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The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (Utrikespolitiska institutet - UI) is an independent institute and a platform for research and information on international relations and foreign policy.
The Institute's mission is to inform and enrich the public debate by promoting interest in and knowledge of international relations and foreign policy. This mission is pursued through our research, seminars, Utrikesmagasinet (UI's online forum for analysis and opinion) and by presence in the media.
Podcasts are in Swedish and English.
What is the role of technology in the future of democracy? In this episode of UI seminars, we had a discussion on tech, geopolitics and democracy with Kent Walker, President of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer at Google and Alphabet.
Speakers: Kent Walker, Google and Alphabet Jenny Elfsberg, Vinnova Sylvia Schwaag Serger, Lund University Björn Fägersten, UI
Moderator: Jakob Hallgren, UI
This seminar was held at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on 7 June 2022.
Read more and watch the seminar here: https://www.ui.se/events/technology-and-geopolitics---whats-in-it-for-democracies_128057
How have the latest international crises affected the way we view and study borders? In this episode of UI seminars, we discussed the role of borders in international relations.
Speakers: Johanna Pettersson, Uppsala University and UI Matthew Longo, Leiden University Hugo von Essen, SCEEUS
Moderator: Sofie Berglund, UI
This seminar was held at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on 23 May 2022.
Read more and watch the seminar here: https://www.ui.se/english/events/previous/2022/may/borders-and-international-crises/
Klimatkris, Rysslands krig i Ukraina och efterdyningarna efter pandemin – världen hanterar för närvarande flera allvarliga kriser. Hur behåller man samtidigt fokus på hållbar utveckling? I det här avsnittet av UI seminars pratar vi om miljötoppmötet Stockholm+50 och hållbar utveckling i kristider.
Medverkande: Johanna Lissinger Peitz, ambassadör för Stockholm+50, Regeringskansliet Björn-Ola Linnér, Linköpings universitet Åsa Persson, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Hanna Leonardsson, Linnéuniversitetet och Utrikespolitiska institutet (UI)
Moderator: Gunilla Reischl, UI
Det här seminariet ägde rum den 28 april 2022 vid Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Läs mer och se seminariet här: https://www.ui.se/evenemang/stockholm50-hallbar-utveckling-i-kristider_127127
Hur ska man förstå och handskas med Ryssland? Hur ser framtidens Ryssland ut? I det här avsnittet av UI seminars, bjöd vi in samtliga sex nu levande tidigare svenska Moskva-ambassadörer för att reflektera över Ryssland utifrån sina erfarenheter som sändebud i Moskva.
Medverkande: Örjan Berner, Sveriges ambassadör i Moskva 1989–1994 Sven Hirdman, Sveriges ambassadör i Moskva 1994–2004 Johan Molander, Sveriges ambassadör i Moskva 2004–2008 Tomas Bertelman, Sveriges ambassadör i Moskva 2008–2012 Veronika Bard, Sveriges ambassadör i Moskva 2012–2015 Peter Ericson, Sveriges ambassadör i Moskva 2015–2019
Moderator: Fredrik Löjdquist, chef vid Centrum för Östeuropastudier (SCEEUS)
Det här seminariet genomfördes i samarbete med Kulturhuset och ägde rum den 9 maj 2022.
Läs mer om seminariet här: https://www.ui.se/evenemang/lardomar-fran-moskva_127482
I det här avsnittet av UI seminars, samlade vi en panel för att diskutera Kinas och Östeuropas roll för Sveriges långsiktiga konkurrenskraft och säkerhet.
Medverkande: Jonas Berggren, internationell analyschef, Svenskt Näringsliv Malek Khan, avdelningschef, Försvarsanalys, Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut (FOI) Sylvia Schwaag Serger, professor vid Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen, Lunds universitet
Moderator: Martin Kragh, biträdande centrumchef, SCEEUS
Den här paneldiskussionen ägde rum den 27 april 2022 under invigningen av UI:s två nya kunskapscentrum: Centrum för Östeuropastudier och Nationellt Kunskapscentrum om Kina.
Läs mer om invigningen av SCEEUS och NKK här: https://www.ui.se/evenemang/lanseringsevenemangfor-sceeus-och-nkk_127207
I det här avsnittet av UI seminars, samlade vi en panel för att diskutera Rysslands invasion av Ukraina och konsekvenserna för Sveriges relationer med Östeuropa och Kina.
Medverkande: Kenneth G Forslund, ordförande för Utrikesutskottet, Socialdemokraterna Kerstin Lundgren, riksdagsledamot och utrikespolitisk talesperson, Centerpartiet Karin Olsson, kulturchef på Expressen
Moderator: Annika Ström Melin, ledamot i UI:s styrelse
Den här paneldiskussionen ägde rum den 27 april 2022 under invigningen av UI:s två nya kunskapscentrum: Centrum för Östeuropastudier och Nationellt Kunskapscentrum om Kina.
Läs mer om invigningen av SCEEUS och NKK här: https://www.ui.se/evenemang/lanseringsevenemangfor-sceeus-och-nkk_127207
I det här avsnittet av UI seminars samlade vi våra omvärldsexperter för att belysa situationen i Ukraina, och se på hur Rysslands invasion av Ukraina bemötts och analyserats ur olika internationella perspektiv.
Medverkande: Niklas Bremberg, seniorforskare vid UI:s Europaprogram Ivan Gusic, associerad forskare vid programmet för global politik och säkerhet vid UI Jakob Hedenskog, analytiker vid Centrum för Östeuropastudier på UI Björn Jerdén, chef för Nationellt kunskapscentrum om Kina på UI Ylva Lindahl, redaktionschef på UI Rouzbeh Parsi, programchef vid Mellanöstern- och Nordafrikaprogrammet på UI Gunilla Reischl, seniorforskare och programchef vid UI:s program för global politik och säkerhet Isabell Schierenbeck, professor i statsvetenskap vid Göteborgs universitet och ledamot i UI:s styrelse
Moderator: Jakob Hallgren, direktör vid UI
Det här seminariet genomfördes i samarbete med Kulturhuset och ägde rum den 6 april 2022.
Läs mer om seminariet här: https://www.ui.se/evenemang/hur-har-omvarlden-reagerat-pa-rysslands-krig-i-ukraina_126411
I det här avsnittet av UI seminars tittar vi på den inrikespolitiska och den kulturpolitiska utvecklingen i Ryssland parallellt med upptakten till krig. Hur har man sett till att kuva oberoende medier och starka aktörer inom civilsamhälle och kulturliv? Hur påverkar den politiska utvecklingen kulturpolitiken och kulturlivet? Och hur har detta påverkat den ryska befolkningen och vad vet de egentligen om läget i sitt eget land i dag?
Medverkande: Stefan Ingvarsson, analytiker vid SCEEUS vid UI Lena Jonson, fd kulturråd i Moskva Morris Wikström, reporter och producent vid Sveriges Radio
Moderator: Anna Hellgren, redaktör och skribent på Expressens kultursida
Det här seminariet genomfördes i samarbete med Kulturhuset och ägde rum den 31 mars 2022.
Läs mer om seminariet här: https://www.ui.se/evenemang/haller-ryssland-pa-att-bli-en-totalitar-diktatur-i-krigets-skugga_126511
Tensions between India and China have increased in past years, leading to clashes between the two Asian giants at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Himalayas. Which factors have been driving recent escalations surrounding the LAC, and what steps have been taken to deescalate? In this episode of UI seminars, we discuss the India-China border conflict and the local and regional implications.
Speakers: Shruti Pandalai, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses Oscar Almén, the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) Lisa Zhang, University of Heidelberg
Moderator: Henrik Chetan Aspengren, UI
This seminar was hed at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on 29 March 2022.
Read more and watch the seminar here: https://www.ui.se/events/the-india-china-border-conflict-local-and-regional-implications_126521
Vad ligger bakom det ryska agerandet? Vilka konsekvenser har Rysslands krig i Ukraina? Hur påverkas Sverige och EU av händelserna? I det här avsnittet av UI seminars diskuterade vi bakgrunden till och konsekvenserna av Rysslands krig mot Ukraina.
Medverkande: Martin Kragh, biträdande chef för Centrum för Östeuropastudier vid UI Carolina Vendil Pallin, Forskningsledare vid Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut (FOI) Kerstin Lundgren, tredje vice talman och ledamot av Riksdagens utrikesutskott. Karin Wallensteen, statssekreterare för utrikesfrågor vid statsrådsberedningen.
Moderator: Fredrik Löjdquist, chef för Centrum för Östeuropastudier vid UI.
Det här seminariet genomfördes i samarbete med Kulturhuset och ägde rum den 24 mars 2022.
Läs mer om seminariet här: https://www.ui.se/events/rysslands-krig-mot-ukraina-bakgrund-och-konsekvenser_126460
What are the historical grounds for Germany’s Ostpolik? What domestic and international factors matter? How is Berlin responding to Moscow’s recent escalation? What are the drivers and constraints and who are the exponents and opponents of a (further) policy shift? In this episode of UI seminars, we discuss Germany’s policies towards Russia and Eastern Europe.
Speakers: John Lough, Chatham House Sabine Fischer, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) Angela Stent, Georgetown University & Brookings Institution
Moderator: John Zachau, SCEEUS at UI
This seminar was held at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on 9 March 2022.
Read more and watch the seminar here: https://www.ui.se/events/germanys-policies-towards-russia-and-eastern-europe-continuity-or-change_125722
Den 24 februari inledde Ryssland en fullskalig invasion av Ukraina. Omvärlden reagerade med chock. Vad händer i Ukraina och hur har resten av världen reagerat? I det här avsnittet av UI seminars samlade vi vår expertis för att belysa situationen i Ukraina och se på de internationella reaktionerna av invasionen.
