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RNH Academic Director Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, was interviewed in Gisli Freyr Valdorsson’s popular podcast on Wednesday 27 August 2025. They discussed how classical liberalism could be defined and defended. Gissurarson pointed … Continue reading →

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, was the guest of journalist Hermann Nokkvi Gunnarsson in Dagmal, the television part of Morgunbladid, on 22 August 2025. He criticised the non-action of the University of Iceland … Continue reading →

Professor Emeritus Hannes H. Gissurarson, RNH research director, published an article in Nordisk Tidskrift, No. 2 2025, on the recent entry of Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO. He argued that all five Nordic countries had … Continue reading →

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland and RNH Academic Director, gave a talk at the Summer University organised by Brussels think tank New Direction and French think tank ISSEP at Chateau de Thorens in … Continue reading →

The 2025 general meeting of the Public Book Club, Almenna bokafelagid, AB, was held on 17 May. Jonas Sigurgeirsson, AB Executive Director, presented the 2024 accounts which showed the best-ever performance, not least because of sales to foreign tourists. Other … Continue reading →

RNH Academic Director, Professor Emeritus Hannes H. Gissurarson, was one of the speakers at the Budapest meeting on 13 May 2025 of the Free Market Road Show, organised by the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, in cooperation with the Danube … Continue reading →