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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This article explores the prevalent issue of sexual violence against and among humanitarian aid workers, with a focus on why the aid sector creates a particularly permissive environment for sexual violence. Although the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Mange etniske minoriteter opplever rasisme som et stort problem i Norge. Dette gjelder spesielt mikroaggresjoner basert på kulturelle forestillinger om at «det norske» er overlegent. I denne artikkelen beskriver vi ulike ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
In this article we introduce and utilize the concept scientification of Islamophobia to analyze a website called WikiIslam, and the way that its contents are used by websites and online users in a complex global ecology ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The European Union (EU) began developing climate policy in the 1990s. Since then, it has built up a broad portfolio of mitigation policy measures and governance tools, including legally binding targets to reduce greenhouse ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Postal voting is often considered a means to enhance electoral participation by minimising the costs associated with voting. This study leverages individual-level register data for the entire electorate of Finns residing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the United Nations' most powerful institutional body, charged with the “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.” The ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Despite three decades of global climate negotiations and high expectations for the 2015 Paris Agreement, global emissions continue to grow. To protect future generations from severe harm, scholars, environmentalists, and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
For a well-functioning and inclusive democracy, it is crucial that minority voices can participate in public debate and express their opinions through the news media. However, media participation can be demanding, especially ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The expectancy-disconfirmation model (EDM) explains satisfaction with public services as a combination of service expectations and perceived performance. We study how satisfaction in turn affects political trust. We mimic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Estimating the ideological positions of political actors is an important step toward answering a number of substantive questions in political science. Survey scales provide useful data for such estimation, but also present ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This article explores the Counter-Revolution beyond the violent paramilitary reaction in Central- and Eastern Europe in 1918–1921. To this end it looks at the case study of Norway, and the organization Samfundshjelpen ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
There is a gap in the literature in international relations and European integration with respect to why states establish cooperative formats involving integrative commitments. In this thesis, I address this gap by providing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Scholars may be diversely engaged in boundary-crossing work, either staying more confined in academic settings, or reaching out to the policy world. Despite growing theoretical attention, there is little empirical knowledge ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
How do rebel organizations capitalize on transit migration? While numerous studies have examined the role of refugees, this article explores a broader yet significant category of mobile populations in civil conflict. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan hensyn vektlegges i plansaker, nærmere bestemt hvilke hensyn som er avgjørende i innsigelser avgjort på departementsnivå. Oppgavens formål har vært å finne svar på hvilke hensyn som ...
Addressing Energy Poverty: A Critical Examination of the Implementation of Energy Policies in Malawi
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The student political movement in Zimbabwe has been an important in protests for change since the colonial rule. Despite the progressive character of the student politics, it has been dominated by men and marked by violence. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Durable and effective civil resistance in high-risk authoritarian settings is a rare phenomenon. Existing research suggests that civil resistance in such contexts is usually short-lived and unsuccessful due to brutal ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
While a dense network of civil society organizations has commonly been regarded to enhance democracy, this thesis seeks to explore how Hindu nationalist civil society organizations influence autocratization in India. Since ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The primary objective of this master’s thesis was to study legal and ethical considerations that impact the decision-making of psychiatrists in complex cases concerning the use of coercive practices within Norwegian mental ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The G5 Sahel Joint Force was established in 2017 to combat terrorism, illicit trafficking and transnational crime in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. To fulfil its mandate, it was quickly determined that the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Med utgangspunkt i hypoteser avledet fra sikkerhetiseringsteori, humanitarisme og tidligere forskning på feltet, studerer jeg i denne oppgaven sammenhengen mellom hvordan norske politikere fremstilte og forstod ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Samfunnssikkerhet- og krisehåndteringsfeltet er i rask utvikling, og har blitt ytterligere aktualisert etter flere ekstraordinære krisehendelser både nasjonalt og internasjonalt de siste femten årene. Terrorangrepene i USA ...
