AI and Geopolitics
How should we regulate AI? How will AI impact the power balance between the US and China? And how does Microsoft navigate this complex landscape? In this episode, Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President ...
9 Aug 202333min
The UN Secretary-General’s New Agenda for Peace: What new challenges will it address?
What issues are likely to be covered in the Agenda for Peace? Why is it important? UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called for a ‘New Agenda for Peace’ that can help the United Nations and ...
8 Jun 202328min
The ugly duckling of the foreign services
Visiting prisoners, assisting lost travellers and distressed expats. Consular work is often considered the ugly duckling of the foreign services, far away from the negotiating tables and corridors of ...
5 Jun 202337min
UN peace operations and the political economy of civil war
UN peace operations are overwhelmingly deployed within societies fractured by civil war. To understand why the UN has encountered difficulties, operational and political, in these settings, one must u...
25 Mai 202341min
Understanding the roots of Kurdish resilience to violent extremism in Iraq
What are the reasons behind the limited impact of violent extremism and the Islamic State in the Kurdistan region of Iraq? In this episode of the NUPI podcast The World Stage, Dlawer Ala’Aldeen (Middl...
27 Apr 202334min
Locating missing persons in Ukraine
How do you find missing persons in the midst of war?Kathryne Bomberger, Director-General of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP), explains how her organisation investigate cases, sea...
25 Apr 202327min
Norway’s work on climate, peace, and security in the UN Security Council
Climate security was one of Norway’s priority areas during its period as an elected member of the UN Security Council (2021–2022). What did Norway achieve? Hans Olav Ibrekk, Norway’s Special Envoy for...
24 Apr 202341min
Russia-West relations before, in and after the war on Ukraine
Was there ever a deal to be had with Putin before the war? Is Russia mainly motivated by domestic or foreign policy considerations? And is there anything Western leaders can do to win hearts and minds...
31 Mar 202348min
