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The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) was established with the aim of strengthening research, analysis, and information activities in Denmark concerning international affairs and foreign security. This series features briefs produced by the DIIS. The briefs cover such topics as human rights in Denmark and abroad, as well as foreign, security, conflict, and international development policy.

Publishers: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Publications: Rebooting the Franco-German Engine: Two Post-election Scenarios
Approaching the German Federal Election: The Traditional Parties Break the Trend and Stay in Front
Gaining Muscle, Losing Soul? Zombie NATO
Securing the Dangerous UN Convoys in Mali
Justice Provision in Myanmar
The Special Relationships of the US in Europe
An Untapped Resource: African Forces in Intelligence Gathering
When Peacekeepers do Damage: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo
African Soldiers are in the Firing Line in Mali
A Viable Libyan Government Must be Built from the Bottom Up
Europe is Losing the Fight Against Human Smuggling in Libya
The Russian Gambit in Syria: Geopolitics and Non-Western Intervention in Syria
Women in MINUSMA: Female Peacekeepers are Vital for the UN Mission in Mali
China, the Syrian Conflict, and the Threat of Terrorism: Geopolitics and Non-Western Intervention in Syria
Israel´s Conflicting Interests in the Syrian War: Geopolitics and Non-Western Intervention in Syria
Business and Politics in China´s Oversees Investments: Corporate Actors in China´s Foreign and Defense Policy
Lessons of the Refugee Crisis: What Europe can Expect from Germany´s Changing Migration Policy
Donald Trump and US-China Relations: Putting America First Could Give China the Edge
Donald Trump and US-Russian Relations: Geopolitical Bromance or Business-as-Usual?
No Simple Nationalist: The Trump Presidency will Force Defining Choices on Europe
Nuclear Power and Telecommunications: Security Concerns About Chinese Investments
A Radical Defence for Democracy: Allow Space for Anti-Democratic Speech
Normalisation Campaigns Do Not Prevent Radical Online Culture: Avoid the Pitfalls of Counter-Narratives
Post-Deportation Risks: People Face Insecurity and Threats after Forced Returns
Security Preparedness in European Cities: Is It Really Time to Learn from Israel?
Supporting the Transitions in Myanmar: Maintaining Momentum Means Engaging all Parties
Sustaining the Development Effectiveness Agenda: The Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation
The Warsaw Summit and the Return of Western Nationalism: What NATO Should Really Fear
China-Russia Energy Relations: A Changing Outlook for Chinese Energy Security
Jhadist Violence in Nigeria Continues: Defeating Boko Haram Requires a Multifaceted Approach
Towards ´Schengen Light´
The Challenges Facing China's Belt and Road Initiative
How to Achieve Global Goal 7: Sustainable Energy for All
China's New Crisis Diplomacy in Africa and the Middle East
A Nordic Trademark in Military Capacity Development?
Regional Security Deterioration after the Collapse of Libya
A Question of Trust: The African Union and the Somali Army
Regional Interests Define the African Union Mission in Somalia
Five Challenges in Somalia's Game of Thrones
Enabling the Protection of Civilians in UN Peace Operations
Addressing the Dilemmas in South-South Cooperation
The World Needs an Urban Goal
Radicalisation: A Politically Contrived Concept
The Politicisation of Violence: An Alternative to Radicalisation
Back to Basics or Just Backwards?
Local Government and Climate Change Adaptation in Việt Nam
A Shifting Market Means New Demands for Uranium Security
Development Among Pastoralists in Uganda
Migration Risk Warning Campaigns are Based on Wrong Assumptions
Understanding and Prevention after the Copenhagen Shootings
South-South Child Migration
Trapped in History: The IMF and the US Veto
Extremism on the Internet: The Fight Against Online Radicalisation Starts Offline
Making the Green Climate Fund Work for the Poor
Strengthening Public Financial Management
Priorities Within the Intelligence Services in the Fight Against Terror
Community Policing and Local Policing Partnership Boards
The Role of Human Rights in Climate Change Adaptation
Nordic-Baltic Support to Military and Security Capacity Building?
