Internasjonal intervensjon og lokal politikk: Innsikt frå Aceh
Fabio Scarpello gjestar NUPI for å presetere boka "International Interventions and Local Politics: Fragmented States and the Politics of Scale".
EUs strategi for Sentral-Asia: Partnarskap for berekraftig utvikling
Korleis kan EU bidra til at landa i Sentral-Asia held fram med å utvikle seg i rett retning?
Den ukrainske energimarknaden er i endring: korleis lykkast i ein ny geopolitisk setting?
NUPI og NUCC inviterer leiande ekspertar til å dele sitt syn på den siste utviklinga på den ukrainske energimarknaden.
Digitale Sabotasjeangrep mot Norsk Petroleumssektor (DISP)
I dette prosjektet arbeider forskerne med å kartlegge trusselbildet og den historiske bruken av digitale våpen mot kritisk infrastruktur, samt redegjør for problematikk og uklarheter i...
Russia’s Return as True Europe, 1991–2017
Since the reign of Peter the Great, Russia has identified itself in opposition to Europe. In the late 1980s, Michael Gorbachev and associates forged a liberal representation of Europe and initiated a Western-oriented foreign policy. Against this westernizing or liberal representation of Europe stood what was at first a makeshift group of old Communists and right-wing nationalists, who put forward an alternative representation that began to congeal around the idea that the quintessentially Russian trait was to have a strong state. This article traces how this latter position consolidated into a full-fledged xenophobic nationalist representation of Europe, which marginalized first other forms of nationalism and then, particularly since 2013, liberal representations of Europe. The official Russian stance is now that Russia itself is True Europe, a conservative great power that guards Europe’s true Christian heritage against the False Europe of decadence and depravity to its west.
Estlands president om tryggleik i den baltiske regionen
Estland speler ei viktig rolle i Europas forhold til Russland. Estlands president besøkjer NUPI for å gi eit innblikk i tryggingsutfordringane i området.
Intelligence Oversight and the Security of the State
A key task for intelligence oversight in democracies is to ensure that the intelligence services operate and carry out their mandated duties within the constraints of national and international law. As the control of the activities and methods of intelligence services necessarily involves a group of overseers who gain access to classified information about state secrets, democratic oversight inherently entails a security dimension. To date, the degree to which democratic oversight might affect state security has not been investigated in depth by Security or Intelligence Studies, although the issue has occasionally come up. After the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., somewhat risk-averse services, due to extensive oversight, were mentioned as possible explanation for the intelligence failures leading to the catastrophic events. Most mature Western democracies have lately established various mechanisms of independent intelligence oversight, as part of their system of checks and balances with the executive power. Thus, the question of how oversight might, or might not, harm the security concerns of the state is of considerable interest. As intelligence oversight is a fairly new institutionalized activity in many democracies, and as the matters discussed by the “overseers at work” are often classified, a deficit exists in public knowledge about this topic. Important, therefore, is greater knowledge and appreciation of the factors and issue areas likely to be the most important when assessing how intelligence oversight affects state security concerns. Interviews in 2016 with security experts from the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands provide in-depth knowledge of how intelligence oversight relates to matters of state security. They offer a better understanding of what factors should be considered by oversight bodies, secret services, and legislators when setting up and implementing effective democratic oversight of intelligence activities, in order not to weaken the security of the state.
Frukostseminar: Japans tryggleiks- og utanrikspolitiske utfordringar på den koreanske halvøya
Nord-Koreas hurtige framgang i utviklinga av atom- og missilprogram har blitt ein alvorleg tryggingstrussel mot det internasjonale samfunnet. Junya Nishino gjester NUPI for å fortelje om trusselen frå ein japansk ståstad.