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Responsen på Ukraina-krigen viser en ny fellesnordisk linje i sikkerhetspolitikken

Op. Ed. about responses to the war in Ukraine, and changes in longstanding Nordic security and defence policies.

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • The EU
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • The EU
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Kina balanserer i bomberegnet

Invasjonen av Ukraina stiller Kina overfor dilemmaer de hadde håpet å unngå. Det kan føre til at Kina demper sin viktige økonomiske støtte til Putin.

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Not so unique after all? Urgency and norms in EU foreign and security policy

The EU Global Strategy puts ‘principled pragmatism’ at the core of EU foreign and security policy. This has also been promoted as away of closing the gap between talk and action. Still, the concept has been widely criticized and interpreted as away of making the Union’s ‘organized hypocrisy’ less glaring. By exploring key EU foreign and security policy strategies and policies implemented over the past decade, this article suggests that a certain pattern for when the EU acts normatively and when it acts strategically can be identified. While the overall ambition is still to promote a more normative policy, also when it comes at a considerable economic cost, there is a limit to how it is willing to go. Evidence suggests that when faced with a situation perceived as urgent, the EU becomes more prone to implement policies that are at odds with its own principles.

  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The EU
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  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The EU
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The Migration Crisis: An Introduction

In 2015, the EU and its member states struggled to coordinate, communicate, and cooperate on the migration crisis as the chapters in this section show. Schilde and Wallace Goodman point out that while border security contains examples of deeper integration, asylum management policy has followed the scenarios of breaking down and muddling through. All the authors highlight the Dublin convention as particularly ill-devised and thus paving the way for the refugee crisis. Bosilca finds evidence for breaking down in addition to minimal reforms of border security policy that constitute muddling through. Crawford argues that the migration crisis provides evidence both of muddling through and heading forward and is thus more optimistic than either Schilde and Wallace Goodman or Bosilca about the prospects for EU integration in this policy area.

  • Europe
  • Migration
  • The EU
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  • Europe
  • Migration
  • The EU
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DEBATT: Krigen i Ukraina og hvordan den endrer Europa

Panel discussion about the war in Ukraine and how it affects Europe. Organised by Europabevegelsen.

  • Security policy
  • Europe
  • Security policy
  • Europe
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Russian Certainty of NATO Hostility: Repercussions in the Arctic

How does a security dilemma dynamic between parties deemed not to hold hostile intentions toward each other emerge and escalate? This article investigates Russian official discourse on NATO engagement in Europe post-Crimea (2014), and its impact on security interaction in the Arctic. We also examine how Russia represents NATO intentions and actions in a context seen by Russia as a relation of war. We identify the effect of these changing representations of self and other for the emerging securitization dilemma in relations between Russia and NATO, arguing that they have replaced uncertainty about NATO’s hostile intentions with certainty. Although Russia still articulates the Arctic as a unique cooperative region, there may be little space left for non-conflictual Russian action when encountering NATO in the Arctic. We highlight the agency and importance of evolving political rhetoric in creating a dangerous situation where lethal conflict can occur between parties who do not seek it, and also suggest that adjustments to patterns of official speech could be a tool of mitigation

  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Arctic
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  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Arctic
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The Legitimacy Crisis: An Introduction

This section examines how the crisis of democratic legitimacy shapes the prospects for further integration. All the authors find evidence for ‘muddling through’ by the EU in response to its legitimacy crisis. Raube and Costa Reis show how the Commission and European Parliament took incremental steps of starting infringement proceedings against Hungary and Poland in response to breaches in the rule of law by elected populist governments, yet partisanship undermined the EU’s response. Holst and Molander discuss the democratic pitfalls of technocratic decision-making in response to crisis and detail the kinds of reforms needed to enhance accountability and citizen nonexpert participation in policy. De Wilde examines the Eurobarometer polls after recent crises afflicting the EU and considers the long- and short-term effects of crisis on public trust in EU institutions.

  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The EU
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  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The EU
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Finlandisering og mulig finsk Nato-medlemskap

Radio interview about Finland and Sweden's debate about NATO membership. How is the Ukraine war impacting on security debates in the Nordic states?

  • NATO
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • NATO
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
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Brexit: An Introduction

This section examines the consequences of the United Kingdom (UK)’s decision to leave the EU. Though chapters acknowledge that most will depend on the outcome of the UK–EU negotiations as Brexit will be an unpredictable case of differentiated disintegration. This section offers contributions that aim at stimulating the debate on how Brexit might be understood and analyzed. Will Brexit cause breakdown, heading forward or merely continuous muddling through? The case of Brexit serves as a research laboratory in which we can test existing theories of European integration. Are they able to explain patterns of disintegration equally to integration, or do we need new theoretical and conceptual toolboxes in order to explain European integration in reverse gear.

  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The EU
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  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The EU
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Theoretical Approaches to Crisis: An Introduction

This chapter sums up the key arguments made in this section of the Handbook. The nine chapters discuss essential EU integration and International Relations approaches and how they study, understand, and explain crisis’ putative impact on the EU: Liberal Intergovernmentalism, Classical Realism, Neo-realism, Neofunctionalism, Institutionalism, Organizational Theory, Cleavage Theory, Social constructivism, and Deliberative Theory. For this purpose, each chapter sets out the theory’s basic assumptions before addressing the following questions: (1) How does each theoretical perspective expect crisis to influence EU institutions and policies? What are the causal mechanisms to account for continuity or change in public policy and governing institutions? (2) To what extent has the perspective so far been able to explain change or continuity in the EU in the face of crisis?

  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Conflict
  • The EU
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  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Conflict
  • The EU
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