Medverkande: Viking Bohman, analytiker vid Nationellt kunskapscentrum om Kina på UI Görrel Espelund, associerad redaktör till UI Björn Fägersten, seniorforskare och chef för UI:s Europaprogram Jan Hallenberg, forskningsledare på UI Paul Levin, föreståndare för Institutet för Turkietstudier vid Stockholms universitet och associerad forskare vid UI:s Mellanöstern- och Nordafrikaprogram Fredrik Löjdquist, chef över Centrum för Östeuropastudier på UI Åsa Malmström Rognes, chef för UI:s Asienprogram
Moderator: Jakob Hallgren, direktör på UI
Det här seminariet ägde rum den 18 mars 2022 vid Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Läs mer och se seminariet här: https://www.ui.se/evenemang/kriget-i-ukraina-omvarldens-reaktioner_126308
Several countries in the Middle East and North Africa region are currently imposing new restrictions in response to the recent Covid-19 variant Omicron. Since the outbreak in 2020, it has become evident that there are major differences in how states have managed the pandemic. In this episode of UI seminars, we discuss the ramifications of Covid-19 on public health. What are the long-term effects of the pandemic on public health, and how well prepared are these states for future public health challenges?
Speakers: Intissar Fakir, Middle East Institute Hanan F. Abdul Rahim, Qatar university Vira Ameli, University of Oxford
Moderator: Rouzbeh Parsi, UI
This seminar was held at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on 16 December 2021.
Read more and watch the seminar here: https://www.ui.se/english/events/the-ramifications-of-covid-19-on-public-health
Thirty years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, the vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace is “unfinished business”, not least since several countries in Eastern Europe are still struggling with protracted conflicts. In this episode of UI seminars, we discuss the protracted conflicts in Eastern Europe and their policy implications. Which significance and what consequences has the protracted conflicts for European Security and the OSCE?
Speakers: Andreas Umland, SCEEUS John Zachau, SCEEUS Marek Menkiszak, OSW Anna Maria Dyner, PISM
Moderator: Fredrik Löjdquist, SCEEUS
This seminar was held at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on 13 December 2021.
Read more and watch the seminar here: https://www.ui.se/english/events/security-and-human-rights-in-eastern-europe
In recent weeks, images of migrants stranded at the Belarus-Poland border have gone viral. Among them are thousands of Kurds primarily youth from the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In this episode of UI seminars, we discuss the social, economic and political challenges and opportunities for young Kurdish men and women. What are the grievances of the youth that pushes them to make such a dangerous journey?
Speakers: Shivan Fazil, SIPRI Bahar Baser, Durham University Lana Askari, University of Amsterdam Megan Connell, American University of Iraq – Sulaimani
Moderator: Aras Lindh, UI
This seminar was held at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on 2 December 2021.
Read more and watch the seminar here: https://www.ui.se/english/events/youth-identity-politics-and-change-in-contemporary-kurdistan
Vad är det som händer med pressfriheten i världen? Vilka hot möter journalister och medier globalt? Och hur ser situationen ut när vi gör nedslag i Ryssland och Asien? I det här avsnittet av UI seminars diskuterar vi press- och yttrandefrihetens ställning i världen.
Medverkande: Erik Halkjaer, Reportrar utan gränser och Sveriges natur Margita Boström, Sveriges Radio Stefan Ingvarsson, Östeuropacentrum på UI
Moderator: Åsa Malmström Rognes, UI
Det här seminariet ägde rum den 9 december 2021 vid Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Läs mer och se seminariet här: https://www.ui.se/evenemang/vad-hander-med-pressfriheten
During the last decade Europe has experienced a financial and a migration crisis, as well as a pandemic, all of these showing the importance of European solidarity. In this episode of UI seminars, we discuss the various aspects of European solidarity. What should and can it mean?
Speakers: Michael Kaeding, University of Duisburg-Essen Katarina Areskoug Mascarenhas, Kreab Niklas Bremberg, UI
Moderator: Gunilla Herolf, UI
This seminar was held at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on 28 October 2021.
Read more and watch the seminar here: https://www.ui.se/english/events/european-solidarity--what-should-and-can-it-mean
Hör Ashi Al-Kahwati, analytiker på Utrikespolitiska institutet, berätta om vad övergångsrättvisa är och hur man arbetar med det i krigets Syrien.
Efter föreläsningen kan du besvara dessa frågor: - Vad innebär begreppet övergångsrättvisa/transitional justice? - Vilka olika mekanismer av övergångsrättvisa används i Syrien? - Vilka är konsekvenserna för Syrien och för andra konflikter?
Det här är en föreläsning från Gymnasiedagarna som UI arrangerar i samarbete med Sveriges biståndsmyndighet Sida. Mer information om Gymnasiedagarna och fler föreläsningar finns på ui.se: www.ui.se/skola/gymnasiedagar/
Lyssnat? Fyll i vår utvärderingsenkät och hjälp oss planera kommande gymnasiedagar: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S7N3K62
Hear Yasmin Chilmeran, research fellow at UI, describe what role women play, and have played in the peace building process of Iraq, how we can best understand or see women’s contributions, and what role women play in the shaping of the Iraqi political agenda today.
After listening to the lecture you will be able to answer the following questions: - What roles are there in peacebuilding? - What has changed in the ways that women engage in the peacebuilding process in Iraq since the Arab spring? - What can the international community do?
Det här är en föreläsning från Gymnasiedagarna som UI arrangerar i samarbete med Sveriges biståndsmyndighet Sida. Mer information om Gymnasiedagarna och fler föreläsningar finns på ui.se: www.ui.se/skola/gymnasiedagar/
Lyssnat? Fyll i vår utvärderingsenkät och hjälp oss planera kommande gymnasiedagar: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S7N3K62
Hör Anita Omerbasic berätta om de ukrainska civila krigsveteranernas erfarenheter från kriget som bröt ut 2014, och då de skulle återintegreras i ett civilt liv igen. Hon berättar om varför kriget bröt ut, varför civila gick ut i kriget, deras erfarenheter av och utmaningar med att återgå till sitt gamla liv igen.
Efter föreläsningen kan du besvara dessa frågor: - Varför gick civila med i kriget? - Vad betyder begreppet DDR och vad innebär dess olika faser? - Vilka tre stora utmaningar möttes veteranerna av när de återvände hem igen? - Skilde sig de kvinnliga veteranernas erfarenheter av kriget och återanpassningen från de manliga veteranernas?
Det här är en föreläsning från Gymnasiedagarna som UI arrangerar i samarbete med Sveriges biståndsmyndighet Sida. Mer information om Gymnasiedagarna och fler föreläsningar finns på ui.se: https://www.ui.se/skola/gymnasiedagar/
Lyssnat? Fyll i vår utvärderingsenkät och hjälp oss planera kommande gymnasiedagar: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/S7N3K62
South Asia is suffering from drought, floods and polluted water bodies. Rivers have dried out and cyclones are coming more and more often. Thousands, if not millions of people, will see their homes disappear with rising water levels in the coming decades. What’s the way forward?
We’ve talked to Henrik Chetan Aspengren, acting head for the Asia program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Phu Doma Lama researcher at the Division of Risk Management and Society Safety at Lund University and affiliated to SASNET – Swedish South Asian Studies Network, and Aditi Mukherji from the International Water Management Institute in New Delhi.
Read more about SAI: https://www.ui.se/english/research/asia/the-south-asia-initiative/
Producer: Julia Wiræus
India is one of the most populous countries in the world with a growing need for energy. More and more people are moving to big cities, earning more money and wanting to live comfortable lives. At the same time India has a historic opportunity to shift its fossil fuel economy and industrialize through – solar and wind energy.
South Asia Initiative’s special Climate Lens South Asia is discussing the clean energy boom with Ajay Mathur, director general for Teri, The Energy and resource Institute, Kanika Chawla director for Energy Finance at Council on Energy, Environment and Water and Axel Nordenstam, analyst at the Asia program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
Read more about SAI: https://www.ui.se/english/research/asia/the-south-asia-initiative/
Producer: Julia Wiræus
Varför engagerar sig unga i klimatfrågan? Hur mycket inflytande har de i politiken? Och kan staters otillräckliga ansträngningar för att bromsa klimatförändringarna tolkas som en kränkning mot rätten till liv?
Sofie Berglund intervjuar Hanna Waerland-Fager, Sveriges ungdomsrepresentant i EU, och UI:s Isabella Parling om kopplingen mellan unga, klimat och säkerhet ur ett politiskt och folkrättsligt perspektiv.
Mer om klimat från Utrikespolitiska institutet hittar du här: https://www.ui.se/forskning/global-politik-och-sakerhet/klimataret-2020/
Many of the world’s most polluted cities are in South Asia. These countries have been trying to battle pollution for years, but yet failed to permanently improve the air quality.
South Asia Initiative’s special “Climate Lens South Asia” talked to Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director at Centre for Science in New Delhi, associate professor Petter Ljungman from Karolinska Institutet and Hanna Geschewski from SASNET, Swedish South Asian Studies Network, about the way forward.
Read more about SAI: https://www.ui.se/english/research/asia/the-south-asia-initiative/
Producer Julia Wiræus
On August 9th, Belarus held presidential elections clearly marked by electoral fraud. Since then, mass protests have gripped Belarus. Numerous allegations of police brutality against the protesters have been recorded, over 10 000 people have been detained and five deaths have been confirmed.
Were the persistent protests anticipated before the election? Is a new Belarusian identity being formed? What actions are to be expected from the EU and Russia?
