As 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the revised Geneva Conventions, which were developed to protect civilians during war, ...

Reflecting, in this this paper, on Cyprus’s 20 years of EU membership, we discuss the rationale for the island’s accession to ...

Based on their professional assessments, PRIO Directors have made it a tradition to offer their personal lists for the Peace Prize. Current Director Henrik Urdal presents here his fifth list since ...

Putin’s nuclear brinkmanship follows an oscillating pattern. The announcement of revisions in the nuclear doctrine is supposed to mark an upswing in Russia’s attempts at nuclear coercion. The Kremlin ...

Over-estimating Russia’s readiness to unleash a nuclear war and yielding to Putin’s blackmail would indeed be a greater mistake than ignoring the threat and assuming that common strategic sense will ...

Weisskircher, Manes (ed.) (2024) Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far-Right Politics From the Streets to Parliament. London: Routledge. DOI: https://doi ...

Research has emphasised the importance of far-right transnationalism, in terms of both ideology and practice. Yet, the literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of how far-right actors themselves ...

Weisskircher, Manes; Anna Kyriazi; Mariana S. Mendes & Julia Rone (2024) The Politics of Emigration in Europe A Research Agenda, Journal of Common Market Studies 61 (2): 563–575. While the politics of ...

PRIO is seeking a new Director to lead the institute. It is looking for a committed and unifying leader who will contribute ...

This paper offers some ways to think about untangling the legal and political knot that has become the property problem in Cyprus. The paper first offers a history of the property problem, looking at ...

The prospect of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine being a long war highlights the critical issue of preventing nuclear or conventional escalation that would damage Ukraine and its supporters.

This policy brief examines the prospects for arms control in a scenario shaped by a decisive victory for Ukraine. Arms control combining nuclear and conventional tracks can become a key element of the ...