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Thursday, 17 Sept 2026
Russia remains absorbed with Europe amid BRICS summit

Russian state media regularly presents the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS as embodiments of a multipolar world order replacing Western dominance.

Friday, 4 Sept 2026
Is Europe up to Putin’s challenge – and vice versa?

For Europe, the challenge may no longer be only to deter Russia, but also to overcome the internal divisions that Russia seeks to exploit.

Wednesday, 5 Aug 2026
How to make sense of the new world disorder

With two ongoing regional wars, a crumbling humanitarian architecture and a number of smaller, often ignored, crises, it is tempting to pronounce an end to the liberal international order as we have known it since the end of the Cold War. But is this really the case? And what, if anything, might be replacing it?

Thursday, 18 Jun 2026
How the G7 can reset global finance

When G7 leaders arrive in Evian-les-Bains this month, France will host more than another summit. It will host a test of whether rich-country coordination can still solve problems that no country can manage alone.

Wednesday, 17 Jun 2026
AI is neither the autocrat’s silver bullet nor democracy’s death sentence

AI does not map neatly onto a spectrum running from democratic vulnerability to authoritarian advantage.

Thursday, 19 Feb 2026
Russia’s hope for trans-atlantic rift at MSC disappointed

Russia hopes to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe through hybrid attacks and nuclear brinkmanship to increase its chances of prevailing against Ukraine.

Thursday, 17 Jul 2025
Multipolarity matures, but not according to Putin’s plan

The intensity of turbulence on the global arena has reached such high levels that the 2025 BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on 6–7 July attracted far less attention than expected.

Thursday, 26 Jun 2025
Putin’s preemptive maneuvering around NATO summit is cut off

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, investors from most parts of the world have stopped coming to Russia, so the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has turned into a show of fake innovation.

Tuesday, 24 Jun 2025
How do women ambassadors reshape diplomacy at the UN Security Council?

On the occasion of the International Day of Women in Diplomacy, 24 June.

Saturday, 21 Jun 2025
På rett kurs

Norske fregatter i Stillehavet er ingen avsporing, men en framtidsrettet norsk sikkerhetspolitikk.

Tuesday, 10 Jun 2025
Lawyers and the resilience of the liberal international order

In times of political crisis and attacks against the foundations of political liberalism, can we put our trust in lawyers and other legal occupations to fight for our freedoms, when they are under attack?

Thursday, 22 May 2025
Crisis and deglobalization: Contributions of research and the role of researchers

Humanitarian aid, development cooperation, migration governance and multilateralism have long been declared to be ‘in crisis’, but are currently experiencing unprecedented systemic shocks.

Friday, 17 Jan 2025
Greenland Is Not for Sale

President Donald Trump has provoked strong reactions with his proposition to buy Greenland, not the least because the right to self-determination is a fundamental principle in international law, allowing peoples to freely determine their political status and pursue their economic, social, and cultural development. Home Rule Greenland has a long ...

Friday, 10 Jan 2025
The International Criminal Court at Risk of Collapse

As many are by now acutely aware, the International Criminal Court (ICC) relies on state cooperation to investigate and arrest individuals charged with international crimes. This is not new. What is new is the seriousness, complexity, and extent of the political resistance that the ICC is currently facing after issuing ...

Wednesday, 11 Dec 2024
An Untested Refugee Theory

From late January 2025, the Israeli ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) will come into effect. What does this mean for the rights of the Palestinian refugees, and who will then take responsibility for helping them? In October 2024, the Israeli parliament (Knesset) ...