• Rosneft’s offshore partnerships: the re-opening of the Russian petroleum frontier? 

      Øverland, Indra; Lunden, Lars Petter; Fjærtoft, Daniel; Godzimirski, Jakub M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      During an intense period of only 14 months, from June 2010 to August 2011, six major cooperation agreements between oil companies were announced in Russia. Almost all of these partnerships involved offshore projects, with ...
    • Russia and China in Central Asia 

      Cooley, Alexander (NUPI Policy Brief;2015-26, Research report, 2015)
      Over the last three years, Russia and China have increased their engagement in Central Asia in response to NATO’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Moscow has deepened its security cooperation with the Central Asian states with ...
    • Russia and China in Greenland? 

      Leira, Halvard; de Carvalho, Benjamin (NUPI Policy Brief;2016-43, Research report, 2016)
      Over the last decade, the Arctic region has become the site of new forms of great power interest. While the US has changed its hegemonic presence, other powers, in particular China and Russia, have been perceived to actively ...
    • Russia and China in Iceland? 

      Leira, Halvard; de Carvalho, Benjamin (NUPI Policy Brief;2016-44, Research report, 2016)
      The Arctic region has become the site of renewed great power interest. Not only are the US and Russia actively engaged in the Arctic Council, but China has also become an observer. In addition to that, a number of policy ...
    • Russia and Europe in memory wars 

      Miller, Alexei (NUPI Working Paper;887, Research report, 2020)
      Russia and Europe are in a state of memory war. How did this come about? Is there a way out of this situation? In order to answer these questions, this report enquires into the dynamics of memory politics in Europe, and ...
    • Russia in world trade: Between globalism and regionalism 

      Melchior, Arne (Journal article, 2019)
      The article examines Russia’s participation in world trade and trade policy, using trade data for 1996–2017 and simulations of a numerical world trade model where Russia is divided into domestic regions. Since the mid-1990s, ...
    • Russia – A BRIC Country? 

      Flikke, Geir (8-2012;NUPI Policy Brief, Research report, 2012)
    • Russia's Arctic energy policy 

      Øverland, Indra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010)
    • Russia's Europe 1991-2016: Inferiority to Superiority 

      Neumann, Iver Brynild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
    • Russia's turn to the East: The Ministry for the Development of the Far East, and the domestic dimension 

      Blakkisrud, Helge (NUPI Policy Brief;2017-08, Research report, 2017)
    • Russia: Public Debate and the Petroleum Sector 

      Øverland, Indra; Poussenkova, Nina (Chapter, 2018)
      In Russia, civil society engagement with the petroleum sector is surprisingly rich and varied for a country that is ranked low on most democracy-related indicators. This chapter finds that there is a lively and varied ...
    • Russian approaches to military technology. The Northern dimension 

      Godzimirski, Jakub M. (NUPI Policy Brief;2020-8, Research report, 2020)
      This policy brief presents the main findings of a project on Russian approaches to technological challenges, and the implications for security developments in the High North. It begins by examining the Russian debate on ...
    • Russian Certainty of NATO Hostility: Repercussions in the Arctic 

      Wilhelmsen, Julie Maria; Hjermann, Anni Roth (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      How does a security dilemma dynamic between parties deemed not to hold hostile intentions toward each other emerge and escalate? This article investigates Russian official discourse on NATO engagement in Europe post-Crimea ...
    • Russian energy and grand strategy 

      Godzimirski, Jakub M. (NUPI Policy Brief;2020-16, Research report, 2020)
      This Policy Brief presents the most recent data on the performance of the Russian energy sector and discusses its strategic importance in the current setting.
    • Russian Expert and Official Geopolitical Narratives on the Arctic: Decoding Topical and Paradigmatic DNA 

      Godzimirski, Jakub M.; Sergunin, Alexander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      This article examines current Russian expert and official narratives on the Arctic, situating them in the broader context of the debate on Russia’s role in the international system. Combining a critical geopolitics approach ...
    • Russian foreign policy and interactiobn effects 

      Wilhelmsen, Julie Maria (Lecture, 2019)
      In current popular analysis, Russian foreign policy is explained from within: even in our presentations today, it is Russia’s relations to Europe, to the West, to China etc, that we address – it is not how these entities ...
    • Russian foreign policy as an instrument for domestic mobilization 

      Busygina, Irina (NUPI Policy Brief;2018-02, Research report, 2018)
      Despite numerous declarations, the Russian authorities have done very little about domestic reforms, such as economic modernization. By contrast, Russia’s external policy has been extremely active, and is extensively debated ...
    • Russian Grand Strategy and Energy Resources: The Asian Dimension 

      Godzimirski, Jakub M. (Chapter, 2021)
      This chapter addresses a set of strategically important questions about the relationship between Russian strategy and the country’s energy resources. It is divided into three sections. The first presents a brief discussion ...
    • Russian Neighborhood Policy And Its Eurasian Client States: No Autocracy Export 

      Kolstø, Pål; Blakkisrud, Helge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
    • Russian nuclear energy diplomacy and its implications for energy security in the context of the war in Ukraine 

      Szulecki, Kacper; Øverland, Indra Nobl (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the possibility of reducing Europe’s energy dependence on Russian resources has been hotly debated. The fossil fuel industries received most attention as European Union leaders ...