NUPI Policy Brief
NUPI Policy Briefs are summaries of projects, and research topics, presenting research findings/conlusions and highlighting policy measures. The series are online downloadable.
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Critical Materials for Development: A New Trajectory for Norwegian Foreign Aid Policy
(NUPI Policy Brief;2023-08, Research report, 2023)The war in Ukraine has accelerated the global shift to renewable energy. As a result, global mineral and metal sup- ply chains have also started changing in response to rising demand for materials for clean energy technologies. ... -
Internet governance and the UN in a multiplex world order era?
(NUPI Policy Brief;2023-05, Research report, 2023)Over the last two decades Internet Governance (IG) has emerged as an increasingly complex and fraught field of policymaking involving both states and non-state actors on a multitude of arenas. Facing this complex field, ... -
Germany’s Zeitenwende in foreign and security policy: Domestic developments and alliance dynamics after one year
(NUPI Policy Brief;2022-06, Research report, 2023)Days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a Zeitenwende, a historical turning point to which Germany would respond by reforming its foreign and security ... -
Loss of Tonga’s telecommunication – what happened, how was it managed and what were the consequences?
(NUPI Policy Brief;2022-19, Research report, 2023)In January 2022 the subsea volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai in Tonga had a major eruption which also cut the country’s communication lines nationally, between Tonga’s inhabited islands and the outside world. The damage ... -
Public resistance in Russia: Mobilizational opportunities and the effect of protest on public attitudes
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NATO's 2022 Strategic Concept - Change, Continuity and Implications
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Kulturkampene i USA og betydning for politisk klima og utenrikspolitikk
(NUPI Policy Brief;2022-14, Research report, 2022)I denne analysen skal vi se nærmere på den underliggende interne dynamikken for kulturkampene. Vi begynner med venstresiden før vi ser på høyresiden og til slutt spør om dette også kan få betydning for amerikansk ... -
Climate Security Language in UN Peace Operation’s Mandates
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Makt og avmakt i FNs sikkerhetsråd: Valgte medlemslands veier til innflytelse
(NUPI Policy Brief;2022-18, Research report, 2022)FNs sikkerhetsråd består av fem faste og ti valgte medlemsland. Sistnevnte velges på rullerende basis, for to år av gangen. I 2021-22 har Norge vært et av disse valgte medlemslandene. Forskningslitteraturen viser gjerne ... -
China’s multilateral stretch: Crafting influence with international organizations
(NUPI Policy Brief;2022-15, Research report, 2022)China’s rise as a multilateral power is stirring reactions internationally, with many actors worrying about Chinese influence over specific international organizations (IOs), and its rippling effects on multilateral ... -
The Strategic Direction of the United States in an Era of Competition
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End of an era: Future of Nordic security from a Finnish perspective
(NUPI Policy Brief;2022-11, Research report, 2022)With the full-scale attack on Ukraine, Russia crossed a red line for Finland, prompting the country to abandon its long-term military non-alignment policy and seek NATO membership. Finland is thus moving away from the ... -
Europeanisation of Norwegian security and defence policy Nordic cooperation as vehicle
(NUPI Policy Brief;2022-09, Research report, 2022)With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European security has been placed on high alert, highlighting the importance of both the EU and NATO as key, although different, regional security actors. As the election of a more ... -
AUKUS and its implications for Asia, US-European relations and non-proliferation
(NUPI Policy Brief;2021-11, Research report, 2021)The political, strategic and technological aspects of the AUKUS deal may be more important than the provision of nuclear-powered submarines. The deal is a clear sign of the US tilt towards Asia and will have important ... -
Chinese digi-tech politics: Steering growth, spurring innovation, and reinforcing control
(NUPI Policy Brief;2021-07, Research report, 2021)China is a growing digital technology (digi-tech) power and a leading provider of digi-tech resources internationally. China’s digi-tech growth is helping create opportunities in other and developing countries, but it also ... -
Digital technology and development : Part 1 of 4 in the series: Digital technology and international politics
(NUPI Policy Brief;2021-06, Research report, 2021)Increasingly, the global challenges posed by digitalization and cybersecurity are emerging as central to the organization of development assistance – with consequences for billions of people in the developing world. The ... -
On digital media in Lebanon's political crisis
(NUPI Policy Brief;2021-08, Research report, 2021)The technology-driven transformation of the media environment is changing politics worldwide. Yet everywhere is not the same. The digital revolution yields different results in different political contexts. This policy ... -
Russian reframing: Norway as an outpost for NATO offensives
(NUPI Policy Brief;2021-05, Research report, 2021)Moscow increasingly views the ‘Collective West’ as an offensive actor and the High North as terrain for NATO ‘expansion’. Norway figures as an active partner in this endeavour. For Norway, this situation is precarious: to ... -
The European Maritime Security and Defence Policy Architecture: Implications for Norway
(NUPI Policy Brief;2021-12, Research report, 2021)Maritime security is high on the international and European security agenda, hence a number of new initiatives and actions have developed within the EU, NATO and through bilateral/minilateral agreements. To increase the ... -
European defence beyond institutional boundaries: Improved European defence through flexibility, differentiation and coordination
(NUPI Policy Brief;2021-13, Report, 2021)As a response to the changing geopolitical situation, initiatives aimed to strengthen European defence have been taken in NATO, in the EU, but also bi- and multilaterally between EU member states and associated non-members, ...
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