New book: Caspian Energy Politics
What role have the oil and gas resources played for the democratic development in the three largest oil-exporting countries on the Caspian Sea? And how have the enormous energy resources affected their relations with Russia and China?
MoreRegional conflicts on the Horn of Africa
A new NUPI Report by Axel Borchgrevik and Jon Harald Sande Lie discusses conflicts on the Horn of Africa with a regional or cross-border dimension, and analyses the potential of the international community for constructive engagement.
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Child Relocations in Africa
Forum for Development Studies new issue has a Special Section on Child Relocations in Africa. Child mobility and child labour in sub-Saharan Africa has become an increasingly important topic in international policy-making.
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- Larsen, Iselin Hebbert (2010). UNAMA in Afghanistan. Challenges and Oppertunities in Peacemaking, State-building and Coordination. Oslo, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). 51 pages. Security in Practice no. 3 - 2010. This report focuses on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) role in peacemaking, state-building and coordination.
- Clewlow, Ade (2010). The Kosovo Protection Corps. A Critical Study of its De-activation as a Transition. Oslo, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. 38 pages. Security in Practice 4 · 2010. The report analyses the transformation process in which the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) was closed down and the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) activated. It critically assesses the role NATO, UN and other international actors played in the process, and highlights some lessons learned which can be of relevance for similar processes in the future.
- 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.
- Borchgrevink, Axel , Jon Harald Sande Lie (2009). Regional Conflicts and International Engagement on the Horn of Africa. Oslo, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. 113 pages. Rapporten tar for seg konflikter på Afrikas Horn med forgreninger utover enkeltland, og analyserer det internasjonale samfunns muligheter for konstruktivt engasjement i forhold til slike konflikter.
Articles (in books and journals) [More]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Working Papers [More]
- de Coning, Cedric H. (2010). Clarity, Coherence and Context: Three Priorities for Sustainable Peacebuilding. NUPI Working Paper: . 31 pages. This paper will focus on three challenges that should inform the 2010 Review of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, namely: (1) developing the UN peacebuilding concept and operational model; (2) significantly stepping-up efforts to improve system-wide coherence; and (3) seriously implementing the principle of local ownership.
- Stamnes, Eli (2010). Values, Context and Hybridity: How can the insights from the liberal peace critique literature be brought to bear on the practices of the UN Peacebuilding Architecture?. NUPI Working Paper: . 33 pages. The authors of the liberal peace critique literature argue that local ownership should mean taking the recipient societies’(rather than simply governments’ and elites’) understanding of the problems and solutions as the starting point of peacebuilding.
- Jenkins, Rob (2010). Re-engineering the UN Peacebuilding Architecture. NUPI Working Paper: . 37 pages. This paper argues that if the Peacebuilding Commission and the Peacebuilding Support Office are to avoid longterm institutional decline, they will, over the next five to ten years, need to position themselves to play new roles – in terms of mandate, resources, procedures, and partnerships.
- Biersteker, Thomas, Oliver Jütersonke (2010). The Challenges of Institution Building: Prospects for the UN Peacebuilding Architecture. NUPI Working Paper: . 17 pages. The United Nations peacebuilding architecture is a new and relatively recent institutional creation. To address the issue of what role the UN peacebuilding architecture could realistically be expected to perform ten years from now, this paper briefly examine what different theories have to tell us about the origins of new institutions, their operational dynamics, their challenges, their constraints, their pathologies, and their realistic possibilities.
Popular publishing [More]
- Lodgaard, Sverre (2010). NATOs strategiske konsept. Dagsavisen, 3. February
- Egeland, Jan (2010). The Lessons from Haiti. ModernGhana.com, 2. February
- Visser, Reidar (2010). Blacklisted in Baghdad. Can Washington Fix Iraq’s Election Crisis? . Foreign Affairs, 27. January
- Lurås, Helge (2010). Build-up of Afghan security forces ill advised. Noref Policy Brief, No. 1 January 2010, 25. January
