Spotlight 2020-2021 features examples of our research that helped to improve people's lives during a turbulent year. It also highlights a selection of research initiatives on the horizon for 2021.
Ruth Harris, research director for the Defence, Security, and Infrastructure group at RAND Europe, is joined by senior political scientist Stephen Flanagan and international defence researcher Gene Germanovich in a discussion about their study on enhancing deterrence and defence on NATO's northern flank.
The UK and Norway share a long and close history, bound by shared experiences as seafaring nations whose political, cultural, and economic development have been shaped in part by their exploitation of the North Sea and North Atlantic. Much could remain to be gained from continuing to deepen and evolve their longstanding partnership to meet the new challenges of the 21st century.
Norway's Ministry of Defence will shortly publish its next Long Term Plan, which outlines how the Armed Forces, in tandem with other elements of government and society, can best address the threats to Norway. Other countries can learn from how Norway chooses to tackle emerging challenges, and can benefit from its lessons learned.
Norway supports deterrence, crisis management, and security in the High North—which includes the Scandinavian territories and northern Russia. What regional insights can other NATO allies provide to help Norway in its security role?
In 2011, a coalition of nations waged a war against Muammar Qaddafi's regime that reversed the tide of Libya's civil war. The intervention's central element was a relatively small air campaign. What lessons did each nation glean from the experience?
This report for HelseOmsorg21 presents a series of rapid evidence reviews, summarising relevant literature and highlighting international examples of particularly relevant or innovative approaches applicable to the Norwegian health research system.
If Syrian acceptance of the Russia-backed plan that is supposed to see it give up its chemical weapons turns out to be a stalling tactic — as many believe it is — support for strikes from allies like Norway will be all the more important to the White House, writes Christopher S. Chivvis.
The experiences of Finland, Norway, and Sweden in offering patient choice schemes highlight England's need to carefully monitor the impact of enhanced choice in primary care to ensure that related policies truly enhance access to and improve the quality of care, and not inadvertently benefit those who are more able to exercise choice.
This study investigates the role of national independence and women's political participation on population health using historical lifespan data from Norway.
Based on reports from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, this Note assesses the future of Danish and Norwegian security policies and the probable internal and external factors that will influence them.
Discusses the postwar course of Danish and Norwegian security policy, addressing the pattern of constraints at work in these countries' security consensuses.
There is inherent tension in Norwegian security policy because Norway depends absolutely on NATO reinforcements for both the deterrence of Soviet aggression and for defense if deterrence fails, yet it views the presence of Allied forces as potentially...
Discusses how certain factors — the history, international relations, physical characteristics, and the present balance of military forces of Northern Europe — have shaped the military environment of North Norway ...
Outlines the strategic importance of North Norway to the outcome of any future NATO/Warsaw Pact war on the basis of its location adjacent to the western Soviet heartland, the major Soviet bases on the Kola Peninsula, and the Norwegian Sea.
Provides a brief overview of policies and practices as observed in seven European NATO countries: Belgium, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), France, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom.
European telephone systems have long used the periodic pulse system for billing subscriber-dialed long-distance (trunk) calls. By 1982 all of the six countries surveyed--Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and West Germany--will...
In telephone systems of Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and West Germany there are four categories of charges: installation fee, monthly subscription fee, local usage charges, and rates for trunk calls. Rates for local calls are bas...
Surveys principles of designing electricity rate structures and analyzes how utilities in England, France, Norway, and Sweden have established tariffs based on these principles.
Pressures working on defense structures of European NATO countries tend to favor a change to latent conscript forces oriented toward territorial defense on one hand, standing volunteer armies on the other.
