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The Russian Hybrid Intelligence State

How does intelligence shape Russian domestic politics and foreign and security policy? Contemporary Russia is often characterized as a ‘KGB state’. Current and former intelligence officers, including President Putin, increasingly dominate politics and economy, bringing with them the culture, worl...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Innlandet

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Power Politics and Security in the Arctic

Power Politics and Security in the Arctic (POPSARC) asks two overarching questions. First, what characterises Western allies’ current approaches to security in the Arctic? Second, how are allied interactions in the Arctic sphere materialising – in statements, strategies, and observable material p...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

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Political and Societal Violence in Russia

Ingen endringer

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus

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Unpacking Arctic Security Dynamics: A 3D approach to geopolitics in the Barents and Bering Seas

Arctic security relations are fraught. State-to-state security relations are the tensest they have been since the end of the Cold War. Hotlines between military command centres exist, but confidence-building measures and dialogue are absent. Arctic tension does not primarily come about because...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

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UKRAINETT PLUS: Research collaboration and knowledge sharing Norway – Ukraine

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 created an urgent need for research-based knowledge about Ukrainian society, both in Ukraine and in Norway. In response, researchers at OsloMet established UKRAINETT, a network that by now has grown to more than 100 members from various academic ins...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Oslo

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Nordic Space Infrastructures - Environment, Security, and Future Imaginaries of Outer Space in the High North

Over the last decade, a rapidly increasing number of public and private actors are seeking a place in the exclusive ‘space club’. Private bodies and states - including the Nordic countries - are developing launch sites in the Arctic region. The development of the space sector has long been of mar...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

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Next Arctic Rush? Critical Materials for the Energy Transition

If the Paris Agreement is to be fulfilled, 80% of the world’s energy production must be zero-emission by 2030, and all energy must be zero-emission by 2050. The technologies needed to achieve this dramatic shift depend on certain critical materials (lithium, copper, rare earths, etc.). If these a...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

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Joint Fisheries Management in the Barents Sea after Russias Invasion of Ukraine

Since the mid-1970s, Norway and Russia have managed the rich fish resources of the Barents Sea jointly, including the world’s largest cod stock. The achievements of the Joint Norwegian–Russian Fisheries Commission are widely regarded as a golden standard for international fisheries management. Ho...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

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Peace as a continuation of war by other means? Russian Approaches to Peace Processes (RAPP)

Russia engages in a number of peace processes. This project is designed to investigate why, how and to what end Russia engages. It examines both conflicts in which Russia is a belligerent party (e.g., Ukraine), conflicts where it is involved as a mediator (e.g., Afghanistan), and conflicts where ...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

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Norwegian Centre on Geopolitics

GEOPOL brings together five premier Norwegian research institutions: The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) (host), the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI), the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS), the University of Oslo (UiO) as an educational and competence-building partn...

Awarded: NOK 45.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Oslo

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China and Evolving Multilateral Craftmanship in the Age of Digitalization (CHIMULTI)

China and Evolving Multilateral Craftmanship in the Age of Digitalization Which international organizations develop responsibilities for digital- and data technology (digitech) governance and how do major powers work to craft influence in these organizations? This is the overarching theme invest...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

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Making use of Arctic science - The Case of the Arctic Council

On February 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. At the time, Russia was in the middle of its chairmanship period of the Arctic Council. The member states of the Arctic Council recognised the importance of a united response, and work with Russia was temporarily paused. Since then, the degree...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Akershus

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

China’s changing role in global environmental governance. A prism for understanding its key role in other world order issues.

China is a major contributor to global environmental problems and is central to solving them. Its actions have important implications for global environmental governance (GEG). China has become an important global actor in many ways. Given China’s domestic politics and role in international envir...

Awarded: NOK 9.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Akershus

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Developmental Peace? Perceptions of China’s Engagement in Pakistan and Afghanistan [AsiaPeace]

The AsiaPeace project (2023 - 2026) explores local perceptions of China's dual role as a development actor and peacebuilder in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It aims to provide new insights into how China handles conflicts in areas it engages. Although China has traditionally claimed to pursue a forei...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

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Online Dangerous Speech and Violence (ODAS)

When and how does hateful online speech lead to real-world violence? Many violent events that dominate the news are preceded by online discussions. The uprisings of the 'Arab Spring' were called 'Twitter revolutions', the storming of the US Capitol was inspired by 'QAnon' online posts, and propag...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

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Shaping the Digital World Order: Norms and Agency along the Digital Silk Road in Southeast Asia (NORM)

