I’ve good reasons to be happy today. The four last years a social-democratic coalition (the “red-greens”) has governed Norway consisting of the Labour Party and the smaller Centre Party and the Social Left Party. Yesterday, the Norwegian people gave the government four new years.
As the graph illustrates, it’s been an exciting campaign and election. Two [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Norway’
16 Sep
4 more years with a social-democratic Norway – 5 main reasons
9 Feb
Norway: The Moral Guardian or the arms merchant?
I was pretty excited to come over a report – or should I say book? – that details the Norwegian practices and regulations regarding arms exports from 1935 to 1992. Not only are the practices put into periods and put in both domestic and international contexts, the author, as the title suggests, also briefly discusses [...]
18 Jan
Norwegian interests – foreign policy for a globalised world
I’ve had the pleasure of reading Norwegian Interests – Foreign Policy for a globalised world, a book resulting for a Norwegian MFA project aiming to find out what Norwegian interests are, and if they should be redefined. The final result will take the form of a report to the Storting (parliament) in a few months.
It [...]