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The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: from institutional anchors of liberalism to geopolitical rivalry
Get PDFThe IMF and the World Bank are not only amongst the world's most powerful international institutions, but they also represent the most visible institutional anchors of the liberal post-Second World War order. This may be about to change because the IMF and the World Bank are economic institutions and, thereby, bound to reflect global economic realities. And, from an economic perspective, these realities have for quite some time indicated a world that increasingly moves in a multipolar direction. The turn to economic multipolarity has followed in the wake of increased Great Power rivalry between the United States and China. This chapter charts out these developments and how they have affected and IMF and the World Bank, and what consequences this may have for these institutions and the type of global leaderships that they seek to set.The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: from institutional anchors of liberalism to geopolitical rivalrysubmittedVersio
Iraq
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Climate-related Peace and Security Risks project, jointly undertaken by NUPI and SIPRI, with funding from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The information in the fact sheet does not necessarily reflect the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' views.• Increasing temperatures, decreasing water availability and greater inter-annual variability in rainfall negatively affect agriculture, reduce household income and food availability, and exacerbate livelihood insecurity. Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the adverse effects of climate change, due to pre-existing gender norms and persisting inequalities. • Low agriculture yields and loss of livelihoods contribute to increased urban migration, with urban challenges including the risk of social unrest and protests in host cities. • Armed groups and militias leverage the economic hardships, further exacerbated by the compounding effects of climate change, for recruitment and support. Weak governance increases the opportunities for elite exploitation and corruption, which leads to further marginalization and exclusion that feed grievances and drive instability.IraqpublishedVersio
Military Factors That Suggest War is Right Around the Corner
No full textArtikkelen drøfter hvordan analyse av militære disposisjoner kan brukes for å vurdere om et angrep vil komme. Artikkelen viser også hvordan enkel etterretningsmetodikk kan brukes i slike situasjoner.Military Factors That Suggest War is Right Around the CornerpublishedVersio
The Sheikh versus the president: the making of Imam Dicko as a political Big Man in Mali
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Post Post-Sovjet, stil og opprør: Symbolikk og subversiv nasjonalisme i Gosja Rubtsjinskijs «nye Russland»
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Kulturkampene i USA og betydning for politisk klima og utenrikspolitikk
Get PDFI denne analysen skal vi se nærmere på den underliggende interne dynamikken for kulturkampene. Vi begynner med venstresiden før vi ser på høyresiden og til slutt spør om dette også kan få betydning for amerikansk utenrikspolitikk. «Woke» og Kritisk Raseteori (KRT) som politiskKulturkampene i USA og betydning for politisk klima og utenrikspolitikkpublishedVersio
Petroleum Transition Pathways in Norway. How do Norwegian stakeholders envision pathways to net-zero and phase-out for the country’s oil and gas sector?
Get PDFThe Oil and Gas Transitions (OGT) is an evidence-based programme which aims accelerate just transitions
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Effects of Mandatory Sexual Misconduct Training on University Campuses
Get PDFThis paper explores whether mandatory, universal, in-person sexual misconduct training achieves its goals to build knowledge about sexual assault and harassment and increase intentions to report episodes of assault. We present results from three studies with quasi-experimental designs as well as interviews with students and staff at a diverse public university in the western United States. Our surprising finding is that participating in training makes women students less likely to say they will report experiences of sexual assault to university authorities. The training produces some small positive effects: students gain broader definitions of sexual misconduct, are less likely to endorse common rape myths, and women students express less sexist attitudes immediately after training. Our study raises questions about whether one-shot training helps to reduce sexual violence and increase reporting on college campuses and whether universities should invest in these types of training.Effects of Mandatory Sexual Misconduct Training on University CampusesacceptedVersionpublishedVersio
Networked territoriality: A processual–relational view on the making (and makings) of regions in world politics
Get PDFThis article proposes a processual–relational perspective on region-making and its effects in world politics. It revisits the concepts of regionalism and regionalisation to unearth the relational mechanisms underlying these archetypical pathways of regional emergence. Regionalism refers to the bounding of regions – the definition of its inside and outside, and of which actors fall on either side. Regionalisation denotes the binding of regions, the amalgamations of relations around a shared territoriality. I argue that regions affect world politics in their making through the boundaries raised and relations produced in the process. I then mobilise network theory and analysis to propose a framework for studying the making and makings of regions. Regions’ binding and bounding are rooted in brokerage dynamics that sustain clusters of relations denser inside a regional boundary, rather than outside, and allow some actors to control interactions across that boundary. I illustrate this framework with a case study on the emergence of the Amazon as a region in world politics. I analyse interaction networks in UN-level environmental negotiations involving the ecosystem. The analysis shows how the making of the Amazon has been tied to preserving the position of Amazonian states as the main brokers, speaking for and acting on behalf of the region.Networked territoriality: A processual–relational view on the making (and makings) of regions in world politicspublishedVersio