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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Placing People at the Center of UN Peace Operations
(Others, 2020-05-29) -
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 ... -
The Energy Union and security-of-gas supply
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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. ... -
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 ... -
Unclean Slates: Greenfield Development, Land Dispossession, and EIA Struggles in Goa
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017) -
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 ... -
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. -
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 ...