JavaScript disabled! You must enable JavaScript for this website to work correctly.

News
- FNI in Media
- FNI news

Diplomacy, Great Power Competition and the Kurdistan Region in Search of Balance

Gulan Weekly Magazine, 12 September, 2026.

Links

‘Russia wants to be a great power and that means to be treated as such. It wants to be noticed, it wants to be taken into account and it wants great-power privileges. In order to achieve this, it confronts Europe and makes itself almost fully dependent on China. It is a short-sighted policy,’ says Iver B. Neumann.

Related FNI People

Iver B. Neumann
Director

Related FNI Project(s)

Project name	Status
Norwegian Centre on Geopolitics (GEOPOL)	Ongoing