Human Rights and Justice in Times of Climate Change
The Institute of International Affairs and The Human Rights Institute at the University of Iceland and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs invite you to an open seminar on climate change and human rights in celebration of the Human Rights Day, Friday, December 10, in Veröld - the house of Vigdis between 12.00 -13:30.
About Us
The role of the Institute of International Affairs (IIA) is to provide education, promote research, and carry out service projects in the field of international relations.
Research Centres
The Centre for Small State Studes, the Centre for Arctic Studies and Höfði Reykjavík Peace Centre are all run under the auspices of the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland.
Projects
The IIA aspires to serve both academic and professional needs and stimulate a general discussion on subjects relating to international affairs. To this end, the Institute plans and carries out a variety of different projects, conducts research on various subjects and hosts conferences, seminars, and lectures concerning international affairs. It offers various services to both the private and public sector.
Publications
An Insurance Perspective on Arctic Opportunities and Risks: Hydrocarbon Exploration & Shipping
Lára Jóhannsdóttir & David Cook
2015
Flexibility as Small State Strategy: Explaining Lithuania’s Adjustment Successes
Vytautas Kuokštis, Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Algirdas Bieliūnas - Vilnius University
Project: NAS
10 years on Reassessing the Stoltenberg Report
In this review, we revisit these thirteen proposals and ask: How important was the 2009 Stoltenberg Report for boosting Nordic foreign and security policy cooperation? What progress can we observe in the decade that has passed since the report was released?
Chinese Chess in the Wild West: How Icelanders view the growing Iceland-China relationship
Jesse Hastings, Edward H. Huijbens, Gustav Pétursson and Jennifer Smith
2015
Small State’s Use Of The Military In Foreign Policy: The Case Of Baltic States
Margarita Šešelgytė - Vilnius University
Presented at the conference: ‘Small States and the Changing Global Order: New Zealand Faces the Future’ at University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-4 June 2017
Module 3: Small States Leadership in Foreign and Security Policy
The main aim of this module is to give a concentrated overview of the small states’ foreign and security policy characteristics while revealing the importance of the leadership component in it.
Lilliputian Encounters with Gulliver: Sino-Icelandic Relations from 1995 to 2021
Report by Baldur Thorhallsson, Professor of Political Science, and Snæfríður Grímsdóttir, Adjunct in Chinese Studies, on Sino-Icelandic Relations from 1995-2021