NUPI Research Online: Recent submissions
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Displacement, belonging, and land rights in Grand Gedeh, Liberia: almost at home abroad?
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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?
(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
(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?
(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
(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
(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?
(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
(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 ... -
Sharing the Spoils: Winners and Losers in the Belt and Road Initiative in Myanmar
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article studies the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on economic actors in Myanmar. It hypothesizes that the BRI has strong transformative potential, because Chinese projects are likely to transform ... -
Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review
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Spiraling toward a New Cold War in the North? The Effect of Mutual and Multifaceted Securitization
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Building on a discourse-theoretical reading of securitization theory, this article theorizes and examines how two political entities can become locked in a negative spiral of identification that may lead to a violent ... -
The Dangers of Disconnection: Oscillations in Political Violence on Lake Chad
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Narrations on fragility and resilience in the Sahel paint a picture about the region’s inherent ungovernability that lead to consider an endless state- and peace-building process as the most feasible governance solution. ...