Violent Mobilization and Non-Mobilization in the North Caucasus

Introduksjon og oversikt over voldelig mobilisering i Nord-Kaukasus: Utvikling og kontekst, identiteter i konflikt, statlig og ikke-statlig vold, årsaker til og grenser for voldelig mobilisering i regionen.

Exclusion and Inclusion: The Core of Chechen Mobilization to Jihad

Artikkelen utforsker sosiale og relasjonelle betingelser for mobilisering av (enkelte) tsjetsjenere til jihad i Levanten. Det argumenteres for at det viktigste redskapet i voldelig mobilisering er en fortelling som projiserer den Andre som så forskjellig fra og farlig for Oss at voldsbruk fremstår som...

Norge må tenke nytt i Persiabukta

I stedet for å si ja til å bidra militært i Persiabukta, er det mulig å tenke seg en mye mer proaktiv og klok norsk linje. Sommertid er glemselstid. Verden går tilsynelatende i sine vante spor. Og når vi endelig vender tilbake til kontorpulten, synes beste måte å takle jobbens utfordringer på å gjøre...

Putin's Power Revisited: How identity positions and great power interaction condition strategic cooperation in Syria

This article investigates how Russian foreign policies are shaped in a two-level interactive social game. Russian foreign policies take their cue from ingrained identity positions articulated by the state leadership and negotiated in domestic debates, but they are also informed by interaction with other...

Russian Governance of the North Caucasus: Dilemmas of force and inclusion

While Vladimir Putin’s Russia struggles to strike a balance between security and freedom within the Russian polity, nowhere is the problem as acute as in the eastern parts of the North Caucasus. This chapter reviews Russia’s approach to the republics in that region since Putin came to power, and asks...

Colonized Children: Chechnya in Russia

This chapter explores how kinship relations have functioned as a source of social power in Chechnya and, since the end of the second post-soviet Chechen war, constituted a bond between Moscow and Grozny that allowed Russian governance over Chechnya.

Inside Russia’s Imperial Relations: The Social Constitution of Putin-Kadyrov Patronage

I denne artikkelen (Slavic Review) analyserer seniorforsker Julie Wilhelmsen hvordan Moskva har klart å få kontroll over utbryterrepublikken Tsjetsjenia siden slutten på den andre Tsjetsjenia-krigen i 2002. Wilhelmsen argumenterer for at Moskvas kontroll er tuftet på en personlig relasjon mellom Vladimir...

Norway and Russia in the Arctic: New Cold War Contamination?

The standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine has already obstructed cooperation across a range of issues. Could it also affect state interaction between Norway and Russia in the Arctic—an area and a relationship long characterized by a culture of compromise and/or cooperation? Here we start...

How the New Cold War travelled North (Part II) Interaction between Norway and Russia

This policy brief examines changing Russian and Norwegian approaches to each other in the period 2012–2016, and discusses how the “New Cold War” spread to the North. This is an intriguing question, since both parties had initially stated that, despite the overall worsening of Russia–West relations following...

How the New Cold War travelled North (Part I) Norwegian and Russian narratives

The standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine has already obstructed cooperation across a range of issues. Could it also affect state interaction between Norway and Russia in the Arctic—an area and a relationship long characterized by a culture of compromise and cooperation? In two policy briefs...

NATO and Russia: Spiral of distrust

This book presents a cutting-edge assessment of NATO's collective defence strategies in the immediate aftermath of the July 2016 NATO Warsaw Summit. Collective defence and deterrence came back on the agenda at the 2014 Wales Summit following the Russian annexation of Crimea, and was in many respects...

Russia's Securitization of Chechnya:How war became acceptable

This book provides an in-depth analysis of how mobilization and legitimation for war are made possible, with a focus on Russia's conflict with Chechnya. Through which processes do leaders and their publics come to define and accept certain conflicts as difficult to engage in, and others as logical,...

Leder: Takk for oss!

Leder: Kina, kunnskap og politikk

Russisk politikk under Vladimir Putin

Leder: Migrasjon

How does war become a legitimate undertaking? Re-engaging the post-structuralist foundation of securitization theory

Abstract How does war become a legitimate undertaking? This article challenges the interpretation of securitization as a narrow, linear and intentional event by re-engaging the post-structuralist roots of Copenhagen School securitization theory. To uncover the social process that makes war acceptable,...

Utenriksanalyse 'En tikkende bombe'

Leder: Oljefondet og utenrikspolitikken

Strategic cooperation against terrorism 2.0? Russia's initial positions on Syria. 1:2

This project examines the prospects for Russia-Western practical cooperation against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and, more broadly, for a rapprochement between Russia, NATO and key NATO member states post-Crimea. The analytical point of departure is two-fold: Firstly, the project will examine how...