University of Oslo

Listen to a podcast on how Nordic cooperation works through politicians, civil servants and civil society, and how it is often more driven by…

The 1974 Nordic Environmental Protection Convention was the first international environmental convention of its kind. While Nordic cooperation and…

From the 1830s to the 1920s about 800,000 Norwegians emigrated, mostly to America. There is less general awareness of the fact that between 100,000…

Listen to a podcast on how gender is used as a tool in branding the Nordics.

Today the environment is a key policy issue of institutionalised Nordic cooperation. Yet it was only in the late 1960s that the environment emerged on…

Listen to a podcast on the attitude to online risk of caregivers, teachers and children in the Nordics.

The Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) was in power when the country was transformed into a wealthy society with modern welfare in the decade…

The vision of a welfare community that provided the people with social security from ‘cradle to grave’ was largely realised in the period between 1945…

The term ’bridge-building’ is often used to describe Norwegian foreign policy from the tail end of the Second World War until Norway's turn to the…

Swedish foreign policy has long been engaged in issues relating to gender. This was cemented in 2014 by the launch of its Feminist Foreign Policy…