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    New Momentum for European Defence Cooperation

    2016
    For better or for worse, the politics of Brexit, in combination with the implementation of the new EU Global Strategy for Foreign and Security Policy, have generated renewed momentum for European defence cooperation. EU member states have tabled a range of proposals. Some consolidation will be necessary,...
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    Emissions trading and climate diplomacy between Europe and China

    2016
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    Non-allied states in a changing Europe: Sweden and its bilateral relationship with Finland in a new security context

    2016
    Swedish security policy has experienced dramatic developments in recent decades. With the end of the Cold War, Swedish security policy could not identify any military threat to the country’s security, and so the armed forces were dramatically reduced. What remained of Swedish defence shifted the focus...
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    China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the New Eurasian Order

    2016
    As Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has redirected the structures and the objectives of both foreign and domestic policy in the PRC. BRI’s goal is primarily economic: to increase trade and investment along China’s periphery by funding and building infrastructure...
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    EU referendum: the beginning, not the end, of Brexiteers’ problems

    2016
    On 23 June 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union. The referendum outcome triggered resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron and his replacement by former Home Secretary Theresa May. This brief enquires into why Cameron lost the referendum battle and what the major challenges facing the new...
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    China's New Development Bank and Infrastructure-led Growth

    2016
    In view of China’s recent launch of several new development banks (AIIB, OBOR, NDB) with a central focus on infrastructure, this NUPI Brief takes a look at how China’s infrastructure projects have fared both at home and abroad in the past. It asks the question: Does economic growth, boosted by infrastructure...
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    More teeth for the NATO-Tiger How the Framework Nation Concept can reduce NATO’s growing formation – capability gap

    2016
    How can the Framework Nation Concept reduce NATO’s growing formation – capability gap?
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    Military non-alignment, political solidarity, and a retreat to territorial defence: how to understand the Swedish NATO-debate

    2016
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    Expectations for the Warsaw Summit: Conventional and nuclear responses to Russian belligerence

    2016
    This paper describes two aspects of the changed security environment. First, it discusses NATO’s response to the new threats on its eastern and southern borders. The Alliance took a number of modest steps at the Wales Summit in september 2014 to deal with those, but were they enough? Will it announce...
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    Can NATO’s new Very High Readiness Joint Task force deter?

    2016
    This Policy Brief is an extended version of an article that first published in the journal Atlantisch Perspeetief (39:6) under the headline ”NATO’s new spearhead force: Credible deterrence?”
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    China's Future?

    24.05.2016
      • Åsmund Weltzien
    What is China's future? What will it take for China to escape the middle income trap and graduate to become a mature developed economy? And how is China's economy linked to its political system?
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    Rethinking Strategy: NATO and the Warsaw Summit

    2016
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    Holding the borders, holding the centre: the EU and the refugee crisis

    2016
    What has come to be called the ‘refugee crisis’ is the latest in a series of crises bedevilling the European Union – the four-fold monetary,budgetary, economic and financial ‘Euro-crisis’; a geopolitical security challenge posed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,the war in Syria and incursions into NATO...
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    China’s Political Priorities in the Nordic Countries: from technology to core interests

    2016
    Chinese policymakers have identified a number of priorities that motivate them to observe and interact with the Nordic countries. While one can assume that the Nordic countries appear far from frequently on China’s foreign policy agenda, they have unique competences and are open to increased engagement...
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    Holding the borders, holding the centre: the EU and the refugee crisis

    2016
    What has come to be called the ‘refugee crisis’ is the latest in a series of crises bedevilling the European Union – the four-fold monetary, budgetary, economic and financial ‘Euro-crisis’; a geopolitical security challenge posed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war in Syria and incursions into NATO...
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    Financial Plumbing for Big Beer

    2016
    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...
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    The U.S. Presidential Election and its Implications on Middle East Policy

    2016
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    Preparing Civilian Experts to work in Vulnerable Places: Unveiling Brazil’s Potential

    2016
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    Mispricing Argentine soybean exports

    2016
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    Nord Stream 2: policy dilemmas and the future of EU gas market

    2016
    The Nord Stream 2 (NS2) gas pipeline project is one of the most controversial issues in EU gas-related debates today. Its proponents hold that the project is driven by purely commercial considerations, while opponents label it as political and contradictory to EU goals and rules. The project has also...
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