The World Stage

The World Stage

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The World Stage episodes

  • What do Norwegians think about foreign policy?

    The world is changing, fast. How do Norwegians react to these changes, and what do they think about Norway's foreign policy?


    In this podcast we take a closer look at the results from an opinion poll on Norwegians' attitutes to foreign and security policy questions, and how they should be interpreted in light of the global changes we are faces.


    With Øyvind Svendsen and Åsmund Weltzien (both NUPI).

    This podcast and the survey it presents has been financed by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung.

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    14 min
  • 25 år med EØS

    Hvilken betydning har EØS-avtalen hatt for Norge etter 25 år? Hvilke utfordringer og muligheter ligger i avtalen?


    22. november inviterte tidsskriftet Internasjonal Politikk til lansering av sitt nye nummer med EØS i fokus. Med Bjørn Tore Godal, Martine Tønnessen, Ulf Sverdrup, Åse Gornitzka og Pernille Rieker.

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    1 hr 38 min
  • Why populism?

    Who are the new populists? And how did these movements emerge?


    Rogers Brubaker, Professor of Sociology at UCLA and University of Oslo, talks about the concept of populism and the phenomenon to which it refers.


    Moderator is Senior Research Fellow at NUPI, Stein Sundstøl Eriksen.

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    52 min
  • The War on Journalism
    Journalist Peter Greste was in 2014 arrested in Egypt and charged with terrorism. It ended with 400 days behind bars. Greste argues that this is an extreme example of a much wider global assault on the media, and he emphasizes why it is important that we fight back.

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    1 hr 21 min
  • Negotiating with tough partners

    As the apparently stalled talks over North Korea’s nuclear program attest to, international diplomacy can be a grueling business. Even under conditions of relative trust, diplomatic compromises can prove elusive. How do you negotiate when trust is low, while both the stakes and the tensions are high?


    Ambassador Christopher R. Hill shares his insights and experiences with Senior Research Fellow Henrik S. Hiim in this episode of NUPI podcast.

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    12 min
  • Mot et nytt våpenkappløp i Europa og Asia?

    Verden kan stå overfor et nytt kjernevåpenkappløp etter at USA og Russland nylig trakk seg fra INF-avtalen.


    I denne episoden av NUPI Podcast, som ble tatt opp på NUPI-seminaret Mot et nytt våpenkappløp i Europa og Asia? 11. mars, diskuterer fire eksperter på sikkerhetspolitikk dette sikkerhetspolitiske bildet.


    Du hører Espen Barth Eide, tidligere utenriks- og forsvarsminister, i samtale med seniorforskerne Sverre Lodgaard, Henrik Stålhane Hiim og Pernille Rieker (NUPI).

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    1 hr 33 min
  • Huawei - en risiko eller ikke?

    I begynnelsen av 2019 ble Huawei midtpunktet i en omfattende debatt om selskapet er til å stole på. NUPI og SimulaMet inviterte derfor til samtale på Litteraturhuset for å grave litt dypere i denne debatten 6. mars 2019.


    Her hører du debatten, med ordstyrer Karsten Friis (NUPI), SimulaMet-direktør Olav Lysne og sikkerhetssjef Tore Larsen Orderløkken i Huawei Norge.

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    57 min
  • Can blockchain save journalism?

    Professional journalism is under pressure worldwide. Walid Al-Saqaf argues that the underlying technology for Bitcoin could be a solution to the problem.

    This podcast is from a seminar at NUPI on 27 February 2019.


    Chair is Senior Research Fellow Kjetil Selvik.

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    43 min
  • Chinese cyber security and consequences for Europe

    Chinese tech giants like Xiaomi, Huawei, ZTE, Baidu and WeChat have become well established names all over the world. Some of them are competing to build 5G networks in Europe. At the same time, some of these companies have been associated with state-sponsored espionage and accused of facilitating authoritarianism. How should European authorities understand and face this development?


    This podcast is from a NUPI seminar 6 February 2019, and speaker is valentin Weber. Moderated by Karsten Friis.

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    33 min

About The World Stage

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What is happening in the world right now? In this podcast produced by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) we'll take a closer look at events taking place around the globe. Here…