GR:EEN to Oslo
The GR:EEN project's first annual conference was held in Milan in February. In March, the researchers gather at NUPI. The GR:EEN project examines EU’s role in the world, and NUPI leads the work on the topic of energy and environment.
MoreGR:EEN workshop in Boston
A GR:EEN workshop with the topic Europe in International Organizations will be arranged in Boston 5th March. CGG will be represented by Ole Jacob Sending.
MoreNew project on cultural dialogue
A joint Chatham House - Centre for Global Governance (CGG) project is being launched.
MoreThe state is often seen to be undermined by the forces of globalization. The power to shape and manage governance efforts has diffused from the state to transnational policy networks where the state plays a strategically important rather than a necessarily dominant role. Still, we have few indications that the state is in decline or has become powerless in the face of global challenges. Rather, how the state governs and interacts with different types of actors at the national and global level has changed, with more emphasis on indirect governance such as soft law, global best practices, and the delegation of governance tasks to non-state actors.
NUPI's Centre for Global Governance is a strategic research initiative aimed at analyzing these trends and assessing its implications for the power and governance strategies of the state in general and for the Norwegian state in particular. The Centre will serve as a hub for research across NUPI’s research departments, and will address four inter-related questions:
- What are the dominant forms of global governance?
- How is the authority to govern institutionalized and how does it change over time?
- What is the power and authority of the state relative to non-state actors in different networks of global governance?
- How can global governance be improved and made more effective and legitimate?
Current research [More]
Health and Foreign policy
The project aims to explore the mutual interrelatedness between health and foreign policy. More
Cultural Dialogue in International Security
The project looks at the conditions for and role of dialogue by focusing on how a select number of states have defined and responded to a series of crises. Studying the behaviour of states during times of crisis offers a good vantage point from which to gauge states’ interests and behaviour and by implication the conditions for, and role of, dialogue. More
The Future of Diplomacy
This project asks whether and how diplomatic practice has changed in response to recent transformations in global politics. More specifically, we seek to better grasp the extent of the contemporary shift from bilateral, state‐to‐state diplomacy to networked, multi‐stakeholder diplomacy. More
Completed projects [More]
Publications
- Eggen, Øyvind , Ole Jacob Sending
(2012). Global helse,
i Internasjonal Politikk 2/2012
.Oslo,Universitetsforlaget.p. 208-217.Sending og Eggen diskuterer i denne artikkelen hvordan global helse som felt de siste årene har fått økt status i utenrikspolitikken og i akademia. [url] - Neumann, Iver B., Cecilie B. Neumann (2012). Forskeren i forskningsprosessen. Oslo, Cappelen Damm Akademisk.. 120 pages. Metodelitteratur og veiledere oppfordrer ofte studenter og forskere til å reflektere over profesjonsidealer og forskerens etiske ansvar, men gir sjelden konkrete råd om hva man kan gjøre i praksis. Det gjør forfatterne av denne boka.
- Neumann, Iver B., Sergei Medvedev
(2012). Identity Issues in EU-Russian Relations,
in Constructing Identities in Europe: German and Russian Perspectives.
.Berlin,Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.p. 9-29. In this book chapters Neumann and Medvedev argue that identity structures play a role in the relations between the EU and Russia. [url] - Neumann, Iver B., Thomas Ugelvik [ed.] (2012). Mat/viten. Oslo, Universitetsforlaget. 238 pages. Mat er mer enn næring. I denne boka ser bidragsyterne på mat fra ulike ståsted. De viser at matvaner og etikette er kulturelle størrelser. Maten man spiser kommuniserer noe om hvem man er og hvilke fellesskap man er del av.
- Neumann, Iver B. (2012). At Home With the Diplomats. , Cornell University Press. 232 pages. In this book, Iver B. Neumann offers unprecedented access to the inner workings of a foreign ministry. Approaching contemporary diplomacy from an anthropological perspective, Neumann examines the various aspects of diplomatic work and practice, including immunity, permanent representation, diplomatic sociability, accreditation, and issues of gender equality.
- Neumann, Iver B., Sharam Alghasi
(2012). Innledning. Hvorfor festskrift?,
i Universitetsforlagets og Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrifts nummer 1/2012 viet Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
.Oslo,Universitetsforlaget.p. 9-15.Dette er innledningen til NATs nummer viet Thomas Hylland Eriksen. [url] - Eriksen, Stein Sundstøl
(2012). Regimes, Constituencies and the Politics of State Formation: Zimbabwe and Botswana Compared,
in International Political Science Review (forthcoming, 2012)
.Sage.This article analyses state formation in Botswana and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. It seeks to explain why Botswana became a strong state, while state power in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe has eroded. [url] - Neumann, Iver B., Helge Jordheim
(2011). Empire, imperialism and conceptual history,
i Journal of International Relations and Development Volum 14.(2)
.Palgrave MacMillan.p. 153-185.Concepts are defined by their meanings and uses and become powerful in battle with other concepts. The concepts discussed in this article, ‘empire’ and ‘imperialism’, have lately made their return to the grand stage of world politics, most significantly as descriptions, and indeed, self-descriptions of the role and position of the United States. How is this return possible? What does it mean? [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
- Neumann, Iver B., Thomas Hylland Eriksen (2011). Norsk identitet og Europa. Oslo, UiO NUPI UMB (Europautredningen 2012). 17 pages. Dette kapitlet i Europautredningen tar for seg norsk identitet i Europa.
