NUPI Research Online: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Political Change, Women’s Rights, and Public Opinion on Gender Equality in Myanmar
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Myanmar’s introduction of competitive elections after decades of military rule raised expectations for progress in economic and social development, including in the area of women’s rights. In this paper, we draw on data ... -
Preferential tariffs and development of Norwegian rose import from Africa
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Imports of cut roses increased after Norway implemented a preferential tariff scheme for the least developed countries in 2002. When the scheme was extended to more countries in 2008 – among them Kenya – imports exploded. ... -
The Energy Union and security-of-gas supply
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Unclean Slates: Greenfield Development, Land Dispossession, and EIA Struggles in Goa
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COVID-19 will change the way the UN conducts peacekeeping operations in the future
(NUPI Covid-19 Brief;7/2019, Research report, 2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted UN peacekeeping operations. In the short-term, activities have been reduced to the most critical, rotations have been frozen, and most staff are working remotely. Most of ... -
Irans moderne historie
(Others, 2020)Irans moderne historie er en høyaktuell bok om hvordan Iran, slik vi kjenner det i dag, har blitt til, utgitt førti år etter at 2500 år med persisk monarkible erstattet av en islamsk republikk. -
Grasping the everyday and extraordinary in EU–NATO relations: the added value of practice approaches
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)This article offers an alternative account of how both the everyday and the extraordinary in EU–NATO security cooperation can be identified and analysed by applying practice theory. Despite the “Cyprus issue”, which has ... -
Preventing Organized Crime. The Need for a Context-Sensitive, System-Wide Approach.
(NUPI Report;2020-07, Research report, 2020)Recent years have seen important developments regarding the UN Security Council and the UN Secretariat. The Security Council, which has increasingly recognized organized crime as a serious threat to international peace and ... -
Handelen med medisinske varer og Covid-19
(NUPI Covid-19 Brief;6/2019, Research report, 2020)The Covid-19 pandemy has exposed vulnerability for pharmaceuticals and medical goods. Does globalisation create more or less vulnerability? - The majority of countries import all their drugs and only eight countries are ... -
Can trade preferences stimulate sectoral development? The case of Namibian and Botswanan beef exports to Norway
(NUPI Policy Brief;2020-1, Research report, 2020)• While market access quotas have generated high levels of rents for traders and exporters in Namibia, Botswana, Norway, and offshore entities in the UK, their developmental benefits are diffuse, unclear, and difficult to ... -
Russian approaches to military technology. The Northern dimension
(NUPI Policy Brief;2020-8, Research report, 2020)This policy brief presents the main findings of a project on Russian approaches to technological challenges, and the implications for security developments in the High North. It begins by examining the Russian debate on ... -
Does Peacekeeping work? EPON Seminar Beijing
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Russian Expert and Official Geopolitical Narratives on the Arctic: Decoding Topical and Paradigmatic DNA
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article examines current Russian expert and official narratives on the Arctic, situating them in the broader context of the debate on Russia’s role in the international system. Combining a critical geopolitics approach ... -
An assessment of the UN Operations in South Sudan and Mali
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Exclusion and Inclusion: The Core of Chechen Mobilization to Jihad
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The article explores the broad social and relational drivers behind mobilization of Chechens into armed jihad in the Levant. It suggests that the core mobilizing tool in a process toward violent (re-)action is a narrative ... -
Violent Mobilization and Non-Mobilization in the North Caucasus : introduction to special issue
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Introduction and overview over violent mobilization in the North Caucasus: Recent developments and context, conflicting identities, state and sub-state violence, causes and limits of violent mobilization in the region.