Support to UN Peace Operations: Ensuring More Effective UN Peace Operations (UNPO)
UNPO-prosjektet målsetter seg å styrke FNs fredsbevarende operasjoner og andre fredsoperasjoners evne til å håndtere globale sikkerhetsutfordringer, tilpasse seg en global orden i endr...
Journalism in struggles for democracy: media and polarization in the Middle East
Hva er journalisters rolle i den sosiale og politiske polariseringen som har fulgt de arabiske opprørene? ...
Studying Indian Politics with Large-scale Data: Indian Election Data 1961–today
There has been a major shift in how Indian politics is studied, as large-scale data has become easier to access and analyze. In this research note, we describe some useful techniques and tools used for creating and merging large-scale datasets. We also introduce two datasets: constituency-level datasets of Indian State Elections and General Elections from 1961 until today. We describe the process of creating these datasets, the efforts involved in cleaning the data, and how the data can be utilized. In conclusion, we offer some reflections on the limitations of over-relying on quantitative data in research on Indian politics.
Lunsjforedrag: IS – terrorisme og påverknad
Korleis ser IS' strategiske kommunikasjon ut i dag?
Påverknadsoperasjonar og desinformasjon som verdsfenomen
Hacking, falske nyheiter og propaganda har blitt eit stadig vanlegare syn i verdspolitikken. Ofte blir Russland utpeika som hovudmistenkt. Men er det eigentleg rett?
En liten korrigering om "militarisering"
Klassekampens reportasje om USA, alliansepolitikk og Øst-Asia på tirsdag var veldig interessant, god og viktig. Det kan imidlertid være på sin plass å moderere utsagnene om Japan, skriver forfatterne i dette leserinnlegget i Klassekampen.
Review: Japan’s Security Renaissance: New policies and politics for the twenty-first century, By Andrew Oros (New York: Columbia University Press...
Plug and Play: Multinational Rotation Contributions for UN Peacekeeping Operations
In January 2016, Norway deployed a C-130 military transport aircraft to the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Given the number of attacks on patrols and logistics convoys of MINUSMA, which has been called ‘the world’s most dangerous UN mission’, a military transport aircraft like the C-130 is considered a critical enabler to the UN mission, whose ability to operate safely and carry out its mandate has often been limited by the lack of air assets. From the beginning of the mission in July 2013, European troop-contributing countries (TCCs) have provided military aircrafts (C-130s and smaller C-160s and C-295s), but the difference between these and the 2016 deployment was that the latter was longer term, providing more predictability for the UN since it would be part of a multinational rotation contribution (MRC) initiated by Norway, followed by Portugal, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium.