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Henriette Ullavik Erstad

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Attentatet i Bagdad: Farlig og feilkalkulert

Den 3. januar kom nyheten om at generalmajor Qasem Soleimani ble drept i et amerikansk droneangrep i Bagdad. Ifølge president Trump handlet USA «for å stoppe en krig, ikke for å starte en krig», men angrepet bør heller ses i forlengelse av Trump-administrasjonens maximum pressure-strategi, som har økt konflikten mellom Iran og USA.

  • Security policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • North America
  • Security policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • North America
Research project
2019 - 2023 (Completed)

Preventing Violent Extremism in the Balkans and the MENA: Strengthening Resilience in Enabling Environments (PREVEX)

The overarching objective of PREVEX is to put forward more fine-tuned and effective approaches to preventing violent extremism....

  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Europe
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • The EU
  • Comparative methods
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Europe
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • The EU
  • Comparative methods
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Report

På tide å tenke nytt om Iran

(Available in Norwegian only): Det overordnede målet for USAs såkalte "maximum pressure"-strategi har vært å fremforhandle en bedre atomavtale med Iran, samt å svekke både Teherans innflytelse i Midtøsten og ayatollah Khameneis grep om makten. Men har strategien vært vellykket i å oppnå dette?

  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Security policy
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Stater og transnasjonale motstandsnettverk: Irans mobilisering av irakiske sjiamilitser etter 1979

The Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a transnational network of Shi’a militias since 1979, commonly referred to as its asymmetric warfare capability and ‘strategic depth’. While it is a known fact that Iran has mobilised Shi’a militias in other countries to strengthen its regional position, how they have done it has not received much scholarly attention. The objective of this paper is to explain this phenomenon by examining how Iran has mobilised Iraqi Shi’a militias since 1979. The selected cases are the mobilisation processes of three most prominent Shi’a militias in Iraq today: Badr Organisation, Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, and Kata’ib Hizbullah. Although variation exists between them, they are all cases of Iran’s network of armed resistance groups, which have allowed it to engage in covert or indirect conflict intervention in the Middle East. To logically connect the empirical data with the study’s research question, I have used a case study research design, with process tracing and the semi-structured interview as methods for data collection. Furthermore, the empirical analysis has been guided by a theoretical framework that has attempted to build a bridge between the existing literatures on state-militia dynamics and contentious politics.

  • Security policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Conflict
  • Insurgencies
  • Security policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Conflict
  • Insurgencies
Illustrasjon av ulike mennesker som går oppå et Europa-kart med EU-ringen av stjerner
Research project
2019 - 2021 (Completed)

Migration and Development: Sharing knowledge between Norway and Poland (MiDeShare)

The aim of this project is to improve our understanding of the relationship between migration and development in order to suggest more effective policies for addressing root causes of migration in wea...

  • Development policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states
  • Migration
  • Development policy
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states
  • Migration
Articles
News
Articles
News

New project examines root causes of migration in Africa and the Middle East

What is the relationship between migration and development?

  • Development policy
  • Europe
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states
  • Migration
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Articles
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Top marks for NUPI’s EU project

Reviewers find NUPI-led research on the EU’s crisis response "exceptional"! 

  • Security policy
  • Europe
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Conflict
  • International organizations
NUPI-forskere vant frem i knallhard konkurranse om prosjektfinansiering fra EU. F.v.: Direktør Ulf Sverdrup, administrasjonssjef Silje Skøien, prosjektleder Morten Bøås, seniorforsker Pernille Rieker og seniorforsker Kari Osland.
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Articles
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EUNPACK Final Conference: synthesising three years of research on the EU’s crisis response

Conflict sensitivity in focus as the three-year NUPI-led research project on the EU’s crisis response (EUNPACK) organised a final conference in Brussels in March.

  • Security policy
  • Europe
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Migration
  • International organizations
  • The EU
Publications
Publications
Scientific article

Territorialstatens tilstand i dagens Midtøsten

How to understand the contemporary Middle East? Despite a growing literary landscape attempting to illuminate this complex region, this question should not be taken lightly. This essay discusses how the following books contributes to our understanding of the region today: Brennpunkt Midtøsten: Byene som prisme (Butenschøn & Maktabi 2018), Fra opprør til kaos: Midtøsten etter den arabiske våren (Nordenson 2018) and Israel: Historie, politikk og samfunn (Heian-Engdal 2018). While the books have different thematical approaches, all three describe and analyse the current state of the region’s territorial entities. Although concepts such as sovereignty and territorial integrity does not necessarily make much sense in the region today, the authors explain why it is unlikely that we are going to see any changes in existing state formations in the foreseeable future.

  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Governance
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Governance
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Publications
Report

Islamic Insurgents in the MENA Region. Global Threat or Regional Menace?

This working paper analyses a broad range of Islamic insurgents, spanning from the Sahel and North Africa to the Middle East, examining the threat that these groups represent on a regional and global scale. We assess their local, regional and global strategies and evaluate the extent to which they make use of Jihadist discourse to further local/regional aims, or whether they are more truly devoted to a global struggle, operationally as well as in discourse and rhetoric. We make use of several analytical dimensions and factors in a way that allows us to develop a threat assessment that seeks to disentangle the local, the regional and the global levels. In doing so, our aim is also to develop a methodological framework that may be used for analytical updates and future research in this region and elsewhere.

  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states
  • Insurgencies
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states
  • Insurgencies
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