Projects & centers
NUPI's research projects, research programmes, and research centres.
Explaining the EU's perfermance in NATO: EU-NATO relations and challenges facing the EU as a security actor (EUPERFORM)
The project explores the European Union as an international actor in various organisational settings....
Research Beyond the Ivory Tower: Policy and Communications Training for University Teams (BIT)
The project focuses on strengthening the competence of university lecturers in the South Caucasus and Central Asia....
Sustainability and Petroleum Extraction: Corporate and Community Perspectives in Northern Norway and the Russian Arctic (CSROil)
This project aims to identify and reconcile differences in perceptions and practices of sustainability in Northern Norway and Arctic Russia, providing a baseline for cross-border dialogue and collabor...
Nation-building, nationalism and the new ‘other’ in today’s Russia (NEORUSS)
This project investigates the developments of nation-building, nationalism and notions of the 'other' in today's Russia....
Armed Violence in Urban Settings: New Challenges, New Humanitarianisms
The primary aim of this project therefore is to offer some much needed clarity as to how armed violence in urban settings is currently understood and acted upon by humanitarian organizations....
Systems of Tax Evasion and Laundering (STEAL)
The project seeks to identify Global Wealth Chains that are the articulation of organized activities between individuals or international entities, developed countries, developing countries, and tax h...
Economic Reform in Cuba, Phase 4
The aim of the project is to contribute to fostering debate and knowledge about institutional and economic reform in Cuba in light of experiences from other countries....
Non-tariff barriers, food safety and international food trade (NTB)
This project aims to provide new evidence on non-tariff barriers to trade in the Russian, Chinese, Ukrainian and other markets, and examine their cost and impact on trade. ...