Globalization

Globalization affects most scientific disciplines in fundamental ways, and an interdisciplinary approach is critical for understanding the multiple drivers and impacts of globalization. This poses new challenges for individual disciplines, including theoretical and methodological challenges, as well as challenges related to content and the objects of research foci. Such challenges, however, encourage academic originality and innovation.

NTNU's Globalization Research Programme is one of six strategic research areas identified by the university as especially important for the 21st century. The other research areas are

• Energy and Petroleum - Resources and Environment
• Information and Communication Technology
• Marine and Maritime Technology
• Materials
• Medical Technology

 NTNU's Globalization Research Programme addresses socially-relevant, topical issues concerning the promises and pitfalls of globalization in economic, social and political life. This program is based on NTNU's long-standing tradition of addressing technology's role in solving social problems, combining academic excellence, interdisciplinarity, and cooperation between science and practice. The Globalization Research Programme houses researchers and research fellows from the humanities, social sciences, architecture, technology management, and medicine. The programme sponsors international conferences, workshops and lectures, and supports research projects and PhD candidates involved in a wide variety of research. The key goal of the program is to undertake cutting-edge research on globalization and to disseminate research findings through international publications, conferences, and projects. Project support comes from The Research Council of Norway, the European Union, international networks, collaboration with industry, and from NTNU.

The research program centers on four focus areas. Global Production and Communication research addresses sustainability in production and examines ways in which sustainability can be a driver for innovations. War, Conflict and Migration examines globalization's role in questions of war and peace and flows of goods and people and the health and wellbeing of communities. Intercultural Dynamics: Communication, Responsibility and Development addresses cultural and ethical aspects of governance and social development. Global Economic Flows, Governance and Stability addresses  issues of global financial flows, debt crisis and the management of natural resources and governance.

New research leader to the Globalization Research Programme:  Professor Ragnar Torvik (Department of Economics) starts working as the new leader of the Globalization Research Programme from 1st January 2012.

The United States arms most dictatorship: Interview with globalization researcher Professor Indra de Soysa on ScienceNordic (an online news magazine covering research in the Nordic countries)

Globalization project research featured at CNN

Chacon, M.; Robinson, J.A. and Torvik, R. 2011. When is democracy equilibrium? Theory and evidence from Colombia's la violencia. Journal of Conflict Resolution 55(3): 366-396.

de Soysa, I. 2011. Another misadventure of economists in the tropics? Social diversity, cohesion and economic development. International Area Studies Review 14(1): 3-31.

de Soysa, I. and Vadlamannati, K.C. 2011. Does being bound together suffocate, or liberate? The effects of economic, social and political globalization on human rights 1981-2005. KYKLOS 64(1): 20-53.

Ess, C. and Thorseth, M (Eds). 2011.  Trust and virtual worlds. Contemporary perspectives. New York: Peterlang.

Golebiowska, K., Valenta, M. and Carter, T. 2011. International immigration trends and data. In Dean Carson et. al (ed.). Demography at the Edge: Remote Human Populations in Developed Nations.Ashgate. Interantional population studies. ISBN 978-0-7546-7867-0: 53-84.

Haga, L.P. 2011. Imaginer la démocratie populaire. L'Institut de l'economie mondiale et la carte mentale soviétique de l'Europe de l'Est (1944-1948). Vingtième siècle. Revue d'histoireNo 109: 13—30.

Lund, R. and Panda, S.M. 2011. New activism for political recognition. Creation and expansion of spaces by tribal women, Odisha, India. Gender, Technology and Development 15(1)75-99.

Neumayer, E. and de Soysa, I. 2011. Globalization and the empowerment of women: An analysis of spatial dependence via trade and foreign direct investment. World Development 39(7): 1065-1075.  

Valenta, M. and Strabac, Z. 2011.State-assisted integration, but not for all: Norwegian welfare services and labour migration from the new EU member states, International Social Work 0020872810392811first published on March 15, 2011 as doi:10.1177/0020872810392811.

Valenta, M. and Thorshaug, K. 2011. Failed Asylum-Seekers' Responses to Arrangements Promoting Return: Experiences from Norway, Refugee Survey Quarterly, doi: 10.1093/rsq/hdr001. First published online: March 7, 2011.

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