Martin Kragh, head of UI’s Russia and Eurasia Programme, held a discussion with Alesia Rudnik, Phd Candidate at Karlstad University and affiliated at the Center for New Ideas, and Katarina Engberg, Senior Associate Fellow at UI, to achieve a greater understanding on the developments in Belarus.
Read more: Will Belarus become Ukraine? Analysis by UI research fellow Andreas Umland for Utrikesmagasinet: https://www.ui.se/utrikesmagasinet/in-english/2020/september/will-belarus-become-ukraine/
Learn about the current developments and history of Belarus in Landguiden (in Swedish): https://www.ui.se/landguiden/lander-och-omraden/europa/belarus-vitryssland/
Hur hänger klimat ihop med internationell säkerhet? Hur kan klimatrelaterade säkerhetsrisker motverkas? Och hur ser det internationella arbetet med detta ut idag?
UI-forskaren Niklas Bremberg och Malin Mobjörk från Stockholms Internationella Fredsforskningsinstitut (SIPRI) reder ut vad forskningen säger.
Fördjupning från Niklas Bremberg och Malin Mobjörk finns i det senaste numret av UI:s tidskrift Världspolitikens Dagsfrågor: Säkerhet i klimatkrisens spår: https://www.ui.se/butiken/varldspolitikens-dagsfragor/2020/sakerhet-i-klimatkrisens-spar/
På vår webbplats har vi samlat material som rör klimat, energi och säkerhet under rubriken Temasida: Klimatåret 2020: https://www.ui.se/forskning/global-politik-och-sakerhet/klimataret-2020/ Vi ses där!
Varför är 2020 ett så centralt år för internationellt klimatarbete och hur påverkas det av coronapandemin? Hur mycket går att göra digitalt och vad händer när USA lämnar Parisavtalet?
Sofie Berglund intervjuar forskarna Gunilla Reischl och Elin Jakobsson om pandemins effekter på klimatåret 2020.
Läs också artikeln på samma tema i Utrikesmagasinet: https://www.ui.se/utrikesmagasinet/analyser/2020/juni/coronakrisensatter-kappar-i-hjulet-for-klimatarbetet/
What is the concept of Soft Power? How have Japan, South Korea and China utilized it? And what role does soft power play in Sweden - China relations?
A discussion between Oscar Shao, intern with UI’s Asia Programme, and Ylva Pettersson.
What are the main concerns in Kyiv regarding the relations between Ukraine and the West? Has the Zelensky government altered the foreign policy agenda of Ukraine? What will be the short and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for Ukraine?
Speakers: Pavlo Klimkin was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in 2014–2019, and is Director of the Program on European, Regional and Russian Studies at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv.
Andreas Umland is editor of the book series Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society published by ibidem Press in Stuttgart, and Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Institute of International Relations in Prague
Martin Kragh is the Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at UI.
What are the basic foundations and key developments of the Iranian economy? Why is it that the Iranian economy is structured in such a complex manner? Does Iran have the economic capacity in order to survive the current economic crisis and pandemic?
Listen to an interview with Bijan Khajehpour, economist and managing partner at Eurasian Nexus Partners and author of the UI Paper “Anatomy of the Iranian Economy”, where he discusses the Iranian economy and its complexity. The interview is conducted by Rouzbeh Parsi and Wilhemina Hindström.
Khajehpour, B. (2020) Anatomy of the Iranian Economy. UI Paper no. 6, May 2020 https://www.ui.se/butiken/uis-publikationer/ui-paper/2020/anatomy-of-the-iranian-economy/
Kan diplomatiska förhandlingar digitaliseras? Vilka är för och nackdelarna med det? Vilken betydelse har sociala medier haft i coronatiderna? Är pandemin det ultimata testet av digitaliseringen?
Elsa Hedling, forskare vid Lunds Universitet och associerad forskare till Utrikespolitiska institutet, reder ut dessa frågor.
How is Turkey managing Covid-19? What are the political and economic consequences of the pandemic? And how is Turkey’s foreign policy affected by the situation?
An interview with Cengiz Çandar, Senior Associate Fellow with the MENA Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
In this episode of the UI podcast we discuss the rising insecurities in the Middle East and North Africa region, with a special focus on Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria, and Egypt. What are the dynamics and cleavages and how are states responding? Participants: Lucia Ardovini, Research Fellow at UI’s Middle East and North Africa Programme Dalia Ghanem, Resident Scholar, Carnegie Middle East Center Dylan O’Driscoll, Researcher in the Governance and Society Programme at SIPRI
The seminar Rising Insecurities in the Middle East and North Africa: https://soundcloud.com/user-312634401/rising-insecurities-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa
Hur påverkas sexuella och reproduktiva rättigheter i dessa tider? Hur hänger det här ihop med jämställdhet och minoriteters levnadsvillkor? Och hur samverkar det med den demokratiska utvecklingen i världen? Om det berättar Emil Edenborg, forskare på UI:s program för global politik och säkerhet.
Kommer flyktingströmmar öka framöver på grund av klimatförändringar? Vad händer i frågan på internationell nivå och vilka politiska utmaningar medför klimatdriven migration? Det och mycket annat svarar forskaren Elin Jakobsson på i detta avsnitt av the UI Podcast.
År 2020 är ett avgörande år ur en klimatsynpunkt. I flera klimatavtal är 2020 centralt för att vända utsläppskurvan och slutföra regelramen för att kunna uppfylla Parisavtalet. Misslyckas minskningen av de globala utsläppen av växthusgaser står vi inför en rad utmaningar, både lokalt och globalt. I den här podcastserien ser vi närmare på aktuella frågor inom klimat, energi och säkerhet.
Hur mår egentligen Indiens demokrati, och vad innebär de hindunationalistiska strömningarna i den indiska politiken? Det är några av de frågor som Henriette Tjäder, associerad medarbetare vid UI reder ut i denna podd. Vill du veta mer? Läs också skriften Indien: Hindunationalism på frammarsch, Världspolitikens Dagsfrågor nr 4 2020 Indien: Hindunationalism på frammarsch https://bit.ly/2KxBYdk skriven av Henriette Tjäder.
Anna Michalski, associerad forskare vid UI och docent vid Uppsala universitet redogör för hur coronakrisen har hanterats i Hongkong. Hon talar också om hur EU och Kinas relation påverkats i coronatider, och EU:s roll i propagandakampen mellan USA och Kina.
Hur har indisk politik påverkats av Coronakrisen, vad sägs i den inrikespolitiska debatten, och vad ser vi för trender vad gäller Indiens internationella roll och ambitioner? Det är några av frågorna som UI:s analytiker Axel Nordenstam reder ut i den här podden.
Kommer Donald Trumps ställning som president att påverkas av coronakrisen, kommer krisen att inverka på presidentvalet i höst, och hur påverkar USA:s hantering av corona resten av världen? Det är några av de frågor som Jan Hallenberg, forskningsledare på UI, tar sig an i denna podd.
En podd om de internationella trender vi redan nu ser i coronavirusets spår, och vad det gäller det europeiska samarbetet. Hur ser medborgarnas förväntningar på unionen ut, vad händer med solidariteten inom unionen, och vilka effekter får det på lång sikt? Kommer länders hantering av coronaviruset även att spela roll i den allmänna regimkonkurrensen - mellan liberala demokratier och autoritära statskapitalistiska system, och kommer spelet även äga rum på hälsoområdet i framtiden? Det är frågor vi diskuterar tillsammans med Björn Fägersten, programchef och forskare på Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Mark Rhinard explains the role and division of labour between the different EU institutions when it comes to handling health crises. Where does the EU’s added value lie, what do citizens expect the EU to do, and what lessons have been drawn from earlier crises?
Podden berör MENA-regionens ekonomiska och medicinska förutsättningar att hantera coronaviruset. Staternas repressiva verktyg, som säkerhetstjänst och militär, kommer allt mer till användning i coronakrisen. Ibland handlar det om utökade befogenheter och frågan är om de kommer att dras tillbaka när krisen är över eller permanentas. Uppstår det former av medicinsk diplomati, dvs förstärkande av relationer genom att länder hjälper varandra med sjukvårdsutrustning och personal? Och vem hjälper vem? Det är frågor vi diskuterar tillsammans med Rouzbeh Parsi, programchef och forskare på Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Vad har polarisering och populism att göra med coronaviruset? Vad händer med klimatfrågan, finns det plats för flera sakfrågor på den politiska agendan? Vilka globala trender kan man se vad gäller påverkan på den globala säkerheten? Det är frågor vi diskuterar tillsammans med Gunilla Reischl, programchef och forskare på Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Russia is illegally occupying Crimea since 2014 and continues to perpetrate human rights violations. UI was honored to host Oleg Sentsov, Andreas Umland and Karina Shyrokykh for a discussion on possible future solution scenarios for Crimea.
To prevent the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19)this seminar took place without an audience. It was recorded and published afterwards as UI Podcast.
The human rights situation in Crimea has deteriorated since 2014, with the banning of Mejlis, the self-governing body of Crimean Tatars, and curbs on the freedom of press and assembly. Other human rights violations, such as arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances, have been documented by human rights organizations. While the conflict seems far from an end, how can the human rights situation in Crimea be protected? What are the possible future scenarios for Crimea, and is a peaceful return of Crimea to Ukraine possible?
Speakers: Oleg Sentsov, filmmaker and writer Andreas Umland, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Karina Shyrokykh, Postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University and Associate Fellow at UI
The seminar was moderated by Martin Kragh, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at UI
The seminar was arranged in cooperation with Nordic Ukraine Forum and CBEES, Södertörn University.
Hur kommer Sverige att agera för att möta de globala utmaningarna som vi står inför, och vilka områden kommer att vara särskilt prioriterade för att svensk utrikespolitik ska bidra till att i samarbete med andra stärka tryggheten och säkerheten i vårt närområde och globalt?
