Expert meeting: Fragile states
In connection with the Ministry of Foreign Affair’s project “Norwegian foreign and security policy – the options ahead”, which will lead to a white paper in spring 2017, NUPI is in cooperation with the MFA organizing a series of expert meetings on relevant topics during spring/early summer 2016. The main purpose of the meetings is to give academic input to the project.
Nordic Security under Pressure
Topic for the third and last seminar in the seminar series on NATO will focus on Nordic security.
Expectations for the NATO Warsaw Summit: Is NATO doing the right things – and doing them right?
The Warsaw Summit is the topic of this second seminar in the series about NATO.
Cooperation between the OSCE Academy and NUPI
The project consists of a wide range of activities including capacity-building of the OSCE Academy as a regional meeting point for research and education, support for two MA programmes in Politics and...
NUPI to lead project on TTIP
NUPI will, jointly with other research groups in Norway and abroad, analyze the consequences for Norway of a free trade agreement between the EU and the USA.
Best practices in EU crisis response and policy implementation
This report has two aims. First, to take stock of how the Europen External Action Sercvice (EEAS) and the Commission have institutionalized lessons-learned mechanism. Second, to discuss the extent to which these mechanisms and practices incorporate the EU’s ambitions for a ‘conflict-sensitive’ and ‘comprehensive’ crisis-response approach. In this sense, this report will serve as a point of departure for case-study research to be undertaken within the framework of Work Packages 5–7 of the EUNPACK project, on whether there is a gap between policy and practice with regard to institutional learning.
Chinese New Year
China-Europe Joint Ventures Come to the Forefront.
Read Senior Research Fellow at NUPI Marc Lanteigne’s op-ed on the topic here.
Next step for the United Nations
The new Secretary-General of the United Nations takes office the 1st of January 2017. Will we be needing a new agenda?
National crisis-management: Learning from Finland?
New societal vulnerabilities and new risks and threats require an agile national crisis management organization.Finland and Norway have addressed these challenges differently. What can we learn from Finland?