Sovereignty and Solidarity: Moral Obligation, Confessional England, and the Huguenots
Connections and Disconnections: Understanding and Integrating Local Perceptions in United Nations Peacekeeping
Menneskerettigheter som brekkstang i internasjonal narkotikapolitikk
Menneskerettigheter og narkotikakontroll har lenge fungert som to separate og isolerte spor i FN-systemet. De siste årene har imidlertid dette skillet blitt krafig kritisert av en stadig mer profesjonell, innflytelsesrik og verdensomspennende narkotikapolitisk reformbevegelse. Bevegelsen hevder at strukturene som blir iverksatt gjennom repressiv narkotikalovgivning- og politikk på internasjonalt nivå i praksis genererer menneskerettighetsbrudd. Kritikken har tvunget FN til å granske sin egen narkotikapolitikk i lys av menneskerettighetene, og de senere år har tydelige endringer unnet sted.
Global wealth chains in the international political economy
This work is funded by the ‘Systems of Tax Evasion and Laundering: Locating Global Wealth Chains in the International Political Economy’(STEAL 2012-15) project funded by the TaxCapDev program under the Research Council of Norway (#212210/H30), and based at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.
The rise of Euroscepticism and how to deal with it in the EU
It used to be seen as a British disease, but Euroscepticism has spread like a virus across the continent – infecting creditors, debtors, would-be euro-members and outs alike. Trust in the European project has fallen even faster than European interest rates. Since the beginning of the crisis, France losses 32 points, Germany -49, Italy -52, Spain -98, Poland -44, UK –36.The damage is so deep that it does not matter whether coun-tries are creditors, debtor countries, would-be members of the euro or countries with opt-outs: everybody is worse off. Back in 2007, people thought that the UK, which scored minus 13 points in trust, was the Eurosceptic outlier. Now, the four members of the eurozone come in well below Britain in their trust for EU institutions: Germany -29, France and Italy -22, Spain -52. What is happening?I think there is a fundamental crisis at the level of narrative for Europe, in the nature of the EU project and in political organization at a national level.
Role of South-South and Triangular Cooperation for Peace and Development: Bridging the Policy Gap