Is international cooperation still possible?

Name: Is international cooperation still possible?
Start: 2025-10-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-16T10:30:00+02:00
Location: Rosenkrantz gate 22, 0160 Oslo, Norway

Schedule

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 09:00 am to 10:30 am

UTC+02:00

Location

Rosenkrantz gate 22, 0160 Oslo, Norway | Oslo, OS

This seminar discusses the power and possibility for international cooperation with a focus on the role of transnational networks in galvanizing change.
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- In an age of polarization and geopolitical competition – how are breakthroughs in international cooperation possible?
- In what policy areas do we see the most potential and progress?
- And what are the key catalysts for these breakthroughs – how may international cooperation be achieved?
Join us for a talk by Professor Iver B. Neumann with the title 'Is international cooperation still possible?', following a short introduction with Professor Mai’a K. D. Cross (Northeastern University, US) . After Professor Neumann's talk, he will engage in a moderated discussion with Dr. Cross, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute Professor Kristian Berg Harpviken, Associate Professor Katharina Glaab (Norwegian Institute of Life Sciences), and Research Professor Marianne Riddervold (NUPI and ARENA – Centre for Europen Studies at the University of Oslo).
The conversation will be moderated by Halvard Leira, Research Director at NUPI.
The event will take place at NUPI (New address: Rosenkrantz’ gate 22, 4th floor) and lasts from 09:00 to 10:30. A light breakfast will be served from 08:30.
The event will also be streamed live to our YouTube channel. No registration needed for digital participation: https://www.youtube.com/@nupinytt
About Professor Iver B. Neumann:
Neumann is director at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. Neumann has previously been Director, NOVA, OsloMet, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Research Professor and Research Director at NUPI. He has published extensively on diplomacy and international relations, focusing in particular on how polities relate to one another, in pre-history, in history, in imagined worlds, and in principle.
Collage: Therese Leine/NUPI/Lukas Kaufmann/Vimal S/Unsplash/