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-legal governance influences the nature of political competition and multiple threats challenge international stakeholders.Listen in on NUPI researcher Morten Bøås' and Adjunct research professor at SSSA, SAIS Europe and NUPI Francesco Strazzari's conversation related to the launch of a special issue of the "International Spectator" on this subject, that the two researchers have guest edited. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Henrik S. Hiim in conversation with Yun Sun, Director for the China Program at Stimson Center, Washington DC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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 Henrik S. Hiim in this episode of NUPI podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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/privacy for more information.