Differentiated Integration and EU Outsiders: A Norwegian View

Som ikke-medlem av EU og medlem av EØS siden 1994, har Norge et unikt juridisk, politisk og praktisk forholdt til EU. Denne rapporten, som bygger på semi-strukturerte intervjuer med norske politikere og byråkrater, diskuterer hva økt fokus på "differensiering" i EU kan bety for integrerte tredjeland...

Introduction: The Duty of Care in International Relations

In this introduction, we lay out the premises, logics and content of the book in more detail. In the next section, we introduce a varied set of current international challenges concerning the relationship between states and citizens. In the third section, we present the historical background for why...

The Duty of Care in International Relations Protecting Citizens Beyond the Border

This book offers a first overarching look at the relationship between states and their citizens abroad, approached through the concept 'Duty of Care'. How can society best be protected, when increasing numbers of citizens are found outside the borders of the state? What are the limits to care...

Veivalg og spenninger i norsk sikkerhetspolitikk: Norges forhold til NATO og EU

Norges sikkerhetspolitiske orientering har vært solid plantet i NATO-medlemskapet og det tette bilaterale samarbeidet med USA siden 1950-tallet. Parallelt har EU med jevne mellomrom også stått på den norske sikkerhetspolitiske dagsorden. Norsk sikkerhetspolitikk har vært preget av en rekke spenninger...

Illiberalism, geopolitics, and middle power security: Lessons from the Norwegian case

Middle powers have played a key role in supporting global governance, a rules-based order, and human rights norms. Apart from conveying and effectuating global solidarity and responsibility, multilateral cooperation has been an arena where middle powers seek protection and leverage relatively modest...

‘Brothers in arms’. Kinship, gender and military organizations

Kinship arguably is a particularly useful concept for studying the social structures, relations and culture of military organizations, both in exceptional situations and during ordinary service. Kinship helps us identify and understand how masculine values and fellowship among male soldiers are embedded...

Need to have or nice to have? Nordic cooperation, NATO and the EU in Norwegian foreign, security and defence policy

Nordic-ness and Nordic values clearly are embedded in Norway's conception of its foreign policy role. Nordic cooperation is also important for seeking information about EU policies for non-EU country Norway. While supporting and participating in Nordic Defence Cooperation, Norway's NATO-membership...

European security as practice: EU–NATO communities of practice in the making?

This book aims to show practice approaches at work in the fields of European diplomacy and security broadly conceived. It sets out to provide readers with a hands-on sense of where research on social practices and European diplomacy, security and foreign policy currently stands. The book reviews how...

Need to have or nice to have? Nordic cooperation, NATO and the EU in Norway’s foreign and security policy

Nordic-ness and Nordic values clearly are embedded in Norway's conception of its foreign policy role. Nordic cooperation is also important for seeking information about EU policies for non-EU country Norway. While supporting and participating in Nordic Defence Cooperation, Norway's NATO-membership...

The Duty of Care for Citizens Abroad: Security and Responsibility in the In Amenas and Fukushima Crises

This article analyses the state’s duty of care (DoC) for citizens who fall victim to unforeseen catastrophic or violent events abroad. The DoC highlights the challenges, dynamics and relations involved in diplomatic practice that is aimed at protecting citizens outside of state borders and where traditional...

Usikre rammer for norsk forsvarspolitikk

USAs utenrikspolitikk og et militært potent Russland skaper uforutsigbare internasjonale rammevilkår. Både NATO og Norge har vendt «hjem» igjen både mentalt (forsvarsidentitet og trusselbilde) og fysisk (kollektiv sikkerhet og territorielt forsvar). Men nye internasjonale rammevilkår krever nytenkning,...

Vilje til omstilling - før og nå

I dagens forsvarsdebatt er Forsvarets evne til å håndtere et bredt spekter av trusler under mer usikre internasjonale rammebetingelser sentralt. Det er stor oppslutning om at Forsvaret bør ha en viss avskrekkende effekt, kunne håndtere mindre episoder alene, og delta i utenlandsoperasjoner - også for...

Grasping the everyday and extraordinary in EU–NATO relations: the added value of practice approaches

Much scholarly work seeking to explain the EU–NATO relationship emphasises conflicting national or institutional interests, strategic individuals, and operational inefficiencies and overlaps. This article offers an alternative account of how both the everyday and the extraordinary in EU–NATO security...

The Challenges and Dynamics of Alliance Policies: Norway,NATO and the High North

The global system of alliances that the United States built after the Second World War underpinned the stability and prosperity of the postwar order. But during the 20th century, the multilateral NATO alliance system in Europe and the bilateral San Francisco alliance system in Asia rarely interacted....

The Challenges and Dynamics of Alliance Policies: Norway,NATO and the High North

This chapter sets out to discuss two major framework conditions for Norwegian foreign, security and defence policy: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the High North. Having to address increasingly heterogeneous security concerns and agendas, how do alliances shape their members’ foreign,...

Diplomatiminister Brende

Denne artikkelen diskuterer Børge Brendes virke som diplomatiminister.

Norsk utenrikspolitikk begynner i Europa: arven etter Brende i europapolitikken

European security in practice: EU-NATO communities in-the-making?

European security is at a critical juncture and many have called for a more coherent and efficient response, involving both the EU and NATO. However, the primary tool for EU–NATO cooperation, “Berlin Plus”, has been stuck in a political quagmire since the mid-2000s, making a lot of scholars to conclude...

Basepolitikken gir viktige signaler

Norsk forsvarspolitikk. Territorialforsvar og internasjonal innsats 1990-2015

Norsk forsvarspolitikk har gjennomgått store omstillinger siden den kalde krigens slutt, spesielt i perioden 1990–2005. Regjering og Storting sendte stadig flere soldater til fredsbevarende og fredsopprettende operasjoner i utlandet, mens Forsvaret selv fremdeles hadde forsvar av landet som sitt primære...