FNI has established relations with foreign policy research institutes in South Africa, and sees promising opportunities for joint research in the years ahead.

The world's largest marine reserve aimed at protecting the pristine wilderness of Antarctica will be created, after an agreement finally was reached on Friday.

FNI researchers recently presented key findings from the InstaRuss project at the annual Aleksanteri conference in Helsinki, Finland.

Russian–Norwegian relations are growing increasingly tense, as Putin’s regime becomes more authoritarian. How can we talk to our eastern neighbor?

FNI project on the global diffusion of emissions trading heads forward with key meetings and conferences in Beijing.

Two FNI books on Arctic politics have been translated and are now available for the Chinese market.

Have Norwegian-Russian relations reached a low point since the fall of the Soviet Union? And how do we approach an increasingly authoritarian Russian regime?

FNI tilbyr stipend til studenter som skal skrive masteroppgave om et tema innenfor FNIs syv fokusområder:

FNI tilbyr stipend til studenter som skal skrive masteroppgave om et tema innenfor FNIs syv fokusområder:

Janet Stephenson, director for the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago, New Zealand, sees a shift towards more local and community-based marine resource management. But is local and small-scale resource management necessarily better than large-scale, market-based policy instruments?

FNI director Geir Hønneland earlier this week took part in an expert seminar in Beijing where procedures for peaceful encounters at sea in the South China Sea were discussed

Have we really entered a new geological time period, the Anthropocene? A period where the human impact on the earth is, in fact, so massive that it has created a new geological interval of time?

From 21 to 24 April, the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) hosted a meeting of the Anthropocene Working Group, which considered evidence for a human-driven interval of geological time, the Anthropocene.

A new comprehensive FNI Report documents the complicated political negotiations leading to the EU's 2030 Climate and Energy Framework in 2014 by assessing the influence of the EU's key executive institutions, the member states and the various stakeholders in the interest group community.

How can the Arctic Council adapt to the recent widening of its agenda and increased number of participants? This is the question explored in a new report by FNI Senior Research Fellow Svein Vigeland Rottem.

The countries of the European Union are negotiating a revision of the Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS) in order to reduce emissions. FNI has provided key input to that process.

Norway's ability to promote its interests and High North policies internationally is to be strengthened through the establishment of an Arctic network described as the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende's Arctic "dream team". FNI Director Geir Hønneland is part of the group.

Over the last few years, Asian governments have taken a stronger approach to the Arctic, culminating with permanent-observer status to the Arctic Council for China, India, Japan, Singapore and South-Korea in 2013. This book brings together the latest research in emerging Asian interests for the Arctic region, and the implications thereof this change has for the future.

Helge Ole Bergesen died on 29th of June, from cancer. He worked for the Fridtjof Nansen Institute from 1979 to 2006, except his term as State Secretary from 2001 to 2005. In 2006 he became the first Research Director at the University of Stavanger.

According to statistics published by the Research Council of Norway, researchers at FNI were Norway's most productive in 2014 when it comes to academic publishing, just as they were in 2013.