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Communication, politics and COVID-19 in Iceland: The small state dimension

Jón Gunnar Ólafsson - University of Iceland, Faculty of Political Science

2021

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Nordic Solidarity and Covid-19

Pia Hansson and Auður Birna Stefánsdóttir - University of Iceland, Centre for Small State Studies

2021

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Ireland and NATO: Challenges and Opportunities

Steven Murphy - University of Iceland

Project: SSANSE

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Friends With Benefits: NATO and the European Neutrals in an Uncertain World

Steven Murphy - University of Iceland

Project: SSANSE

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Small States and the New Security Environment

This book examines the security, defence and foreign policy choices and challenges of small states in NATO and its small partner states in the new security environment.

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Iceland and Arctic Security: US Dependency and the Search for an Arctic Identity

Iceland and Arctic Security: US Dependency and the Search for an Arctic Identity

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On Thin Ice? Perspectives on Arctic Security

On Thin Ice? Perspectives on Arctic Security

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Superficial, shallow and reactive: How a small state news media covers politics

This article illustrates how the crisis of the news media is impacting political coverage in Iceland. Perceptions of routine political coverage in the Icelandic media have not been studied before, and this article fills this research gap and situates the Icelandic case within the wider news media crisis literature.

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Flexibility as Small State Strategy: Explaining Lithuania’s Adjustment Successes

Vytautas Kuokštis, Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Algirdas Bieliūnas - Vilnius University

Project: NAS

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Small States and the European Migrant Crisis: Politics and Governance

Editors: Tómas Joensen, University of Iceland and Ian Taylor, St. Andrews University

Project: NAS

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An Insight Into Potential Fiscal Implications of the Great Lockdown from the Perspective of Small States

Primoz Pevcin - University of Ljubljana

Project: NAS

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Factoring Size into the Equation: Media studies, politics, and small states

Jón Gunnar Ólafsson, Goldsmiths - University of London, UK

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

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Small States in International Relations

Edited by Christine Ingebritsen, Iver B. Neumann, Sieglinde Gstöhl and Jessica Beyer

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Strategy Papers on the Arctic or High North: A Comparative Study and Analysis

Alyson JK Bailes & Lassi Heininen

2013

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The Case For Arctic Governance: The Arctic Puzzle

Helga Haftendorn

2013

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Understanding the Arctic Council: A ‘Sub-Regional’ Perspective

Alyson JK Bailes

2014

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The West Nordic Council in the Global Arctic

Egill Þór Níelsson

2014

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The Role of Russia in Regional Councils: A Comparative Study of Neighborhood Cooperation in the Baltic Sea and Barents Euro-Arctic Regions

Ingmar Oldberg

2014

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China’s Emerging Arctic Strategies: Economics and Institutions

Marc Lanteigne

2014

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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

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Innovative Ideas for the Arctic

Conference paper by Lára Jóhannsdóttir & David Cook

2017

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Public management and policy-making in small states

Külli Sarapuu and Tiina Randma-Liiv - Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project: NAS

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Small States and the Big European Migration Crisis: The Open Borders Challenge

Đana Luša - University of Zagreb

Project: NAS

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Public governance in small states: from paradoxes to research agenda

Tiina Randma-Liiv and Külli Sarapuu - Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance

Project: NAS

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An Examination and Evaluation of Multi-Level Governance During Migration Crisis: The Case of Slovenia

Danila Rijavec and Primož Pevcin - University of Ljubljana

Project: NAS

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Forerunner, follower, exceptionalist or bridge builder? Mapping Nordicness in Danish foreign policy

Anders Wivel - University of Copenhagen

Project: NAS

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A Theory of Shelter: Iceland's American Period (1941-2006)

Baldur Thorhallsson, Sverrir Steinsson and Thorsteinn Kristinsson - University of Iceland

Project: NAS

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A small state in world politics: Iceland’s search for shelter

Baldur Thorhallsson – University of Iceland

Project: NAS

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Integration of Refugees: Opportunities for Improvement

In the spring of 2016, the Institute of International Affairs and the University of Iceland were commissioned to work on a comprehensive analysis of the quality of integration of refugees and immigrants into Icelandic society by the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Welfare. This is an abstract …

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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

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Iceland and the European Union: Arctic Security and Great Power Interest

Report on Iceland, the EU, and Arctic seucurity, conducted by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, written by Pia Hansson and Guðbjörg Ríkey Th. Hauksdóttir.

