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Makt og avmakt i FNs sikkerhetsråd: Valgte medlemslands veier til innflytelse
Get PDFFNs sikkerhetsråd består av fem faste og ti valgte medlemsland. Sistnevnte velges på rullerende basis, for to år av gangen. I 2021-22 har Norge vært et av disse valgte medlemslandene. Forskningslitteraturen viser gjerne til hvordan Sikkerhetsrådets handlingsrom begrenses av stormaktsinteresser og maktkampen mellom de fem vetolandene: USA, Kina, Russland, Storbritannia og Frankrike. Russlands angrep på Ukraina anskueliggjort disse utfordringene. I denne policy briefen ser vi nærmere på hvordan valgte medlemsland jobber for å øve innflytelse mens de sitter i Sikkerhetsrådet.Makt og avmakt i FNs sikkerhetsråd: Valgte medlemslands veier til innflytelsepublishedVersio
Moving beyond the NDCs: ASEAN pathways to a net-zero emissions power sector in 2050
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Rebel governance? A literature review of Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West Africa Province
Get PDFThe literature on rebel governance has fundamentally challenged the idea that ‘governance’ is the sole prerogative of ‘government’. Despite important advances over the past decade, studies have largely addressed rebel governance from an ‘institutionalist’ approach. This review seeks to go beyond an ‘institutionalist’ approach, by understanding ‘governance’ as the ‘whole set of practices and norms that govern daily life in a specific territory’. Drawing on a thorough review of literature on Boko Haram and the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), this working paper analyses five under-examined independent variables that shape rebel governance in Nigeria’s north-east and Niger: illegitimate state practices, community resilience, and cohesion, external counterinsurgency actions, ‘big men’, and ideology.publishedVersio
Differentiated Integration and EU Outsiders: A Norwegian View
Get PDFA non-EU state and member of the European Economic Area (EEA) since 1994, Norway enjoys a unique legal, political and practical relationship with the EU. This policy paper discusses what the EU’s increased openness to differentiation in association models and decision-making procedures could mean for a highly integrated third country like Norway, especially within foreign, security and defence policy. Based on interviews conducted in 2020 and 2021, we highlight three observations: First, Norway’s current association model – the EEA agreement plus some 70 bilateral agreements – is generally seen to have served Norwegian interests well, although both Europhile and EU- sceptic interviewees see EU–Norway relations as asymmetric. Second, the EU’s openness to differentiated solutions is generally welcomed, and considered to give Norway opportunities and leeway. Finally, Norwegian EU membership is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future. Reasons include well-functioning association agreements, two negative votes on EU membership, and the continued and growing strength of EU-sceptic political parties in the Norwegian Parliament.publishedVersio
The environmental burdens of special economic zones on the coastal and marine environment: A remote sensing assessment in Myanmar
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The Value of Diplomatic History in a Changing World
No full textThe intellectual value of diplomatic history in giving an increased appreciation of the past is thus undeniable. It needs noting that one of the concerns of traditional diplomatic history, namely the construction of timelines and chronologies, is one that typically has been easy to convert into "working truths". The seemingly nitty-gritty work of establishing when events happened and sorting them in order remains a key value that diplomatic history brings to understanding the past. Broadening the scope will enhance the value of diplomatic history by looking beyond the traditional remits of the subject. Stressing some relatively general lessons from such an expanded diplomatic history might offer lessons to learn. The importance of alternative histories and lessons should be a cure against short-sightedness, and in a wider perspective, it would fit well with a humble reading of diplomatic history, not focused on blueprints for action, but on increased understanding.The Value of Diplomatic History in a Changing WorldacceptedVersio
Coping with Complexity: Toward Epistemological Pluralism in Climate–Conflict Scholarship
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Russlandsforskere, hva nå?
Get PDFRusslands krig mot Ukraina har enorme konsekvenser, først og fremst for Ukraina, men også for Russland og Russlands andre nabostater. Krigen har ikke bare kastet om på europeisk og norsk sikkerhets- og utenrikspolitikk, den vil ha store konsekvenser også for den norske forskningen på, og kunnskapen om, Russland. Mulighetene for forskning i Russland har blitt stadig mer begrenset over flere år, og etter februar 2022 er døren nærmest helt stengt. Samtidig er kunnskap om Russland viktig for Norge, som deler grense og forvalter kritiske ressurser i samarbeid med Russland. Slik vil det fortsette å være. Spørsmålet nå er hvordan denne kunnskapen skal skapes og oppdateres, gitt at rammebetingelsene som den norske forskningen på Russland de siste 30 årene har blitt produsert under, har endret seg dramatisk. Hvordan skal vi oppdatere norsk kunnskap om Russland i årene fremover? Hvilke metoder og data er tilgjengelige, og hva kan vi forvente av disse?What Now, Russologists?acceptedVersionpublishedVersio
Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackout
Get PDFThe digitalisation of the energy system brings out the question of cyber threats. How this area is perceived and how cyber-security policy in the energy sector develops is driven by the most spectacular cyber-incidents. How do these events shape public perceptions about the dangers of digitalisation? To understand this, we look at the 2016 CrashOverride cyberattack on Ukraine’s grid. Hypothesising that cyber-energy security incidents are interpreted in the context of socio-technical imaginaries of the energy sector and security imaginaries linked to foreign policy, we distil four discourses that emerged around the Ukraine attack among Western experts and commentators. One represented it as evidence of an accelerating race towards disaster, another as merely a tip of the iceberg. The third portrayed it as less catastrophic than initially suggested, while the last one as part of Russia’s cyber strategy. Not all of these were picked up by the broader public debate in Western security circles, and only the more alarmist discourses had a visible impact beyond niche communities.Interpreting cyber-energy-security events: experts, social imaginaries, and policy discourses around the 2016 Ukraine blackoutpublishedVersio
Theorizing Public Performances for International Negotiations
Get PDFThis article theorizes how public performances matter in international negotiations. Studies of international negotiations are predominantly focused on power-political instruments in use around the negotiating table. I argue that public communication cannot be dismissed as cheap talk but that it plays a constitutive role in and on international negotiations. Contributing to the international relations (IR) literature on negotiations, the article suggests an orientation toward an increasingly important aspect of international negotiations in a hypermediated world political context, namely public performances that challenge the distinction between domestic signaling and claim-making toward negotiating parties. Hypermediated negotiations mean that much of what goes on in IR is spread to large audiences in new and emerging digital sites in near real time. Actors use public performances to define and legitimize their desired visions for negotiating outcomes. As public performances, these are power-political instruments in and of themselves, part of the array of tactics that states turn to when competing for influence in international negotiations. The theorization is illustrated with an example from the UK–EU Brexit negotiations. The illustration is a qualitative Twitter analysis that shows the performative toolbox in use, as well as the importance of public performances themselves in the endgame of the Brexit negotiations.Theorizing Public Performances for International NegotiationspublishedVersio