• Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review 

  Szulecki, Kacper; Øverland, Indra (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  ‘Energy democracy’ has evolved from a slogan used by activists demanding a greater say in energy-related decision-making to a term used in policy documents and scholarly literature on energy governance and energy transitions. ...

• Effektive verktøy eller historiske rammer? Kinas holdninger til internasjonale institusjoner 

  Trøan, Magnus Langset (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

• Copying in EU security and defence policies: the case of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia 

  Bosilca, Ruxandra-Laura; Stenberg, Matthew; Riddervold, Marianne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

• The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen 

  Van de Graaf, Thijs; Øverland, Indra; Scholten, Daniel; Westphal, Kirsten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

• Displacement, belonging, and land rights in Grand Gedeh, Liberia: almost at home abroad? 

  Bjørkhaug, Ingunn; Bøås, Morten; Kebede, Tewodros Aragie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)

  Conflicts over local land rights between groups considered as “sons of the soil” and newcomers such as refugees can trigger autochthony-inspired violence. However, such conflicts are not always manifested, even when the ...

• The Emergence of Foreign Policy 

  Leira, Halvard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  International relations scholarship typically treats foreign policy as a taken-for-granted analytical concept. It assumes either that all historical polities have foreign policies or that foreign policy originates in ...

• Utenlandsinvesteringer i sjømatnæringen og norsk tilknytning til EU 

  Maurseth, Per Botolf; Medin, Hege (Chapter, 2020)

  I kapittelet drøfter vi utenlandsinvesteringer i sjømatnæringen og Norges forhold til EU. Mens eierskap i fangst hovedsakelig er nasjonalt, er oppdrettsnæringen preget av multinasjonale selskaper. Norge og mange EU-land ...

• Debating terrorism in a political transition: Journalism and democracy in Tunisia 

  Høigilt, Jacob; Selvik, Kjetil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  In March 2015, in the midst of a political transition, Tunisia was rocked by a terrorist attack at the Bardo Museum in downtown Tunis in which 21 people were killed. How did Tunisian journalists manage the tension between ...

• Russia in world trade: Between globalism and regionalism 

  Melchior, Arne (Journal article, 2019)

  The article examines Russia’s participation in world trade and trade policy, using trade data for 1996–2017 and simulations of a numerical world trade model where Russia is divided into domestic regions. Since the mid-1990s, ...

• How UN Peacekeeping Operations Can Adapt to a New Multipolar World Order 

  De Coning, Cedric (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)

  We are experiencing a momentous phase-shift with potentially significant implications for UN peacekeeping. The unipolar era is waning in the face of a significant increase in the economic and political influence of countries ...

• Performing Statehood through Crises: Citizens, Strangers, Territory 

  Neumann, Iver; Sending, Ole Jacob (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  This article applies the growing International Relations literature on state performance and performativity to the question of how practitioners categorize different kinds of crises. The aim is to add value to the crisis ...

• Gender and Labour Market Adjustment to Trade: The Case of India 

  Johannesson, Louise; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik (IFN Working Paper;, Research report, 2020)

  Standing at 24% in 2018, India’s female labour force articipation is only half of the global average (48%). At the same time, India has one of the widest gender wage gaps in the world and women are less likely to be employed ...

• The External Dimension of EU Migration Management: The Role of Aid 

  Szymańska, Jolanta; Kugiel, Patryk; Erstad, Henriette Ullavik; Bøås, Morten (PISM Policy Paper;NO. 6 (181), JULY 2020, Research report, 2020)

  Aid is seen as a key EU instrument in addressing the root causes of migration, but it has not been decisive for the drastic reduction of irregular arrivals in Europe in recent years. Nevertheless, development assistance ...

• The “Faceless Evildoers” of Cabo Delgado: an Islamist Insurgency in Mozambique? 

  Casola, Camillo; Iocchi, Alessio (ISPI Commentaries;, Research report, 2020)

  A brief assessment about the emergence of a jihadi group in Mozambique

• Norges handelsforhandlinger med EU gjennom 50 år: Sakskoblinger og forhandlingsmakt 

  Melchior, Arne (Chapter, 2020)

  Kapitlet gir en historisk oversikt over Norges handelsforhandlinger med EU fra 1973 og fram til i dag, med særlig vekt på utfallet for sjømatnæringen. Rundt 1990 ga EFTA forhandlingsmakt til tross for ulike næringsinteresser. ...

• Sjømatnæringen og Europa: EU-medlemskap, EØS eller NOREXIT? 

  Melchior, Arne; Nilssen, Frode (Chapter, 2020)

  EØS er en omfattende avtale med mange tusen rettsakter nedfelt i norske lover og praksis, men antall rettsakter varierer sterkt mellom ulike saksfelter, og på noen områder er håndhevelsen viktigere enn nye lover. Norge har ...

• Fra «fiskebrevet» til EØS: Betydningen av toll for norsk sjømateksport til EU 

  Melchior, Arne (Chapter, 2020)

  En «tollens arkeologi» viser hvordan dagens toll for norsk sjømat er basert på ulike handelsavtaler inngått med EU over 50 år. Videre tallfestes den økonomiske virkningen av toll og tollkvoter med EØS, EU-medlemskap eller ...

• Governance, Fragility and Insurgency in the Sahel: A Hybrid Political Order in the Making 

  Bøås, Morten; Strazzari, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  Once a region that rarely featured in debates about global security, the Sahel has become increasingly topical as it confronts the international community with intertwined challenges related to climate variability, poverty, ...

• Explaining Violence in Tillabéri: Insurgent Appropriation of Local Grievances? 

  Bøås, Morten; Cisse, Abdoul Wahab; Mahamane, Laouali (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)

  The Tillabéri region in Niger has quickly lapsed into a state of violence and come under the control of ‘violent trepreneurs’ – that is, non-state armed actors possessing ome kind of political agenda, which is implemented ...

• “Irregular” Migration and Divergent Understandings of Security in the Sahel 

  Osland, Kari M.; Erstad, Henriette Ullavik (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 ...

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