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Published: 01 June 2013
A Norwegian army officer directs a helicopter at a live fire exercise on a blustery, minus 8 degrees Fahrenheit afternoon. Ballistics and electronic devices function differently in extreme cold, often jamming or breaking down. A Norwegian army officer directs a helicopter at a live fire exercise
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World Policy Journal (1 December 2017) 34 (4): 16–19.
Published: 01 December 2017
... “Stallo” had its origins in the Sámi language, but then again, I didn’t know at that time that I too had Sámi origins. The Sámi, one of Europe’s few Indigenous populations, live in the Arctic regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. The majority of the Sámi within Norwegian borders occupy a...
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Published: 01 June 2013
Hostile Territory: The sparsely populated, frigid, and forbidding landscape along the Malangen fjord in the Norwegian Arctic Circle presents a profound challenge for military forces. Hostile Territory: The sparsely populated, frigid, and forbidding landscape along the Malangen fjord in the
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Published: 01 June 2013
Urban warfare is equally difficult in austere and extreme conditions. Norwegian army soldiers practice attacking a remote Arctic outpost in knee-deep snow. Urban warfare is equally difficult in austere and extreme conditions. Norwegian army soldiers practice attacking a remote Arctic outpost in
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Published: 01 June 2013
Avalanche Mapping: A single ski-borne soldier can trigger a catastrophic snowslide. Probing a mountain slope of windblown snow can allow a soldier to tell if an area’s too dangerous to traverse. In March 1986, more than a dozen members of a Norwegian ski patrol died in an avalanche during NATO
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World Policy Journal (1 June 2018) 35 (2): 34–40.
Published: 01 June 2018
... this year, opens with a shot of the main character, 18-year-old Kaja, played by the young Norwegian actress Andrea Berntzen, standing in a wood. She stares intensely into the camera and asserts: “You will never understand. This happened to me.” Kaja then leads us to a clearing full of tents and...
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World Policy Journal (1 June 2013) 30 (2): 46–57.
Published: 01 June 2013
...A Norwegian army officer directs a helicopter at a live fire exercise on a blustery, minus 8 degrees Fahrenheit afternoon. Ballistics and electronic devices function differently in extreme cold, often jamming or breaking down. A Norwegian army officer directs a helicopter at a live fire exercise...
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World Policy Journal (1 December 2013) 30 (4): 88–100.
Published: 01 December 2013
.... Scandinavia is an oddly desirable target for Islamic terrorists. In 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllandsposten published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad as an exercise in free speech. A Norwegian newspaper reprinted the drawings. Muslims felt hurt; some were outraged. Danish firebrand imams traveled the...
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World Policy Journal (1 March 2013) 30 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2013
... serves as chair of the Norwegian committee that awards the Nobel Peace Price, argues that leaders should think beyond borders, harnessing diversity to strengthen transnational communities. Our Map Room traces the emergence of the fabled Northwest Passage. As Arctic waters open up, northern countries are...
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World Policy Journal (1 June 2011) 28 (2): 124–132.
Published: 01 June 2011
... or today? The day before, Tunisian blogger and democracy campaigner Lina Ben Mhenni rose before more than 200 human rights professionals, scholars, activists and journalists assembled from every continent by Forum founded Thor Halvorssen—himself a compelling product of a Norwegian father...
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World Policy Journal (1 December 2017) 34 (4): 1–2.
Published: 01 December 2017
... annual Indigenous heritage festival that has enabled thousands of Norwegians to get in touch with their Sámi roots, and Julian Brave NoiseCat considers what the basis of a new Native activism might look like. History works in strange ways, NoiseCat observes in his essay. While many Native communities...
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World Policy Journal (1 March 2013) 30 (1): 14–17.
Published: 01 March 2013
... could melt as soon as the summer of 2015. In October 2010, I was the first filmmaker to cross the Northwest Passage via the seldom-navigated Prince of Wales Strait. I sailed aboard the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen , named after Roald Amundsen, the famous Norwegian explorer who was...
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World Policy Journal (1 December 2014) 31 (4): 31–34.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Denmark with 26.6 percent of the vote. In Norway, concerns about immigration and the growing belief that Islam is challenging national values and identity are widely shared by Norwegians and among many on the right, who in 2013 voted the Conservative Party into office. The anti-immigration Progress Party...
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World Policy Journal (1 March 2000) 17 (1): 113–115.
Published: 01 March 2000
... counterinsur
gency war. This winter, members of the FARC have been meeting with a Colombian govern
ment delegation in Norway and Sweden under the aegis of the former Norwegian foreign
minister, Jan Egelund, who was named the United Nations special envoy for Colombia by
Secretary General Kofi Annan. This...
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World Policy Journal (1 December 2014) 31 (4): 77–84.
Published: 01 December 2014
... momentum is building for boycotts and divestitures similar to those used during the decades of the anti-apartheid campaign in South Africa. This time, Scandinavians have been taking the lead. In 2005, citing concerns over involvement in Western Sahara, a Norwegian government pension fund divested its...
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World Policy Journal (1 December 2004) 20 (4): 63–73.
Published: 01 December 2004
...-determination based on a federal
one judges them depends on which side you structure within a united Sri Lanka.” Balas-
happen to see first, or see longest. ingham hailed this as “an unprecedented
historic decision.” The Norwegian special
Murky Prospects...
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World Policy Journal (1 December 2003) 19 (4): 85–88.
Published: 01 December 2003
... millions, flocked the aliens, and they took with them
what they had created in America.
They took with them highways hewn out of the wilderness by Sicilians and Slavs,
and great rafts of lumber felled in the forests by the Irish, Swedes and Norwegians,
and...
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World Policy Journal (1 March 2013) 30 (1): 9–13.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Thorbjørn Jagland Thorbjørn Jagland, former prime minister and foreign minister of Norway, is secretary general of the Council of Europe and chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, responsible for awarding the Nobel Peace Prize. © World Policy Institute 2013 2013 World Policy...
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World Policy Journal (1 June 2005) 22 (2): 105–108.
Published: 01 June 2005
... and
close-cropped Bert Brecht hairdos as they bike at homicidal speeds on sidewalk cycle paths.
But this spring, the skies were as overcast as the political climate. The mood found its ex
pression in a cryptic display in central Berlin designed by the Norwegian conceptual artist
Lars Ramberg...
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World Policy Journal (1 June 2003) 20 (2): 95–101.
Published: 01 June 2003
... norvégienne, or House of Representatives cafeterias thanks
Norwegian omelet. And so the dish has re to the efforts of Republican representa
mained in the culinary mainstream on both tives Bob Ney (said to be related to the
sides of the Atlantic ever since, with its dif Napoleonic Marshal Ney) and...
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