Oceans
Oceans cover 71% of the world’s surface. The politics and regimes of these vast global oceans are of pressing importance to Norway, which manages ocean areas six times the size its land mass.
This, combined with the fact that Norway also has one of the largest commercial shipping fleets in the world, gives Norway an outsized interest in oceanic politics at a truly global level. NUPI’s researchers have expertise in the global governance of oceans (cooperation, diplomacy), national ocean-related policymaking (Norway, Russia, China, Japan, to name a few) and the security politics of maritime space.
Want to know more about NUPI's research on oceans? Visit our Centre for Ocean Governance.
News about oceans
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Reduced influence in the Arctic?
4 Nov 2021In the Arctic Council, eight states work on, among several other pressing issues, the alarming impacts of global climate change. But who gets a say? Research Professor Elana Wilson Rowe investigates this in a new article.
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Transnational Ecosystems Cooperation is Taking off
19 Aug 2021Do these efforts to govern border-crossing ecosystems have unique effects that matter for global politics more generally?
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Launching Norway’s Plan for the UN’s “Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development”
8 Jan 2021NUPI’s Centre for Ocean Governance is ready to step up to challenge.
Publications about oceans
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Publication
: Editorial
Norge er en stormakt innen havforskning - FNs tiår for havforskning må gi et ytterligere løft
2021Op-ed on Norway's role in the UN Ocean Decade. -
Publication
: Popular scientific chapter/article
Livet ved Havet (Life along the Ocean)
This chapter translates the core findings of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy into Norwegian and relates them to Norwegian domestic and foreign policy challenges. -
Publication
: Popular scientific lecture
Arctic governance: fit for future challenges?
Expert testimony for EU Parliament
Research projects about oceans
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Photograph: Hedvig Antoinette Halgunset/Norwegian Armed Forces
Research project
Revitalizing Transatlantic Maritime Security
2018 - 2019 (Completed)This project will generate concrete policy proposals, particularly in the maritime domain, and look at ways for the United States and Europe, and Norway in particular, to adapt their military division...
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Photograph: Allan Hopkins/Creative Commons/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Research project
The Lorax Project: Understanding Ecosystemic Politics (LORAX)
2019 - 2023 (Ongoing)Do regional politics around border-crossing ecosystems share important resemblances and differ in significant ways from global politics?
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Foto: Jechstra/Creative Commons/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Research project
Great Powers and Arctic Politics (GPARC)
2017 - 2020 (Completed)GPARC aims to provide up-to-date academic and policy analyses of how major powers (USA, Russia, China) set parameters for and intervene in the maritime politics of the Arctic.