Projects & centers
NUPI's research projects, research programmes, and research centres.
Utfordrende kunnskapssamarbeid: Etiske og sikkerhetsrelaterte utfordringer som forskere og kunnskapsinstitusjoner i Norge møter i internasjonale samarbeid (UTFORDRINGER)
• The project studies ethical- and security-related challenges that researchers and research institutions in Norway face and handle in their international collaborations....
Munich Security Forum - Arctic Security Roundtable (MSF - ASR)
This roundtable is organized by the MSC in cooperation with NUPI and Wilson Centre....
Black Sea: Militarization, Frozen Conflicts and Hybrid Warfare (BLACKSEA)
The aim of this project realized in cooperation between NUPI and the New Strategy Center, the leading Romanian think tank is to examine Russian policy towards its Western neighbourhood in the Black Se...
Shocking times for European economic integration (EUROSHOCKS)
European integration has recently been hit by various shocks such as Brexit, Trump’s trade wars, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the competition from China. This project will exploit these shocks to genera...
Transatlantic Security – Challenges and Opportunities
In this project NUPI analyzes developments in transatlantic security policy together with researchers from CSIS in the United States and RUSI in the United Kingdom. The aim of the project is to contri...
Norway and the EU towards 2030
This project takes a closer look at developments on key areas in the relationship between Norway and the EU towards 2030....
Norway and Great Power Politics – Geopolitics, Technology and Climate (NISP)
Our times are shaped by developments in geopolitical power dynamics, fast-paced technological development and climate change. In this research program NUPI analyses how these developments change the s...
Strengthening Fragile States through Taxation (FRAGTAX)
How is the political authority to tax established, exercised and maintained over time? State-building requires predictable income. Without a domestic revenue base, even core activities states are expe...
Scandinavia as an arena for Chinese economic statecraft
China's utilisation of economic statecraft as a foreign policy tool challenges the accustomed distinction between Norwegian business policies, and Norwegian security policy. This opens for a nove...
Understanding and Strenthening EU Foreign & Security Policy in a Complex and Contested World (JOINT)
The JOINT project analyses these dynamics while addressing the question of how the EU and its member states can make their foreign and security policy structures more joined-up and sustainable....