Critical infrastructure protection and communication thereof: the case of the Baltic states and Norway (CIICPP)
Prosjektet tar sikte på å forklare hvorfor kritisk infrastruktur er viktig for samfunnsutvikling i de tre baltiske land (Latvia, Litauen og Estland) og i Norge....
Conventional arms control on the Korean Peninsula: The current state and prospects
At the end of 2017, the Korean Peninsula reached the brink of a nuclear war, as the US president Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un exchanged words of nuclear threats each other. A tug of war as to whose nuclear button is bigger and stronger exacerbated the nuclear crisis. However, the South Korean President Moon Jae-in intervened to resolve the crisis by taking advantage of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. In doing so, President Moon intended to pursue denuclearisation and peace-building on the Korean Peninsula at the same time. North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un responded positively to the South Korean call to hold the inter-Korean summit and the Trump-Kim summit. In order to end the Korean war and promote peace-building on the Korean Peninsula including termination of hostile acts on inter-Korean relations, the two Koreas adopted the April 27 Panmunjom Declaration, the September 19th Pyongyang Joint Declaration and the Inter-Korean Military Agreement at their summit in 2018. The Military Agreement is aimed at reducing tension and building trust between the two Koreas through conventional arms control, while the North Korean nuclear issue is being resolved through the US-DPRK summit. The September 19th Military Agreement is a modest but remarkable success in arms control history when compared with a long-term stalemate or even retreat in the contemporary international arms control arena. Indeed, arms control is at its lowest point in history, so dim are its prospects. Nevertheless, heated debates are taking place, both at home inside South Korea and abroad, over the legitimacy and rationality of the Sept. 19th Military Agreement. With little progress on the denuclearisation issue at the Kim-Trump summit and no sign of easing economic sanctions on Pyongyang, North Korea has test-fired short-range missiles ten times to exert pressure on the United States, undermining peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula. Against this backdrop, this policy brief intends to analyse the true meaning of the September 19 Military Agreement between the two Koreas, to identify its problems and policy implications in order to draw up supplementary measures to implement it successfully. Furthermore, the paper will draw some implications for the relationship between progress on North Korea’s denuclearisation issue and further conventional arms control on the Korean Peninsula.
Forsvarets langtidsplan til ompuss
Opposisjonen på Stortinget sendte langtidsplanen for forsvarssektoren tilbake til regjeringen. Karsten Friis og Ulf Sverdrup gir en oversikt over de viktigste hensynene som må tas til etterretning i ompussen.
Utenrikspolitikken som forsvant i isen
Podkast: Russland, USA og Kina vender blikket nordover. Men nordområdepolitikk ender ofte som lokaldebatt. Hvor er utenrikspolitikken i nord?
Hvordan opprettholde fred under Covid-19?
NUPI er til stede med flere arrangementer under Stockholm Forum for Peace and Development.
Den usynlige opprustningen i Sør-Korea
Sør-Korea ruster opp sine militære kapasiteter. Hvilke signaler sender det?
Preventing Organized Crime. The Need for a Context-Sensitive, System-Wide Approach.
Recent years have seen important developments regarding the UN Security Council and the UN Secretariat. The Security Council, which has increasingly recognized organized crime as a serious threat to international peace and security—especially in relation to terrorism—has begun using sanctions to deal with organized crime and trafficking in Mali and Libya. Further, serious and organized crime (SOC) police units have been established in several UN field operations, including in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Mali. However, there is still no UN-wide policy on organized crime, and the issue has been conspicuously absent from recent strategic documents such as the Action for Peacekeeping Declaration (A4P). This report argues that there is need for a UN system-wide approach to peace operations for preventing and addressing organized crime, and its links to terrorism. To achieve this, UN member states and the UN Secretariat should seek to consolidate and broaden its nascent law enforcement capacity- building police approach into a context sensitive, system-wide approach. Six specific recommendations for the way forward are offered.
Russian Expert and Official Geopolitical Narratives on the Arctic: Decoding Topical and Paradigmatic DNA
Denne artikkelen analyserer nåværende russiske ekspert og offisielle narrativer om Arktis, og plasserer dem i den bredere konteksten av debatten om Russlands rolle i det internasjonale systemet. Ved å kombinere en kritisk geopolitisk tilnærming til studiet av internasjonale relasjoner med bruk av innholdsanalyse, kartlegger vi hvordan strukturelle geopolitiske endringer i Arktis har påvirket russiske narrativer om Arktis. To typer russiske narrativer om Arktis er analysert – disse som det russiske ekspertmiljøet står for, og disse som presenteres i offisielle dokumenter og uttalelser fra medlemmer av den russiske politiske makteliten. I vår analyse av ekspertnarrativer fokuserer vi spesielt på hvilke arktiske temaer som er sentrale i disse narrativer og hvordan disse ekspertnarrativer er påvirket av forskjellige tilnærminger til studier av internasjonale relasjoner (IR). Når vi studerer offisielle narrativer, er vi interessert i å kartlegge hvordan de overlapper med og hvor forskjellige de er fra ekspertnarrativer. Nåværende ekspert og offisielle russiske narrativer om Arktis ser ut til å være påvirket mest av neorealistiske og nyliberale tilnærminger til IR, og det ser ut at det er ingen vesentlige modifikasjoner etter 2014-konflikten, noe som viser en relativt høy grad av narrativ kontinuitet.