Utrikespolitiska institutet välkomnade utrikesminister Ann Linde, som höll ett föredrag om Sveriges utrikespolitiska prioriteringar.
Efter talet svarade utrikesministern på publikens frågor.
Talare: Ann Linde, utrikesminister
Samtalet modererades av Christer Ahlström, direktör vid Utrikespolitiska institutet.
What does the recent wave of protests across the MENA reveal about the status of state-society relations in the region? Are there communalities between the recent waves of uprisings? How are states and established regimes reacting to rising domestic insecurities?
The recent wave of popular protests that has spread through the region during 2019 has threatened to upset the status quo and established regimes once again. At the very least, they show that the spark ignited by the 2011 Arab Uprisings is far from having been extinguished. Almost nine years later, protests in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and Algeria reveal that socio-political relations are under contestation once again, with people in the MENA calling for the fall of regimes and deep structural change. In this seminar we bring together experts on a variety of countries with the aim of making sense of the grievances behind the recent protests and investigate what this means for authoritarian regimes and the geopolitics of the region as a whole.
Speakers: Dalia Ghanem, Resident Scholar, Carnegie Middle East Center. Dylan O’Driscoll, Researcher in the Governance and Society Programme at SIPRI.
The seminar was moderated by Lucia Ardovini, Research Fellow at UI’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
The discussion: Uprisings, protests and state-society relations in the MENA-region https://soundcloud.com/user-312634401/uprisings-protests-and-state-society-relations-in-the-mena-region
Given China’s growing energy needs, to what extent could Beijing increase its political and military engagement in the Persian Gulf? How would a bigger Chinese footprint affect the region’s relations to the EU, Russia and the United States?
The latest tit for tat between Iran and the Unites States has highlighted just how close the world is to an even higher level of military confrontation in the Persian Gulf. The United States itself is no longer reliant on oil from the region – but many other actors are, including several Asian countries like India, Japan, South Korea, and, in particular, China.
With a focus on China, this seminar explored the geopolitical, energy-related and economic ties between the main Asian powers and the Persian Gulf region.
Speakers:
Jonna Nyman, Associate Research Fellow, UI, and Leverhulme Research Fellow in Politics at University of Sheffield.
Bijan Khajehpour, Economist and managing partner at Eurasian Nexus Partners, a Vienna-based international strategic consulting firm.
Bingbing Wu, Associate Professor and Deputy Director of Department of Arabic Language and Culture, Peking University.
The seminar was moderated by Rouzbeh Parsi, Head of UI's Middle East and North Africa Programme.
In this interview, Professor Serrano talks about what a historical lens can add to our understanding of today’s Colombia. The transition from rural to an urban society, the violence linked to the transition and the lack of coherence in the formation of the state sheds light on how we understand the civil war, peace agreement implementation, as well as the anti-government demonstrations that sparked in November 2019.
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.
Atrocities are frequently committed during armed conflicts or under authoritarian rule across the globe, often without legal consequences for those responsible. The possibility of achieving accountability varies depending on the context in which the crimes have been committed, and on the global political will.
Several advancements have recently been made to bring those responsible for grave international crimes to justice in domestic courts across Europe using universal jurisdiction. In February, Civil Rights Defenders filed a criminal complaint with the Swedish police to bring redress to survivors of torture in Syrian detention facilities.
We invite you to a seminar on achieving accountability for grave international crimes and the challenges attached to such efforts.
Introduction: Dr Johanna Mannergren Selimovic, Senior Research Fellow, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
John Stauffer, Legal Director and Deputy Executive Director, Civil Rights Defenders
Panel: Selma Korjenić, Head of Program-Bosnia and Herzegovina, TRIAL International – an organisation working on advocacy and judicial capacity building for victims of grave international crimes.
Delkhwaz Haciy, Director of Yazda Sweden, an organisation focusing on accountability for the Yazidi genocide committed by ISIS.
Dr Mark Klamberg, Professor in International Law, Stockholm University
Mona Zeineddine, Litigation Coordinator at the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression, an organisation working to combat impunity and enable victims to achieve justice in Syria.
Moderator: Aida Samani, Legal Adviser, Civil Rights Defenders
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.
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 Research
Zhiguang Yin, Senior Lecturer, College of Humanities, University of Exeter
Commentator: Björn Jerdén, Head of UI's Asia Programme
Moderator: 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.
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.
The Eastern Partnership was created in 2009 as a joint initiative involving the EU, its Member States and six East European Partners, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. On the celebration of the tenth anniversary of this initiative, UI was honored to host Armenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Zohrab Mnatsakanyan and Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vadym Prystaiko for a lecture on the progress and prospects of the EaP.
Speakers: Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia. Vadym Prystaiko, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ukraine.
Martin Kragh, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at UI moderated the lecture.
Den 31 oktober kommer Storbritannien att lämna den Europeiska Unionen med eller utan ett avtal lovar premiärminister Boris Johnson. Samtidigt har de senaste veckornas förhandlingar visat på de klyftor som råder såväl mellan EU och britterna som inom Storbritannien. Blir Brexit av, vad händer med Storbritannien och hur går EU vidare?
Talare:
Ylva Nilsson, frilansjournalist, tidigare Brysselkorrespondent för DI samt SvD
Nicholas Aylott, docent och lektor vid Södertörns Högskola
Henrik Isakson, ämnesråd vid enheten för handel och tekniska regler, Kommerskollegium
Björn Fägersten, seniorforskare och programchef för Europaprogrammet, UI
Seminariet modererades av Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare på Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Nyhetsrapporteringen om det brittiska parlamentet, de interna striderna inom Tory-partiet, och premiärminister Boris Johnsons förehavanden har de senaste månaderna varit intensiv. Folkomröstningen 2017, en eventuell förlängning av förhandlingarna, oriktiga summor som presenterades inför folkomröstningen samt en eventuellt ny folkomröstning har också diskuterats flitigt.
Hur påverkas det brittiska samhället, medborgarnas relationer och tillit till varandra och till politikerna av denna fråga? Har samhället blivit mer splittrat? Hur kan det brittiska samhället gå vidare efter detta?
Ett föredrag av James Savage, grundare, VD och utgivare för the Local, en engelskspråkig nyhetsbyrå med lokala nyheter från nio europeiska länder.
Seminariet modererades av Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Bakom rubriken är en samtalsserie vi anordnar tillsammans med Världskulturmuseerna om det som finns bakom rubriken i aktuella händelser vi kan läsa om i tidningen.
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.
More than 80% of the world’s refugees are hosted by developing countries, many of which have been supporting refugees for many years despite scarce resources and limited capacity. How do we provide more robust support to the countries and communities which are welcoming refugees? How can we practically invest in bold, new and sustainable solutions that will support host countries and boost refugee self-reliance? How do we ensure that education and labour market inclusion for refugees become integral parts of the humanitarian response? And what role can Sweden play?
Speaker As United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi heads the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) leading the international response to refugee crises around the world, working with governments to ensure that refugees have access to protection and support, and helping find solutions to displacement and statelessness. He has more than 30 years of experience from UN missions in complex situations.
Commentator Per Olsson Fridh is the Secretary of State to the Minister for Development Cooperation. Previously, he was the Secretary of State to the Minister for Culture and Democracy, Member of Parliament and councillor in the Stockholm City Council for the Green Party. Sweden is currently the third biggest bilateral donor to UNHCR and has contributed with 957 MSEK in core support during 2019, in addition to 236 MSEK to specific crises around the world.
Moderator Christer Ahlström, Director, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
Photo: UNHCR/Caroline Bach
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?
If everyone on the planet consumed as much as the average Swede, 4 Earths would be needed to sustain the consumption. Even if overall carbon emissions within Swedish borders are decreasing, the consumption-based emission have been more or less the same since 2008.
Increased levels of consumption in the West impacts the so-called Global South on multiple levels, since a high share of the production is situated there and raises questions in all three pillars of sustainability – the social, economic and ecologic.
The garment industry stands for a higher share of carbon emissions than the aviation and shipping industries combined. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable nations to the impact of climate change, at the same time as garment exports stands for almost 12 percent of its GDP and is the world's second largest apparel exporter of western fashion brands.
How can we shift to a fair sustainable consumption and production? What challenges are Bangladesh facing in the intersect between growth, development and prosperity, in the light of the Sustainable Development Goals?
Speakers: Sanjida Shamsher Elora, Researcher, Swedwatch Alexander Sjöberg, Senior Policy Advisor Sustainable Consumption, Naturskyddsföreningen (the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation)
Moderator: Stephanie Esk, Programme Manager, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)
In cooperation with the Museum of World Culture.
The seminar was enabled by the financial support of SIDA through Forum Syd.
Millions of mostly young people protest in the streets of Hong Kong and ask for civil liberty rights and democracy. This sounds only all too familiar because the very same happened in 2014.
At the fifth anniversary of what has become famous as the 'Umbrella Movement', Researcher Tim Rühlig and Programme Manager Ylva Pettersson from the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), discuss the similarities and differences of the two movements.
What do the protesters ask for? How much support do they find in the Hong Kong population? Why do we see more violence now compared to 2014? What can the international community do? And how will this all end? Is there a risk of a violent crackdown? Tune in to find out.
Vi ber om ursäkt för den skiftande ljudkvaliteten.
Ryssland är ett land i konstant förändring. Utvecklingen i Ryssland har historiskt alltid påverkat Sverige och övriga Europa. Ryssland är också ett land som kan engagera och polarisera med konsekvenser för den svenska inrikespolitiska debatten. Det finns emellertid inte en bild av Ryssland, utan flera.
