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Fresh Faces in FNI’s Leadership Group

Two new Research Directors join the management team at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, bringing long-standing experience, fresh perspectives and updated group names.
FNI at Arendalsuka 2025
FNI receives major funding for battery project in the power system

The Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the large-scale research project NORBAT. The project will explore how batteries can strengthen flexibility in the Norwegian power system.

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Upcoming events

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Verden med Trump – hva nå, Norge? 12 August

Lavvoen, Arendal

09:00
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Marine Biodiversity Mapping and Bioprospecting 4 September

Polhøgda, Fridtjof Nansens vei 17 1366 Lysaker

09:30
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Arctic Security Conference 2025: Managing Polarization and Fragmentation 18 September

SALT, Langkaia 1, Oslo, Norway

00:00
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Nansen Climate and Energy Seminar2025: [Part I] - Energy Transitions 23 September

Polhøgda, Fridtjof Nansens Institutt, Lysaker, Norway

09:00
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Nansens klima- og energiseminar 2025 23 September

Polhøgda, Fridtjof Nansens Institutt

12:30

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Russia’s Non-Western Climate Coalition: Genuine Consensus or Just Hot Air?

Anna Korppoo and Alex Allisson

Climate Strategies Report, June 2025, 31 p.
Bokmelding av Iran og Israel. Gamle venner, nye fiender, av Eirik Kvindesland (Book review of Iran and Israel: Old Friends, New Enemies by Eirik Kvindesland)

Iver B. Neumann

Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning 66 (3): pp. 1–2. DOI: 10.18261/tfs.66.3.5
Overhaling av toginfrastrukturen i Norge er et energispørsmål (Overhauling Norway’s rail infrastructure is a question of energy)

Siddharth Sareen

Altinget, June 6, 2025. In Norwegian.
Norway’s net-zero emissions target for 2030: Too ambitious to be true?

Brita Bye, Taran Fæhn, Lars Gulbrandsen, Kevin R. Kaushal, Christian Wilhelm Mohr, Gunnhild Søgaard, Asbjørn Torvanger, Jørgen Wettestad and Knut Øistad

SSB Discussion Paper 1024, May 2025, 47 p.
Polities

Iver B. Neumann

In Stacie E. Goddard, Ole Jacob Sending and George Lawson (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology. Oxford University Press, 2025, pp. 795-810.
Norge og Arktisk råd ('Norway and the Arctic Council')

Serafima Andreeva and Svein Vigeland Rottem

Internasjonal Politikk, Vol 83, No 1, 2025, pp. 67-79. In Norwegian.
Arktisk Råd i geopolitikkens skygge: Norge sender formandshammeren videre til Danmark, Grønland og Færøerne ('The Arctic Council in the Shadows of Geopolitics: Norway Passes on the Chairmanship to Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands')

Marc Jacobsen and Svein Vigeland Rottem

Internasjonal Politikk, Vol 83, No 1, 2025, pp. 31-42. In Norwegian.

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Latest books

Knausgaard in Context

Iver B. Neumann (ed)

Scandinavian University Press, 2025, 206 p.
China-Russia Relations in the Arctic: Friends in the Cold?

Iselin Stensdal and Gørild Heggelund (eds)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, 257 p.
The Sun Also Rises in Portugal: Ambitions of Just Solar Energy Transitions

Siddharth Sareen

Bristol University Press, 2024, 168 p.

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In focus

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FNI seeks Master's students (information in Norwegian)

Neumann and Gulbrandsen on starry background. Photo: Jan D. Sørensen/FNI

FNI has world-class researchers

Two FNI researchers among the World's Most-Cited Scientists

Photo: OsloMet

Book award to FNI Director

FNI's Director, Iver B. Neumann, has been awarded this year’s Guicciardini prize for best book in historical international relations.

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