Abkhazian democracy and the marginalization of the Armenian vote
In their new Ethnic and Racial Studies article, Pål Kolstø and Helge Blakkisrud discuss the marginalization of the Armenian minority in Abkhazia.
MoreNew project on Central Asia and Afghanistan
NUPI is launching a new project on consequences of the NATO pull out from Afghanistan in 2014.
MoreRefugees and oil boom in Azerbaijan
In a new book chapter, NUPI researcher Heidi Kjærnet explores how the oil boom in Azerbaijan affects internally displaced persons in the country.
MoreThe activities of NUPI’s Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies can be divided into four core areas:
- Russian security and foreign policy – including Russian hegemonic ambitions in the post-Soviet area, together with Russia’s relation to EU and NATO. Studies of bilateral relations between Russia and Norway have been important as well.
- Within the field of regime studies, the focus has been on various aspects of the Russian political system, policy models, and institutional development and institution building.
- The third focal area involves research on the development of centre–periphery relations within the Russian Federation. Today this is an important field of study: in addition to the obvious need for expertise on conflict areas like Chechnya, for the first time the regions, and thereby centre–periphery relations, have emerged as a power factor in the Russian context.
- The Department of Russian an Eurasian Studies has also focused on the Russian Nordic Areas in general and the Norwegian neighbouring territory in particular, as well as on various aid-related projects. Research in the department includes all the post-Soviet areas except the Baltic countries.
Afghanistan’s Central Asian neighbours: Spoilers or catalysts of regional stability?
Great Power, Arctic Power: Russia's engagement in the High North
This project takes a fresh look at Russia’s Arctic policy and engagement by posing questions about the durability of discourses and practices of Arctic cooperation in Russian policy milieus. More
Modernizing the Russian North: Politics and Practice
The project examines the current political processes of modernization in Russia with an emphasis on how Russian actors seek to modernize and manage their North. More
The Shifting Geopolitics of the Black Sea Region: Actors, Drivers and Challenges
The Black Sea Region stands out as a region where realpolitik once more has come to the fore. This project maps drivers that currently affect the shifting geopolitics of the Black Sea region. More
Competence building and research support for the Chechen State University
The project is a cooperation project between the Chechen State University in Grozny and NUPI. More
Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) and implications for post-conflict economic recovery
The project is about disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (so-called DDR processes) and the pursuit of these aims when societies go from war to peace. More
- Haugevik, Kristin M., Julie Wilhelmsen
(2012). Leder Internasjonal Politikk,
i Internasjonal Politikk 02/2012
.Oslo,Universitetsforlaget.p. 155-157.I denne tidsskriftlederen ser redaktørene på faglig fortetting og utvidede studieobjekter innen faget internasjonal politikk, med et særlig fokus på global helse som felt. [url] - Godzimirski, Jakub M., Demakova, Ekaterina
(2012). Russian External Energy Strategy,
In Caroline Kuzemko, Andreas Goldthau, Andrei Belyi, Michael Keating (eds) Dynamics of Energy Governance in Europe and Russia
.London, New York,Palgrave Macmillan.p. 149–168.In this article, Demakova and Godzimirski discuss opportunities and constraints in Russian external energy strategy. [url] - Haugevik, Kristin M., Julie Wilhelmsen
(2012). Leder,
i Internasjonal Politikk Volum (70) 1.
.Oslo,Universitetsforlaget.p. 3-5. [url] - Overland, Indra , Hilde Kutschera
(2012). Subsidised Energy and Hesitant Elites in Russia,
in Flammable societies. Studies on the Socio-economics of Oil and Gas. McNeish, John-Andrew; Logan, Owen (eds.)
.London,Pluto.p. 201-218.In this book chapter, Indra Øverland and Hilde Kutschera examine the social discontent that higher energy prices in Russia may lead to, and the role fears over this discontent play in the hesitance of decision-makers. [url] - Kjærnet, Heidi
(2012). Living under the bullet: Internal displacement in the Azerbaijani oil boom,
in McNeish, John-Andrew and Owen Logan (eds.) Flammable societies. Studies on the socio-economics of oil and gas
.London,Pluto Press.p. 156-175.This chapter focuses on how the community of approximately 600,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Azerbaijan relate to the country’s oil boom. [url] - Blakkisrud, Helge , Pål Kolstø
(2012 ). Yielding to the sons of the soil,
in Ethnic and Racial Studies .
.Taylor & Francis.p. 1-21.In this article, Kolstø and Blakkisrud discuss the marginalization of the Armenian minority in Abkhazia. [url] - Godzimirski, Jakub M., Iver B. Neumann, Sharam Alghasi (2011). Norges nye vi. Oslo, HiO NUPI. 115 pages. Rapporten diskuterer hva slags påvirkning diasporaer har på norsk utenrikspolitikk
- Godzimirski, Jakub M. (2011). Nordic Approaches to Energy Security. Bratislava, Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association. 115 pages. The report presents the nordic approaches to energy security, and discusses what Ukraine could learnfrom the Nordic experience.
- Overland, Indra
(2011). Close Encounters: Russian Policy-Making and International Oil Companies,
in Elana Wilson Rowe and Julie Wilhelmsen (eds) Russia’s Encounter with Globalization
.New York,Palgrave Macmillan.p. 134-158.This chapter differs from several of the others in this volume in that it deals with Russia’s encounter with globalization in a domestic context, in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Russian petroleum sector. The chapter uses the British-Russian petroleum company TNK-BP as a case study to look at the interface between foreign companies and Russian actors, and to deduce how decisions are made on the Russian side about the interaction with foreign companies. [url] - Wilhelmsen, Julie , Elana Wilson Rowe [ed.] (2011). Russia's Encounter with Globalization. Actors, Processes and Critical Moments. England, Palgrave Macmillan. 233 pages. How does Russia meet the challenges of globalisation? Through thorough analysis of different aspects of Russian policy, the contributors to this book reveals how Russia meets the world.