Browsing Publikasjoner fra Cristin - NUPI by Document Types "Working paper"
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Nuclear Weapons and Materials into the 21st Century: Threats, Challenges, and Options for Change
(Challenges to Collective Security;2-2004, Working paper, 2004)«Challenges to Collective Security» Working Papers from NUPI’s UN Programme: In three sections, this working paper briefly outlines i) present-day nuclear threats, ii) associated challenges of multinational mechanisms ... -
Observing or participating in regime change? Kyrgyz perspectives on the role of international election observation missions in 2005
(NUPI Working Paper;696, Working paper, 2006)This report offers an in-dept analysis of the role of international election observation missions in during the political upheavals in Kyrgyzstan in 2005. It presents the work of three leading, young academics from ... -
Patterns of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Africa : A simple test of the new trade theory with multinationals
(NUPI Working Paper;607, Working paper, 2000)In this study, we present an empirical survey of the patterns of trade and FDI in Africa based on a sample of 28 countries and their transactions with the OECD countries. These patterns are used to test whether the predictions ... -
Peace Operations in Africa: the Next Decade
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Perifere tilskuere eller sentrale aktører: Demokratene og utformingen av amerikansk utenrikspolitikk
(NUPI Working Paper;676, Working paper, 2005)In critically important parts of the cold war era the Democratic Party was the steward of American foreign policy. But since September 11. 2001, the party has, however, mostly been a bystander to the major transformation ... -
Political Priorities and Economic Interests in Russian-Latvian Relations
(NUPI Working Paper;620, Working paper, 2001)The paper focuses on interaction of political and economic aspects in Russian-Latvian relations. During the most of the 1990´s, the relationship was dominated by the «conflict manifestation,» which could be witnessed during ... -
Power, Principles and Procedures : Reinterpreting French foreign policy towards the USA (2001-2003)
(NUPI Working Paper;659, Working paper, 2004)French foreign policy towards the US is often understood as particularly confrontational and based on traditional power politics, or a wish to re-establish “la grandeur de la France”. This article aims at investigating ... -
Public opinion in Putin’s Russia. The public sphere, opinion climate and ‘authoritarian bias’
(NUPI Working Paper;878, Working paper, 2017)Russian public opinion polls regularly report approval ratings of 84% to 86% for President Vladimir Putin – but can we trust those figures? This question has come to the fore after the events of 2014. Although Putin’s ... -
Radicalization and foreign fighters in the Kosovo context: An analysis of international media coverage of the phenomena
(NUPI Working Paper;875, Working paper, 2017)This working paper takes a critical look at the written coverage of issues of jihadi radicalization and foreign fighters from Kosovo, identifying key themes, assumptions, and areas where the press seems to have missed ... -
Rammevilkår for norsk fiskeeksport
(NUPI Working Paper;640, Working paper, 2002)I en spørreundersøkelse ble 81 norske sjømateksportører også bedt om å kommentere ulike rammevilkår for eksporten. Dette notat oppsummerer resultatene fra denne del av undersøkelsen, uten å gjennomføre en full evaluering ... -
Recent Advances in Growth Theory. A Comparison of Neoclassical and Evolutionary Perspectives
(NUPI Working Paper;615, Working paper, 2001)Research on economic growth has experienced remarkable progress the last decade. The neoclassical perspective has benefited from development of new mathematical methods and new approaches to market structure, economics of ... -
Regionale og bilaterale handelsavtaler i Latin-Amerika. Konsekvenser for norsk eksport
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Remarks on Private-to-private corruption
(NUPI Working Paper;635, Working paper, 2002)The OECD’s Anti-Bribery Convention may be regarded as the strongest international expression of the recent recognition of corruption as a major global issue. The convention aims to contain trans-border corruption by making ... -
Review of the Norwegian Program for Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala
(NUPI Working Paper;703, Working paper, 2006)The present review was commissioned in order to assess how the current project portfolio of the Norwegian Indigenous Peoples Program in Guatemala corresponds to the approved strategy, and to develop more concrete ... -
Security, integration and identity change
(NUPI Working Paper;611, Working paper, 2000)In this working paper Pernille Rieker attempts to contribute to a better understanding of both how the EU functions as a security system and what kind of impact the integration process has on national security identities. ... -
Shi'i Separatism in Iraq : Internet Reverie or Real Constitutional Challenge?
(NUPI Working Paper;686, Working paper, 2005)This paper deals with non-conformist ideas among Iraqi Shi‘is about the territorial integrity of the modern state of Iraq. Two findings are presented. First, new Internet communications technology has enabled radical ... -
Sistani, the United States and Politics in Iraq : From Quietism to Machiavellianism?
(NUPI Working Paper;700, Working paper, 2006)This paper discusses the two prevailing interpretations of the political attitudes of the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the leading Shiite cleric in Iraq today. It is argued that neither the traditional “quietist” ... -
Sivil-militær splittelse og amerikansk sikkerhetspolitikk
(NUPI Working Paper;625, Working paper, 2002)Opp gjennom 1990-årene utviklet det seg en betydelig avstand mellom de militære og viktige deler av USAs politiske elite, noe som hadde merkbare konsekvenser for den sikkerhetspolitiske beslutningsprosessen. Særlig tydelig ... -
Stalin i postsovjetisk nasjonalbolsjevisme
(NUPI Working Paper;690, Working paper, 2005)Ikke bare ortodokse marxist-leninister så med sorg på Sovjetunionens oppløsning. I hele sovjetperioden fantes det også patrioter og nasjonalister som støttet aktiv opp om det kommunistiske regimet. Denne uensartede gruppen ... -
Strategic Adaption or Identity Change? : An analysis of Britain's Approach to the ESDP 1998-2004
(NUPI Working Paper;688, Working paper, 2005)In this working paper, Kristin Marie Haugevik seeks to analyse the nature of the changes in Britain’s approach to the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) after 1998. Ever since the beginning of the European ...