China’s Modern Global Relations
How will China's current foreign relations be affected as the country becomes more comfortable with its great power status? This is one of the questions Senior Research Fellow at NUPI, Marc Lanteigne, asks in the book Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction, which was released in December.
The Russo–Ukraine crisis and the role of EU
In this seminar, we will present the results from the research project “The Russo–Ukraine crisis and the role of EU”. This research has focused on the role of EU in the Ukraine conflict and the implications for Norway.
Young research talent at NUPI
Gender-discriminatiory legislation is on the research agenda of NUPI’s Francesca R. Jensenius for the next four years. The funding comes from a prestigious FRIPRO award.
Prestigious funding to NUPI
NUPI has been awarded prestigious TOPPFORSK project funding to study how states cope with challenges in the field of power and geo-politics.
The humanitarian–development nexus in Northern Uganda
The instituted order of humanitarianism is both changing and challenged by shifting circumstances in the area in which humanitarian organisations operate. This article addresses the transition between humanitarian action and development aid in Northern Uganda, a transition that was driven by and large by the host government’s ambition to reassert its humanitarian sovereignty in the area, enabled by its discursive recast of the situation from one of crisis to one of recovery and development. This recast happened in spite of the persistent humanitarian sufferings and needs in the post-conflict area. Yet, it drove humanitarian donors and organisations to reorient their work. While some withdrew, others moved into more development oriented aid, showing organisational malleability and that the humanitarian principles are losing their regulatory hold over humanitarian action. In response to the transition, some originations payed heed to the sanctity of the humanitarian principles fearing jeopardising the humanitarian space, while other took a pragmatic stance to continue assist the civilians regardless how the situation was being portrayed. Hence, this article, demonstrating the formation of a humanitarian—development nexus, speaks to the wider debates about the relationship between humanitarian principles and pragmatic approaches and the evolving humanitarian mission creep – all central to general debates about the nature and future of humanitarianism.
What does Russia want?
Professor Roy Allison explains the Russian agenda in Syria in this NUPI interview.