The World Stage

I 2019 er det 25 år siden EØS-avtalen trådte i kraft. Det betyr at de som er født på midten av nittitallet og senere ikke kan huske et liv uten denne avtalen. 14. januar inviterte NUPI til debatt på Kulturhuset i Oslo. Hit kom utenriksministeren og fire unge stemmer for å diskutere EØS og vår tilknytning til Europa.

Hvordan er det å skulle videreføre en avtale som du egentlig ikke vet så mye om, og som du ikke har fått være med på å bestemme? Er det på tide med en ny EØS-debatt?

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Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the EU, and whether the union is ready to handle major challenges such as migration, the spread of right-wing populism, and instability in the east.

Krastev is the author of the rather provocative book "After Europe", that reflects on the future of the European Union - and its potential lack of a future.

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Over the last few years, and especially in the wake of Russian actions in Ukraine, hybrid warfare—sometimes referred to as hybrid threats—has gained a tremendous amount of attention both in Europe and worldwide.

There is a need for an improved public understanding of the challenges posed by hybrid warfare in Norway, as well as other western liberal democracies.

This is why Norwegian Atlantic Committee and NUPI organized this public event on the challenges hybrid warfare brings, and what we should do to combat them, on 31 October 2018. In the panel were Hanna Smith, Director of Strategic Planning and Responses for the NATO-EU Center of Excellence in Helsinki, Geir Hågen Karlsen, Lieutenant Colonel and Lecturer, the Norwegian Defence University College and Njord Wegge, Senior Research Fellow, NUPI.

T

he event was moderated by Kjell Dragnes, journalist and former Foreign Affairs Editor in Aftenposten.

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Two men watching a basketball game, chatting and eating hot dogs one day in 2012 in Ohio might not seem like geopolitics. But, as we learn in Senior research Fellow Kristin Haugevik’s new book, when the two guys are President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron such a friendly episode has significance in global politics.

So, what kind of significance do special friendships in international relations have? We're taking a closer look at this in this episode. Host is Research Professor Elana Wilson Rowe.

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Ine Eriksen Søreide, Espen Barth Eide og Ulf Sverdrup i samtale om en ny stortingsmelding om Norges rolle i det multilaterale systemet.

Fra Litteraturhuset 12. september 2018.

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Since his Munich Security conference speech in 2007 Vladimir Putin has identified the West as Public Enemy No 1. Since then he has employed a variety of instruments from cyber-attacks to information warfare to undermine the Western democratic order.

Less well-known is his reference since the Valdai conference in 2013 to Russia as a civilizational state with privileged civilizational interests in countries with significant Russian diasporas. The discourse is one in which the West is identified as an eternal and perpetual enemy of Russia’s cultural identity. It's becoming clear that Russia is on a collision course with the Western world.

In this episode of NUPI podcast, Christopher Coker, professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, gives his take on the situation.

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