China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the New Eurasian Order
As Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has redirected the structures and the objectives of both foreign and domestic policy in the PRC. BRI’s goal is primarily economic: to increase trade and investment along China’s periphery by funding and building infrastructure projects. But it is more. Through an analysis of official and semiofficial sources, this policy brief will show that BRI aims to weave neighboring countries into a network of economic, political, cultural, and security relations centered around China. BRI is a new project that is still taking shape. Yet, its objectives are ambitious: Beijing’s grand strategy is to re-constitute the Eurasian regional order with new governance ideas, norms, and rules. The policy brief concludes that European countries should address China’s challenge by stressing their commitment to the normative goals of multilateralism, transparency, accountability, and the rule of law in an open, rule-based global order.
Seminarserie om Kina og Norden
Hvilken rolle kan de nordiske landene spille i Kinas voksende engasjement i Europa?...
Forestillingenes krig
Redsel for Russland vil prege Nato-toppmøtet i Warszawa, skriver seniorforsker Julie Wilhelmsen i Morgenbladet-kronikk.
Community-based policing and post-conflict police reform (ICT4COP)
Dette forskningsprosjektet vil bidra til mer kunnskap om de sosiale, kulturelle, juridiske og etiske dimensjonene i 'community-based' politiarbeid i tidlifere konfliktområder....
Russland og flyktningstrømmen over Storskog
Første åpent tilgjengelige nummer av Nordisk Østforum er ute på nett, og ble lansert med debatt hos Cappelen Damm onsdag.
Expectations for the Warsaw Summit: Conventional and nuclear responses to Russian belligerence
This paper describes two aspects of the changed security environment. First, it discusses NATO’s response to the new threats on its eastern and southern borders. The Alliance took a number of modest steps at the Wales Summit in september 2014 to deal with those, but were they enough? Will it announce a more robust response at the Warsaw Summit this summer? Second, what is the role for NATO nuclear policy in strategic deterrence? Why is this topic back in discussion after years of benign neglect within the Alliance? Given its sensitivity, this subject is unlikely to be discussed at the next summit—but perhaps it should be. This paper addresses some of the key elements of deterrence strategy in an alliance that has not had to think about the subject for more than two decades.
Kaukasus og Sentral-Asia etter 25 år: politisk og sosial utvikling i det post-sovjetiske området
11 forskargrupper frå universitet i Sør-Kaukasus og Sentral-Asia har deltatt i NUPI-prosjektet "Research Beyond the Ivory Tower". På dette seminaret vil dei gi ei oversikt over ulike politiske, sosiale og økonomiske utviklingstrekk som pregar regionen.
En tikkende bombe
I Nord-Kaukasus ulmer en konflikt som kan true president Vladimir Putin på hjemmebane, skriver Julie Wilhelmsen i Morgenbladet-kronikk.