About 600 people from 14 countries participated in The Arctic Boundaries International Conference in January, 2012 in Tromsø (Norway). Sixth time this seaport often called “Gate to the Arctic” gathered politicians, scientists, representatives of industrial, financial, transport and other companies, teachers, graduate students and doctoral candidates to elaborate recommendations for sustainable and ...

A comparative discussion is made of contemporary national and organisational strategies on Northern and Arctic Europe to identify common interests in the Euro-Arctic region and to evaluate how some of these interests may relate to the global context. This dialogue will be considered in relation to the post-Cold War transition from Realist to geoeconomic perspectives on the world. <p> <p>My tentative ...

Deltakelse i arbeidslivet er sentralt for inkludering av flyktninger. Denne artikkelen baserer seg på kvalitative intervjuer med arbeidsgivere, og studerer deres syn på bruk av praksisplasser til kvalifisering av flyktninger. Vi bruker mangfoldsledelsens flernivåperspektiv som analytisk rammeverk og finner at arbeidsgiverne ønsker mer systematikk rundt tilretteleggingen av praksis, inkludert bedre ...

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 ...

The history of Russia and Norway and their areas in the Arctic and Russian-Norwegian relations are traditionally important for the residents of both states. Opportunities to present new documents and materials, to discuss the significance of centuries-old ties between Russia and Norway, especially in the North, are not provided so often. In early April 2019, a large-scale scientific seminar of Russian ...

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 ...

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 ...