The NORM project explores the implementation of China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) in selected cases across Southeast Asia, a region where China invests heavily in digital technology. Its primary objective is to identify how the DSR shapes the digital world order and its norms, and how relevant stak...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Contested Ukraine: Military Patrotism, Russian Influence and Implications for European Security

Since 2014, Ukraine's sovereignty has been fundamentally challenged, and not only by military means. Side by side with the use of military force, there is a dramatic and multifaceted struggle to influence the population's political attitudes and sense of belonging. Both before and after the full-...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Innlandet

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Shocking times for European economic integration

Over time, European economic integration has become ever more comprehensive and complex, with a growing body of common regulations that is not easily translated into economic metrics. This project has therefore aimed to develop further the scientific approaches to measuring the scale and scope of...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Party Instability in Parliaments

Elected representatives are widely expected to remain affiliated with the political parties that got them elected. However, party switching in parliaments is common, if not endemic, in many established and young democracies. By changing their affiliation, elected representatives create party inst...

Awarded: NOK 11.9 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Vestland

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

The Politics of European and American Single-Market Governance

Not even many experts realize it, but Europe's single market enforces stronger rules for cross-border openness than the United States does across its fifty states. SINGLEMARKETS is undertaking a first-of-its-kind comparison of how Europeans and Americans perceive the political trade-offs surround...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

European integration and national law: Compliance in complex institutional orders (COMPLEX)

The NAV scandal forms the backdrop for this project on the effects of international agreements on Norwegian law. Here, the EEA Agreement with its requirement of the same effect of legal acts is important. National administrative bodies – directorates and agencies – are linked to transnational EU ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

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Russian Repertoires of Power in the MENA region

Over the past decade Russia has returned as a more active actor in the Middle East and in Northern Africa. This return has triggered a new dynamic in the region where also other actors have vital interests. Russia’s attitude towards conflicts in the region in the wake of the Arab spring and Russi...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

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Deporting foreigners: Contested norms in international practice

Deportation of irregular migrants and rejected asylum seekers is widely known to pit host states against these migrants, but deportation also pits host states against these migrants’ origin states. Liberal European host states cannot unilaterally send migrants back to the origin state they come f...

Awarded: NOK 12.7 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

NGOs Securing Fisheries Environments: Understanding NGO-State Fisheries Protection Programs

The N-SAFE project examines the newly emerging role played by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as they partner with governments around the world in the global fight against illegal fishing. This is an important development, because if it works, such partnerships can transform the way we thin...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Akershus

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Leadership and democratic participation in Asia

The 2020 Freedom House report declares that globally, ‘Democracy and pluralism are under assault’. This is particularly marked and disconcerting with respect to the large and populous regions of South and Southeast Asia where today there is no ‘full democracy’ (Democracy Index 2019). In fact, pop...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

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Chinese Anger Diplomacy

The ANGER Project explores the dynamics between democracies and autocracies, focusing specifically on how liberal democracies respond to public criticism from China. By analyzing what we call China’s “anger diplomacy”—a practice where Chinese diplomats, bureaucrats, or state media express anger t...

Awarded: NOK 7.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

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Memory politics of the North, 1993-2023. An interplay perspective.

The project 'Memory politics of the North, 1993-2023. An interplay perspective' (NORMEMO) examines memory politics and memory culture in Northwest Russia and in Russia's relations with Norway throughout the post-Soviet period. The contemporary Norwegian-Russian borderland stands out as an intrigu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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Lowering the bar? - Compliance Negotiations and the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement

In 2014, the European Union (EU) and Ukraine signed an Association Agreement that aimed to bring Ukraine closer to the EU. On 24 February 2022, Russia began a full-scale war on Ukraine. Since then, Ukraine has become an EU candidate country and accession negotiations have started. The Association...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2024

Location: Agder

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Development of Arctic maritime logistics and intermodal sea-land transport connections: Implications for the Barents Euro-Arctic Region

The BEAR Project analyses the current state of the maritime transport and logistics system in Northern Norway and sea-land transport connections. The study assesses the current role of maritime transport compared to other modes of transportation in Northern Norway. Types of ship traffic, traffic ...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

UTENRIKSFORSK-UTENRIKSFORSK

Replay or renew? Learning from 20+ years of Norwegian-Russian collaboration on health and social welfare in the Barents region (RE:BARENTS)

In RE:BARENTS, we have examined how Norwegian-Russian cooperation in health and welfare in the Barents region has influenced actors and societies from 2000 to the present. We have analyzed the effects of various projects, programs, and institutional collaborations, as well as the interaction betw...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2025

Location: Oslo

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