Forskningsprosjekt
Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks
Målet er å få innsikt i hvordan den fremvoksende globale politikken og globale styringsmekanismer ser ut og hvordan Europa posisjonerer seg i det nye landskapet.
NUPI er ansvarlig for arbeidspakke (WP) 5: "Europe and Global Public Policy 2: Energy and Environment." WP 5 undersøker globale trender, eksempelvis endringer i økonomisk og politisk makt og den økonomiske krisen i vesten. Den analyserer også forskjellige aspekter av EU-medlemmers påvirkning på EUs energi- og miljøpolitikk, og hvordan EU søker å møte disse utfordringene gjennom mer innovasjon og integrasjon og ved å styre gjennom transnasjonale nettverk for å øke graden av samarbeid.
WP 5 har følgende mål:
- å bedre forstå hvordan globale politiske og økonomiske utviklingstrekk påvirker EUs policy,
- å sammenligne og forstå hvordan europeiske og ikke-europeiske nettverk kan fasilitere integrasjon, læring og innovasjon innen energipolitikken, og på dette grunnlaget:
- identifisere arenaer, strategier og styringsmodeller hvor EU har et komparativt fortrinn og kan utvide og institusjonalisere sin rolle som en global aktør innen energi, miljø etc.
Forskningen er organisert rundt tre deler:
- Internal characteristics of European countries and effects on EU energy and environmental governance,
- Global trends and their effects on EU energy and environmental governance,
- Innovation, integration, and competition in and through policy networks.
Forskning, konferanser og andre aktiviteter foretas av et konsortium bestående av 16 forskere fra forskningsinstitusjoner og universiteter i Australia, Storbritannia, Kina, Ungarn, Italia, Norge og Spania.
Prosjektleder
Deltakere
Nye publikasjoner
"A New Kind of Arctic Power? Russia's Policy Discourses and Diplomatic Practices in the Circumpolar North"
A sylvan superpower? Russian forests in international climate negotiations
Climate science, Russian politics, and the framing of climate change
Rosneft’s offshore partnerships: the re-opening of the Russian petroleum frontier?
During an intense period of only 14 months, from June 2010 to August 2011, six major cooperation agreements between oil companies were announced in Russia. Almost all of these partnerships involved offshore projects, with an international oil company as one of the partners and Rosneft as the other. The agreements were concentrated along Russia's Arctic petroleum frontier, and the three that survived the longest involved oil or gas extraction in the Arctic. This article analyses and compares the contents and contexts of the agreements, to ascertain what they have to tell about access for international companies to Russia's offshore petroleum resources and the influence of competing Russian political actors over the country's petroleum sector. The article argues that the new partnerships did represent an intention to open up the Russian continental shelf, and that the agreements were driven and shaped by a series of needs: to secure foreign capital and competence, to reduce exploration risk, to lobby for a better tax framework, to show the government that necessary action was being taken to launch exploration activities, to improve Rosneft's image abroad, and either to avert or prepare for future privatisation of state companies such as Rosneft.
A dangerous space? Unpacking state and media discourses on the Arctic
Strategie energetyczne Rosji i Norwegii: podobieństwa i różnice (Energy strategies of Russia and Norway: similarities and differences)
International science, domestic politics: Russian reception of international climate-change assessments
Norges nye vi: Diasporaer som faktor i norsk utenrikspolitikk. Rapport til Utenriksdepartementet
Russia's Encounter with Globalization: Actors, Processes and Critical Moments
The chapters of this book analyse an increasingly important dimension of Russian politics, namely responses to globalization. How do Russia’s policy actors understand and seek to meet the political challenges of the 21st century? Emphasis is placed on understanding how Russian domestic politics shape this international engagement. Thematically, the focus is on Russia’s external engagement with areas of policy relating broadly to globalization, namely energy, climate, health, direct foreign investment, finance, and international terrorism.