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COVID-19 Island Insights Series - Iceland

The COVID-19 Island Insights Series is an initiative spearheaded by the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law & Governance (SCELG) and the Institute of Island Studies (IIS) at the University of Prince Edward Island in collaboration with Island Innovation. The initiative brings together critical assessments of how specific islands around the …

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Baltic and Nordic Responses to the 2020 Post-Election Crisis in Belarus

Report on Baltic and Nordic Responses to the 2020 Post-Election Crisis in Belarus. This policy brief assesses the reactions of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden in light of the Belarus post-election crisis. The reaction of liberal democracies to popular uprisings in authoritarian countries of today echoes …

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Pragmatic and Wary of Change: Icelanders' Views on International Cooperation

This report provides an insight into the Icelandic people’s attitudes towards security and foreign affairs. The responses indicate a largely pragmatic view to economic cooperation, not necessarily challenging trading partners on political grounds when it might risk economic interests. This pragmatism also appears in attitudes towards the great powers, although …

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Geopolitics and Neglected Arctic Spaces: Three Northern Perspectives on Balancing External Interests

Finding a Niche for Iceland in the Post-Cold War Era

Margrét Cela and Pia Hansson

While the Arctic has been characterized more by cooperation than competition, recent events indicate that the tides may be turning. As attention turns north and the Arctic reenters the strategic calculations of great powers, spaces …

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EEA Grants - Report

This report comprises the first in-depth analysis on the participation, challenges and opportunities of Icelandic entities in the EEA Grants. The research was conducted for the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland, and overseen by its Acting Director and one of its Project Managers during the summer …

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Iceland's Accession Talks with the EU

Á haustmánuðum 2013 var leitað til Alþjóðamálastofnunar Háskóla Íslands um úttekt á aðildarviðræðum Íslands við Evrópusambandið. Verkbeiðendur eru Alþýðusamband Íslands, Samtök atvinnulífsins, Félag atvinnurekenda og Viðskiptaráð Íslands. Markmið verkefnisins er að leggja mat á stöðu aðildarviðræðna Íslands við Evrópusambandið, að greina þau álitaefni sem eru til staðar og þá kosti …

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Integration of Refugees: Opportunities for Improvement


In the spring of 2016, the Institute of International Affairs and the University of Iceland were commissioned to work on a comprehensive analysis of the quality of integration of refugees and immigrants into Icelandic society by the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Welfare.

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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?

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The US-Iceland 2006 Defence Negotiations: The Sources of Iceland Conduct

Gustav Petursson - University of Iceland

Project: SSANSE

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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

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Re-Calibrating New Zealand’s Congressional Outreach Strategy in the Days of Trump

Alan Tidwell - Georgetown 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

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A China’s Expanding Antarctic Interest: Implications for New Zealand

Anne-Marie Brady - University of Canterbury

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

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A Small State Seeking Shelter: Iceland’s Search For Shelter

Baldur Thorhallsson - University of Iceland

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

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Small States Seeking Influence in the European Commission: Opportunities and Constraints

Caroline Grön - University of Copenhagen

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Nordic and Arctic Affairs: Small States in the Arctic: What Impact From Russia-West Tensions?

Alyson JK Bailes - University of Iceland

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South Caucasus: Nagorno-Karabakh Between a Contested Territory and a Small State

Urban Jaksa - University of York

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Brexit – Looking Forward

Summary report from final conference in Reykjavik on 29 August 2019

Project: PELEEA

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Brexit and the future of the EEA

Christian Frommelt, Director of the Liechtenstein Institute

Project: PELEEA

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Brexit, the EEA and debunking myths about the Norway model

John Erik Fossum and Hans Petter Graver, ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo

Project: PELEEA

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Module 5: Small State Foreign Policy - Taking Leadership in International Diplomacy

This module offers a comprehensive introduction to small state leadership in international diplomacy. The module will introduce students to the literatures on foreign policy analysis and small state foreign policy and build on these general insights when zooming in on small state leadership in foreign policy and diplomacy

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Module 4: Small State Leadership in Gender Policy

This module provides students with an understanding of how small states perform and profile themselves on normative leadership in gender equality. Students are presented with research from and on various small states, who have found a niche in international relations where they can excel and lead by example.

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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.

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Module 2: Leadership in Public Administration and Governance

This is the second module of the course “Leadership in Small States”. The module concentrates on leadership issues from the perspective of public administration and governance.

