ARENA Policy Brief 5/2026 av Varg Folkman (In Norwegian)
Publications
Martin Moland has co-edited the newly published Journalism, Disinformation, and Europe’s Response: Truth Under Siege, exploring how media actors across diverse political, institutional, and regulatory contexts understand and respond to post-truth politics.
Andreas Eriksen and Erik Oddvar Eriksen have co-authored a research article in Kritisk Juss, exploring how deliberative meeting spaces can help strengthen legal certainty and decision-making in Nav.
Elena Escalante-Block and Trym Nohr Fjørtoft have published a forum article in Science as Culture, examining how media coverage of antitrust enforcement in the European Union and the United States frames Big Tech’s growing oligarchy as a technical, system-conforming issue rather than a democratic challenge.
Jarle Trondal has co-edited the newly published Digital Transformations: Social and Ethical Consequences of Rapid Technological Change, exploring how digital transformations are rapidly reshaping modern societies, including public service, business, educational, health and welfare systems.
John Erik Fossum has written a chapter for Conspiracism and Political Conflict, discussing whether the notion of national sovereignty can be considered under the heading of conspiracy.
Ines Wagner has co-authored an article in British Journal of Industrial Relations, tracing how the East–West free movement of capital, labour, services and goods after enlargement has influenced labour standards within a shipbuilding company operating in Norway and Romania.
Alicia Noëllie Saes-Louarn has published an article in Political Research Exchange, investigating how civil servants construct legitimacy when justifying their discretion in applying EU law.
ARENA Policy Brief 4/2026 av Merethe Dotterud Leiren (in Norwegian)
Trym Nohr Fjørtoft has published an article in Comparative European Politics, demonstrating that legitimacy assessments which presuppose strong cultural and political coherence overstate the differences between the two polities.
Ines Wagner has co-authored an article for Economic and Industrial Democracy, exploring how male- and female-dominated unions shape pension policy, using Norway as a case study.
Jarle Trondal and John Erik Fossum have co-authored A Theory of Segmented Polities, newly published as part of the Cambridge Elements Series in European Politics.
Pernille Rieker has written a chapter for the newly published Security, Defence, and the Future of Europe, arguing that while Norway spends more and cooperates more closely with Brussels, it still lacks a voice where key decisions are made.
Jarle Trondal and Marianne Riddervold have co-authored a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of European Union Politics.
Pernille Rieker has contributed a chapter to the volume Who calls the shots? Institutional and political dynamics in European defence, published by the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies.