Anni Roth Hjermann har skrevet årets beste studentartikkel
Hjermann er vinner av Ordingprisen 2020 –tidsskriftet Internasjonal Politikks pris for beste artikkel skrevet av en student.
Swiss-EU Relations With a Focus on the Current Situation
Michael Ambühl har forhandlet mange av Sveits’ avtaler med EU og gir i dette paperet sammen med Lara Lenz en oversikt over utviklingen i forholdet, som nylig har vært under press fordi EU har krevet en mer EØS-liknende avtale. Se også diskusjon på NUPI-seminar (scroll lenger ned på siden for å komme til seminaret). In 1992, Swiss voters rejected an accession to the European Economic Area (EEA). Among different reasons for this were institutional and sovereignty questions, such as the dynamic adoption of new EU legislation, and the Swiss Government announcement of the EEA being a training camp for a future EU membership. Instead of the multilateral EEA approach, Switzerland chose a bilateral approach with Bilateral Agreements I and II, which were signed in 1999 and 2004, respectively. The two packages regulate aspects of the economic, political, and cultural landscapes and benefit both parties with legal certainty and market access in selected policy sectors. About ten years ago, the EU expressed its desire for an Institutional Framework Agreement (IFA) with Switzerland to protect the homogeneity of the internal market, to remove legal barriers, and to introduce a more efficient dispute settlement procedure. The draft of the negotiation result (not initialed) presented in 2018 raised three concerns about which the Swiss Government sought clarification from the EU: wage protection, state aid, and the Citizens Rights Directive. These three issues continue to be central concerns for many Swiss voters because these rules could potentially create social or economic problems. Without acceptable clarification on these points from the EU, there is a considerable risk that the Swiss people could reject the IFA in a future referendum, which would put Switzerland and (to a lesser extent, of course) the EU in a difficult situation. To avoid such a consequence, Switzerland must exercise caution. If a satisfactory solution cannot be reached, Switzerland must consider alternatives to a premature submission of the IFA to avoid legal uncertainty during an interim period. Regardless of the upcoming bilateral developments, Switzerland, at the heart of Europe, traditionally has a positive relationship with the EU. These friendly relations are all the more important when considering today’s challenges, in which Switzerland can show solidarity with Brussels and support the larger-scale European goals of promoting peace, democracy, and human rights in the world.
Disse kreftene påvirker forsvarssamarbeidet i Norden
Vi har manglet en måte for å analysere sikkerhetssamarbeidet i mellomstore regioner som Norden, mener NUPI-forsker Karsten Friis. I sin ferskeste artikkel skisserer han en løsning gjennom et nytt analytisk rammeverk.
How climate insecurity could trigger more conflict in Somalia
Konsekvenser av klimaendringer, slik som tørke, flom, uregelmessig regn, forstyrrede regntidssesonger, sterk vind, sykloner, sandstormer, støvstormer og økt temperatur oppleves over hele Somalia. Disse effektene påvirker livsopphold og bidrar til besvær og spenninger i samfunnet.
Blanda signal: Kva seier Putin om likestilling?
Blant russlandsforskarar er det ei utbreidd oppfatning om at Putin gradvis har gått i ei meir konservativ retning, særleg når det gjeld kjønnsspørsmål. Men har han eigentleg det, når vi ser nærare på den russiske presidentens eigen retorikk?
KRONIKK: Hvem eier i Norge? NUPI-forskere fant en del hull i eierskapsoversiktene
NUPI-forskere har sjekket hvor god oversikten er over utenlandsk eierskap i hele Norge.
Hvorfor så liten vilje til å begrense klimaendring blant ASEAN-landene?
Landene i Sørøst-Asia er blant de mest sårbare for klimaendringer. Så hvorfor er det så liten vilje til å ta grep for å få bukt med problemet? Dette paradokset er tema i ny artikkel som springer ut av ACCEPT-prosjektet.
Governance, Social Policy, and Political Economy: Trends in Norway’s Partner Countries
In 2017–2018, NUPI (the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) headed a project where political economy analyses were undertaken in eleven of Norway’s partner countries. These analyses were published as eleven separate reports. The reports focused on power relations and political developments in the partner countries, but they also analyzed the nature of governance. After the publication of the World Bank’s Worldwide Governance Indicators for 2019, the MFA approached NUPI and requested that we summarize the findings of this report for Norway’s eleven partner countries and assess these findings in light of the political economy analyses. We were also asked to investigate whether there were any connections between the nature and quality of governance on the one hand, and the nature of social policies and the human rights situation on the other. This report presents the findings of this assessment of the governance scores in the light of the above-mentioned political economy analyses. The report is structured as follows: Firstly, after briefly describing the governance indictors used by the World Bank, we summarize the eleven countries’ scores on the various governance indicators. Secondly, we assess the evolution of governance in the eleven countries, by comparing the scores in the 2019 report with those from 2011. Thirdly, we summarize the findings of the political economy analyses of the eleven countries and discuss how they fit with the governance scores. Finally, we present the eleven countries’ expenditure on social policies, as reported in the ILOs World Social Protection Report, and the human rights situation for the partner countries, and then describe how these findings relate to the governance scores.
Korleis påverkar klimaendringane FNs fredsoperasjonar?
Få unik innsikt i kva klimaendringane betyr for FNs fredsbevarande operasjonar.
Russlandsnettverket (RUSSNETT)
Russlandsnettverket (RUSSNETT) er et nasjonalt, tverrfaglig nettverk for forskere som arbeider med problemstillinger knyttet til russisk politikk og samfunnsutvikling....