Foreign policy

DIIS researches the relation between states, international relations and cooperation. The focus is on the differences between the foreign policies of small states and superpowers, how politicians are guided by the foreign policies of the past, and the EU's foreign policy and diplomacy in international organisations.

Research and activites

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DIIS Policy Brief

2021

The EU should make corporations accountable for their impacts in the global south

Dirty global supply chains
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Journal Article

2021

Towards great ethno-civilizations and spiritual empires?

How the European New Right imagines a post-liberal world order
Journal Article

2021

‘Judeo-Christian civilization’ and the Transatlantic Right

New journal article on what unites and divides Far Right visions of Christian Democracy
DIIS Policy Brief

2021

The myths and realities of China's economic coercion

Understanding Beijing’s evolving statecraft
Webinar

WEBINAR: Book launch on 'Birth of the State'

Global virtuel book launch on the new book 'Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics' by Charlotte Epstein
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Webinar

What drives African migration and what role does development aid have to play?

Unpacking the relationship between migration and development and the implication for development policy
Livestreaming

BOOK LAUNCH: Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics

Book launch and reception on the new book by Charlotte Epstein
DIIS Report

2021

Chinese investments in Greenland

origins, progress and actors
DIIS Working Paper

2021

Migration and foreign aid

Drivers, desires and development
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Belarus and the Russian connection

DIIS - Auditorium

In this public seminar, the two leading experts, Arkady Moshes and Lizaveta Dubinka, present their analysis of the situation
Book

2021

Book: The Danish-Lithuanian connection through 100 years

New book analyses the relationship between Denmark and Lithuania through 100 years
Interview

12 November 2021

China’s global challenges

Al Jazeera (Arabic) interviewed DIIS senior researcher Luke Patey about his new book, "How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions", and China’s relations across the world
DIIS Policy Brief

2021

New partnerships can strengthen climate action in the Middle East and North Africa

New opportunities for Denmark's global climate policy
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DIIS Policy Brief

2021

Greenland obviously has its own defense policy

– but it needs anchoring to be sustainable
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Webinar

US-China tech competition and Europe's democracies

This webinar brings together two of Europe’s leading experts on China and technology to discuss the US-China tech race and the consequences for Europe
Brief

2021

Climate finance: It’s time for the climate funds to get serious on coordination

The political dynamics of climate finance coordination and how to move on
Web Article

2021

What’s at stake for China in Sudan?

Sudan is no longer a large oil producer, but its instability impacts China’s reputation
Book

2021

Translations of Security - a framework for the study of unwanted futures

Security is no longer only a military issue. Today, security is handled and interpreted by health care services, the police, the private sector etc. Terrorism, migration, pandemics and cybercrime are new and border transgressing threats requiring new solutions. “Translations of security” offers a systematic approach to security analysis in a chaotic time.
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Livestreaming

Freedom on the offensive

DIIS Auditorium

Book talk on human rights, democracy promotion, and U.S. interventionism in the late Cold War
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Livestreaming

A sultan in autumn

DIIS Auditorium

Presentation of Soner Cagaptay’s new book “A Sultan in Autumn: Erdogan Faces the Uncontainable Forces of Turkey” and a discussion on the mounting challenges to President Erdogan’s rule
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DIIS Policy Brief

2021

Global rivalry in the Red Sea

A ‘Geopolitical’ European Union should encourage cooperation in the Red Sea region
DIIS Policy Brief

2021

Renewable energy will lead to major shifts in geopolitical power
Livestreaming

Presentation of the 2021 OECD DAC peer review of Denmark

DIIS Auditorium

What are the main conclusions of the assessment of Danish development co-operation?
Livestreaming

Oprør og alliancer - Mellemøsten efter Det Arabiske Forår

Auditoriet - DIIS

Kom til boglancering for seniorforsker Lars Erslev Andersens nye bog og bliv klogere på, hvor Mellemøsten er på vej hen
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Journal Article

2021

What would Norway be without oil? And Ukraine without Russian gas?

Case studies from Norway and Ukraine show the importance of energy resources for national identity and cohesion

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Literature Review

2018

Nordic states and European integration

Awkward partners in the north?

Hans Mouritzen

International Affairs, 94

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Book

2018

Peacebuilding in an era of pragmatism

Special section, Journal of International Affairs

Louise Wiuff Moe & Finn Stepputat

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Journal Article

2018

Pragmatic peace in emerging governscapes

Finn Stepputat

International Affairs, 94

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Journal Article

2018

New Histories of Emotion

Johannes Lang

History and Theory, 57

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DIIS Report

2018

Europe and the Sahel-Maghreb Crisis

Rasmus Alenius Boserup & Luis Martinez

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Journal Article

2018

Concrete approaches to peace

infrastructure as peacebuilding

Peer Schouten & Jan Bachmann

International Affairs

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Journal Article

2018

The HIPPO in the room

The pragmatic push-back from the UN peace bureaucracy against the militarization of UN peacekeeping

Louise Riis Andersen

International Affairs, iix

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Journal Article

2018

When ‘Unintended Effects’ Reveal Hidden Intentions

Implications of ‘Mutual Benefit’ Discourses for Evaluating Development Cooperation

