
NUPI Center for Asia Research
NCAR
The NUPI Center for Asia Research (NCAR), launched in 2015, reflects growing European interest in the politics, economics and strategic policies of East, Southeast and South Asia.
The purpose of the Centre is to develop research on Asian domestic and global politics, reflecting regional policy issues of great relevance to Norway and to Europe as a whole. NCAR's mission is to become a leading source of policy-relevant research and expertise on the Asia-Pacific for the benefit of the Norwegian public and well as the public and private sector. NCAR brings together research experience from several areas of comparative and foreign policy studies related to Asian politics, economics, security and diplomacy.
Among the current research projects under the aegis of NCAR is a multifaceted study of the sub-regional relations between the Russian Far East (RFE) and Northeast Asia, including China and Japan. Other projects in progress are a study of emerging European ‘pivot’ to Asia in light of China’s rise as a great power and ongoing questions about the European Union’s foreign policy developments, the growing roles of Asian actors in Arctic development and institution-building, the difficult question of maritime security in East Asia, transitional government in Myanmar in the post-2015 election period, political economy issues in India, and European contributions of the political economy of Southeast Asia.
China and India have highly visible roles in NCAR's portfolio. However, the Centre also maintains an active network of research contacts with other countries in the region, notably Japan, Myanmar, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam as well as the Oceania/South Pacific area. Specific areas of research have also included comparative Asia-Europe welfare state development and the ‘Nordic model’, free trade cooperation, governance, and comparative peace-building. NEAR researchers are also affiliated with many other research networks both within NUPI and across Europe.
Scholars partnered with NCAR represent a wide variety of educational and research backgrounds in the fields of economics, international relations, political science and strategic studies, and possess language skills which include French, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin and Thai.
Read more about NUPI's research on Asia on our Asia regional page.
NUPI also organizes a seminar series on China and the Nordics. More information here.
See also NUPI Centre for European Studies (NCE).
News
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The strategic importance of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Tokyo’s take
10 May 2019While the idea of the Indo-Pacific as more than just a geographic space is only recently taking root in the Nordics and broader Europe, it has already been hotly discussed... -
European countries differ in how they talk critical issues with China
28 Jan 2019This is the conclusion in a new report addressing political values in Europe-China relations. Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr (NUPI and UiB) has written the chapter on Norway. -
New report on China and multilateral development banks
21 Jan 2019China is strengthening its position within international development finance and monetary cooperation. -
Why are Asia’s nuclear powers rearming?
12 Dec 2018The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has granted NOK 8 million to NUPI researchers Henrik Hiim and Sverre Lodgaard to study the drivers of nuclear rearmament in Asia. -
China: New Silk Road stir mixed reactions in Europe
6 Apr 2018Europeans are growing more wary of China, but still welcome many of its contributions. -
Asia is booming – what are the implications?
6 Mar 2018Connectivity has become a buzzword today. It topped the agenda at the joint conference on trade, infrastructure and Europe–Asia relations, organized by NUPI and the MFA to... -
Analysis: Chinese politics under Xi Jinping
2 Mar 2018Xi Jinping wanting to scrap formal limitations on presidential terms is making waves. -
Timely report on Chinese investments
15 Dec 2017The volume of Chinese investments in Europe has increased significantly in recent years. -
NEW BOOK: Meeting the dragon in the North
23 Oct 2017The Nordics have a lot to gain from learning from each other's relationship with China. -
China meets the Nordics at NUPI
6 Sep 2017How does the world appear seen from China and the Nordics? -
Japan and China: Competing Realities
23 Aug 2017China has played a central role in Japanese identity-making for centuries - what of its role today? asks Wrenn Yennie Lindgren (NUPI) in a new article. -
The Bear and the Triangle
25 Apr 2017What shapes EU policy towards China? This is the topic for NUPI Research Fellow Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson's new article. -
The Chinese Story
18 Apr 2017New article: China is rapidly rising as a key actor on the African continent. -
Varsel om opprustning
5 Feb 2019Urovekkende nye missilforsvarsplaner fra USA, skriver Henrik Hiim i kronikk.
Publications
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Publication : ANTOLOGI
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Publication : NUPI Policy Brief
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Projects
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Research project
Developments in the Russian Far East (RFE)
2014 - 2016 (Completed)The project "Developments in the Russian Far East" looks at Russian decision-making and international engagement around development of Russia’s Pacific coast.
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MISIS-NUPI Capacity Building and Research Cooperation
2014 - 2017 (Completed)The purpose of the project is to strengthen the capacity of the Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies (MISIS) to carry out research on foreign policy issues of importance to Myanmar...
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Undermining Hegemony. The US, China, Russia, and International Public Goods
2015 - 2018 (Completed)Developments in the last fifteen years have driven renewed interest in hegemonic-stability and power-transition theory. The persistence of US-centered primacy during the 1990s produced new arguments for...
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Foto: NTB Scanpix Research project
Traders in the food value chain - firm size and international food distribution (TRADERS)
2014 - 2019 (Ongoing)The project focuses on patterns of distribution in Norway's seafood exports and agricultural trade (exports and imports).
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The state, globalization and industrial development in India: the political economy of regulation and deregulation (INDEVIND)
2013 - 2016 (Completed)This project will study the role of the state in industrial development in India.
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Legal Regimes and Women's Economic Agency (WomEcon)
2016 - 2021 (Ongoing)The project's objective is to improve our understanding of how legal regimes and legal changes affect the economic agency of different subgroupes of women across the world
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China and the Nordics Seminar Series
2015 - 2017 (Completed)What roles can the Nordic countries play in China’s emerging European engagement?