Caspian energy policy
Indra Øverland and Heidi Kjærnet have edited a new book on Caspian energy policy.
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The 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.
The Shifting Geopolitics of the Black Sea Region: Actors, Drivers and Challenges
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Russia in pan-Sámi politics
Research on Russian Sámi politics as seen in the light of the ongoing internationalization of Sámi political and cultural organizing. More
Mapping Energy Expertise. Actors and Topics
The aim of this study was to map international expertise in the field of energy security with focus on the energy-security and climate-change nexus. More
The New Northern Dimension and the Possibility of an Energy Partnership
The aim is to assess existing areas of co-operation, propose solutions to identified policy problems, and highlight new areas of cooperation, as well as to make the new Northern Dimension widely known in the Northern Dimension partner countries and propose ways in which an energy partnership can be included in the Northern Dimension partnership programmes. More
Assessment of Possibilities for NCA's Involvement in Work with Indigenous Peoples in Circumpolar North
Evaluering av Kirkens Nødhjelps arbeid med urfolk i nordområdene. More
The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy
The project aims to comprehensively identify patterns associated with Russia’s engagement in multilateral institutions both within and outside the post-Soviet space More
- Overland, Indra , Stina Torjesen (2010). Just Good Friends: Kazakhstan’s and Turkmenistan’s Energy Relations with Russia, in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . Abingdon,Routledge.p. 136-149.
- Kjærnet, Heidi (2010). Azerbaijani–Russian Relations and the Economization of Foreign Policy, in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . Abingdon,Routledge.p. 150-161.
- Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor (2010). The Logic of Authoritarianism in the Caspian Petro-States, in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. . Abingdon,Routledge.p. 178-184.
- Torjesen, Stina , Indra Overland, Heidi Kjærnet (2010). China and Russia: Partners or Firewalls for the Caspian Petro-States?, in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . Abingdon,Routledge.p. 93-100.
- Kjærnet, Heidi (2010). Displacement in a Booming Economy: IDPs in Azerbaijan, in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . Abingdon,Routledge.p. 60-77.
- Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor (2010). The Resource Curse and Authoritarianism in the Caspian Petro-States , in Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [eds.] Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . Abingdon,Routledge.p. 1-12.
- Overland, Indra , Heidi Kjærnet, Andrea Kendall-Taylor [ed.] (2010). Caspian Energy Politics: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Abingdon, Routledge. 208 pages. This book analyses the role of oil and gas in the development of the three main petroleum exporters in the Caspian region - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - and how energy resources influence interactions with semi-authoritarian Russia and China.
- Blakkisrud, Helge (2009). Et Russland i endring, i Øyvind Østerud, Helge Pharo og Even Lange (red.), Vendepunkter i norsk utenrikspolitikk. Nye internasjonale vilkår etter den kalde krigen . Oslo,Unipub.p. 209-258.
- Godzimirski, Jakub M. (2009). Energy Security and the Politics of Identity, in Gunnar Fermann (ed.) Political Economy of Energy in Europe: Forces of Fragmentation and Integration . Berlin,Berliner Wissenschafts Verlag.p. 173-206. The main goal of this chapter is to explore what is the impact of identity on the ongoing European debate on energy security.
- Kjærnet, Heidi , Indra Overland [ed.] (2009). Russian Renewable Energy. The Potential for International Cooperation.. Aldershot, Ashgate. 198 pages. This book provides a balanced analysis of Russia's understudied strengths in the renewable energy sector.