Hur kan vi tala om Ryssland? Vad kan vi förvänta oss av situationen i landet idag, från det säkerhetspolitiska läget globalt till Rysslands interna situation med ekonomisk avmattning och en nyvaken proteströrelse? Vad kan vi lära oss av rysk historia, för att bättre förstå det som sker nu?
Medverkande: Anna-Lena Laurén, journalist och Moskvakorrespondent för Dagens Nyheter Kristian Gerner, professor emeritus i historia och författare Stig Fredrikson, journalist och tidigare SVT:s Moskvakorrespondent
Martin Kragh, chef för UIs Rysslands- och Eurasienprogram, modererade samtalet.
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.
Iran is under heavy economic pressure from the Trump administration and is confronting the US militarily in the Persian Gulf. It is also pressuring the European Union on the nuclear deal in order soften the blow of the US sanctions. At the same time Iranian society is moving further and further away from the revolutionary identity and ideals that the state still insists on, which creates tensions in the body politic of the republic.
Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, prince Muhammad bin Salman, has undertaken a radical reshaping of the economy and social mores. Having concentrated power in his own hands he has managed to initiate sweeping changes, but for the same reason the sustainability of those changes are in question. He has also adopted a more confrontational foreign policy to counter what in Riyadh is considered the greatest threat to the kingdom, Iran.
How are the internal changes of these two complex societies effecting their respective foreign policies and their mutual entanglements? What will this mean for the regional geopolitical order? Speakers:
Adnan Tabatabai, Co-Founder and CEO at the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO)
Christopher Davidson, Associate fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, fellow of the European Centre for International Affairs, and a fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy
The seminar was moderated by Rouzbeh Parsi, Head of UI's Middle East and North Africa Programme.
Professor Annica Kronsell focuses her research on environmental social science, governance and gender. She begins her presentation by stating that climate change has gone from being a purely meteorological matter to a governance issue, paved with injustices. In her talk, she emphasizes the importance of having an intersectional perspective when approaching environmental issues.
'Intersectional analysis of climate change governance suggests that we understand power as relational, as categories of difference. But also that we recognise how intersectional power not only relates to groups in society but to governance, policy and institutions. We can work with these insights to question privilege and increase inclusion. It might bring in alternative knowledge, visions and ways of thinking that might be needed in this time.'
Daniel Poohl is CEO of Expo foundation and a journalist specialising in far right extremism. In this talk, he examines why the majority of parties in the far right spectra denies climate change, despite the fact that many of them have been part of, or contained traces of, the green movement in the past. Poohl highlights an exemplifies how the complexity of far right movements must be understood.
'When the green movement started it was an anti-establishment movement. So if you wanted to be anti-establishment, as the far right always want, you had to be ecological. Today it is almost impossible for far right political parties to take that kind of position because the voters don’t want it.'
Dr. Martin Hultman asks the question of why we are not acting on climate change when it has been on the global agenda for 30 years. In this talk, he presents his research on masculinity and climate change, highlighting both the rise and spread of alternative climate research and how risk taking among privileged groups in society affects the climate.
'My interest in this issue started when me and a colleague looked into the climate change debate in Sweden 2006-2009. What we saw there was the embryo of counter science organising around climate change denial arguments in Sweden. We found that a certain group of men with influential positions within industry and academia was spreading ideas of climate change denial from the U.S. where they had been prominent for a couple of years back. We were puzzled about the fact that this group was so homogenous.'
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?
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty which has served to eliminate an entire category of nuclear weapons, was terminated on 2 August this year. The New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START,) unless extended, will expire in 2021, and the limited progress on nuclear disarmament by the nuclear weapons states has put the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in question.
Can the existing international nuclear architecture be upheld? Will the major powers, who have previously led the development of arms control initiatives, be able to resume constructive cooperation, or does the future of the arms control regime lie elsewhere?
Keynote: A New Phase for Arms Control Rose Gottemoeller, Deputy Secretary General of NATO. Gottemoeller has previously served as Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. Department of State, and Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance
Commentators: Ian Anthony, Director of SIPRI’s European Security Programme
Gudrun Persson, Associate Professor, Russia and Eurasia Studies Programme (RUFS) at the Swedish Defence Research Agency
The seminar was moderated by Christer Ahlström, Director of UI.
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.
The political polarization on climate change thrives in the current wave of right-wing populism and “post-truth” politics. Climate change is not only a grave problem and a source of disagreements, but also a site and a stage where existing social cleavages, meanings, identities, and priorities are regularly being performed. In this context, climate change is linked to various other antipathies and agendas, well-known examples are politicization of climate science, a “post-truth” hostility to expertise; hostility to regulation and the political elite; a favoring of traditional masculine industries and labor; white supremacism and nationalism; and in the US: fears of other states’ rise and of American decline; and opposition to “all things Obama”. This roundtable brings together academics and practitioners to explore the increased political polarization of climate change from a variety of perspectives.
Speakers: Annica Kronsell, Professor at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
Martin Hultman, Associate Professor in science-, technology- and environmental studies at the Department of Technology Management and Economic, Chalmers.
Daniel Poohl, Editor-in-Chief and CEO, Expo
Moderator: Gunilla Reischl, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Global Politics and Security Programme, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
We welcomed academics as well as NGOs, activists, policymakers and others with an interest in these questions to come and listen and participate in the discussion.
The seminar is enabled by the financial support of SIDA through Forum Syd.
The 2019 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election was held in mid-July, approximately three months after Volodymyr Zelenskiy was elected President.
Zelenskiy’s party, Servants of the People, won the first single party majority in modern Ukrainian history. The party gained 254 of 424 seats in the Ukrainian parliament. The election outcome indicates a desire of the Ukrainian population for political and economic change, but several unknowns remain.
What will be the outcome of Zelenskiy’s grand win? What is to be expected of Ukraine’s domestic and foreign policy?
Speakers:
Katya Gorchinskaya, journalist in Ukraine. Karina Shyrokykh, analyst at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI). Jakob Hedenskog, Researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI).
The seminar was moderated by Martin Kragh, Head of UI’s Russia and Eurasia Programme.
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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?
16 years after the U.S occupation and almost two years after the declared victory over the Islamic State terrorist group, Iraq is in some ways on a positive trajectory. The first elections in five years were held in May 2018 and the ethno-sectarian divisions that have dominated Iraq are being challenged by new forms of cooperation and political bargaining. These opportunities notwithstanding many challenges remain. Most importantly, the legitimacy of the political class and its ability to govern is put in question by the citizenry.
In his UI Paper; Challenges to the post-2003 political order in Iraq, dr. Renad Mansour, of Chatham House, discusses these domestic political trends and the nature of potentially new societal and political fault lines in Iraq.
Speakers:
Renad Mansour, Research Fellow, the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House.
Joel Ahlberg, Specialist in Dialogue and Peace Mediation with long working experience related to Iraq, Folke Bernadotte Academy
Ashi al-Kahwati, Analyst, the Middle East and North Africa Programme, UI.
The seminar was moderated by Rouzbeh Parsi, Head of UI's Middle East and North Africa Programme.
I våras hade närmare 900 miljoner väljare rätt att lägga sin röst i det största demokratiska valet i historien. Mycket står på spel inte bara för Indien utan även för vår del av världen. Hur påverkar vägvalen från en ny indisk regering det indiska samhället och världen i stort?
Indiens bidrag till den globala ekonomiska tillväxten är redan idag betydande och förväntas att öka. Landet är allt mer aktivt på den världspolitiska arenan och dess förhållande till grannländerna påverkar hela regionens säkerhet. Under den senaste mandatperioden har fattigdomstalen i Indien fortsatt att sjunka, ekonomin att växa och moderniseringen av förvaltningen har inletts. Samtidigt ökar arbetslösheten, klyftan mellan rika och fattiga förblir stor och intoleransen mot landets minoriteter har ökat.
Medverkande:
Henrik Aspengren, Forskare, UI
Henriette Tjäder, Associerad medarbetare, UI
Isha Dubey, Forskare, Lunds universitet
Seminariet anordnades tillsammans med Lunds universitet, och hölls på engelska.
Lyssna till vårt eftersnack med Utrikespolitiska förbundet (UFS) efter seminariet "Europeisk strategisk autonomi i handel och utrikespolitik" i Almedalen den 1 juli.
Tillsammans med Melissa Yilmaz, Sakke Teerikoski och Carl Åkerström, i samtal med Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare UI.
Hur ska EU hantera de utmaningar och den nya internationella ordning man står inför, där stormakterna USA och Kina drar åt olika håll? Hur kan EU hävda sig när handelspolitik och teknikutveckling blir politiska vapen? Kommer EU att kunna staka ut en egen väg?
Handelskonflikten mellan USA och Kina försätter EU i en komplicerad situation. De internationella avtalen om Irans kärnenergiprogram och klimatmålen i Parisavtalet erkänns inte längre av alla undertecknande stater, och därmed undergrävs den internationella världsordningen. Kinas växande geopolitiska roll genom sidenvägsinitiativet och ett vingklippt WTO är andra nya förutsättningar för EU:s tillträdande kommissionärer och EU-parlamentariker.
Hur bör EU utveckla sina egna instrument och institutioner för att handelspolitiken ska kunna sammanstråla med utrikespolitiken och de nya premisserna i världspolitiken?
Talare: Björn Fägersten, programchef Europa, Utrikespolitiska institutet
Lena Sellgren, chefsekonom, Business Sweden
Sakke Teerikoski, vice ordförande, Utrikespolitiska förbundet
Moderator: Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare, Utrikespolitiska institutet
Seminariet anordnades i samarbete med Utrikespolitiska förbundet (UFS).
