Public Administration Reform and Its Implications for Foreign Petroleum Companies in Kazakhstan
Bygger bro i Sentral-Asia
I en kontrasterpreget region baner OSSE-akademiet i Kirgisistan – med støtte fra NUPI – vei for fred, samarbeid og demokrati gjennom utdanning.
Samarbeid mellom OSSE-akademiet og NUPI
Prosjektet innebærer en rekke aktiviteter, inkludert kapasitetsbygging for å styrke OSSE-akademiet som et regionalt møtested for forskning og undervisning, støtte til to masterprogrammer og forsknings...
Tilbake til «business as usual»? Russland, EU og gass
Kommersielle interesser i EU og Russland har gått sammen om å doble kapasiteten i Nord Stream-ledningen som frakter gass fra Russland til Tyskland. Prosjektet har vekket betydelig motstand i andre EU-land.
Strategic cooperation against terrorism 2.0? Russia's initial positions on Syria. 1:2
This project examines the prospects for Russia-Western practical cooperation against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and, more broadly, for a rapprochement between Russia, NATO and key NATO member states post-Crimea. The analytical point of departure is two-fold: Firstly, the project will examine how Russia’s longstanding rejection of a ‘Western’ world-order, along with various Western leaders’ increasing depiction of Russia as an ‘adversary’, shape the two parties’ room for manoeuvre with respect to practical collaboration on the ground in Syria. Secondly, and operationalizing ‘the West’ as two key ‘Atlanticist’ member states in NATO, the United States and Britain, it will examine how Russian and Western domestic debates constrain governments and political leaders’ scope for action, and their ability to adjust their commenced policy paths in Syria. When adversarial statements about ‘the other’ are voiced by state leaders in an international setting, they are often portrayed in the media as being reflective of that particular leader or government’s position alone. In this project, we suggest that the dynamics of Russia-Western relations cannot be properly understood without alsoconsidering how states’ security policies are empowered and limited by domestic security policy debates. The project will provide an up-to-date, in-depth analysis of how contemporary Russian, American and British security policies are being constituted and constrained by domestic debates. Furthermore, it will trace how domestically negotiated security policies materialize in actions on the ground in Syria. Against the backdrop of the empirical analysis, publications from this project will discuss the likelihood of these states finding common ground against IS in Syria, and the prospects for Russia-Western rapprochement more generally.
I kjølvannet av krisen
Etter Ukraina-krisen har EUs oppførsel overfor Russland endret seg, viser resultater fra NUPI-forskningsprosjekt.
Limits and possibilities for Russia-Western security collaboration in Syria (Russia-West in Syria)
This project examines the prospects for Russia-Western practical cooperation against the Islamic State (IS) in Syria and, more broadly, for a rapprochement between Russia, NATO and key NATO member sta...