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Research


DIIS' research and activities are organized in and across Research Units (and major commissioned works, if any).

A typical Research Unit consists of five to eight researchers, PhD students, and practitioners for a period of up to three year’s duration organized on the basis of a set of clearly defined aims and objectives and a detailed plan for research activities, dissemination of results, teaching, and income generating activities.


Defence and security


Investigates the new threats on the international security and defence agenda and the claim of a crisis in the liberal order

Foreign policy and EU studies


Focuses on foreign policy analysed on the background of both individual national European foreign policies and the EU, and on European relations to the US, Russia and other world actors

Global economy, regulation and development (GEARED)

Examines key international development issues in the broader setting of trends and transformations in the global economy

Holocaust and genocide

Works with processes that lead to genocide with focus on the role of the state in relation to committing genocide and to combating it, and the remembrance culture of the Holocaust and other instances of genocide

The Middle East


Studies socio-political dynamics, transnational links and international relations in and to the Middle East

Migration

Examines how states and international organizations control and regulate migration, and explores migration from a sending and receiving – and a migrant – perspective


Natural resources and poverty

Investigates the social, economic, political and cultural conditions for rural poor people’s access to natural resources and their strategies for obtaining access to these resources

Politics and development

Studies how governance in developing countries is organized and managed at international, national and local levels, and works with aid, democracy, local government and service provision

Major commissioned works

Civil-military relations in international operations; The Danish opt outs from the European Union; The colonial status of Greenland; Denmark in the Cold War


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Updated: 25/02/11