Your weekly NUPI recap – week 18

A week dedicated to American foreign and security policy has come to an end.

Your weekly NUPI recap - week 17

A NUPI week full of events has come to an end. Catch up here.

NUPI researchers brief UN Security Council

Dr. Patrick Cullen and Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud briefed the UN Security Council on hybrid war.

Your weekly NUPI recap - week 12

Did you miss out on an event, an important article or other NUPI news? Here’s a recap of last week.

An unsecure web of things

How do you know if your new TV with an integrated camera is secure?

Green future – risks and opportunities

NUPI has partnered with Columbia University and Harvard University.

Your weekly NUPI recap

Did you miss out on an event, an important article or other NUPI news? Here’s a recap of last week.

Turning point for UN peacekeeping?

The UN should stop doing stabilization operations, according to NUPI researchers.

The paradox of gender equality

‘Development doesn’t necessarily promote equal opportunities’, says Francesca Refsum Jensenius.

Prestigious award to NUPI researcher

Iver B. Neumann (NUPI) presented with award for his contributions to globalization research.

Praise for NUPI in institute evaluation

A recent evaluation of Norway’s social science research institutes commends NUPI for the relevance and high quality of its work.

UN Peacekeeping under new leadership

UN will have to address several challenges in the area of peacekeeping operations.

‘Definitely a frightening development’

Global freedom has declined for the 11th consecutive year, according to Freedom House’s recent report. Norway is in the lead, but also faces challenges, according to Senior Advisor Joachim Nahem at NUPI.

Syria – an overview

Watch some of Norway’s experts take on the Syria conflict.

New Secretary of State – Pro oil and pro Russia?

Rex Tillerson – one of the main Western proponents of closer cooperation with Russia in the petroleum sector – has been nominated as Secretary of State for the USA. That may have considerable geopolitical ripple effects.

VIDEO: Research for a safer Europe

‘Europe needs a more consistent security policy’, explains senior research fellow Nina Græger (NUPI). Through an exchange programme for Nordic researchers she has been working with that issue in close collaboration with Swedish colleagues.

From cooperation to conflict

How does Russia see Europe? That is the topic of the latest book by Iver Neumann, who finds that the pendulum swings between the view of Europe as decadent and rotten, and Europe as something to emulate.

When Russia goes to war

What makes war acceptable? Julie Wilhelmsen launches her most recent book, followed by a conversation with Aftenposten commentator Helene Skjeggestad.

A nuclear-weapons-free-world – utopia, or…?

In September 2016, North Korea celebrated a successful nuclear test. Is a nuclear-weapons-free world feasible – and desirable? Sverre Lodgaard looks into this question in his recent publication on this subject.

Lebanon on knife-edge

With Syria to the north-east, Israel in the south and faced with its own political crises, Lebanon finds itself challenged on many fronts.