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Malaysia: How to Scale Up Investment in Renewable Energy
(ACE Policy Brief;08/2020, Research report, 2020)Malaysia set a target of 20% renewables in the energy mix by 2025, an 18% increase from the 2% it had in 2018. One of the planned measures is the development of large-scale solar power. To reach the target, it will be ... -
Holdninger til EØS-avtalen etter 25 år: Stor oppslutning, men liten kunnskap
(Journal article, 2019)I anledning EØS-avtalens 25-årsjubileum gjennomførte NUPI og Sentio i januar 2019 en opinionsundersøkelse i den norske befolkningen for å kartlegge nordmenns holdninger til EØS-avtalen samt deres kunnskaper og vurderinger ... -
Singapore: How to Attract More Investment in Renewable Energy?
(ACE Policy Brief;11/2020, Research report, 2020)Singapore has limited renewable energy potential due to its small surface area and the limited space available. Solar power has the greatest potential. Given the country’s limited spare land, rooftops and vertical spaces ... -
Norwegians adapting to a changing world
(NUPI Report;2020-09, Research report, 2020)The world as we have come to know it is changing. Some of the core principles of the rules-based liberal international order are being challenged. The established truths and practices that we have based our foreign policies ... -
Introduksjon: 25 år med hardt EØS-arbeid: Fra venterom til permanent oppholdssted?
(Journal article, 2019)I denne introduksjonsartikkelen viser Ulf Sverdrup at Norge er blitt forandret gjennom EØS-avtalen, men også hvordan den med sine mangler og svakheter i all hovedsak har vært en suksess, og at Norges avtaler i det store ... -
Spaces and Institutional Logics in Post-Conflict Settings of Mitrovica
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Spaces structure interactions between communities in post-conflict settings. They are governed by particular institutional logics, which can foster boundary building and boundary transgression. This article proposes an ... -
The Philippines: How to Leapfrog from a Complicated Renewable Energy Sector to an Attractive One
(ACE Policy Brief;10/2020, Research report, 2020)The Philippines set the target of increasing the share of renewable energy in its energy mix from 16.9% in 2019 to 26.9% by 2030. This ambitious target requires significant additional investment in renewable energy. It has ... -
Water and energy disputes between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and their negative influence on regional co-operation
(Report, 2012)This research was carried out in 2010-11 and revised at the beginning of 2012. In recent years, water and energy disputes between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have engaged the attention of specialists and policy makers, and ... -
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 ... -
The spiralling effects of the Sino-American trade war
(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 ... -
Multilateral Cooperation and Climate-related Security and Development Risks : Report from the UN75 AfricaNordic Sub-regional Meeting, 3 & 4 March 2020, Dakar, Senegal
(NUPI Report;2020-08, Research report, 2020)Report from the UN75 Africa-Nordic Sub-regional Meeting, 3 & 4 March 2020, Dakar, Senegal -
Unity in Goals, Diversity in Means - and the discourse on female peacekeepers in UN peace operations.
(NUPI Working Paper;893, Research report, 2020)Gender parity at all levels in the UN, as a means towards gender equality, is a two-decades old commitment, reflecting core values as old as the UN itself. Despite this, progress on increasing the number of female peacekeepers ... -
Female Peacekeepers and Operational Effectiveness in UN Peace Operations.
(NUPI Research Paper;3/2020, Research report, 2020)More women are needed in UN peace operations, both on the grounds of equality and performance. March 2020 survey data and empirical evidence from the Effectiveness of Peace Operations Network (EPON) highlight the importance ... -
Placing People at the Center of UN Peace Operations
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Principled Peacekeeping Works
(Journal article, 2020)Over the past few years, the performance of UN peacekeeping operations has come increasingly under the spotlight. It started with financial pressure, especially but not exclusively by the United States Government, to reduce ... -
The six principles of Adaptive Peacebuilding
(Journal article, 2020)The key to successful conflict resolution and peacebuilding lies in finding the appropriate balance between international support and local self-organisation, and this will differ from context to context. Those engaged in ... -
COVID-19 in Latin America: Challenges, responses, and consequences
(NUPI Covid-19 Brief;9/2020, Research report, 2020)While containment efforts were quickly implemented in many countries, COVID-19 may still prove to have a long-lasting effect in Latin America, a region already marked by economic disarray and political instability. Economic ... -
Georgia’s Emerging Far Right
(Journal article, 2019)Ethnonationalism has been as common in Georgia as in other post-Soviet countries, but the far-right social movement has especially been gaining traction for the past five years, gradually becoming larger, more diverse, and ... -
Conventional arms control on the Korean Peninsula: The current state and prospects
(NUPI Research Paper;2/2020, Research report, 2020)At the end of 2017, the Korean Peninsula reached the brink of a nuclear war, as the US president Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un exchanged words of nuclear threats each other. A tug of war as to whose ... -
The Impact of Covid-19 on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.
(NUPI Covid-19 Brief;8/2020, Research report, 2020)• Women appear to be disproportionately affected by Covid-19 • Pushback on global commitment to gender equality • Gender equality and human development are correlated: focussing on gender equality will have a catalytic ...