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Ad-hoc Security Initiatives, an African response to insecurity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article contends that Ad-hoc Security Initiatives (ASI) have developed over the last decade in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin and represents a new form of African collective security mechanism. The G5 Sahel Force and ... -
Analyzing Security Subregions: Forces of Push, Pull, and Resistance in Nordic Defense Cooperation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)How can we best analyze security subregions? The most commonly used theory of regional security in the discipline of international relations, the regional security complex theory, focuses on large regions, such as Europe, ... -
Biowar next? Security implications of the coronavirus
(LSE Ideas Strategic Update;, Research report, 2020)In this Strategic Update, Karsten Friis investigates the pandemic's potential consequences for the world, its armed forces, the integration of Europe, US-China relations, as well as the concept and practice of 'war' more ... -
Conventional Counterforce Dilemmas: South Korea's Deterrence Strategy and Stability on the Korean Peninsula
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)In response to North Korea's nuclear weapons program, South Korea is quietly pursuing an independent conventional counterforce and countervalue strategy. This strategy is unique. Few, if any, nonnuclear states have sought ... -
EU-Supported Reforms in the EU Neighbourhood as Organized Anarchies: The Case of Post-Maidan Ukraine
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)How does the EU and its member states organize their support for reforms in the countries of the EU Neighbourhood? Building on organization theory research on reforms as sets of loosely coupled ‘garbage can’ processes, we ... -
For the greater good?: “Good states” turning UN peacekeeping towards counterterrorism
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)The usual suspects of middle power internationalism—small and middle powers such as Canada, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Sweden—have all contributed to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA). This article ... -
Forsvar og identitet: de norske friskusverdiene
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From Liberal Peacebuilding to Stabilization and Counterterrorism
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Since the end of the Cold War, international interventions have increasingly been deployed to deal with internal conflict. Liberal peacebuilding has been a guiding concept for many of these interventions, in particular ... -
A Governance and Risk Inventory for a Changing Arctic
(NAADSN Engage Series;5, Chapter, 2021)In chapter two, Elana Wilson Rowe, Ulf Sverdrup, Karsten Friis, Geir Hønneland, and Mike Sfraga caution against viewing trends of conflict and cooperation in the Arctic in binary terms. While the US and Europe are determined ... -
Hacking democracy: managing influence campaigns and disinformation in the digital age
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How to Deal with North Korea: Lessons from the Iran Agreement
(APLN/CNND Policy Brief;No. 24, Research report, 2016)The current and oft repeated pattern of responses to North Korean nuclear and missile provocations has failed to produce results. With the stakes becoming increasingly high it is time that a new approach is explored. The ... -
Huawei, 5G and Security: Technological Limitations and Political Responses
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)How did Chinese 5G providers, such as Huawei, become a security concern in the USA and Europe? Were the security concerns related to 5G and Chinese suppliers based upon technological features of the systems, or were they ... -
Identification and physical disconnect in Russian foreign policy: Georgia as a Western proxy once again?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Evolving official Russian identifications of Georgia amount to a dangerous securitisation of this small neighbour – achieved through a focus not on Georgia itself but on Western engagement in the region. With the long ... -
“Irregular” Migration and Divergent Understandings of Security in the Sahel
(Journal article, 2020)On 23 September 2020, the EU launched its new Pact on Migration and Asylum. In a refreshingly blunt press-release accompanying the Pact one could read: “The current system no longer works. And for the past five years, the ... -
Making Sense of the European Side of the Transatlantic Security Relations in Africa
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article aims to investigate the character of transatlantic security relations in Africa: How can it be characterized? Have they become weaker or stronger over the past decade? How can this development be explained? ... -
Missiles, Vessels and Active Defence What Potential Threat Do the Russian Armed Forces Represent?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In 2019, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, presented a ‘strategy of active defence’, a possible prelude to the forthcoming Russian military doctrine. This article examines this strategy with particular ... -
Nordic perspectives on European security: Norway
(UI Report;2020/3, Journal article, 2020)How does Norway relate to the various new European defence cooperation formats? Which states are Norway coordinating with when engaging in these projects? Is there unexploited potential for common Nordic initiatives within ... -
Offensive cyberoperasjoner: Den nye normalen?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Kan stater gå til motangrep om de blir angrepet digitalt i fredstid? Hva gjør toneangivende land, og hva sier internasjonal rett og normer om dette? Og hva kan de sikkerhetspolitiske konsekvensene bli av økt bruk av offensive ... -
Peacekeeping and Counter-insurgency - Two of a Kind?
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Renewable energy and geopolitics: A review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article reviews the literature on the geopolitics of renewable energy. It finds that while the roots of this literature can be traced back to the 1970s and 1980s, most of it has been published from 2010 onwards. The ...