Knowledge Networks, Scientific Communities, and Evidence-Informed Policy
Global policy making is unfurling in distinctive ways above traditional nation-state policy processes. New practices of transnational administration are emerging inside international organizations but also alongside the trans-governmental networks of regulators and inside global public—private partnerships. Mainstream policy and public administration studies have tended to analyse the capacity of public sector hierarchies to globalize national policies. By contrast, this Handbook investigates new public spaces of transnational policy making, the design and delivery of global public goods and services, and the interdependent roles of transnational administrators who move between business bodies, government agencies, international organizations, and professional associations. This Handbook is novel in taking the concepts and theories of public administration and policy studies to get inside the black box of global governance. Transnational administration is a multi-actor and multi-scalar endeavour having manifestations at the local, urban, sub-regional, subnational, regional, national, supranational, supra-regional, transnational, international, and global scales. These scales of ‘local’ and ‘global’ are not neatly bounded and nested spaces but are articulated together in complex patterns of policy activity. These transnational patterns represent an opportunity and a challenge for the study of both public administration and policy studies. The contributors to this Handbook advance their analysis beyond the methodological nationalism of mainstream approaches to re-invigorate policy studies and public administration by considering policy processes that are transnational and the many new global spaces of administrative practice.
Knuser myter om fornybar energi
Indra Øverland ser med kritiske briller på fire antakelser om fornybar energi og geopolitikk.
Skatt og sårbare stater: Utfordringer for norsk bistand
Stater trenger egen inntekt for å fungere og skattesystemet spiller en viktig rolle. Hvordan jobber Norge med skatt i sårbare stater?
Internet use, intermediaries and international trade
This study of the relationship between internet use and international trade finds that firms in many developing countries are more likely to engage in export and/or import if they use the internet as a communication tool. An ordered probit regression indicates that internet use is positively associated with direct participation in trade, as well as with indirect participation via trade intermediaries. Data on countries’ aggregate trade do not give support for the micro-findings, however: no significant association emerges between the share of internet users in a given country and that country's openness to trade.
Kinas eksportsuksess: Urettferdig praksis eller rettferdig konkurranse?
Skuldingane haglar under handelskrigen mellom USA og Kina. På dette seminaret vil professor Rolf J. Langhammer gå gjennom fakta den kinesiske handelspolitikken.
NUPI Podkast: Iran kan hindre skipsangrep, men har intet insentiv til å gjøre det, ifølge Irans utenriksminister
– Å sende marinefartøy til Persiabukta, med mål om å konfrontere Iran, vil ikke bidra til sikkerhet, sa Irans utenriksminister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, da han gjestet NUPI.
Har evaluert 261 «Belt and Road»-prosjekter i Sentral-Asia
En av hovedobservasjonene fra forskningen er at ingen egentlig vet hva et BRI-prosjekt er og hva det ikke er.
Introduction: Making Liberal Internationalism Great Again
At a time when liberal internationalism and institutions of multilateral cooperation arebeing dealt almost daily blows, this special issue revisits the notion and practice ofmiddle power liberal internationalism. The introduction suggests that while liberal inter-nationalism is far from dead, the challenges are serious and multiple. Reflecting on theseven essays contained in the volume, it argues that the biggest challenge for a futureliberal internationalism is not to double-down on its normative virtues, but critically toreflect on how it can be retooled to respond to new challenges.