Afrikas Horn: Den strategiske betydninga for Europa, Gulf-statane og andre aktørar
På dette seminaret vil Alexander Rondos ta for seg utfordringane som regionen står overfor, og Afrikas horns strategiske betydning for Europa, Gulf-statane og andre aktørar. Korleis kan desse utfordringane konverterast til ein fellesinnsats som kan gjere det mogleg for Afrikas horn å bli ei plattform for samarbeid om samarbeid om tryggleiks- og økonomiske spørsmål?
Food Security in India: the Interactions of Climate Change, Economics, Politics and Trade (FOODSEC)
Klimaendringer truer systemer for matproduksjon og levebrød for en betydelig andel av Indias befolkning. Dette prosjektet undesøker de potensielle effektene på matvaresikkerhet. ...
Trade Integration, Geopolitics and the Economy of Russia (TIGER)
Prosjektet analyserte hvordan handelsintegrasjon er koblet til geografi, geopolitikk og Russlands dreining mot Asia. ...
Developments in the Russian Far East (RFE)
Dette prosjektet ser nærmere på russisk beslutningstaking og internasjonalt engasjement rundt utviklingen på Russlands stillehavskyst. ...
Humanitære endringar, humanitære utfordringar og vern av sivile
Seminaret tar opp ein mogleg konflikt mellom humanitære prinsipp og lokale realitetar.
Financial Plumbing for Big Beer
This policy brief departs from the idea of studying multinational corporations’ “global wealth chains” (Seabrooke and Wigan 2014a, 2014b). This can tell us how companies protect and create wealth by decentering their corporate forms in advantageous jurisdictions. The brief proposes a method for studying global wealth chains, despite the data limitations that constrain the field, and applies this method to Carlsberg A/S, which is a brewery operating across multiple jurisdictions.
Marokko, endringar i regionen og samarbeid med E U
På dette seminaret vil Mohammed Tawfik Mouline gi ein introduksjon om Marokko, om kva for nokre viktige resultat landet har oppnådd på det politiske, økonomiske og sosiale plan.
EU initiatives along the ‘cocaine routes’ to Europe: Fighting drug trafficking and terrorism by proxy?
While broad scholarly attention has been devoted to the securitization of migration in the ′EU’s relations with neighboring countries, less attention has been given to the ways in which the EU is partnering with third countries to fight other central ′‘unconventional security threats′’, such as terrorism and drug trafficking. This article traces the evolution of EU cooperation on these two issues with countries along the cocaine trafficking routes to Europe, i.e. Latin America and the Caribbean and West Africa. A mapping of EU initiatives and cooperation reveals that not only can a securitization of EU cooperation be observed in both regions, but various ′‘unconventional security threats′’, perceived in geopolitical terms, seem increasingly to serve as drivers for EU external action. The modalities of EU support – through international and regional organizations as well as third countries’ own counter-crime and counter-terrorism capabilities – suggest that the Union is fighting drug trafficking and terrorism ′‘by proxy′’. The article discusses whether the ′‘indirect′’ EU approach is a strategy of efficient engagement, or rather a way of avoiding commitment while portraying itself as a ′‘global crime fighter′’. Lastly, more analytical attention to third country interests, agency, and opposition is suggested in order for analyses to transcend the one-directional understanding of power seemingly underpinning the proxy concept.