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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 →

The University of Iceland Press recently published a book by Professor Hannes H. Gissurarson, The Icelandic Fisheries: Sustainable and Profitable, containing four papers which the author has published in English on the most beneficial utilisation of natural resources such as … Continue reading →

The festivities hall of the University of Iceland was crowded Friday 20 November when US investor Bill Browder told his story at a meeting arranged by RNH, the Public Book Club (Almenna bokafelagid) and the Institute of International Affairs at … Continue reading →