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Krig mot Irak : Foreligger det et FN-mandat for bruk av militærmakt?
(NUPI Working Paper;643, Working paper, 2003)Foreligger det i dag et folkerettslig grunnlag for bruk av militærmakt mot Irak? Spørsmålet står sentralt i den pågående striden i, og rundt, FNs sikkerhetsråd. Dette notatet gjennomgår historikken omkring Sikkerhetsrådets ... -
Lebanon poised at the brink
(NUPI Working Paper;868, Working paper, 2016)Gravely affected by the Syrian crisis, Lebanon has remained relatively stable against all odds – despite the influx of some 1.5 million Syrian refugees and an internal political crisis involving supporters of opposing Syrian ... -
Linking Issues : Should one bargain over two issues simultaineously or separately?
(NUPI Working Paper;616, Working paper, 2001)International negotiations on trade (e.g. GATT and TRIPS) have typically been of the packageform, and different issues have therefore been linked to each other. Trade issues have not been linked to e.g. environmental ... -
Local Elites meet Foreign Corporations : The Examples of Iran and Azerbaijan
(NUPI Working Paper;617, Working paper, 2001)Oil companies have jumped on the bandwagon of promotion of democracy and human rights, but without sufficient expertise in local conditions. What works in one country may backfire in another. Azeri democrats want the oil ... -
Lovely but dangerous: The impact of patent citations on patent duration
(NUPI Working Paper;614, Working paper, 2001)What is the impact of patent citations on patent renewal behaviour? Patent citations are commonly used as an indicator of technology spillovers. For cited patents therefore, patent citations have a potentially ambiguous ... -
Majority Rules and Incentives : International voting affects domestic policies
(NUPI Working Paper;662, Working paper, 2004)A "majority rule" defines the number of club-members that must approve a policy proposed to replace the status quo. Since the majority rule thus dictates the extent to which winners must compensate losers, it also determines ... -
Market specific fixed and sunk export costs: The impact of learning and spillovers
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Meet Me Halfway but don't Rush : Absorptive capacity and strategic R&D investment revisited
(NUPI Working Paper;621, Working paper, 2001)In this paper, we analyse how R&D investment decisions are affected by R&D spillovers between firms, taking into consideration that more R&D investment improves the ability to learn from competing firms - the so-called ... -
Megaton nuclear underground tests and catastrophic events on Novaya Zemlya : A satellite study
(NUPI Working Paper;716, Working paper, 2007)During the first NUPI study of the Novaya Zemlya underground nuclear test site in 1991–92, much information was generated. This relates both to facilities and testing activities. One of the most important discoveries made ... -
Multinationals Searching for R&D Spillovers : A Survey of the Literature
(NUPI Working Paper;629, Working paper, 2002)This paper surveys the literature on R&D and technology spillovers as a motive for FDI. During the last years, a growing body of theoretical studies has generated formal arguments supporting the economic rationale for such ... -
Norge i Afghanistan – bakgrunn, retorikk, fortsettelse
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Norge og multilateralt samarbeid : Mot en ny politikk?
(NUPI Working Paper;701, Working paper, 2006)I Soria Moria-erklæringen varslet den nye regjeringen at den multilaterale bistanden i økende grad skal forskyves fra Verdensbanken til utviklingsprogrammer og nødhjelpstiltak i regi av FN-organer. Norsk bistand skal ... -
Norges bistand til urfolk : En realitetsorientering
(NUPI Working Paper;708, Working paper, 2006)Denne rapporten ser nærmere på norsk bistand til urfolk. Rapporten tar utgangspunkt i Norads statistiske database over de prosjekter som har rapportert urfolk som hovedmålgruppe i perioden 1999–2005. Databasen viser omfanget ... -
Norges sikkerhetspolitiske utfordringer i nordområdene
(NUPI Working Paper;642, Working paper, 2003)I foredraget som notatet er en gjengivelse av, stilles spørs-målet om en av de sikkerhetspolitiske utfordringene for oss i nord kanskje ligger på det mentale plan hos oss selv. Det pekes på tilvente tenkemåter fra den kalde ... -
Norges tollpreferanser for import fra u-land
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Norsk petro-power og terrorisme: Brennbart og brukbart redskap i norsk sikkerhetspolitikk?
(NUPI Working Paper;667, Working paper, 2004)Rapporten analyserer følgende sikkerhetspolitiske utfordringer: 1) Norges sikkerhetspolitiske marginalisering utenfor EU og innenfor et fragmentert NATO. 2) Olje- og gassproduksjon og leveransene til Europa er en viktig ... -
Norsk utenrikshandel, markedspotensial og handelshindre
(NUPI Working Paper;647, Working paper, 2003)Dette notatet drøfter norsk eksport og virkninger av toll som legges på norsk eksport til andre land. Notatet viser at uavhengig av toll er økonomisk størrelse og geografisk avstand viktige forklaringsvariable for norsk ... -
North-South Trade and Wages with Complete Specialisation : Modifying the Stolper-Samuelson Relationship
(NUPI Working Paper;666, Working paper, 2004)From the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem, it is expected that North-South trade reduces the real wage of unskilled labour in the North. This paper questions the underlying assumption that trading countries are diversified, and ... -
Norway as an Allied Activist - Prestige and Pennance through Peace
(NUPI Working Paper;637, Working paper, 2002)According to a standard view, popular among Norwegian commentators and historians, Norway’s foreign relations after World War II are like a pendulum swinging from side to side, between national interests and national values, ... -
Norway's Fredskorpset Youth Program : Study of selected exchange projects
(NUPI Working Paper;670, Working paper, 2004)The Fredskorpset Youth program is a North-South exchange program facilitating the exchange of young people between partner organizations or institutions of Norway and countries of the South. The present study was ...