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 The 85th Stockholm Seminar on Japan

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

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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 Ignited by an extradition bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China, protests have been carried out in Hong Kong since this summer, rallying hundreds of thousands of people. Although the bill has been withdrawn, the protests have continued until this day. What do the protesters aim for, and what are the underlying reasons for the demonstrations?A lecture by Tim Rühlig, Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI).The seminar was moderated by Ylva Pettersson, Programme manager at UI. This seminar is part of the seminar series ”Behind the headlines” that we arrange together with the National Museums of World Culture, aiming at a deeper understanding of current events.  

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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 Following Turkey’s incursion into northeastern Syria, the de facto autonomous region controlled by the Kurdish-led SDF seems to have come to an end. Turkey, wanting to establish a safe zone to secure Turkey’s border with Syria and resettle a substantial share of the 3,6 million Syrian refugees it is hosting, is currently patrolling the border areas along with Russian military police.The incursion, formally called ‘Operation Peace Spring’, seem to have strengthened the position of president Erdoğan domestically in Turkey, while internationally it has been condemned.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’?Speakers: Selim Koru, analyst at the Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey (TEPAV) and a writing fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). His work focuses on political ideas, the Turkish right and Turkish foreign policy. Cengiz Çandar, Author and Associate Fellow at Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. The seminar was moderated by Paul T. Levin, Director of the Stockholm Institute for Turkish Studies. This seminar was a cooperation between the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies.

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Continental Vision: Eurasia according to China

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Continental Vision: Eurasia according to China

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. How is the idea of Eurasia viewed in China? Does the Belt and Road Initiative increase Chinese influence on the continent, and how does it affect the interests of the other Eurasian powers? Speakers:Nadège Rolland, Senior Fellow, Political and Security Affairs, The National Bureau of Asian ResearchZhiguang Yin, Senior Lecturer, College of Humanities, University of Exeter Commentator: Björn Jerdén, Head of UI's Asia ProgrammeModerator: Mark Bassin, Professor of History of Ideas at Södertörn University and Associated Research Fellow at UI. The Eurasia Seminar Series is jointly organized by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Södertörn University. It features seminars on Russian, Chinese and Turkish perspectives on Eurasia.  

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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 The 84th Stockholm Seminar on Japan.

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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.

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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. Whether by design or accident some of 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 Welcome to a discussion 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 To what extent can Iran’s relationship help it alleviate the pressure from the Trump administration on its economy? Will Beijing and New Delhi see Iran’s predicament as an exception or the first casualty in a world where the US has weaponised its position in the global economic system?

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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 Elites and citizens seem far apart on global governance today. Think of Brexit, Trump, and the rise of populism. On the one hand, societal leaders tend to embrace international institutions such as the European Union and the Group of Seven. On the other hand, much of the general public apparently turns against ‘globalization’. 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?  This event discussed detailed research findings on these questions from the Legitimacy in Global Governance (LegGov) programme at the Universities of Stockholm, Lund and Gothenburg. The results are based on thousands of interviews undertaken over the past two years in Brazil, Germany, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, and the USA. Panelists:Jonas Tallberg, Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University Karin Bäckstrand, Professor in Environmental Social Science at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs Soetkin Verhaegen, Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University Commentators:Anna Sundström, Secretary General, Olof Palme International Center Mia Crawford, Deputy Director and Coordinator 2030 Agenda, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs   Moderator:Jan Aart Scholte, Professor of Peace and Development, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg

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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?

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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, with the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House, and UI's Karina Shyrokykh held a roundtable discussion on Ukraine’s 2019 presidential election. Which candidate is most likely to win the election? What consequences will follow? 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 Russia is no newcomer to the Middle East but the influence of Moscow in the region is growing. As Russia's appetite for influence rises, so do the risks.

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Climatic and Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear War

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Climatic and Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear War

Events A nuclear war between any two nations using much less than 1% of the global nuclear arsenal could produce fires that would loft so much smoke into the upper atmosphere that the resulting climate change would be unprecedented in recorded human history. This could threaten millions of people living in extreme poverty to starvation. The largest nuclear nations are still the United States and Russia. Even the reduced arsenals that remain in 2019 due to the New START Treaty threaten the world with nuclear winter. With temperatures plunging below freezing, crops would die and massive starvation could kill most of humanity.What other 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?Speaker:Alan Robock, Distinguished Professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. His areas of expertise include geoengineering, climatic effects of nuclear war, and the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate.The seminar was arranged together with the Swedish Pugwash group, and moderated by Christer Ahlström, Director at UI.

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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”. In order to highlight this, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the European Commission representation in Sweden invite you to a seminar to discuss how Europe can promote its connectivity and partnership with Asia-Pacific. Moderator: Cecilia Ruthström-Ruin, Head of Department for Asia and the Pacific, Ministry for Foreign Affairs Programme:14:00-14:05 Welcoming remarks by Cecilia Ruthström-Ruin14:05-14:20 Teppo Tauriainen, Director General for Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs14:20-15:20 Panel discussion:Perspectives from Asia and the PacificAmbassador Shigeyuki Hiroki, Embassy of JapanAmbassador Nur Ashikin Binti Mohd Taib, Embassy of MalaysiaAmbassador Jonathan Charles William Kenna, Embassy of AustraliaPerspectives from EuropeMia Åsenius, Head of Cabinet to Commissioner Cecilia MalmströmHenrik Chetan Aspengren, Research Fellow, UIFredrik Uddenfeldt, Head of Government Affairs, Asia Pacific Region, The Swedish Trade and Investment Council15.20-15.30 Summary and wrap-up  

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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 Relations between Russia, India and China have seen several turns of tides over the last decades. Recently there have been attempts to revive trilateral forms of cooperation outside of the traditional BRICS-format. At the same time the relationship is being tested by strengthened Russia-China ties and India’s deepened cooperation with the U.S.

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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 Myanmar has witnessed numerous uprisings since independence from the British in 1947. Discontent has been shaped by a variety of local and regional dynamics. The conflict in Kachin State is illustrative of this. Government infrastructure projects backed by Chinese investments have mobilised ethno-nationalist groups as well as civil society networks. How does regional power dynamics affect the democratic transition in Myanmar? Where are China-Myanmar relations heading?Speakers:Jenny Hedström, Umeå UniversityKristina Simion, The Australia National University and the Folke Bernadotte Academy Moderator: Henrik Chetan Aspengren, UI    

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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 ongoing since 2014 and the war has led to a severe humanitarian crisis. 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. Does Europe stand up for its core values when it deals with China? How does China seek to influence Europe on core issues such as human rights? Will China’s attempts to influence Sweden be successful?This seminar will present and discuss the findings of the report. A special emphasis will be given to the policy of Sweden. Welcoming remarks:Christer Ahlström, Director, UI Panel:Tim Rühlig, Analyst, UIViking Bohman, Analyst, UINicola Nymalm, Research Fellow, UI Moderator: Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Research Fellow, UI

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Who leads the EU?

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Who leads the EU?

Events What is the status of leadership in the EU today? What role is Germany and the German-French axis playing? And is there room for Europe to take on leadership at the global level in times when US leadership is scaled down?

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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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