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NUPI team to take over as editors of the prestigious journal Cooperation and Conflict

“Our aim is to consolidate Cooperation and Conflict as a platform for IR scholarship that is theoretically innovative, methodologically pluralist, empirically and historically rigorous, critical in outlook yet grounded in and with implications for key mainstream debates,” says Benjamin de Carvalho.
  • Diplomacy and foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
  • Global governance
  • Theory and method
  • Historical IR
Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk
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Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk
14. Jun 2022
Event
14:15 - 16:00
NUPI
Engelsk

“Thinking about Unthinkability in World Politics” with Jennifer Mitzen

The NUPI Center for Historical International Politics (CHIP) invites you to a seminar where Prof. Jennifer Mitzen (Ohio State University) will present work in progress for her next book, “Thinking about Unthinkability in World Politics”.

Ståle  Ulriksen
Researchers

Ståle Ulriksen

Researcher

Ståle Ulriksen is a researcher at the Norwegian Naval College, part of the Norwegian Defence University, with a 20 percent position at NUPI, in Th...

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Regional integration
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • North America
  • The Arctic
  • The Nordic countries
  • Conflict
  • Nation-building
  • Insurgencies
  • Oceans
  • The EU
  • Comparative methods
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Regional integration
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • North America
  • The Arctic
  • The Nordic countries
  • Conflict
  • Nation-building
  • Insurgencies
  • Oceans
  • The EU
  • Comparative methods
Publications
Publications

The value of diplomatic history in a changing world

This chapter argues for the value of a careful reading of diplomatic history in approaching our changing world. Diplomatic history does not hold unambiguous and clear lessons or analogies, but can alert us to both contingency and the existence of different developmental trajectories.

  • Diplomacy
  • Historical IR
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  • Diplomacy
  • Historical IR
Event
13:15 - 14:45
NUPI
Engelsk
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Event
13:15 - 14:45
NUPI
Engelsk
20. May 2022
Event
13:15 - 14:45
NUPI
Engelsk

England's Cross of Gold: Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs

The NUPI Center for Historical International Politics (CHIP) invites you to a seminar where Dr James Ashley Morrison (LSE) will present his latest book, " England's Cross of Gold: Keynes, Churchill, and the Governance of Economic Beliefs."

Anna Eriksen Rio
Researchers

Anna Eriksen Rio

Research Fellow

Anna Eriksen Rio is a Research Fellow at NUPI working on the project Public-Private Development Interfaces in Ethiopia (DEVINT). Her PhD project f...

  • International investments
  • Development policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Africa
  • Conflict
  • Nation-building
  • Governance
  • Historical IR
  • International investments
  • Development policy
  • Foreign policy
  • Africa
  • Conflict
  • Nation-building
  • Governance
  • Historical IR
Rolf  Tamnes
Researchers

Rolf Tamnes

Professor Emeritus

Professor Rolf Tamnes is a member of NUPI’s Research Group on Security and Defence. Tamnes holds a dr.philos (PhD) from 1991 and a cand.philol. (M...

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • North America
  • The Nordic countries
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • Historical IR
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Europe
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • North America
  • The Nordic countries
  • Conflict
  • Governance
  • Historical IR
Research Project
2021 - 2025 (Ongoing)

Strengthening Fragile States through Taxation (FRAGTAX)

How is the political authority to tax established, exercised and maintained over time? State-building requires predictable income. Without a domestic revenue base, even core activities states are expe...

  • International economics
  • Economic growth
  • Development policy
  • Fragile states
  • Insurgencies
  • Governance
  • Comparative methods
  • International economics
  • Economic growth
  • Development policy
  • Fragile states
  • Insurgencies
  • Governance
  • Comparative methods
Norske og kinesiske representanter diskuterer ved et bord med deres respektive flagg bak dem
Research project
2021 - 2022 (Completed)

Scandinavia as an arena for Chinese economic statecraft

China's utilisation of economic statecraft as a foreign policy tool challenges the accustomed distinction between Norwegian business policies, and Norwegian security policy. This opens for a nove...

  • International economics
  • Trade
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
  • The EU
  • Comparative methods
  • International economics
  • Trade
  • Diplomacy
  • Foreign policy
  • The Nordic countries
  • The EU
  • Comparative methods
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Research Project
2021 - 2025 (Ongoing)

Reactions to state regulation of Islam in times of Daesh (STATEISLAM)

In recent years, in response to the rise of ISIS, governments in the Middle East have begun to control the religious spheres in their countries more tightly. One example is the standardization of the ...

  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states
  • Nation-building
  • Nationalism
  • Insurgencies
  • Human rights
  • Governance
  • Comparative methods
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • The Middle East and North Africa
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states
  • Nation-building
  • Nationalism
  • Insurgencies
  • Human rights
  • Governance
  • Comparative methods
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