• Profit under the Soviets: Timber concessions, Western interests and the monetary reforms under NEP 

      Lundesgaard, Jon; Tevlina, Victoria V. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-05)
      In 1921, at the beginning of the New Economic Policy (NEP), V.I. Lenin pointed to the timber industry of the North as a promising opportunity for cooperation with Western interests and the Soviet state soon introduced timber concessions. However, these concessions were not particularly profitable and ended up as a short-lived experiment. This article analyses why timber concessions failed to make a ...
    • Russian Space Meets Western Business Practices - Understanding the Law in the Petroleum Sector in Russia 

      Goes, Sander Bernardus (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This article discusses the relationship between the private international oil company (IOC) Royal Dutch Shell and Russia as an oil producing and oil exporting state during a period when oil prices were moving towards unforeseen heights (2005-2007). By examining this dynamic relationship, this study aims to contribute to an understanding of Russia’s discursive and culturally produced history. The ...
    • Russian timber industry in the 1920s: on the short history of Russnorvegoles 

      Lundesgaard, Jon; Tevlina, Victoria V. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-03)
      After the Russian Revolution, with civil war and interventions, war communism (1918–1921) led to a period of great economic difficulties in Russia. The New Economic Policy was the solution, and concessions offered to Western business interests were a part of it. In the timber industry of the 1920s, the jointly Western and Soviet controlled company Russnorvegoles was an important concession. The ...
    • Symbolpolitikk spenner bein for økt sysselsetting av flere flyktninger 

      Fedreheim, Gunn Elin; Hansen, Tina (Chronicle; Kronikk, 2020)
      I Norge har de fleste regjeringer siden starten på 1990-tallet hatt som målsetting at alle skal i arbeid. Denne «arbeidslinja» har vært et kjennetegn ved den norske velferdsmodellen, og grunntanken er at alle skatter, trygder og overføringer skal være utformet slik at det lønner seg å jobbe heller enn å være utenfor arbeidsmarkedet. For norske kvinner har denne politikken blant annet bidratt til ...
    • A systematic review on the role of trust in the water governance literature 

      Voogd, Remko; Rudberg, Peter; D. Vries, Jasper; Beunen, Raoul; Espiritu, Aileen Aseron; Methner, Nadine; Larsen, Rasmus Kløcker; Fedreheim, Gunn Elin; Goes, Sander Bernardus; Kruger, Elizabeth (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-01)
      Trust is generally considered to play a key enabling role in water governance. Despite this notion, there have been no systematic assessments examining the way in which the literature on water governance engages with ‘trust’. Our article fills this gap by providing an overview of the way in which this literature has engaged with trust as a conceptual lens, analytical device and empirical phenomenon. ...
    • Velg naturmangfoldet heller enn billige klimatiltak! 

      Fedreheim, Gunn Elin; Normann, Øystein (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2021-04-28)
    • Vetenskaplig expertis och nordområdets naturresurser 

      Wråkberg, Urban (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The essay reflects on political pressures exerted by and on scientists and technologists acting as advisors on political and economic matters of the high north.It uses two case studies to do this. One consists in the group of scientists from several nations who engaged as advisors to their foreign offices in the process leading up tothe ratification of the Spitsbergen/Svalbard treaty in 1920. The ...