(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This open access book is the first account of the whole diversity of teacher education in the Nordic region: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, the Åland Islands and Sápmi (where the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The EU's decade of crises has brought home an important fact: The EU, far from being an 'ever closer union among the peoples of Europe', is at a crossroads. It is faced with a choice between retaining a commitment to legal ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Som et land med tett tilknytning til EU gjennom EØS-avtalen, er det uvanlig at Norge bruker lang tid på å implementere bestemmelser vedtatt av EU. Likevel har implementeringen av EUs bygningsenergidirektiv fra 2010 vært ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The unanticipated and abrupt outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 rapidly shifted the political opportunities for the family of parties residing on the far right of electoral politics. Prior to the pandemic, these ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Women’s political empowerment is central for states to advance gender equality and to move toward peace following armed conflicts. Recent research has directed attention to the relationship between gender provisions within ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
While we know that women often participate in armed groups as combatants, they are routinely left out of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) processes. Women’s groups in various peace processes worldwide ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
Migration policy is among the most politicized ans disruptive issue in modern democracies. This thesis focuses on decision-making processes behind EU migration policies in light of recent crisis, looking at the period ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis examines the effects of the US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on the relationship on climate change between China and the US, two major global greenhouse gas emitters. The study aims to shed light on the ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne oppgaven studerer jeg om tillitsreformen i Oslo kommune har ført til færre mål og redusert detaljstyring, som er to av reformmålene. Jeg forklarer utfallet og gjennomføringen av reformen ved bruk av top-down, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
2019 has been the most violent year on record for health workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Attacks on healthcare coincided with the first-ever Ebola outbreak in an active conflict zone. Many of the attacks ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Lederskap anses av mange som avgjørende for å lykkes med internasjonalt klimasamarbeid, og Norge har i mange år ønsket å innta en lederrolle i de internasjonale klimaforhandlingene. Det kan imidlertid være krevende å forstå ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Drawing and expanding on the literature on discourses and intervention, this article investigates how the relationship between the G5 Sahel Joint Force (G5S-JF) and external actors (the UN, EU and France) came about. To ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Research in the field of migration diplomacy has empirically focused mainly on host and transit states, meaning that their interaction with donor states and the effect of their strategies on the donor states’ decision-making ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis explores the relationship between attitudes related to the populist radical right toward climate change skepticism in Sweden, a country that has had a recent spike in a radical right party – The Sweden Democrats. ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis starts out with the question of whether foreign aid can make incumbent leaders in recipient states more popular among their citizens by improving citizens’ living conditions. As many aid-receiving states are ...
Exploring perceptions of policy making: Collective action and distributive conflict in enhancing NDC ambition under the Paris Agreement Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Over the past decades, France has faced a significant challenge concerning radical Islam and a surge in domestic religious-motivated terrorist attacks. This study investigates President Emmanuel Macron’s responses to ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Enormous growth of the world population during the last two centuries and its present slowing down pose questions about precedents in history and broader forces shaping the population size. Population estimates collected ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Does emerging technology or bureaucratic politics better explain arms control agreements? The world has entered a new nuclear era, characterized by a lack of arms control in an age of rapidly advancing technologies. Fears ...
Libyan Women’s Fight for Peace in Libya Post-2011 Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract This article employs cultural repertoire theory to investigate how 84 Muslim men in Norway make meaning of adopting or rejecting political violence. Previous studies have addressed political violence among Muslims, ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I april 2021, fem måneder før valget til den tyske Forbundsdagen, toppet De Grønne (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) meningsmålingene, og det var ikke utenkelig at partiet ville overta kanslerposten etter Angela Merkel. Hvordan ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Samstyring for bærekraftig byutvikling Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Between 2002 and 2008, several thousand civilians were extrajudicially executed by the Colombian military and police and presented as insurgents or criminals killed in combat to inflate results in the ongoing armed conflict ...
Civilian Protection Payment and the Escalation of Violence against Civilians in Northwestern Nigeria
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
How do civilian protection payments to militias affect the dynamics of communal conflict? Building on the literature on communal conflict, civilian agency, rebel taxation, and criminal extortion, I argue that civilian ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Shared natural resources, such as fisheries, need joint management and conservation measures in the quest of sustainable utilization. Lake Victoria, one of the world’s largest freshwater fisheries, is shared by three ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Which types of international institutions display higher ability to change states’ behaviour? This article assesses the relative environmental effectiveness of a management-based (‘soft’) and an enforcement-based (‘hard’) ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis seeks to answer the question of why Sweden decided to apply for NATO membership in May 2022. To explain the decision, the analysis explores three hypotheses rooted in realism, liberalism, and institutional path ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Do disadvantaged ethnic groups favor violent over nonviolent conflict tactics? To understand when and why civil war breaks out, we need to study violent and nonviolent forms of conflict together, using analytical tools ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
We examine the existence and strength of organizational ties between parties and interest groups by innovating on classic resource exchange theory. First, we propose that the nature of interest groups’ policy orientation ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis looks at the Bosnian group living in Norway 30 years after their first arrival in 1993 and attempts to enlighten the question of “To what extent are Bosnians in Norway engaged politically and civically in the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Can transparency enhance the legitimacy of international institutions? As transparency has become a widely applied procedural standard in international politics, a range of institutions have implemented transparency reforms ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Politiske partier fungerer som bindeleddet mellom samfunn og stat, og er essensielle for at moderne demokratiet skal fungere. I Makt- og demokratiutredningen fra 2003 kom det frem at demokratiet har vært igjennom en ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2023)
Populist radical right parties (PRRPs) have become more mainstream, increasing their relevance in European politics. While a lot is already known about them, there are still gaps in our knowledge. This article addresses ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I arbeidet med lokal samfunnssikkerhet i Norge er kommunene avhengige av tverrsektorielle samarbeid for å sikre en best mulig utnyttelse av tilgjengelige ressurser. Dette samarbeidet omtales i sektoren som «samvirket». I ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Are Small States Insecure About their Size? Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The intrinsic power and capabilities of a small state is seen in the small state literature as being too little to influence power balances and great power revisionism. Instead, the small state literature observes small ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Recent reports from the V-Dem Institute paint a gloomy picture of the future of liberal democracy. The reports find that the advances of democracy in the past decades are regressing, with a record number of 42 countries ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Who is deemed vulnerable and in need of protection has a bearing on important policy decisions, such as refugee acceptance or provision of aid. In war, dominant narratives construe women as paradigmatic victims, even while ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The growing importance of non-state actors in politics, who are often included in networks with public actors, has led several scholars to challenge the idea that representation is limited to traditional representative ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Even autocrats are forced to rely on their political allies to remain in power. Min- isters make up a considerable share of these allies in any political regime, and their competency can both aid and threaten the incumbent ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
This thesis aims to show that the debate of ideal and non-ideal theory used in justice theory can not only be applied to democratic theory – it is beneficial as well. Through an extensive framework, the theory is applied ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Forholdet mellom politikk og administrasjon har lenge blitt forsket på. Dette forholdet er interessant fordi det er gjenstand for et betydningsfullt dilemma. Den første siden av dilemmaet er knyttet til demokrati. Dersom ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Masteroppgaven «En utvikling mot bedre brukeroppfølging?» tar sikte på å besvare følgende problemstilling: Hvordan har endringen av arbeidsavklaringspengeordningen i 2017 påvirket relasjonen mellom veilederne på NAV-kontoret ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Can wars breed nationalism? We argue that civilians’ indirect exposure to war fatalities can trigger psychological processes that increase identification with their nation and ultimately strengthen support for nationalist ...
