Europe in transition – Small States and Europe in an age of global shifts
In this age of European transitions and global shifts, what significance does the EU hold for small states? Is it becoming more important, or increasingly obsolete? NUPI invites you to an open session, with Minister for European Economic Area and EU Affairs Vidar Helgesen, as part of our EUNOR conference.
Reforming informal membership and practice of the UN Security Council
Economic outlooks for Africa
African Economic Outlook 2015: What are Africa´s economic outlooks?
Et 70-årsperspektiv på FNs utviklingssystem
I nærmere 70 år har FN vært en viktig – oftest den aller viktigste – arena for diskusjon av utviklingspolitikk knyttet til utviklingen i Sør. I 65 av disse årene har FN også drevet operativ bistandsvirksomhet. Har FN-systemet betydd en forskjell, og i så fall, hva består denne forskjellen i? Oppmerksomheten rettes mot systemets generering av mål, normer og strategier for utvikling. I disse årene har de politiske og økonomiske omgivelsene endret seg sterkt – i Nord som i Sør – og det har også framherskende paradigmer for utvikling. Artikkelen tar for seg utviklingsmålene FN-systemet har generert og hvordan systemet i de ulike perioder har manøvrert for nå de ideelle målene. Den presenterer og drøfter de viktigste elementene i strategiene for FNs fire utviklingstiår og i strategien for å gjennomføre tusenårsmålene, hva de førte til og hvorfor. Oppmerksomheten rettes i første rekke mot «det første FN» (regjeringene) og «det andre FN» (sekretariatene).
Developmentality. An Ethnography of the World Bank-Uganda Partnership
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recasts aid relations as a partnership. While intended to alter an asymmetrical relationship by fostering greater recipient participation and ownership, this book demonstrates how donors still seek to retain control through other indirect and informal means. The concept of developmentality shows how the World Bank’s ability to steer a client’s behavior is disguised by the underlying ideas of partnership, ownership, and participation, which come with other instruments through which the Bank manipulates the aid recipient into aligning with its own policies and practices.
A diplomatized world
Diplomacy is no longer the sole preserve of states – nowadays even consultancy firms offer their services in peace-making and reconciliation. And the entire theory framework for diplomacy has become of growing importance.
To look or not to look to Norway? Brexit and the tales of Norwegian outsidership
Diplomacy and the Making of World Politics, Introduction
In this Introduction, we accomplish two main goals. First, we provide theoretical tools to better grasp the role and character of diplomacy and how it may be changing in the contemporary era. We develop a relational framework focused on two dimensions: the evolving configurations of state and non-state actors and the competing authority claims that underpin diplomatic practices on the world stage. Second, we begin to theorize the ways in which diplomacy makes and remakes world politics. The remainder of the book offers rich case studies to empirically substantiate our broad argument about the constitution of world politics in practice. In this Introduction, our more limited objective is to explain the significance of our argument for key debates in international relations (IR).