Niels Keijzer & Erik Lundsgaarde

Evaluation and Program Planning, 68

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Chapter

2017

Chinese Investment in Denmark

An Open Economy and Rare Political Questions

Yang Jiang

Chinese Investment in Europe. French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

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Book Chapter

2017

The New Silk Road for China and Japan

Building on Shared Legacies

Yang Jiang

Rethinking the Silk Road. Palgrave Macmillan

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DIIS Report

2017

The EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy after Brexit

Forged in Crisis

Christine Nissen

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Book Chapter

2017

Teorie realistyczne i praktyka. Przedmowa do wydania polskiego

Stefano Guzzini

Realizm w nauce o stosunkach międzynarodowych. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar
Book

2017

Realizm w nauce o stosunkach międzynarodowych

Stefano Guzzini
DIIS Working Paper

2017

Realist theories and practice

Stefano Guzzini

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Journal Article

2017

Arrested Development in Beirut

Migration, Security and Dilemmas of Consociational Democracy

Lars Erslev Andersen

International Relations and Diplomacy, 5

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Conference report

2017

'One Belt, One Road' and China's Westward Pivot: Past, Present and Future

Conference report

Lars Erslev Andersen, Anoush Ehteshami, Mamtimyn Sunuodula & Yang Jiang

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DIIS Report

2017

US Trade Policy Under Trump

Assessing the Unilateralist Turn

Peter Gibbon & Jakob Vestergaard

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DIIS Report

2017

Learning from Danish Counter-Piracy off the Coast of Somalia

Christine Nissen & Jessica Larsen

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DIIS Report

2017

Regional interests in African peace operations

Adam Moe Fejerskov, Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde & Peter Albrecht

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Book Chapter

2017

Lightning Rod

US, Greenlandic and Danish Relations in the Shadow of Post-colonial Reputations

Mikkel Runge Olesen

Greenland and the International Politics of a Changing Arctic. Routledge
Book Chapter

2017

Denmark’s relationship with China

An odd couple’s quest for bilateral harmony

Andreas Bøje Forsby

China and Nordic Diplomacy. Routledge
DIIS Working Paper

2017

Arctic Rivalries

Friendly competition or dangerous conflict?

Mikkel Runge Olesen

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DIIS Working Paper

2017

Living in denial

The cultural factor in European politics and history

Lars Vissing & Fabrizio Tassinari

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DIIS Working Paper

2017

Ethnography of the dossier

North-south discrepancies in international negotiations

Lars Vissing

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Journal Article

2017

Symposium on Stefano Guzzini’s (ed.) The return of geopolitics in Europe? Social mechanisms and foreign policy identity crises

John Agnew, Jeffrey Checkel, Daniel Deudney, Jennifer Mitzen & Stefano Guzzini

Cooperation and Conflict, 52

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DIIS Policy Brief

2014

The West must allow a power shift in international organizations

Jakob Vestergaard & Robert Wade

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DIIS Comment

2013

Can TTIP be an economic NATO?

Trine Flockhart
DIIS Policy Brief

2011

Politics prevail in EU enlargement

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DIIS Policy Brief

2011

Beyond regime change in Libya

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DIIS Comment

2011

The 2011 Danish Elections

What about Nuclear Weapons?

Cindy Vestergaard
DIIS Policy Brief

2011

Getting on the right track

the EU Eastern partnership

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DIIS Comment

2011

Old order in a new world

World Bank fails to respond to multipolarity

Jakob Vestergaard
DIIS Policy Brief

2011

The G20 has served its purpose and should be replaced

Jakob Vestergaard & Robert Wade

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DIIS Policy Brief

2011

Creating a global economic council

six easy steps

Jakob Vestergaard & Robert Wade

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DIIS Comment

2010

Europe losing influence in the IMF

Robert Wade & Jakob Vestergaard
DIIS Comment

2010

Small and moral nations

why Sweden was a pioneer with the Stockholm Declaration

Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke
DIIS Comment

2009

The EU's raison d'être in the world 2020-2030
DIIS Comment

2009

Defusing the enlargement hype

Fabrizio Tassinari
DIIS Comment

2009

The EU's neighborhood policy towards the Southern Mediterranean

Ulla Holm
DIIS Policy Brief

2009

The concept of normative power in world politics

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DIIS Policy Brief

2009

Are the northern sea routes really the shortest?

maybe a too rose-coloured picture of the blue Arctic Ocean

Svend Aage Christensen

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DIIS Policy Brief

2008

The Irish opt outs from the Lisbon Treaty?

lessons of the Danish experience

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DIIS Policy Brief

2008

EU 27, Croatia and Turkey are watching

with or without the Lisbon Treaty

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DIIS Policy Brief

2007

Turkey's future : EU member or 'Islamist Rogue State'?

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DIIS Policy Brief

2007

Kina i international politik

vestlige dilemmaer

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DIIS Policy Brief

2006

The Danish ugly duckling and the Mohammed cartoons

Ulla Holm

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DIIS Policy Brief

2006

EU civilian rapid reaction

trouble ahead

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DIIS Policy Brief

2006

An unlikely match or a marriage in the making?

EU-GCC relations in a changing security environment

Helle Malmvig

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