2019

Film Screening & Discussion: Shusenjo - The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

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Film Screening & Discussion: Shusenjo - The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue

Events How has the issue of women's rights become the battleground of political quandary in Japan and South Korea? 

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The Russia-Ukraine War: Can There Be Peace?

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The Russia-Ukraine War: Can There Be Peace?

Events The Swedish Institute of International Affairs held a seminar on the Russia - Ukraine War with Andreas Umland. In the last few months, Russia and Ukraine have negotiated troop withdrawals and prisoner exchange. Can there be peace?

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Behind the headlines: The protests in Hong Kong

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Behind the headlines: The protests in Hong Kong

Events What do the protesters aim for, and what are the underlying reasons for the demonstrations?

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Accountability for grave international crimes through the use of universal jurisdiction

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Accountability for grave international crimes through the use of universal jurisdiction

Events The Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Civil Rights Defenders hosted a seminar on the impact and challenges of achieving accountability for grave international crimes.

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The Armenian genocide: mechanisms, context, and memory

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The Armenian Genocide: Mechanisms, Context, and Memory

Events This seminar sought to understand and come to grips with the history and politics of genocide using the example of Christians in the late Ottoman Empire.

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Understanding China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’

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Understanding China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’

Events Research seminar in cooperation with Stockholm University

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Turkey’s Kurdish problem and the Syrian civil war: What next?

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Turkey’s Kurdish Problem and the Syrian Civil War: What Next?

Events What are Turkey’s long-term goals in the region? Will Turkey be able to continue its balancing act between the US and Russia? What lies ahead for the Kurds and other communities in northeastern Syria? How does the Turkish incursion affect the prospects for a peaceful solution to its own ‘Kurdish problem’?

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Continental Vision: Eurasia according to China

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Continental Vision: Eurasia according to China

Events How is the idea of Eurasia viewed in China? Does the Belt and Road Initiative increase Chinese influence on the continent?

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Environmental Approaches to History and Society in Japan

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Environmental Approaches to History and Society in Japan

Events With Tokyo Bay’s pollution for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the spotlight and the massive flooding caused by recurring typhoons of recent years, Japan’s vast water infrastructure has come to the surface.

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Eastern Partnership Tenth Anniversary Lecture: A talk with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Ukraine

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Eastern Partnership Tenth Anniversary Lecture: A talk with the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Ukraine

Events The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), in collaboration with Forum Syd and supported by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, had the pleasure of hosting a lecture with Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vadym Prystaiko.

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India’s Domestic Economy and World Trade

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India’s Domestic Economy and World Trade

Events The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), Sweden India Business Council (SIBC) and Business Sweden have the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with Piyush Goyal, Minister for Railways and Commerce, Government of India.

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Never Ending Humanitarian Crises – Solutions in Sight?

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Never Ending Humanitarian Crises – Solutions in Sight?

Events One year after the Global Compact on Refugees was affirmed by the UN General Assembly, the first Global Refugee Forum in December will be a critical opportunity to strengthen our collective response to refugee crises around the world. Welcome to an evening conversation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr Filippo Grandi and Swedish Secretary of State for International Development Cooperation, Mr Per Olsson Fridh. 

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Managers like a migratory bird: Case study of foreign firms in Japan

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Managers like a migratory bird: Case study of foreign firms in Japan

Events The 83rd Stockholm Seminar on Japan with Professor Naoki Ando from Hosei University, Japan

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Sustainable Production and Consumption – from a Global Perspective

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Sustainable Production and Consumption – from a Global Perspective

Events The organization of consumption and production is a global challenge, which urgently needs to be addressed. How could we achieve a transition to sustainable consumption and production patterns?

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Iran and Saudi Arabia in a Trumpian world - Crisis of governance and legitimacy?

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Iran and Saudi Arabia in a Trumpian world - Crisis of governance and legitimacy?

Events As the events of the last couple of days have shown, the United States, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are on the brink of igniting a new devastating war in the region. Their actions in the last 18 months have led us to the present situation of high instability and the likelihood of military confrontation.

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The International Nuclear Arms Control Regime Revisited

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The International Nuclear Arms Control Regime Revisited

Events The current nuclear arms control architecture, an essential pillar of the international security order has come under increasing pressure. Could we be headed towards a return to the unrestrained nuclear competition of the Cold War?

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Climate change as identity politics

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Climate change as identity politics

Events The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) held a roundtable on climate change denialism, right-wing nationalism and gender with Annica Kronsell, Martin Hultman and Daniel Poohl.

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Ukraine After the Elections

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Ukraine After the Elections

Events The Swedish Institute of International Affairs held a seminar on Ukraine’s first single party majority parliament and the challenges and opportunities that now awaits Ukraine with Katya Gorchinskaya, Karina Shyrokykh and Jakob Hedenskog.

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Challenges to the Post-2003 Political Order in Iraq

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Challenges to the Post-2003 Political Order in Iraq

Events What does the Iraqi political landscape look like? How have Iraqi citizens and politicians managed the post-ISIS era? What kind of challenges and opportunities does Iraq face in the coming years?

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The Future of Syria and the Role of Regional Powers

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The Future of Syria and the Role of Regional Powers

Events What are the main objectives of the Iranian, Russian and Turkish engagement in Syria? Is convergence between Geneva and Astana possible? What kind of Syria can we expect 5 years from now?

