SGIR 7th Pan-European
IR Conference
The annual conference of the Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR) of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) will take place in Stockholm on September 9-11, 2010.
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On EU-NATO relations after the Cold War
In the newly published book The Routledge Handbook of Transatlantic Security, Hanna Ojanen has written a chapter about the relations between EU and NATO after the Cold War.
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The European Union’s Solidarity Clause
Mark Rhinard and Sara Myrdal have written a new UI-report which analyses article 222 of the Lissbon Treaty.
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Russia's Great Power Strategy under Putin and Medvedev
UI Occasional Papers number 1 2010 is about Russian foreign policy strategy and is written by Ingmar Oldberg.
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Anna Jardfelt Melvin
Named New Director of UI
The board of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs has appointed Anna Jardfelt Melvin as new Director of the Institute. Anna comes to UI from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs where she was most recently posted at Sweden's Permanent Representation to the European Union in Brussels.
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The Politics of International Recognition
What are the criteria by which political entities are to be internationally recognised as sovereign states? And who should judge these criteria and decide whether international recognition will be provided or not? These questions were discussed at a conference at SIIA on May 6, 2010. Read more

What Should be Done About North Korea
Mikael Weissmann and Linus Hagström writes about the "new" North Korean crisis and suggests what should be done about it in the In Focus blog at NIAS Asia Portal.
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What Future for the EU in Counterterrorism?
SIIA together with CATS and the European Policy Centre gathered a group of prominent scholars and practitioners in Brussels to discuss the future of EU's work on counterterrorism.
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New Book on International Aid
Jens Stilhoff Sörensen's new book Challenging the Aid Paradigm offers critical analysis into contemporary aid policy and identifies major issues in the Western currents as well as the Asian alternative. Johan Lagerkvist is also contributing to the same volume with a chapter
on China's engagement in Africa.
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International Development-
Security Network at SIIA
INDESENT is a research network and a forum focusing on critical approaches to development-security studies. From 2009 support is granted by The Swedish National Bank Tercentenary Foundation. Read more

Pirates in Paradise
You can now order Stefan Eklöf Amirell's book Pirates in Paradise: A Modern History of Southeast Asia’s Maritime Marauders here in our web shop. Rich and engrossing in its detail, this book provides profound insights into contemporary terrorism, piracy and transnational organized crime in Southeast Asia.
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Russian-Iranian Security Links
In the newly published book Russia and CIS Relations with the Gulf Region: Current Trends in Political and Economic Dynamics, Ingmar Oldberg has written a chapter on Russia's relations with Iran. Read more

Contesting Norms on China’s Internet?
Johan Lagerkvist has written a chapter about the party-state, youth and social change in China in a newly published book entitled Youth Engaging With the World: Media, Communication and Social Change. Read more

The Changing Military Importance
of the Kaliningrad Region
In his new article in Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Ingmar Oldberg describes how Kaliningrad well reflects the ups and down in Russian relations with the West in this part of Europe. Read more

Japan's use of economic power
Linus Hagström's  new article in Asian Survey demonstrates how Japan has been exercising economc power in the multilateral talks on North Korea.
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Assessing Change in Japanese
Foreign Security Policy
Linus Hagström and Jon Williamsson has published a new article in Asian Security in which they argue that many Japan specialists have overemphasized the changes that Japan is currently experiencing in its foreign security policy.
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