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Wednesday, 15 Jun 2022 08:30-09:30

Are We Moving toward a ‘Post-American’ Regional Security Dynamic in the Gulf? - MidEast Breakfast Seminar

Gulf leaders' responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and to rising oil prices have focused attention on the emerging tensions between the United States and several of its most significant political and security partners in the Gulf. The sight of the de facto leaders of Saudi Arabia and the UAE declining to speak with President Biden, while taking calls from President Putin, would have seemed unimagineable just a few months back, but has now become emblematic of new regional geopolitics.

Time: 15 Jun 2022 08:30-09:30

Place: PRIO, Hausmanns gate 3, Oslo

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 16 May 2022

Could Annexation Be Putin’s Response to NATO Enlargement?

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has energized the North Atlantic Alliance in every possible way, reviving its purpose and unity, and granting it new attractiveness in Europe and greater prominence in the Indo-Pacific. The prospect of Finland and Sweden joining the 30 member-states was hypothetical last autumn, when Moscow issued the ...

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Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Drones in the Ukraine War: An Initial Strategic and Sociological Assessment

Drones have played a very important, multidimensional role since the beginning of the current iteration of the war in Ukraine. This importance mirrors what happens in modern conflict all over the world: both in more conventional conflict and in other insurgency / counter-insurgency settings, drones have become a central part ...

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Monday, 16 May 2022

Could Annexation Be Putin’s Response to NATO Enlargement?

Journal Article

2022

The relationship between the G5 Sahel Joint Force and external actors: a discursive interpretation

By Marie Sandnes in Canadian Journal of African Studies

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 4 May 2022

Putin's Blood Trail from Syria to the Ukraine: Western Failures in the Face of Power-Play, Propaganda and De-humanization

One of the tragic side-effects of the war in Ukraine is that at long last – and unfortunately only now – the last person in the West may have come to understand what really happened in Syria, especially after Russian intervention. This does not help those Syrians who have been ...

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Monday, 25 Apr 2022

No Sensible End-Game for Russia in the Badly Mismanaged War

Predictions of a decisive offensive in Donbass and speculations about peace talks have gained new intensity in both Russian propaganda and Western commentary last week – and neither makes much sense. Artillery and air strikes on the solid Ukrainian defense lines in several key directions on the battle for Donbass ...

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Thursday, 14 Apr 2022

Putin Is Staking His Political Future on Victory in Ukraine – and Has Little Incentive to Make Peace

Despite stop-and-start peace talks, a resolution to the brutal war in Ukraine appears distant. Major cities in Ukraine are faltering. Civilians, including children, are dying of shrapnel and glass wounds, exposure and thirst. At the same time, Ukraine’s resilience and a coordinated global response means the war is not ending ...

PRIO Blogs

Wednesday, 11 May 2022

Drones in the Ukraine War: An Initial Strategic and Sociological Assessment

PRIO Blogs

Monday, 9 May 2022

Finland and Sweden’s Move to NATO

Russia’s war on Ukraine has repercussions also in Northern Europe. Finland and Sweden, despite their longstanding policy of military non-alignment, are more than likely going to submit their applications for NATO membership before the summer. In light of Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war and both countries’ close existing partnership with ...

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Wednesday, 4 May 2022

NORM Project Kick-Off Meeting

The NORM project ('Shaping the Digital World Order: Norms and Agency along the Digital Silk Road in Southeast Asia') was officially launched with a kick-off meeting on 4 May.

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Wednesday, 20 Apr 2022

New Horizon Europe Project at PRIO on Security Research

A collaborative project in which PRIO participates has been awarded a large grant from the European Union's Horizon Europe programme.

PRIO Blogs

Tuesday, 12 Apr 2022

Russia’s Quick Victory Vanishes, as Protracted War Looks Inevitable

Russia has revised its war plan multiple times during the, so far, seven-week-long, ill-conceived large-scale invasion of Ukraine, yet it still remains incompatible with both tactical imperatives and political ambitions. The consecutive revisions themselves have been flawed in different ways: if the initial “Blitzkrieg” design was based on the assumption ...

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Are We Moving toward a ‘Post-American’ Regional Security Dynamic in the Gulf? - MidEast Breakfast Seminar

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Humanitarianism, Borders, and the Governance of Mobility: The EU and the 'Refugee Crisis'

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Children in Conflict: Basic Mapping

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The Foreign Policy of the Republic of Cyprus

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Jan 2019 – Dec 2022

Re-Imagining the Eastern Mediterranean

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