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Vietnam - The Limits of Modernization under Party Rule

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Vietnam - The Limits of Modernization under Party Rule

Events In this seminar we gathered a panel of distinguished Vietnam scholars to address the current challenges of development in today’s Vietnam.

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Iran’s relations with China and India - Simple economics but complicated politics?

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Iran’s relations with China and India - Simple economics but complicated politics?

Events How important is Iran for China and India’s energy security? What role will the Belt and Road Initiative play? What are the immediate ramifications and what might we expect 5-10 years from now?

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Out of Touch? The Elite-Citizen Gap and the Future of Global Cooperation

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Out of Touch? The Elite-Citizen Gap and the Future of Global Cooperation

Events How big is the elite-citizen divide around globalism and anti-globalism? How does this gap vary between countries, between social sectors, and between issue-areas? What generates this elite-citizen split? What can be the consequences for global cooperation around, say, climate change, migration, and the SDGs? What might be done to address the gap? 

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Towards a New International Order?

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Towards a New International Order?

Events The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) invites you to a discussion on the Belt and Road Initiative – China’s global vision for trade, infrastructure and political cooperation – and its relation to international order.

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Russia's Energy Policy

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Russia's Energy Policy

Events What is the current direction of Russia’s energy policy? What are the prospects for Nord Steam II and Russia’s energy relations with Europe? Katja Yafimava and Kaj Hobér held a discussion on Russia's Energy Policy.

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Continental Vision: Russia's Interests

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Continental Vision: Russia's Interests

Events Since the 19th century, geographers and other specialists have discussed the idea that Europe and Asia are not separate continents but actually joined together geographically to form a single continent of Eurasia. What are Russia’s interests in Eurasia? What influence does Russia possess, how can this be balanced with the other Eurasian powers and what are the limits?

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Digitalisation and Democracy in Asia

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Digitalisation and Democracy in Asia

Events Digitalisation impacts political processes in ambiguous ways across Asia. Digital messenger services enable grassroots mobilisation, but can also cause violence.

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Research seminar: The Rise and Fall of Political Orders

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Research seminar: The Rise and Fall of Political Orders

Events Drawing on political theory, comparative politics, international relations, psychology and classics, Richard Ned Lebow offers insights into why social and political orders form, how they evolve, and why and how they decline.

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Ukraine's Presidential Election

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Ukraine's Presidential Election

Events Orysia Lutsevych and Karina Shyrokykh held a roundtable discussion on Ukraine’s 2019 presidential election. Which candidate is most likely to win the election? What are the consequences? What changes are to be expected of Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy?

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Local elections in Turkey: what lies ahead?

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Local elections in Turkey: what lies ahead?

Events Two days after the Turkish local elections, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies organised a discussion on Turkey’s challenges and opportunities in the near future.

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The EU-Japan Trade Agreement: What are the Implications?

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The EU-Japan Trade Agreement: What are the Implications?

Events The 82nd Stockholm Seminar on Japan

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Russia in the Middle East

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Russia in the Middle East

Events On Moscow’s regional role through Soviet times to the present day. Which key interests are driving Kremlin’s engagement with the region and how can we expect Russia’s role in the Middle East to develop in the future?

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Climatic and Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear War

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Climatic and Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear War

Events What climatic and humanitarian effects could the use of nuclear weapons have, and are these arguments strong enough to pressure the nine nuclear states to never actually use these weapons?

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Connecting Europe and Asia-Pacific

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Connecting Europe and Asia-Pacific

Events The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is a forum for dialogue and cooperation between Asia and Europe on the big challenges of a fast-changing world. ASEM leaders have decided to designate a day in March as the “ASEM Day”

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Innovation Systems in Japan: Past Strengths and Current Problems

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Innovation Systems in Japan: Past Strengths and Current Problems

Events The 81st Stockholm Seminar on Japan

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The Future of China–Russia–India Trilateral Relations

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The Future of China–Russia–India Trilateral Relations

Events Will India be reluctant to step up commitments to the trilateral, if the Russia-China link grows stronger? How will China and India manage their intra-regional competition within the trilateral?

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Russia, Europe and the Crisis of Global Order

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Russia, Europe and the Crisis of Global Order

Events UI arranged a roundtable discussion with Alexey Gromyko on Russia and Europe and what to expect of their relations in a new emerging global order.

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Myanmar in Transition: China and the Conflict in Kachin State

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Myanmar in Transition: China and the Conflict in Kachin State

Events How does regional power dynamics affect the democratic transition in Myanmar? Where are China-Myanmar relations heading?

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Prospects for Peace in Yemen

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Prospects for Peace in Yemen

Events The civil war in Yemen has been going on since 2014. This seminar takes an overall look at the situation in the country and provides an in-depth view of what is happening inside Yemen and the Yemeni society and to what extend when and how peace can be made possible.

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Europe-China Relations – The Role of Political Values

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Europe-China Relations – The Role of Political Values

Events China’s attempts to gain influence across Europe have sparked reactions on the continent. A new report from the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC) analyses the role that political values play in Europe-China relations today.

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Who leads the EU?

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Who leads the EU?

Events What are the prospects for further European integration? How to address concerns of legitimacy and democracy in the EU? What is the status of common values inside the Union and how does that affect the EU’s global role?

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Ukraine's spiritual split from Russia

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Ukraine's spiritual split from Russia

Events Cyril Hovorun, Karina Shyrokykh, Per-Arne Bodin and Martin Kragh held a roundtable discussion on how the relationship between Ukraine and Russia will develop after Ukraine's spiritual slit from Russia.

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