Prioritising European Defence Cooperation
Transforming Armed Non-State Actors: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
A Difficult Balancing Act: Backing the Kurds in the Fight Against IS in Iraq and Syria
Governing Uranium: Supply Chains - Why Private Engagement is Needed
Sustainable Peace in Myanmar: The Future of Armed Actors
After Ukraine: Keeping the Arctic Stable
After Ukraine - NATO Should Stay Vigilant on the Middle East
Challenges to International Regulation of Cyber Technology at War
Governing Uranium in China: Unclear Legislation
Institutionalisation of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Land Reforms
Pursuing Gender Equality in Land Administration
Uranium from Niger
Social Accountability and Public Service Delivery in Rural Africa
Prepare for a ‘Multi-partner’ World!
The Lure of Extractive Natural Resource Development
The West Must Allow a Power Shift in International Organizations
Against the Odds: Capacity Development of Fragile State Institutions
Life after Deportation and Migration Crisis
Building on What Works: Service Delivery in Fragile Situations
Five Pillars of a Successful Transition in Afghanistan Post 2014
Education for Young People in Fragile Situations – The Need for Support
Understanding Human Smuggling as a Human Rights Issue
How to Reduce Migrant Worker Recruitment Costs
Pesticides and International Environmental Governance
Civilian Capacity in the Aftermath of Conflict
Assisted Return of Rejected Asylum Seekers - How Can We Create Sustainability?
Development Goals Post 2015: Reduce Inequality
Land Tenure Security and Development in Uganda
Demographic Window of Opportunity in Africa – And the Role of Migration
Flexicurity in Italy – How Far is Rome from Copenhagen?
East Africa: Regional Security Organisations and Dynamics
Diaspora Contributions to Development and Reconstruction in Fragile Situations
Europeanising Labour Migration Policies and Pursuing National Objectives
Money and Power: EU Budget Negotiations in a Time of Austerity
Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy in the Shadow of the WTO
The Migration Industry and Future Directions for Migration Policy
Should Greenland Mine its Uranium?
Development Cooperation, Climate Change and Conflict
Cooperating with China in Africa
Immediate Versus Sustainable Poverty Reduction? Supporting Agro-Industries in Africa
Islamic Women’s Activism in the Arab World
What Aid Should and Shouldn't Do In Order to Support Private Sector Development
Libya: Beyond Regime Change
The G20 has Served its Purpose and Should be Replaced
Building Civil Servant Capacity in South Sudan
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict – The Need for an International Solution
The Forgotten Villages - Land Reform in Tanzania
Getting on the Right Track
Danmarks Dilemma
Dealing with Iran: How Can the EU Achieve its Strategic Objectives?
Budget Support Lessons from Post-conflict Support to Mozambique
Private Military Companies in Counter-Insurgency Strategy
Weak International Response to the Use of Private Military Security Companies
Growing Jasmines
A Missed Opportunity: Mining for Sustainable Development
Riding the Tiger
Justice and Security
Hello Missile Defence – Goodbye Nuclear Sharing?
Building Intercultural Bridges
Recurrent Cost Boom Threatens Millennium Development Goals
Reforming Global Banking Rules
Donors and Agro-food Standards
Think Twice Before Engaging in Yemen
Counting Carbon in the Marketplace – and at the Border
Combating Illicit Financial Flows From Poor Countries
Beyond ´Light Touch´ Regulation of Finance
Reducing Poverty Through Low Carbon Development
Denmark and Modern Non-proliferation Assistance and Disarmament
Russia as Key to the Baltic Sea Region
Disaggregating the Pakistani Taliban
The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region: A Catalyst for What?
The Concept of Normative Power in World Politics
Which Diaspora for Whose Development?
African Diaspora Organizations and Homeland Development
Land Titling and Tenure Security in the Context of Inequality
The Foreign Policy of Iran
Are the Northern Sea Routes Really the Shortest?
Small, Open €uro Economies
Piracy off the Coasts of Somalia
Somalia After the Ethiopian Withdrawal
På Vej mod en Dansk Veteranpolitik?
