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RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, gave three lectures in the United States in the spring of 2016, comparing the Nordic economies in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland on the one hand and the Nordic economies in Minnesota, Manitoba … Continue reading →

RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, gave a lecture 19 March 2016 at a conference at Akureyri University on international affairs. According to him, foreign powers only took interest in Iceland for a brief period of history, while it … Continue reading →

RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, gave a talk at a political seminar for Young Left Greens 5 March 2016 on whether Iceland was too small to be sustainable as an independent political unit, as some had claimed after … Continue reading →

Icelandic Stalinists suffered their biggest blow in the winter of 1956 when news spread to the West about a secret speech that Nikita Khruschev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, had given in the Kremlin in the night of … Continue reading →

RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, read a paper at the Peruvian Ministry of Production 26 January 2016 on practical matters concerning the management of fisheries and what other nations could learn from the experience of the Icelanders. According … Continue reading →

RNH Academic Director, Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, gave a paper at a meeting organised by the Peruvian Association of Fishing Firm Owners in Lima 21 January 2016 on the problem of initial allocation of quotas. The University of Iceland Press … Continue reading →