The Imagine forum: From Cold War Lessons to Modern Challenges
Join us on October 12 in Harpa for The Imagine Forum, the annual peace conference hosted by Höfdi Reykjavik Peace Centre in collaboration with the Office of the President of Iceland, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the City of Reykjavik and the Institute of History at the University of Iceland. Marking the 40th anniversary of the historic Reykjavík Summit at Höfði House, this year's conference reflects on the lessons of dialogue and diplomacy in addressing today's increasingly complex global challenges.
Arctic Challenges: Navigating a Changing Arctic
Leading into the Arctic Circle Assembly 2026, the University of the Arctic and the University of Iceland hosts its annual conference focused on the Arctic region in the Ceremonial Hall at the University of Iceland on October 7 from 13:00-17:00. Bringing together leading scholars, policymakers, and community advocates to explore the urgent challenges facing the Arctic.
Verkefnin
Alþjóðamálastofnun beitir sér fyrir auknu samstarfi milli fræðimanna, atvinnulífs og opinberra aðila á sviði alþjóðamála og gengst fyrir ráðstefnum, umræðufundum og fyrirlestrum um efni sem tengjast starfssviði stofnunarinnar. Stofnunin er vettvangur fyrir fræðileg alþjóðasamskipti og þverfagleg þjónustuverkefni fyrir atvinnulíf, fyrirtæki og stofnanir.
Útgáfa
Journalism, Disinformation, and Europe’s Response: Truth Under Siege
Project: RECLAIM
Open Access
Editors: Jacopo Custodi, Martin Moland and Hans-Jörg Trenz
This edited book examines the relationship between journalism, democracy, and disinformation in contemporary Europe.
Drawing on original empirical research with journalists and media regulators, it provides a timely analysis of the European Union’s evolving regulatory response to disinformation …
Still a Shared Communicative Space? the Ongoing Fragmentation of European Public Spheres in the Digital Age
Project: RECLAIM
Authors: Maximilian Conrad and Saul Newman
The article discusses the state of the public sphere in Europe in the context of concerns over a possible fragmentation brought about by presumably increasing ideological and affective polarization in European societies. If confirmed, such a fragmentation of the public sphere would …
The EU's Struggle Against Strategic Disinformation during the COVID Pandemic: An Assemblage Approach
Project: RECLAIM
Authors: Ondrej Ditrych, Jakub Eberle, Petr Kratochvíl, and Linda Monsees
The Covid pandemic was a pivotal episode in the evolution of the European Union's response to strategic disinformation. This article deploys assemblage theory to advance a critical, interpretive understanding of truth contestation as an increasingly salient dimension of …
NB8 and the Drone Challenge: Creating Platform Market as a Tool for Integration-Driven Preparedness
No. 5 - September 2026
Authors:
Justinas Lingevicius
Markus Holmgren
Drone incursions in the Baltic States and Finland have made clear that this is no longer a distant battlefield concern. This brief argues that as the NB8 framework matures into an increasingly like-minded security community, drone cooperation could stimulate market …
Nordic Crisis Management: Well-Performing Governance During COVID-19
Project: CMC-19
This book provides the first comparative analysis of how state size and administrative scale influenced responses to the COVID-19 pandemic across the five Nordic states and two territories. It produces valuable insight into how state size, polity and structural arrangements, and culture influenced the management of the crisis …
Post-Truth Politics, Migration and Border Security: Analysing Political Discourses in the EU
Project: RECLAIM
Open Access
Editors: Karolina Czerska-Shaw and Maciej Stępka
This book argues that post-truth discourses are deeply influencing political debates on migration and border security, blurring the line between fact-based debates and post-truth storylines.
Offering a nuanced analysis of discourse within parliamentary debates on migration across multiple EU countries …
From market-regulations to rights promotion: The European Union’s response to the post-truth, disinformation challenge
Authors: Elena García-Guitián, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Hans-Jörg Trenz, Scuola Normale Superiore and Marianne Riddervold, ARENA, Centre for European Studies
This paper makes the argument that the EU’s approach is shifting from what was initially a market regulation focus to a rights-protective and now increasingly also rights-promoting one. Beyond shielding …
Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age
Project: RECLAIM
Open Access
Editors: Maximilian Conrad and Saul Newman
Reclaiming Liberal Democracy in the Postfactual Age is a systematic exploration of the many ways in which post-truth politics constitutes a fundamental challenge and, indeed, an existential threat to liberal democracy as we know it.
The book addresses this existential …