Invasjon, sanksjoner, og EUs interesser: En casestudie om interessers betydning i å forklare EUs sanksjoner mot Russland som følge av invasjonen av Ukraina i 2022 Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Oppgaven er en casestudie av EUs sanksjoner mot Russland som følge av invasjonen av Ukraina i 2022. Foreliggende forskning har studert og konkludert med at normer har betydning i å forklare iverksettingen. Studier viser ...
Combating climate change or adding (bio)fuel to the fire? A study on the EU phase out of palm oil-based biofuel Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
COVID-19 Containment Policies: A Catalyst for Attacks against Healthcare? Evidence from Africa. Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
I denne masteroppgaven spør jeg hvordan Norges Offentlige Utredninger balanserer mellom vitenskap og politikk. Problemstillingen spør hvordan klimaproblemer og løsninger legitimeres språklig og diskursiv i to NOUer om klima ...
Bargaining, Enforcement and Sanctioning Through the UN: An Analysis of States’ Motivation Towards Multilateral Sanctions Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Mange evalueringer har vist, at lærerstuderende bruger beskeden tid på at studere. I denne undersøgelse undersøger vi indflydelsen fra udvalgte faktorer, som er relateret til lærerstuderendes studieintensitet, baseret på ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The Scandinavian countries share numerous characteristics: constitutional monarchy, parliamentary government, proportional representation electoral systems, and frequent coalition governments. When it comes to ministerial ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
To what degree are news websites in autocracies resilient to online censorship? I explore this question in Egypt, which has begun to heavily censor news websites in recent years, alongside several other autocracies. Relying ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2023)
How does witnessing regime atrocities influence the political attitudes of bystanders? We argue that observing regime violence against innocent civilians triggers psychological dissonance between beliefs about the regime ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Parties and their actions almost always shape the preferences, attitudes, and behaviour of their voters. However, does partisan influence over public opinion apply to all policy proposals regardless of their initial ...
Localization in politicized aid: A case study on the earthquake emergency response in Türkiye Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
What happens when humanitarian crises are managed by governments in politicized contexts? The enforcement of local actors in the humanitarian and development sectors has become a trend labelled as “localization” and appears ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
How do you face democratic backsliding within an organisation known for its emphasis on democracy? Despite membership criteria of democracy and the rule of law unmatched by any other international organisation, the EU has ...
Den norske venstresidens holdninger til palestinsk motstandskamp Restricted Access
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne studien undersøker hvilke ideer og forestillinger norske aktører på venstresiden legger til grunn når de uttaler seg om den palestinske motstandskampen under den andre intifadaen. Med en diskursanalytisk tilnærming ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Private cyber security companies have predominantly described Chinese cyber operations as information gathering. The existing literature in political science on cyber operations, however, have largely ignored this aspect ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Since 1999, the absolute number of firearm fatalities has increased at an average rate of 1.2% yet 2020 saw the sharpest increase with the injury intent of homicide driving the increase by 6.6%. This thesis investigates ...
Sweden’s Road to NATO: A Case Study of Systemic, Regional, and Domestic Drivers of Sweden’s NATO Bid
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 caused a major shift in the security and politics of the Nordic region. This study explores the reasons why Sweden decided to join NATO in May 2022, breaking a 200-year ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
Denne oppgaven undersøker endringer i Taiwans forsvarsstrategi fra årene (omtrent) 2013 til 2021. Taiwans forsvarsevne uten å belage seg på amerikansk bistand har ikke blitt ordentlig utforsket. Årsaken til dette kan være ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Organizational ties between political parties and interest groups are common in contemporary democracies, but little is known about the political effects of such ties. This article examines whether the strength of ...