Browsing NUPI Policy Brief by Subject "VDP::Internasjonal politikk: 243"

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    • Plug and Play: Multinational Rotation Contributions for UN Peacekeeping Operations 

      Boutellis, Arthur; Karlsrud, John (NUPI Policy Brief;2017-15, Research report, 2017)
      In January 2016, Norway deployed a C-130 military transport aircraft to the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Given the number of attacks on patrols and logistics convoys of MINUSMA, which has been called ‘the world’s most ...

    • Predictive peacekeeping: opportunities and challenges 

      Duursma, Allard; Karlsrud, John (NUPI Policy Brief;2018-10, Research report, 2018)
      The time is ripe for the development of a UN early warning tool that estimates the likelihood of instability, intercommunity clashes and armed violence in areas in which UN peacekeepers operate. However, this development ...

    • 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 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 reframing: Norway as an outpost for NATO offensives 

      Hjermann, Anni Roth; Wilhelmsen, Julie Maria (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 ...

    • Russia’s view of Georgia: a NATO proxy yet again? 

      Wilhelmsen, Julie Maria (NUPI Policy Brief;2020-15, Research report, 2020)
      After the crises in Ukraine, and despite the Georgian government’s allegedly more pragmatic attitude towards Russia, official statements from Moscow increasingly project Georgia as hostile. This may be the result of the ...

    • The spiralling effects of the Sino-American trade war 

      Lanteigne, Marc (NUPI Policy Brief;2020-09, Research report, 2020)
      Almost two years ago, China and the United States instigated a trade conflict which has had serious international effects, a situation since exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. What has truly made a solution to this ...

    • Trade and trust: the role of trade in de facto state conflict transformation 

      Gelashvili, Tamta; Kemoklidze, Nino; Blakkisrud, Helge (NUPI Policy Brief;2021-1, Research report, 2021)
      De facto states – unrecognized secessionist entities that eke out a living on the margins of the international system – are often heavily dependent on external patron states for economic aid and investment. When the parent ...

    • US-Norway Bilateral Defense Agreements: a partnership that strengthens NATO 

      Cullen, Patrick; Stormoen, Ole Martin (NUPI Policy Brief;2020-6, Research report, 2020)
      The defense partnership between the United States and Norway plays a crucial role for both American and Norwegian national defense. Less understood is the important and positive role that these US-Norwegian bilateral defense ...