Publications
Fragmentation and decline in India's state assemblies: A review, 1967-2007
Tracing activity in 15 Indian state assemblies from 1967 to 2007, we find that overall legislative activity declined but there was also considerable variation across states. States with large electoral constituencies and politically fragmented assemblies showed the worst performance, which suggests a link between political fragmentation and institutional performance.
Introduction: Rethinking Challenges to State Sovereignty in Mali and Northwest Africa
State, Secession, and Jihad: The Micropolitical Economy of Conflict in Northern Mali
Veivalg
Veivalg Utenriksminister Børge Brende har varslet at det i løpet av året skal lages en ny stortingsmelding som skal belyse aktuelle internasjonale utviklinger og skissere en ny norsk utenriks- og sikkerhetspolitikk. Hva bør han ta opp?
Towards Multi-level Security Community Building: The EU’s and Norway’s External Governance in Ukraine
initial objective of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was to expand the European zone of peace beyond the EU’s borders through processes of external governance. It was seen as an instrument for promoting security in the region through processes of integration and association. Although initially developed as a rather coherent policy, it has over the years become something very different. In this paper, we examine what these changes have actually entailed. Our main argument is that the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy –the lead framework of the EU’s external governance has been developing from the original concept of a set of rationally planned processes coherent across countries of this Neighbourhood, towards a complex and ambiguous set of ‘garbage can’ type of processes in individual countries. We focus on the latter dimension, specifically analysing the nature of coordination of reform processes in Ukraine. Here, the original model of a rational process, with detailed action plans, monitoring, reporting and progress assessment of reforms, has given way to a set of loosely coupled processes involving various interests, problems, solutions and decision-making situations–what Cohen, March and Olsen (1972) termed the garbage can model of change. EU institutions and EU member states are involved in various forms of engagement with Ukraine, resulting in complex and often loosely coupled forms of adaptation. Nevertheless, Ukraine is experiencing unprecedented levels of extensive transformation processes connecting its various societal segments with the EU.