Kina arbetar aktivt med att sätta ekonomiska standarder utomlands och lånar ut stora belopp till utvecklingsländer. Kan standarder öka Kinas politiska makt och hur påverkar de västvärlden? Använder sig Kina av "skuldfällor" för att öka sitt inflytande i utvecklingsländer? Hur fungerar egentligen kinesiska lån?
I det sjunde avsnittet av Sidenvägspodden utforskas dessa och andra frågor tillsammans med Johanna Malm som forskat vid Centre for Chinese Studies vid Stellenbosch University i Sydafrika och Björn Fägersten, chef vid UI:s Europaprogram.
Sidenvägspodden är UI:s nya poddserie om Kinas globala ambitioner. Den drivs i samarbete med Stockholm Observatory for Global China och Kinakännaren Ola Wong som är programledare. I sju avsnitt intervjuar Ola experter från olika discipliner och ämnesområden för att utforska Sidenvägsinitiativets dimensioner.
Sidenvägspodden är en del av 'Global China Series'. Läs mer här: www.ui.se/english/research/asia/sogc/
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?
China and India are the giants of Asia, having grown in geopolitical and economic importance over the last couple of decades. In particular China has become more of a global political actor as its economic clout has grown. Iran is a country with relatively good relations with both China and India, but has a long running conflict with the United States (especially under president Trump) - which puts Beijing and New Delhi in an awkward position. As the EU is proving to be incapable of defending the nuclear agreement signed by the UN Security Council and Germany, with Iran in July 2015, Tehran is increasingly looking eastward for economic and political support.
In this first of a series of seminars, we investigated the economic relations of Iran-China-India and the interplay with each respective country’s international political positions.
Speakers:
Bijan Khajehpour, Economist and managing partner at Eurasian Nexus Partners, a Vienna-based international strategic consulting firm Jacopo Scita, PhD Candidate in Government and International Affairs, Durham University Meena Singh Roy, Research Fellow and Coordinator, West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, India
The seminar was moderated by Rouzbeh Parsi, Head of UI’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
Mänskliga rättigheter och cyberspionage är två områden där västvärlden tycks ha misslyckats med att påverka Kina. Situationen för mänskliga rättigheter har försämrats i Kina under senare år och både USA och EU talar om kinesiskt cyberspionage som skadar deras företags konkurrensförmåga. Hur har västvärldens kontakt med Kina egentligen påverkat landet? Hur försöker Peking påverka situationen för mänskliga rättigheter utomlands? Varför bedriver kinesiska aktörer cyberspionage?
I det sjätte avsnittet av Sidenvägspodden utforskas dessa och andra frågor tillsammans med Malin Oud, chef för Raoul Wallenberg Institutets Stockholmskontor, och Johan Englund, analytiker vid FOI som är aktuell med rapporten "Kinas industriella cyberspionage": https://www.foi.se/rest-api/report/FOI%20MEMO%206698.
Sidenvägspodden är UI:s nya poddserie om Kinas globala ambitioner. Den drivs i samarbete med Stockholm Observatory for Global China och Kinakännaren Ola Wong som är programledare. I sju avsnitt intervjuar Ola experter från olika discipliner och ämnesområden för att utforska Sidenvägsinitiativets dimensioner.
Sidenvägspodden är en del av 'Global China Series'. Läs mer här: www.ui.se/english/research/asia/sogc/
President Xi Jinping inledde 2019 med att beordra armén att förbereda sig för krig. Samtidigt säger Xi att Kina är ett fredligt framväxande land som inte är en fara för någon annan stat. Bör omvärlden vara orolig för Kinas militära ambitioner? Hur samarbetar Kina kring säkerhet med länderna längs sidenvägarna? Vilka är Sidenvägsinitiativets geostrategiska dimensioner? Vad betyder Kinas allt närmare samarbete med Ryssland?
I det femte avsnittet av Sidenvägspodden utforskas dessa och andra frågor tillsammans med Sofia Ledberg, biträdande lektor vid Försvarshögskolan, och Mikael Weissmann, seniorforskare vid UI och docent vid Försvarshögskolan.
Sidenvägspodden är UI:s nya poddserie om Kinas globala ambitioner. Den drivs i samarbete med Stockholm Observatory for Global China och Kinakännaren Ola Wong som är programledare. I sju avsnitt intervjuar Ola experter från olika discipliner och ämnesområden för att utforska Sidenvägsinitiativets dimensioner.
Sidenvägspodden är en del av 'Global China Series'. Läs mer här: www.ui.se/english/research/asia/sogc/
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.
China’s importance as a global provider of investments, loans and development aid has increased significantly over the past decades. This has sparked both hopes of new economic opportunity and concerns over effects on the established international order. For example, the Belt and Road Initiative has been criticised for drawing economically vulnerable developing countries into “debt traps” as a way to increase China’s political influence.
How does China’s model for economic and political cooperation differ from and challenge established international practices, norms and standards? Will China reshape the international order through its Belt and Road Initiative?
Welcome to the first seminar of the Global China Series, organised together with the Stockholm Observatory for Global China.
Speakers:
Amanda Cheney, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Lund University Johanna Malm, PhD in International Development Studies from Roskilde University Tim Rühlig, Research Fellow at UI
Moderator: Björn Jerdén, Head of UI’s Asia Programme.
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?
Continental Vision: Russia´s Interests was the first seminar of the Eurasia Seminar Series.
Speakers: Igor Denisov, Senior Research Fellow at Moscow State Institute of International Relations: Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies, Maryia Danilovich, Fellow at the Institute of Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES), Uppsala University, Pavel Baev, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
The seminar was moderated by Mark Bassin, Professor of History of Ideas at Södertörn University and Associated Research Fellow at UI.
Welcome remarks held by Martin Kragh, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme 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.
Parama Sinha Palit is a scholar of international relations based in Singapore. She holds a PhD from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India and specializes in study of foreign policies of India, China and other rising powers with particular focus on soft power, diplomacy, culture and communication in shaping foreign policies.
Listen to Parama Sinha Palit in conversation with Charlotte Svensson, Intern at the Asia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI).
Digitalisation impacts political processes in ambiguous ways across Asia. Digital messenger services enable grassroots mobilisation, but can also cause violence.
Political parties campaign on social media, and use the same platforms to harass their opponents. Political operators analyses big data to reach groups less inclined to vote, but also to sway opinions through disinformation. In addition increased online surveillance and proposed regulations to restrict Internet use in the name of national security are of concern to local civil societies. This seminar will particularly highlight experiences from India and Myanmar.
Speakers: Parama Sinha Palit is affiliated with the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore as an Adjunct Senior Fellow in the South Asia Programme. She is also affiliated with the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET).
Elsa Hedling is an Associate Research Fellow at the Europe Programme, UI and Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Political Science, Lund University.
Sarah Schulman is an Associate Fellow at the Asia Programme, UI and PhD Candidate, Lund University.
Moderator: Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Research Fellow, UI.
The seminar was enabled by the financial support of SIDA through Forum Syd.
Hur påverkas Sverige av Kinas globala ambitioner? Vilka affärsmöjligheter skapar Sidenvägsinitiativet för svenska företag? På vilka sätt försöker Kina påverka Sverige? Hur förhåller sig EU till Kina? Behövs en svensk Kinastrategi?
I det fjärde avsnittet av Sidenvägspodden utforskas dessa och andra frågor tillsammans med Jerker Hellström, forskningsledare vid Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut (FOI), och Fredrik Uddenfeldt, Head of Government Affairs for Asia Pacific vid Business Sweden.
Sidenvägspodden är UI:s nya poddserie om Kinas globala ambitioner. Den drivs i samarbete med Stockholm Observatory for Global China och Kinakännaren Ola Wong som är programledare. I sju avsnitt intervjuar Ola experter från olika discipliner och ämnesområden för att utforska Sidenvägsinitiativets dimensioner.
Sidenvägspodden är en del av 'Global China Series'. Läs mer här: www.ui.se/english/research/asia/sogc/
I jämförelse med Donald Trumps USA framstår Kina ofta som en ansvarstagande aktör vad gäller miljö- och klimatfrågor. Men hur påverkas egentligen omvärlden av Kinas ekonomiska expansion? Vad betyder den kinesiska globala satsningen på infrastruktur och handel för natur, biologisk mångfald och de globala utsläppsnivåerna av koldioxid?
I det tredje avsnittet av Sidenvägspodden utforskas dessa och andra frågor tillsammans med Karl Hallding, forskningsledare vid Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).
Sidenvägspodden är UI:s nya poddserie om Kinas globala ambitioner. Den drivs i samarbete med Stockholm Observatory for Global China och Kinakännaren Ola Wong som är programledare. I sju avsnitt intervjuar Ola experter från olika discipliner och ämnesområden för att utforska Sidenvägsinitiativets dimensioner.
Sidenvägspodden är en del av 'Global China Series'. Läs mer här: www.ui.se/english/research/asia/sogc/
With just five days to go until the UK is set to leave the EU, Mary Kaldor professor of Global Governance at the London School of Economics provides her view on what led to Brexit, the current situation and what's in store.
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.
Russia has returned to the Middle East. In 2019, Moscow has more or less won the war in Syria, is selling arms to Algeria and Egypt, and has teamed up with Saudi Arabia to put its thumb on the scale of global oil prices. Russia works closely with both Iran and Turkey, and maintains good relations with nations as disparate as Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
This seminar covers 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?
Speakers:
Aron Lund, freelance writer and an Associated Fellow at UI. Maria Georgieva, Russia and Ukraine correspondent of Svenska Dagbladet (SvD).
The seminar was moderated by Martin Kragh, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at UI.
Listen in on a discussion on Turkey’s challenges and opportunities in the near future.
