China in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Key environmental issues and responses
Kina hanskes med veldig alvorlig forurensing og ikke bærekraftig bruk av mange naturressurser. Miljøspørsmål knyttet til luft, grunn og hav har fått ølende oppmerksomhet i kinesisk nasjonal politikk, og Kina tar nå en mer aktiv rolle internasjonalt. Ved å forplikte seg til internasjonale avtaler, samtidig som det insisterer på differensiert ansvar og frivillige bidrag, inntar Kina en slags mellomposisjon mellom utviklingsland og mange høyinntektsland.
China in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Contributions to health and education
Kina øker sine investeringer i helse og utdanning og bidrar med det til FNs 2030 Agenda og bærekraftsmålene. Nasjonalt jobber Kina for å modernisere hele sitt helsestystem, forbedre obligatorisk og valgfri utdanning og for å fremme noen akademiske eliteinstitusjoner. Internasjonalt øker Kina både sin biltaterale og multilaterale støtte. Ser vi forbi 2020, vil coronvirus krisen trolig ikke endre disse utviklingstrekkene, men Kina kan komme til å øke sine investeringer i både nasjonale og internasjonale system for helse og smitteberedskap.
From careful participant to budding partner: China in the Sustainable Development Agenda
Kina styrker sin rolle som aktør i bærekraftsagendaen. Kina har laget sin egen nasjonale implementeringsplan for bærekraftsmålene, som understreker helhetlig utvikling med mer vekt på miljø. Internasjonalt vokser Kinas rolle som utviklingsaktør, som kan ses gjennom økende handel, bistand og investeringer og en sterkere posisjon i mange internasjonale organisasjoner. Kina bruker aktivitet knyttet til bærekraftsmålene for å promotere og samkjøre sine nasjonale og internasjonale utvikilingsinteresser.
Nordmenn skeptiske til investeringar frå Russland og Kina
Fleire er positive enn negative til utanlandske investeringar - men skeptiske til somme land.
Consequences of Investments for National Security (COINS)
Hvordan kan liberale åpne samfunn høste fordelene av åpne økonomier, samtidig som de beskytter sine legitime sikkerhetsinteresser? I prosjektet «Consequences of Investments for National Security» unde...
Multilateral cooperation in the area of climate-related security and development risks in Africa
Over the past decade the impact of climate change on people’s everyday lives have become tangible. Its effects have contributed to loss of human life, it has undermined livelihoods, destroyed infrastructure, harmed national economies and stressed state budgets. Across the globe, its impacts have contributed to widened gender inequalities in different contexts. Climate change is also transforming and redefining the global security and development landscape. The implications of climate change for security and development has become increasingly recognized within the United Nations (UN), African Union (AU) and Regional Economic Communities (REC). The framing of climate change in the security and development discourse is undergoing an important change. In some spaces it is moving away from seeing climate change as a security ‘threat,’ and instead frames it as climate-related security and development ‘risks’. This approach, which is also the approach we take in this paper, emphasizes that climate change must not be seen as predominantly external in its cause, but rather that it exposes and compounds risks that are inherent in social-ecological systems, – especially in fragile and conflict-affected environments.
WIN-WIN! with ODA-man: legitimizing development assistance policy in Japan
Official development assistance (ODA) constitutes one of Japan’s most important foreign policy instruments as it builds Japan’s global network and supports allies in the Southeast Asian region and beyond. In the context of a rising China and an increasingly severe fiscal and demographic situation at home, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) promulgated a domestic-oriented legitimation campaign featuring a popular anime character rebranded as ‘ODA-man’ to increase public understanding of and support for Japan’s ODA. Drawing on interpretivist analysis of performances at a development cooperation promotion festival, anime videos on the MOFA YouTube channel and interviews and examining the use of rhetorical strategies, this article provides an in-depth study of the promotion of one of the central instruments in Japan’s foreign policy repertoire. Though he comes off as goofy and benign, ODA-man’s messages are serious ones that reproduce dominant economic and security narratives about Japan and the world. Analysis points to both innovation and path dependency in Japan’s foreign policy repertoire; while ODA-man may be new the story he is telling, and the way that he is performing it, is very much familiar. The article further illuminates important trends in the public legitimation of foreign policy in Japan.
China's Evolving Approach to UN Peacekeeping in Africa
China’s new, assertive role in UN peacekeeping, especially in Africa, represents a significant shift in Beijing’s peace and security posture that is not yet fully reflected in official discourse and rhetoric, but that reflects China’s new confidence with its global power status. Every significant adaptation in its peacekeeping policy has reflected an important shift in the country’s practical foreign and security policy. Tracing and tracking China’s peacekeeping policy and practice is thus a useful proxy for analysing the evolution of its peace and security considerations. In this report Senior Research Fellows Kari Osland and Cedric de Coning consider the medium- to long-term trajectory of China’s peace and security practices by analysing its recent activity in Africa, focusing on how China has used its contributions to the UN peacekeeping missions in Mali (MINUSMA) and South Sudan (UNMISS).
NUPI@MSC: Et Arktis i endring – hvordan møter vi utfordringene?
Hva betyr den raske temperaturstigningen i Arktis for sikkerhetspolitikken?
Framtida til europeisk utanrikspolitikk etter Brexit
Storbritannias utmelding frå EU har skapt stor uvisse rundt utanrikspolitisk samarbeid i Europa. Har E3-samarbeidet ei framtid etter Brexit?