The World Stage

Once a region that rarely featured in debates about global security, the Sahel has become increasingly topical as it confronts the international community with intertwined challenges related to climate variability, poverty, food insecurity, population displacement, transnational crime, contested statehood and jihadist insurgencies. Sahel is in fact a political order in the making, where extra-lega...

The border conflict between China and India is heating up again. This spring, there were clashes between the two Asian giants, that resulted in casualties on both sides. After a period of relative calm and efforts to de-escalate there are now reports of new clashes. What are these tensions about? And why are they flaring up again now? How can this conflict affect nuclear relations? NUPI Researcher...

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)....

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A conversation between the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and NUPI Director Ulf Sverdrup. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hen...

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 senior...

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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...

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, o...

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

Constanze Stelzenmüller at the Military Power Seminar 2018 giving her look on the status of the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Commi...

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 internation...

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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can we secure the future of democratic capitalism in a world where you don’t know who to trust? Hear Wolfgang Streeck (Emeritus Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies) and Stein Sundstøl Eriksen (Research Professor, NUPI)in a timely conversation in our seminar series “Global disorder and distrust”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Chertoff shares his experiences from his time as United States Secretary of Homeland Security, and talks about how we best can secure critical infrastructure against cyber attacks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 c...

Last year, the group of experts that set out to find common ground for good state behavior in cyberspace, broke down. Cyber expert Karsten Geier proposes a new way ahead in this NUPI-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When the UK leaves the EU in March 2019, the political ballgame in Brussels will change profoundly. We don’t yet know exactly what the consequences will be for the different countries and for the EU as such. For instance: Will it lead to more unity, more fragmentation, or something in between? Listen to the talk from Caroline de Gruyter on what will happen to Europe after Brexit. Hosted on Acast....

What are the consequences of American distrust in the political elite for international politics? Daniel Drezner and Ole Jacob Sending discusses this and more as a part of NUPIs "Global disorder and distrust" series. Daniel Drezner is Professor at Tufts University and a commentator in Washington Post. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A conversation between Morten Bøås (NUPI) and Dlawer Ala'Aladeen on the distrust in the Middle East. This is a part of a new NUPI seminar series looking at global distrust. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.