Projects & centers
NUPI's research projects, research programmes, and research centres.
EU security and third countries: EU, UK and Norway
In this project, NUPI, together with leading European experts, will map and analyze current developments in the EU in the field of foreign, security and defense policy....
Balancing between integration and autonomy. Understanding the drivers and mechanisms of EU's foreign, security and defense policy (EUFLEX)
The project will investigate the ongoing process towards differentiated integration in European foreign, security and defence policy....
Russia's strategic approaches to Europe: Addressing the puzzle through policy relevant research (StratApproach)
How is Russia’s strategic approach to Europe shaped by its reading of Western intentions and actions and what implications does this approach has for Norway?...
The International Panel on Arctic Environmental Responsibility
The International Panel on Arctic Environmental Responsibility is an independent and free-standing body tasked with assessing the environmental status of oil, gas, and mining companies in the Arctic....
The Market for Anarchy
The Market for Anarchy project seeks to better understand how state behaviour is shaped by assessments of and responses to different types of risks....
Science, technology and warfare of the future
How does technology help to change how we percieve the world and how to act in it?...
World of the Right: Alternative visions of global order (WoR)
The project looks deeper into the conservative New Right in Russia, the US, and Europe, examining in particular the alternative visions of Western civilisational order that these movements harbour, an...
Great Powers and Arctic Politics (GPARC)
GPARC aims to provide up-to-date academic and policy analyses of how major powers (USA, Russia, China) set parameters for and intervene in the maritime politics of the Arctic....
Norway’s security framework in a new era
This project is going to look closer at Norway’s closest allies and partners in a new and more uncertain world....
Support to UN Peace Operations: Ensuring More Effective UN Peace Operations (UNPO)
The aim of the project is to strengthen the ability of UN peacekeeping and other peace operations to respond to global security challenges, adapt to a changing global order, and continue contributing ...