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Module 1: Introduction to Leadership in Small States

This module is an introduction to the course Leadership in Small States. It aims to give a brief introduction to both small state studies and leadership studies, while also offering an insight into how these two academic standpoints interact

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Small States and Migration

The study of migration from a small state perspective remains an undeveloped field. This course offers an inter-disciplinary approach to this subject.

Project: TCDA

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Governance of Small States

The course is designed to introduce postgraduate students to the realm of small state governance.

Project: TCDA

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International Law and Small States

This course is designed to introduce postgraduate students to the study of small states and international law.

Project: TCDA

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Small State Foreign Policy

The aim of the course is to offer a comprehensive introduction to small state foreign policy to postgraduate students.

Project: TCDA

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Importance of Nordic Research Cooperation

Nordic research cooperation is more important than ever in a rapidly changing world. This article by the directors of the Nordic Institutes of International Affairs offers concrete proposals for developing cooperation.

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Loftslagsbreytingar valda flótta og neyð og við erum ábyrg

Þorgerður María Þorbjarnardóttir, formaður Ungra umhverfissinna skrifar grein í tilefni af Friðardögum í Reykjavík

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Getur Ísland orðið leiðandi í mannréttindamálum?

Baldur Þórhallsson, Professor in Political Science at the University of Iceland

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Börn á íslenskum átakasvæðum

Steinunn Jakobsdóttir, media representative at UNICEF Iceland writes and article in relation to Peace Days in Reykjavík

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Ófriðurinn heima

An article by Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka Executive Director of UN Women in relation to Peace Days in Reykjavík

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Ríkir friður á Íslandi?

Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir, professor of International Affairs writes an article in relations to Reykjavík Peace Days

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Er friðurinn úti?

An article written about The Imagine Forum and the peace days in Reykjavík 2020 that will take place in October, as in recent years, but this time they will take place entirely online, under the heading "Er friðurinn úti?"

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The Effects of COVID-19 on Peace

An article by Jón Atli Benediktsson, Rector of the University of Iceland og Dagur B. Eggertsson, Mayor of Reykjavík on International Day of Peace (in Icelandic)

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Keeping the Peace?

An article by Brynja Huld Óskarsdóttir, ACONA fellow

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Time to talk about weapons of mass destruction

An article by Álfrún Perla Baldursdóttir published on the International day of Peace

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Coronakrisen illustrerar den postfaktiska politiken

Maximilian Conrad on the importance of studying post-truth politics in the context of the ongoing Corona crisis (in Swedish).

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Episode 13: The sociologist and the North-American expert
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Episode 12: The lie detector
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Episode 11: The religion and media expert
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Episode 10: The feminist scholar
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Episode 9: The journalist and fact-checking expert
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Episode 8: The professor and philosopher
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Post-Truth Politics: Meet the Team with ARENA
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Episode 6: The misinformation researchers
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Episode 5: The journalist and researcher
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Episode 4: The investigative reporter and filmmaker
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Episode 3: The digital journalism and American politics expert
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Episode 2: The professional fact-checker
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Episode 1: The social media, misinformation, and politics researcher
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Post-Truth Politics: Meet the Team with Professor Conrad
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Reykjavík Peace Days: Peace, Displacement and Climate Change

Will climate change lead to more violence and conflict? What can we do to battle climate change and prevent conflict? Are we doing enough?

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Reykjavík Peace Days: Iceland's Voice in the International Arena?

In this podcast we discuss Iceland’s capability, as a small state, to take on a leadership role in the international arena. Does Iceland have a strong voice within the international society? How can we shape the discussion and lead actions to tackle gender-based violence, violence against children and promote sustainable …

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Reykjavík Peace Days: Children in Icelandic Conflict Zones

In this podcast we discuss the situation of children in Icelandic society, what resources are available for children living in insecurity, and for those who have endured violence or neglect. What effect has COVID-19 had on the safety of children in Iceland? How can people help?

This episode was produced …

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Reykjavík Peace Days: The War at Home

In this podcast we discuss gender-based violence, its root causes and consequences. Who are the perpetrators and how can we create an open dialogue with them? Do we find peace in Icelandic homes?

This episode was produced in collaboration with UN Women in Iceland.

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Reykjavík Peace Days: What is Peace?

What is Peace? In this podcast we discuss the concept, what meaning it has for us as individuals and society and how we understand it here in Iceland.

The episode is in Icelandic and it is a part of the Reykjavík Peace Days 2020 podcast series produced in collaboration with …

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