What does the outcome of the local elections tell us about AKP’s grip on power in Turkey? Were the elections free and fair or just a play for the galleries? To what extent does the economic crisis affect political developments in Turkey? These and many other questions were discussed at a seminar at The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) on April 2nd, two days after local elections held in Turkey.
Panel:
Cengiz Çandar, Senior Associate Fellow, UI and Distinguished Visiting Scholar, SUITS
Bitte Hammargren, Senior Analyst, Swedish Defence Research Agency and Senior Associate Fellow, UI
Paul Levin, Director of the Stockholm Institute for Turkish Studies (SUITS), Associated Researcher, UI
The seminar was moderated by Aras Lindh, Analyst at UI’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
Kinas president Xi Jinping har lanserat “århundradets projekt”, ett jättelikt initiativ som ska omforma världsekonomin. Inom ramen för Sidenvägsinitiativet, även kallat Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), bygger Kina infrastruktur över nästan hela världen. Men hur kommer BRI egentligen att påverka handeln och de finansiella flödena? Får Kinas grannar ta del av ett ökat välstånd och nya möjligheter eller fastnar de med olönsamma jätteinvesteringar i kinesiska “skuldfällor”?
I det andra avsnittet av Sidenvägspodden utforskas dessa och andra frågor tillsammans med ekonomerna Åsa Malmström Rognes, forskare på Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen vid Uppsala universitet och Christer Ljungwall, professor vid Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS).
Sidenvägspodden är UI:s nya poddserie om Kinas globala ambitioner. Den drivs i samarbete med Stockholm Observatory for Global China och Kinakännaren Ola Wong som är programledare. I sju avsnitt intervjuar Ola experter från olika discipliner och ämnesområden för att utforska Sidenvägsinitiativets dimensioner.
Sidenvägspodden är en del av 'Global China Series'. Läs mer här: www.ui.se/english/research/asia/sogc/
Var borde EU vara om ungefär 10 år? Här ger EU-minister Hans Dahlgren sin syn på EU:s framtid, i samtal med UI:s Björn Fägersten.
Klippet är taget från halvdagsseminariet Vilket EU vill vi ha? som samarrangerades med Europakommissionen och forskningsinstitutet Ratio, 26 mars, 2019.
OBS: Samtalet är liveinspelat därav något dålig ljudkvaliet.
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.
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? How will China and Russia react to India’s Western partnerships? Clearly, how the relationship develop will have an impact on international affairs beyond Asia.
Speakers: Christopher Weidacher Hsiung, Associate Fellow, UI Samuel Bergenwall, Senior Analyst, FOI Katarina Engberg, Senior Advisor, Sieps
Moderator: Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Research Fellow, UI
Read the report in full here: https://www.ui.se/globalassets/ui.se-eng/publications/ui-publications/2019/ui-brief-no.-1-2019.pdf
Kinas president Xi Jinping har lanserat “århundradets projekt”, ett jättelikt initiativ för att bygga om världsekonomin. Inom ramen för Sidenvägsinitiativet, även kallat Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), bygger Kina infrastruktur över nästan hela världen. Motorvägar, järnvägar, flygplatser, hamnar, olje- och gasledningar, kolkraftverk, elledningar och dammar ska kopplas samman för att underlätta handel och transporter mellan Asien, Europa och Afrika, över både land och hav. Även Oceanien, Latinamerika och Arktis finns med i planerna. Men Kinas vision är inte begränsad till grå betong och stålkonstruktioner. De nya sidenvägarna inkluderar även handelsavtal, mediesatsningar, kulturellt utbyte och akademisk samverkan. Det finns till och med en ”digital sidenväg”.
Hur ska vi tänka kring Kinas nya projekt och globala ambitioner? Vad är det som driver initiativet och hur kan det komma att påverka framtidens världsordning och Sverige?
I det första avsnittet av Sidenvägspodden utforskar programledare Ola Wong dessa och andra frågor tillsammans med Viking Bohman, analytiker på Utrikespolitiska institutet (UI).
Sidenvägspodden är UI:s nya poddserie om Kinas globala ambitioner. Den drivs i samarbete med Stockholm Observatory for Global China och Kinakännaren Ola Wong som är programledare. I sju avsnitt intervjuar Ola experter från olika discipliner och ämnesområden för att utforska Sidenvägsinitiativets dimensioner.
Sidenvägspodden är en del av 'Global China Series'. Läs mer här: www.ui.se/english/research/asia/sogc/
Listen to Alexey Gromyko's talk on Russia and Europe and what to expect of their relations in a new emerging global order.
Moderator: Martin Kragh
Konventionen om kärnvapenförbud antogs vid multilaterala FN-förhandlingar i juli 2017. Den avsåg att komplettera det redan existerande icke-spridningsavtalet, vilket motiverade att Sverige deltog i förhandlingarna. Men kommer den nya konventionen komplettera eller motverka tidigare avtal? Frågan har behandlats i den ensamutredning som presenterades av ambassadör Lars-Erik Lundin i januari månad. Ska Sverige ansluta sig till konventionen? Även frågan om hur ska Sveriges nedrustningspolitik ska se ut i framtiden aktualiseras.
Talare:
Lars-Erik Lundin, ambassadör och doktor i statsvetenskap och internationella relationer. Författare av regeringens utredning av konsekvenserna av ett svenskt tillträde till konventionen om förbud mot kärnvapen
Eva Walder, ambassadör, Sveriges nedrustningsambassadör 2016-2018
Thomas Jonter, ordförande för svenska Pugwashgruppen och professor i internationella relationer vid Stockholms universitet
Henrik Salander, ambassadör med lång erfarenhet från nedrustnings- och ickespridningsarbete, bland annat som nedrustningsambassadör och ordförande för ickespridningsfördraget om kärnvapen
UI:s direktör Christer Ahlström modererade.
Sedan november har proteströrelsen gula västarna demonstrerat varje helg i Frankrike, och samlade som mest 300.000 personer. President Emanuel Macron har backat i frågan som utlöste protesterna (prishöjningen på bränsle), och inlett en nationell konsultation med landets invånare. Trots detta fortsätter demonstrationerna och har även utnyttjats av andra grupper som t.ex. vill avskaffa Frankrikes könsneutrala äktenskapsbalk och infiltrerats av bl.a. ukrainska separatister.
Den formellt ledarlösa rörelsen ger uttryck för ett stort missnöje bland den franska allmänheten, men vad vill rörelsen egentligen? Kommer presidenten och politikerna att lyckas fånga upp konkreta krav, eller är problemet större än rörelsen?
Ett föredrag av Jenny Andersson, Professor vid Frankrikes forskningsorganisation CNRS och föreståndare för MaxPo-centret vid universitetet SciencePo i Paris. Våren 2019 är hon fellow vid SCAS vid Uppsala Universitet.
Seminariet modererades av Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Bakom rubriken är en samtalsserie vi anordnar tillsammans med Världskulturmuseerna om det som finns bakom rubriken i aktuella händelser vi kan läsa om i tidningen.
The civil war in Yemen has been going on since 2014. The war has led to a severe humanitarian crisis. This seminar takes an overall look at what is going on in Yemen, not only from a political conflict point of view, but also takes an in-depth view at what is happening inside Yemen and the Yemeni society and to what extend when and how peace and reconciliation can be made possible.
Speakers:
Alia Eshaq, Political Analyst at Pitchn, previously at Berghof Foundation and International Crisis Group, with experience from peace negotiations in Yemen.
Laurent Bonnefoy, researcher at the The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and author of the books ‘Yemen and the World’ (2018) and ‘Salafism in Yemen. Transnationalism and Religious Identity’ (2012).
Peter Semneby, Sweden's Special Envoy to Yemen, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Rouzbeh Parsi, Head of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)moderated the seminar.
The seminar was enabled by the financial support of SIDA through Forum Syd.
Yemen has been engulfed in a civil and regional war since September 2014. It is a multi-layered conflict with domestic, regional and global stakeholders with the Yemeni people caught in the middle.
Laurent Bonnefoy, researcher at The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), explains the Salfist movement in Yemen, how it relates to the conflict, if there is a role for the Salafists in a peace process and the geopolitical aspect of the Salafists in Yemen and neighboring countries (Saudia Arabia for example).
Laurent Bonnefoy's most recent book is entitled 'Yemen and the world: beyond insecurity' published by Hurst in October 2018. He is currently based in Muscat, Oman.
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, UI Viking Bohman, Analyst, UI Nicola Nymalm, Research Fellow, UI
Moderator: Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Research Fellow, UI
To read the report, please visit: https://www.ui.se/english/events/previous/2019/february/europe-china-relations--the-role-of-political-values/
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 a global scale in times when the US leadership is scaled down?
Almut Möller, Head of the Berlin office of the European Council of Foreign Relations (ECFR) and Senior Policy Fellow, takes us through the complexities of these issues.
Discussant: Björn Fägersten, Head of the Europe programme at UI.
Moderator: Ylva Pettersson, program manager with the UI Europe programme
The seminar was part of a series co-organized with the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS).
The Q&A with the audience is included.
Photo: SIEPS
Listen to Tim Rühlig, Analyst at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), explaining the main findings and the work behind the report 'Political values in Europe-China relations', by the European Think-tank Network on China(ETNC), in connection to the Swedish launch on February 5th at UI.
What sort of different approached have been found in relation to political values and what are the reasons behind these approaches?
In conversation with Stephanie Esk, Programme Manager at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.
More information about the network and to read the report in full, please visit: https://www.ui.se/english/research/asia/european-think-tank-network-on-china/
Listen to a discussion with Ivan Krastev, the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, on the future of Europe.
Moderator: Björn Fägersten, head of the Europe programme at UI.