Climate of Displacement, Climate for Protection?
Sarkozy og Vichy-syndromet
Vækst, velfærd og udviklingsbistand
EU 27, Croatia and Turkey are Watching: With or Without the Lisbon Treaty
Recent Foreign Policy Attitudes in Turkey
Diasporas and Fragile States
Does Gender Matter in Fragile States?
Brain Drain and Fragile States
Youth Employment in Fragile States
State Consolidation in Hostile Post-Conflict Environments
Local Governance in Fragile States
Fragile States and the International Criminal Court: Friends or Foes?
Corruption in Fragile States
Taxation and State-Building with a (more) Human Face
Good Governance: Between Idealism and Realism
Ændrede finansielle strømme til udviklingslandene: fra official bistand til privat finansiering?
EU's sikkerhedsstrategi version 2.0 (2008)
International Companies in Fragile States
Fragility and Natural Resources
Status of the Biological Weapons Convention Today
The Danish Africa Commission's Focus on Youth
Hvad kan og vil en præsident Obama gøre inden klimatopmødet i København?
Historisk rendezvous i Paris? Vil Sarkozys Middelhavsunion puste nyt liv i Barcelona-processen?
The Decision-Making Process Behind Launching an ESDP Crisis Management Operation
Radicalisation in Danish Prisons
Topmødet i Bukarest - (næst)sidste chance for beslutning i NATO?
Tid til champagne? Den politiske krise i Libanon og Doha-aftalerne
From Bear to Bull? Sub-Saharan Africa and Global Capital Markets
Trade-offs in European Energy Policy
Pakistan: Skrøbeligt demokrati til eksamen
NATO i Afghanistan - Hvad kan vi lære af missionen, og er vi villige til at justere?
Missile Proliferation: New Challenges and New Threats
Danish Positions on Key Developments in the European Union
The Spread of Missile Technology and its Countermeasures
Transnational Returns and Reconstruction in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina
Payments for Ecosystem Services
Troubling Trafficking: Why I am Worried about Motherhood and Apple Pie but Don't Endorse Slavery
European Strategies for Reducing 'Unwanted' Immigration
Resolving the Iranian Nuclear Crisis
Agricultural Development for Poverty Reduction – Some Options in Support of Public Policy Interventions
The Securitisation of Migration: A Risky Strategy for European States
New Political Contestation in the European Union
Chinese Missile Technology Control – Regime or No Regime?
Danish Positions on Key Developments in the European Union
Turkey's Future: EU Member or
Working in ´Fragile States:´ Problems, Dilemmas, and Guidance
After Enlargement: Europe's New Migration System
Tradeoffs Between Equality and Difference: The Crises of Dutch Multiculturalism in Cross-National Perspective
Multiculturalism in Denmark and Sweden
EU Civilian Rapid Reaction - Trouble Ahead!
An Unlikely Match or a Marriage in the Making? EU-GCC Relations in a Changing Security Environment
Water Reform - Implications for Rural Poor People's Access to Water
Upping the Ante - The North Korean Nuclear Deterrent
Post-Conflict Security Sector Reform and the Challenge of Ownership - The Case of Liberia
UN-led Strategies for Media and Communications in Conflict Prevention and Peace Building
Understanding Multinational Corporations in War-Torn Societies: Sudan in Focus
Diasporas and Conflict Resolution - Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
The Danish Ugly Duckling and the Mohammed Cartoons
African Diaspora and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa
Biodiversity Conservation in the Context of Poverty, Greed and Weak Institutions
Migrant Remittances, Development and Gender
A Perilous Democratic Exercise: The Referendum on the Constitutional Treaty in Denmark
Migrant-Development Nexus and Local Authorities in Italy
Algeria: President Bouteflika's Second Presidential Term
Strengthening African Security Capacities
Water and Conflict: Lessons Learned and Options Available on Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Water Governance
From Diplomatic Talking Shop to Powerful Partnership? NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue and the Democratisation of the Middle East
The Palestine Question in the Wake of the War in Iraq
Fra Urolig Periferi til Venlige Naboer?
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