and possibility for international cooperation with a focus on the role of transnational networks in galvanizing change.
Tarald Gulseth Berge
Tarald is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the School of Business of the University of South-Eastern Norway, and adjunct researcher...