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Report
The Nuclear Umbrella Revisited
2020The NPT is in miserable shape, betrayed on the disarmament dimension, stuck in the Middle East and mostly irrelevant to the Asian nuclear armed states,... -
Academic article
Missiles, Vessels and Active Defence What Potential Threat Do the Russian Armed Forces Represent?
In 2019, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, presented a ‘strategy of active defence’, a possible prelude to the forthcoming Russian... -
Academic article
Spiraling toward a New Cold War in the North? The Effect of Mutual and Multifaceted Securitization
2020Building on a discourse-theoretical reading of securitization theory, this article theorizes and examines how two political entities can become locked... -
Academic article
The Nordic Balance Revisited: Differentiation and the Foreign Policy Repertoires of the Nordic States
Nordic governments frequently broadcast their ambition to do more together on the international stage. The five Nordic states (Denmark, Finland, Iceland,... -
Popular scientific article
Liberal fred
2020Over the last years, the EU has become a more important actor in international security relations. Whereas its core objective used to be to prevent a return... -
Popular scientific article
Hvorfor sier regjeringen nei til forsvarsfondet?
2020The Norwegian government has decided not to join the European Defence Fund (EDF) at this stage - despite having lobbied for an invitation to be included... -
Report
Intergovernmental checkmate on cyber? Processes on cyberspace in the United Nations
2020Cyberspace is an increasingly controversial field on the international agenda. Despite the fact that processes on the thematic have been going on in the... -
Popular scientific article
“Irregular” Migration and Divergent Understandings of Security in the Sahel
On 23 September 2020, the EU launched its new Pact on Migration and Asylum. In a refreshingly blunt press-release accompanying the Pact one could read:... -
Report
Security Council Resolution 1325 at 20: What Next for the Women Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda?
2020This policy brief takes stock of the achievements of the WPS agenda since the passing of its founding Security Resolution 1325, twenty years ago. It outlines... -
Interview
Podcast: "The special relationship"
2020Podcast about the US Presidential Elections and the special relationship (in Norwegian) -
Report
Myanmar: How to Become an Attractive Destination for Renewable Energy Investment?
Myanmar is endowed with abundant renewable energy resources, and its solar potential is the greatest in the Greater Mekong Subregion – yet, this potential... -
Report
Malaysia: How to Scale Up Investment in Renewable Energy
Malaysia set a target of 20% renewables in the energy mix by 2025, an 18% increase from the 2% it had in 2018. One of the planned measures is the development... -
Academic lecture
The Nordic Balance Revisited: Differentiation and the Foreign Policy Repertoires of the Nordic States
2020Presentation at the International Politics Seminar, Department of Politics, Gothenburg University. -
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Fixers and friends: local and international researchers
2020While we live in a highly unequal world where your position and place will determine what you have access to. However, based on years of fieldwork in the... -
Popular scientific article
As the AU tries to contain COVID-19, the virus constrains the AU
2020The AU cannot simply wait out the coronavirus pandemic: it must adapt and urgently develop new ways of working. -
Feature article
Viruset endrer FNs operasjoner
2020COVID-19-pandemien har påvirket FNs fredsbevarende operasjoner betydelig. På kort tid er aktivitetsnivået redusert til kun det mest kritiske. -
Feature article
Koronapandemien: FN må beskytte sitt personell
2020Fredsoperasjoner må raskt tilpasse seg koronapandemien, både for å beskytte eget personell og for å kunne fortsette kritiske operasjoner. -
Popular scientific article
COVID-19 and the African Union
2020Africa represents the third wave of the spread of COVID-19, but its impact may significantly undermine the reform, programmes and operations of the African... -
Popular scientific article
Examining the Longer-Term Effects of COVID-19 on UN Peacekeeping Operations
2020The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has forced United Nations peacekeeping missions to reassess which of their activities are essential for carrying out their mandated... -
Popular scientific article
The Impact of COVID-19 on Peace Operations
2020A few weeks ago, peace operations across the world began swiftly adapting to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 disease. Missions have been forced to take... -
Report
Lao PDR: How to Attract More Investment in Small-Scale Renewable Energy?
Lao PDR adopted the Renewable Energy Development Strategy in 2011 and set a target of 30% small-scale renewables in the energy mix by 2025. The country...