• Georgia’s Europeanization challenged from within: Domestic foreign policy discourses and increasing polarization 

  Minesashvili, Salome (NUPI Policy Brief;2021-03, Research report, 2021)

  Georgia`s foreign policy, especially the implementation of international agreements, is best understood in the context of domestic contestation among alternative foreign policy views. • Nativist views exert increasing ...

• Russian Neighborhood Policy And Its Eurasian Client States: No Autocracy Export 

  Kolstø, Pål; Blakkisrud, Helge (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

• Environmental performance of foreign firms: Chinese and Japanese firms in Myanmar 

  Aung, Thiri Shwesin; Øverland, Indra; Vakulchuk, Roman (Others, 2021)

• Geir Flikke: Russlands rebeller: Protest og reaksjon i Putins Russland (2011-2020) 

  Blakkisrud, Helge (Journal article, 2021)

  Basert på en gjennomgang av et omfattende kildemateriale beskriver Geir Flikke hvordan Aleksej Navalnyj gradvis har bygget seg opp til å bli en av den russiske opposisjonens fremste profiler, en prosess som kulminerer med ...

• Utenlandske direkteinvesteringer og eierskap i Norge 

  Medin, Hege; Gåsemyr, Hans Jørgen (NUPI Working Paper;895, Research report, 2021)

  Utenlandske investeringer er en viktig del av økonomien i mange land. Det gjelder også Norge, hvor utenlandskontrollerte foretak sysselsetter 21 prosent av arbeidstakerne i privat næringsliv. Samtidig vet vi at strømmene ...

• Discovering Opportunities in the Pandemic? Four Economic Response Scenarios for Central Asia 

  Irnazarov, Farrukh; Vakulchuk, Roman (Silkroad Papers;, Research report, 2020)

  The COVID-19 crisis represents not only an unprecedented economic disruption but also an opportunity for Central Asia. A specific economic policy response may trigger either game-changing reforms that can facilitate the ...

• Reviewing Jihadist Governance in the Sahel 

  Rupesinghe, Natasja; Naghizadeh, Mikael Hiberg; Cohen, Corentin (NUPI Working Paper;894, Research report, 2021)

  The ways in which jihadist insurgents in the Sahel govern is rarely considered in the academic literature. They have often been portrayed as ‘Islamic terrorists’, who achieve their objectives by using brutal force against ...

• Premien for utenlandske eierskap i Norge: Opprinnelseslandskarakteristika og Kina-effffekten. 

  Medin, Hege (NUPI Working Paper;896, Research report, 2021)

  Mange studier fra en rekke ulike land viser at det er en premie for utenlandske eierskap; utenlandskontrollerte foretak (UKF) er større og mer produktive enn innenlandskontrollerte foretak. I artikkelen bruker jeg register- ...

• Enhancing the Effectiveness of the G5 Sahel Force by Strengthening Strategic Coherence and International Support 

  Karlsrud, John; de Coning, Cedric (NUPI Report;2021-06, Research report, 2021)

  At the UN Security Council and in other forums in Africa and Europe diplomats are considering how to increase international support to the G5 Sahel Force. The support is aimed at filling critical gaps that have hindered ...

• Using satellite data and machine learning to study conflict-induced environmental and socioeconomic destruction in data-poor conflict areas: The case of the Rakhine conflict 

  Aung, Thiri Shwesin; Øverland, Indra; Vakulchuk, Roman; Xie, Yanhua (Others, 2021)

  This paper studies socioeconomic and environmental changes in the neighboring areas Bangladesh-Myanmar border from 2012 to 2019, thus covering the period before and after the 2017 Rakhine conflict in Myanmar and outflux ...

• Russlands rebeller: Protest og reaksjon i Putins Russland (2011–2020) 

  Hjermann, Anni Roth (Others, 2021)

• Mekanismer for screening av utenlandske investeringer. Oversikt over et utvalg land 

  Andersen, Morten Skumsrud; Giske, Mathilde; Sverdrup, Ulf (NUPI Report;2021-5, Research report, 2021)

  Etter tusenårsskiftet har åpne økonomier i økende takt satt i gang prosesser for å vurdere risikoen av utenlandsinvesteringer. Bakgrunnen for dette er økende grad av investeringer fra mindre transparente økonomier, frykt ...

• Swiss-EU Relations With a Focus on the Current Situation 

  Ambühl, Michael; Lenz, Lara (NUPI Research Paper;2021-3, Research report, 2021)

  In 1992, Swiss voters rejected an accession to the European Economic Area (EEA). Among different reasons for this were institutional and sovereignty questions, such as the dynamic adoption of new EU legislation, and the ...

• Reputation crisis management and the state: Theorising containment as diplomatic mode 

  Haugevik, Kristin M.; Neumann, Cecilie Elisabeth Basberg (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  This article theorises containment as a diplomatic response mode for states when faced with potentially harmful attacks on their international identity and reputation. Despite widespread agreement in International Relations ...

• Analyzing Security Subregions: Forces of Push, Pull, and Resistance in Nordic Defense Cooperation 

  Friis, Karsten (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, ...

• Hybridity, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Complexity 

  De Coning, Cedric; Mcdonald-Colbert, Lawrence (Chapter, 2021)

  This chapter introduces Complexity and Adaptive Peacebuilding and considers how it contributes to the contemporary hybridity debate. Following a brief introduction to Complexity theory, this chapter explores the utility ...

• The future of UN peace operations: Principled adaptation through phases of contraction, moderation, and renewal 

  Coning, Cedric de (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

• Bastionforsvaret og Russlands militærmakt. Et utdatert trusselbilde? 

  Kvam, Ina Holst-Pedersen (NUPI Policy Brief;2021-2, Research report, 2021)

  Russlands potensielle etablering av Bastionforsvaret er forankret i inneværende langtidsplan (LTP) som Forsvarets dimensjonerende scenario for en eventuell stormaktskonflikt. Kombinasjonen av våpenteknologisk utvikling og ...

• Governance, Social Policy, and Political Economy: Trends in Norway’s Partner Countries 

  Eriksen, Stein Sundstøl (NUPI Report;2021-1, Research report, 2021)

  In 2017–2018, NUPI (the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) headed a project where political economy analyses were undertaken in eleven of Norway’s partner countries. These analyses were published as eleven ...

• Journalism under Instrumentalized Political Parallelism 

  Selvik, Kjetil; Høigilt, Jacob (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  Media systems where political parallelism co-exists with political clientelism have contradictory influences on journalistic practices. Journalists are encouraged to actively defend a cause and influence public opinion ...

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