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World politics

Political authority and power mechanisms reach out into more and more policy fields, while the power to act in concert has arguably become more diluted. Central principles and institutions constituting our world order are constantly re-negotiated. What and who governs the global order? What are the defining features of world politics?

Research and activites

  • Life, earth, colony
    Book
    2023

    Life, Earth, Colony

    New book explores the geographer Friedrich Ratzel’s deathly ideas and their reception
  • South China sea disputes, water cannon against Philippines
    Photo/illustration by China Coast Guard/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
    Livestreaming

    Deeply immersed: Taking stock of South China Sea developments

    DIIS, Auditorium
    Viewed as an important strategic waterway from a regional and global perspective, the South China Sea has long constituted a critical arena for various maritime and territorial disputes that are now resurfacing.
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    DIIS Report
    2023

    Cyber espionage: a challenge to international law in the age of intelligence competition

    The rise of cyber espionage has created new challenges for international law, but states are hesitant to let international law limit their ability to spy online
  • Children in Uummannaq
    Photo/illustration by Leiff Josefsen

    'Free Association' in Greenland? Caribbean and Pacific experiences

    DIIS, auditorium
    To understand what future course, Greenland might be setting itself on, DIIS invites for a seminar with professor Rafael Cox Alomar, expert in comparative constitutional law in the context of decolonization.
  • journal of arctic and climate security studies
    Photo/illustration by Capt. Mikel Arcovitch/The National Guard/Flickr copyright license
    Journal Article
    2023

    Reclaiming Arcticness

    The writing of an Arctic chapter in the US autobiography
  • Cover Diplomatica Journal
    Journal Article
    2023

    A Scandinavian approach to human rights and inequality

    New article examines Scandinavian diplomacy on human rights and economic inequality at the United Nations in the 1970s.
  • Zelensky speaking at United Nations headquaters
    Photo/illustration by ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo

    Reimagining the United Nations - past, present, and future

    DIIS Auditorium
    Thant Myint-U, internationally recognized historian, grandson of former UN General Secretary U Thant, and former UN diplomat, will discuss his recent research on the "recovered history" of the UN. He will explore what this means for Denmark as a potential member of the Security Council 2025 - 2026 and how the UN can address regional conflicts, like Myanmar
  • Cover journal diplomatic history
    Journal Article
    2023

    Toward a community of democracies

    Cold War visions for democratic unity
  • us-china-tech-war
    Photo/illustration by Oween CPY via Shutterstock
    Podcast
    2023

    US-China tech war is a battle for world dominance

  • US-China tech
    Photo/illustration by Quality Stock Arts / Shutterstock
    Livestreaming

    China's next act and the US-China tech war

    DIIS Auditorium
    From climate change to artificial intelligence, China will need to play an important role if the world is to meet its mounting ecological and technological challenges. But how should we balance cooperation and competition with an assertive China?
  • Cover for the brief on EU´s space initiatives
    DIIS Policy Brief
    2023

    New technologies are challenging EU in outer space

    The increasing commercialisation and militarisation of outer space has intensified geopolitical competition and is re-shaping international relations. Public and private actors are increasingly looking to emerging technologies to gain a technological edge. This brief explores the topic of experimentation with emerging technologies in outer space and why EU decision-makers should address the main risks and implications of this development.
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    DIIS Report
    2023

    Taking stock of women, peace and security policy ownership

    Lack of local buy-in, funding gaps and weak reporting call ownership of gender-inclusive security policies into question
  • Moral injury and the humanities
    Book Chapter
    2023

    The moral challenges of moral injury

    Betraying your own moral beliefs is a particular form of trauma. New book chapter explores the concept of ‘moral injury’ and how the psychological understanding of war has changed over the last twenty years.
  • Myanmar in crisis
    Book
    2023

    Myanmar in crisis

    Living with the pandemic and the coup
  • Cover of the publication China and Iran Relations in the Context of the Changing World Order
    Book Chapter
    2023

    China and Iran relations in the context of the changing world order

    New article explores the significance of Iran to China’s global development policy and the challenges facing their relationship
  • Kamissa Camara
    Interview

    The “politics of coups” shape the response to West Africa´s military juntas

    Since 2020 West Africa has witnessed a series of military coups. Still, the responses from the Africa Union and The Economic Community of West African States have varied from hard sanctions to near indifference. This inconsistency in the organisations’ responses is the research subject for Mali´s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamissa Camara, who will speak at the seminar “West Africa's Sahel region in times of rupture and shifting global political orders” on 25 May 2023.
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    DIIS Report
    2023

    The new EU climate and energy strategy in a time of war

    Putin’s war in Ukraine has pushed EU member states to revamp collective energy and climate action
  • Tech for Democracy
    Report
    2023

    Tech for democracy

    Learnings from the Year of Action
  • Putin and Xi meeting Moscow
    Photo/illustration by Sergei Karpukhin/TASS/Ritzau Scanpix
    Livestreaming

    Seminar: Status and equality make rising powers more cooperative

    Researcher explains why great powers like China and India challenge international order.
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    Book Chapter
    2023

    What is exceptional about religion?

    In a new book chapter, Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Morten Valbjørn and Dino Krause explore to what extent religion is seen as something exceptional in three bodies of academic literature: International relations, islamism studies and peace and conflict research.
  • judge from texas performing wedding on mexican border
    Photo/illustration by Cristina De Middel/Magnum Photos/Ritzau Scanpix
    Livestreaming

    Sex rule and state borders in global politics

    DIIS Auditorium
    Laura Sjoberg introduces the notion of "sex rule" in this talk. Looking at marriage, reproduction, migration and asylum cases, and homonormativity, she argues that sex rules matter in global politics and international security
  • cover-Routledge Companion to China and the Middle East and North Africa.
    Book Chapter
    2023

    China and US Rivalry in The Persian Gulf: Is a New Security Architecture Evolving?

    As a contextualization of the recent rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia DIIS researcher publish book chapter on the role of China in the Gulf
  • Livestreaming

    The world to come: Multipolarity, interdependence, and the challenge of ordering diversity

    At this seminar former member of the US National Security Council under the Clinton and Obama Administrations, Professor Charles Kupchan presents the grand strategic challenges to come
  • UN Security Council meeting Zelensky
    Photo/illustration by UN Photo/Laura Jarriel
    Livestreaming

    The UN Security Council: Maintaining international peace after the invasion

    A year into Russia's war in Ukraine and with the UN Security Council caught up in great power rivalry, this event explores strategies available to non-permanent elected members of the UN Security Council to exert influence
  • Blinken og Lavrov corona greeting
    Photo/illustration by Pool/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix
    Webinar

    The Arctic Council in the shadow of the War in Ukraine

    Online via Zoom
    This webinar brings together officials and experts from Denmark, Greenland, Norway and Finland to discuss the current and future state of the Arctic Council following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

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