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    Tackling Welfare Gaps: The East European Transition and New Patterns of Migration to Norway

    2005
      • Jakub M. Godzimirski
    The main purpose of the study is to analyse how the growing welfare gaps between Eastern and Western Europe have become a securitised issue that needs to be addressed by national, international and supranational bodies. The very existence of welfare gaps is an important migratory push-factor. This study...
  • Publikasjon : NUPI Paper

    Nuclear Weapons and Materials into the 21st Century: Threats, Challenges, and Options for Change

    2004
    «Challenges to Collective Security» Working Papers from NUPI’s UN Programme: In three sections, this working paper briefly outlines i) present-day nuclear threats, ii) associated challenges of multinational mechanisms to stem nuclear proliferation to state and non-state actors – and most importantly,...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    EUs forslag til nytt tjenestedirektiv : Samfunns- og næringsøkonomiske konsekvenser for Norge

    2004
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Norsk petro-power og terrorisme: Brennbart og brukbart redskap i norsk sikkerhetspolitikk?

    2004
    Rapporten analyserer følgende sikkerhetspolitiske utfordringer: 1) Norges sikkerhetspolitiske marginalisering utenfor EU og innenfor et fragmentert NATO. 2) Olje- og gassproduksjon og leveransene til Europa er en viktig enkeltstående faktor som kan gjøre Norge mer sikkerhetspolitisk relevant. Av potensielle...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Crude Nukes on the Loose? : Preventing Nuclear Terrorism by Means of Optimum Nuclear Husbandry, Transparency, and Non-Intrusive Fissile Material Ve...

    2004
    This thesis assesses the threat of nuclear terrorism and identifies strategies for diminishing the risk of such incidents. Never before have the material, the technology, the know-how, and, perhaps, the motivations needed to perform acts of nuclear terrorism been more exploitable. Building on eight research...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    The Inferior Performance of State Owned Enterprises: Is it due to Ownership of Market Structure?

    2004
    We analyze differences in performance between private companies (PCs) and state owned enterprises (SOEs), with an emphasis on the effects of market structure. We use a panel covering all registered companies during the 1990s in Norway, a country where SOEs play an important role in regular markets. Return...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Internasjonal valgobservasjon i Afrika sør for Sahara : fødselshjelp for folkestyret eller hyllest til papirdemokratiet?

    2004
    Internasjonal valgobservasjon har siden inngangen til 90-tallet vært å regne for en industri i voldsom vekst. Denne utviklingen har hatt sammenheng med demokratikravene som vestlige givere innførte overfor utviklingslandene i kjølvannet av kommunismens fall i 1989. Til tross for det store antallet internasjonale...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Eksport av tjenester og potensialet for økt verdiskapning i Norge : En empirisk kartlegging

    2003
    Dette notatet gir en empirisk gjennomgang av norske tjenestenæringsers eksport, og foretar en sammenligning med trekkene i andre land. Videre gjøres det rede for omfanget av handelsbarrierer hos sentrale handelspartnere. Rapporten drøfter betydningen av direkte utenlandske investeringer i handelen med...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Nuclear Dimensions of the Iraqi Crisis

    2003
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Ways of improvement in the Russian labour market with emphasis on the shadow employment

    2003
    The report discusses the main peculiarities of the Russian labour market, such as the relatively low unemployment, the prevailing shadow labour relationships and the overmanning in the public sector. The report is organised as follows. The first part aims to highlight the main aspects of the Russian...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Creating Security through Immigration Control: An analysis of European immigration discourse and the development towards a common EU asylum and imm...

    2003
    The purpose of this report is to discuss the extent to which immigration has come to be perceived as a security threat by European Union (EU) policy makers. The manner in which immigration issues are presented by policy makers at the European level is assumed to have substantive implications for the...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Partnership and Discord: Russia and the construction of a post Cold War security architecture in Europe 1991–2000

    2003
    This study analyses Russia’s approach to the construction of a post-Cold War security architecture in Europe from 1991 to 2000. The author examines tensions, contradictions and ambiguities in Russia’s policy that contributed to making both partnership and discord ingredients to Russian–Western security...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Damage Limitation and Decline in Institutional Powers: Russia’s Perception of the EU as a Security Actor 1999–2002

    2003
    The report will discuss whether or not Russian interest and endorsement of the EU’s security and defense dimension repeated the overall strategic perspective of the Primakov doctrine, which aimed at counterbalancing US unipolarism by playing on the differences between the US and Europe in international...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Strengthening Cooperative Threat Reduction with Russia : The Norwegian Experience

    2002
    Many nuclear safety and security challenges remain in Northwest Russia. Years of international cooperation – and substantial funding – are required to deal with the legacy of the extensive nuclear activities of the Cold War. Among the more urgent projects that call for international attention are the...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    Kan valg av eksportmarked forklares med teorien om investeringer under usikkerhet? En økonomisk studie av atferden til norske fiskeeksportører

    2002
    I denne artikkelen gjøres det rede for hvordan nye teorier for investeringer under usikkerhet kan anvendes til å forklare bedrifters eksportbeslutninger. Det gis en empirisk analyse basert på eksportadferden til norske fiskeeksportører. Valg av eksportdestinasjon er søkt forklart ved ulike landspesifikke...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    French, UK, and US Policies to Support Peacekeeping in Africa: Current Status and Future Prospects

    2002
    In May 1997, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States announced their joint “P-3 Initiative”, to harmonize their peacekeeping capacity-building programs in Africa and foster an open dialogue between donors and recipients. The capacity-building programs of France, the UK and the US have since...
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    Multinationals Searching for R&D Spillovers : A Survey of the Literature

    2002
    This paper surveys the literature on R&D and technology spillovers as a motive for FDI. During the last years, a growing body of theoretical studies has generated formal arguments supporting the economic rationale for such behaviour. Yet, theoretical contributions are clustered within a few schools...
  • Publikasjon : Rapport

    International R&D Spillovers and the Absorptive Capacity of Multinationals

    2002
    This paper studies R&D spillovers as a motive for firms to go multinational. The establishment of a foreign subsidiary may increase a firm’s ability to learn from foreign R&D activity since R&D spillovers between firms are moderated by geographical distance. As opposed to earlier studies...
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    Hegemonens hamskifte : Bush, 11. september og amerikansk utenrikspolitikk

    2002
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    Components of Naval Nuclear Fuel Transparency

    2002
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