I december 2018 samlas beslutsfattare från hela världen i Katowice, Polen för COP24 med ambitionen att fastställa reglerna för implementeringen av Parisavtalet. Mot bakgrund av IPCC:s 1,5 gradersrapport och de begränsade framstegen i de förberedande mötena i Bonn och Bangkok tidigare i år är det mycket som står på spel.
Klimatarbetet kräver ett generationsöverskridande synsätt med ett aktivt engagemang från alla delar av samhället. Det politiska arbetet för att rädda klimatet förutsätter att unga ges inflytande i beslutsfattandet. Tydligare former krävs för att göra deras röster hörda och för att ta vara på deras engagemang.
Hur kan unga personer bli inkluderade i klimatpolitiska processer? Hur kan de på ett effektivt sätt använda sin energi och styrka för att nå resultat?
Välkommen till ett seminarium där Finansmarknads- och konsumentminister Per Bolund inleder samtalet, följt av en panel som diskuterar kunskap och verktyg som kan påverka klimatarbetet.
Talare: Per Bolund, Finansmarknads- och konsumentminister, biträdande finansminister
Panel: Karolina Eklöw, Forskningsassistent, SIPRI och styrelseledamot PUSH Sverige samt Global Shapers Stockholm Matilda Axelson, Doktorand inom Industriell innovation och fossilfria affärsmodeller, Institute for European Studies (IES) vid Vrije Universiteit Brussel (via länk) Anna Axelsson, Policyrådgivare Klimat, Diakonia
Moderator: Noura Berrouba, Styrelseledamot European Youth Parliament (EYP) och LSU- Sveriges Ungdomsorganisationer, ledamot i det rådgivande organet till Forum för miljösmart konsumtion, Vice ordförande Global Shaper Stockholm
Detta seminarium genomförs med stöd av Sida genom Forum Syd.
Listen to a very interesting conversation on how Russian organised crime has changed and developed from the Soviet era to present day. With Mark Galeotti, Senior Researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prauge and author of the book “ The Vory: Russia´s Super Mafia” and Erik Andermo, analyst with the UI Russia-and Eurasia Programme.
Moderator: Hedvig Pettersson
Italien har de senaste åren präglats av stor politisk instabilitet, täta regeringsskiften och en djupgående ekonomisk kris. I juni 2018 tillträdde en ny regering, en koalition mellan populistiska Femstjärnerörelsen och främlingsfientliga Lega, efter 3 månader av besvärliga förhandlingar. Regeringen klubbade i oktober igenom en budget som skulle innebära ett ökat budgetunderskott till 2,4 procent, vilket har fått EU-kommissionen att inleda en process för disciplinära åtgärder mot Italien.
I internationell media har rapporteringen om regeringskoalitionen främst handlat om regeringens bångstyriga agerande mot EU, och hur landet stängt sina hamnar för migranter som räddats på Medelhavet. Regeringens EU-kritiska hållning, planerade välfärdssatsningar och hårda migrationspolitik har orsakat oro inte bara i övriga Europa utan även bland delar av befolkningen. Vart är Italien på väg?
Ett föredrag av Kristina Kappelin, Intendent på Villa San Michele, ett av Sveriges Medelhavsinstitut, samt journalist och författare
Seminariet modererades av Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Bakom rubriken är en samtalsserie vi anordnar tillsammans med Världskulturmuseerna om det som finns bakom rubriken i aktuella händelser vi kan läsa om i tidningen.
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, the Right Livelihood Foundation and Amnesty International organised a seminar with representatives for the jailed Saudi 2018 Right Livelihood Award Laureates.
Abdullah al-Hamid, Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani, and Waleed Abu al-Khair are among the 2018 Right Livelihood Laureates “for their visionary and courageous efforts, guided by universal human rights principles, to reform the totalitarian political system in Saudi Arabia.”
The three Laureates, all of them prominent Saudi civil and human rights defenders, are currently serving prison sentences ranging from 10-15 years due to their demands for the separation of powers, equality for all and an inclusive political approach in order to secure a positive future for their country. Yahya Assiri, a prominent Saudi Human Rights defender, received the Award on their behalf together with family of Fahad al-Qahtani.
In light of the larger purported reform agenda envisaged by the Crown Prince, what is the status of the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia? How should the international community respond to human rights violations like the assassination of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi and what role can human rights activists play in shaping the country's future?
Main guest: Yahya Assiri, a Human Rights Activist who has founded and runs the human rights organization ALQST (or Al Qst) which documents human rights abuses and promotes human rights in Saudi Arabia. Earlier employed by the Royal Saudi Air Force, he has lived in London since 2013.
The seminar was moderated by Bitte Hammargren, Analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI, and Senior Associate Fellow at the Middle Middle East and North Africa Programme, UI.
The Arab spring started in Tunisia and there the historically strong union movement played a significant role in the outcome of the rebellion. In Tunisia the dictator was overthrown and free elections held, but unlike Egypt for instance, both secular and islamist parties have respected and upheld the rules of democratic politics.
The Tunisian author and scholar Hela Yousfi has recently published a book "Trade Unions and Arab Revolutions: The Tunisian Case of UGTT" (Routledge 2018) that traces the role of the UGTT (the Tunisian General Labour Union) during Tunisia's 2011 revolution and its aftermath. She will discuss the Tunisian labour movement, its relevance for the Arab spring, and the struggle for social justice in Tunisia today with Lucia Ardovini, Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI).
This screening is part of a series of three films/conversations under the heading: Emerging images of resistance in the Arab world, organised by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, as part of the Free Speech Festival at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
More information about the Free Speech festival can be found here: http://kulturhusetstadsteatern.se/ForumDebatt/Evenemang/2018/Free-Speech-Festival/
With increasing levels of global geopolitical tension, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Rt. Hon Winston Peters discussed New Zealand’s place in the Asia Pacific as well as the ties that bind New Zealand and Sweden together.
Welcoming remarks by the Director at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) Christer Ahlström. Commentators: Cecilia Ruthström-Ruin, Head of the Department for Asia and the Pacific at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Agneta Dreber, Deputy Chairman of the Board at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI).
Moderator: Björn Fägersten, Head of the Europe programme at UI.
The seminar was organised in connection with the reopening of the New Zealand Embassy in Sweden.
Russian hackers and alt-right propagandists, fake news, soft facts, bots and trolls....the digital age has vastly increased the scope for international, covert and overt influence campaigns to shape elections. How do such campaigns really work? Who is behind them? What do they tell us about the nature of democracy in an era where information borders have broken down, and where we have few rules about what sort of influence is legitimate and which malign?
Join Peter Pomerantsev, Sasha Havlicek and Chloe Colliver for a roundtable discussion on the changing threat and potential responses from policymakers, technology companies and civil society across Europe. Martin Kragh, head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, will be the moderator of the discussion.
This seminar is in collaboration with the Bertil Ohlin Institute.
To read the MSB sponsored report on foreign attempts to influence the 2018 Swedish elections online report by Chloe Colliver, Peter Pomerantsev, Anne Appelbaum and Jonathan Birdwell, go to: https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/smearing-sweden-international-influence-campaigns-in-the-2018-swedish-election/
It has been 18 months since president Macron was elected with a pro-European agenda. Björn Fägersten, the Head of the Europe Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and French ambassador to Sweden David Cvach talk about the status of Macron's European reform agenda, on the 'Europe that protects' concept and the upcoming European elections.
Keynote by Donald Kaberuka, Special Envoy of the AU on sustainable Financing for the Union and funding for Peace in Africa, and member of the AU Reform Advisory Committee. Former President of the African Development Bank Group and Chairman of the Board of Directors, at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) 25 October 2018.
The seminar was organised together with the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) and the Embassy of Rwanda in Sweden.
In November, the heads of state of the African Union (AU) will convene for the fourth time in a year, with the aim of accelerating the Union’s reform process, a key priority of the current AU chair, Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
How is the reform process going? What direction is the Union choosing? Is it equipped and ready to take on the challenges set out in its Agenda 2063?
Opening remarks by Christine Nkulikiyinka, Ambassador of the Republic of Rwanda to Sweden.
Cristina Duarte, Former Minister for Finance and Planning of Cabo Verde, and member of the AU Reforms Advisory Committee
Johannes Oljelund, Director-General for International development cooperation, Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Iina Soiri, Director of The Nordic Africa Institute (NAI)
The seminar was moderated by Mats Karlsson, former Director of UI and it was organised together with the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) and the Embassy of Rwanda in Sweden.
On November 6, the US heads to the polls for midterm elections, where all seats in the House of Representatives and 35 Senate seats will be in the running. What effects may the election results have on American politics and society?
Will the outcome effect the President’s appointment of judges, both at the federal level and to the Supreme Court? How will it impact his ability to get support for new legislation, such as the new USMCA trade agreement? What will happen to the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare)? What is the state of the American political parties? Will we see any effects of women’s increased involvement in politics, particularly for the Democratic Party? What are the “swing states” to watch? What do opinion polls predict and how accurate are they?
Together with the US Embassy, we arranged a discussion with Bruce Stokes and Sanna Torén Björling, moderated by Jan Hallenberg.
Hur kan det demokratiska samtalet värnas i tider av så kallade trollfabriker och statligt sanktionerade påverkanskampanjer? Utrikespolitiska institutet och Medieinstitutet Fojo anordnade ett seminarium om förutsättningarna för en av demokratins grundbultar.
I digitaliseringens tidevarv är journalister mer utsatta för olika former av påverkansförsök än någonsin tidigare. Hur påverkas den demokratiska samhällsmodellen av tongångarna på internet? Kan och vågar journalister berätta att de påverkas av hat, hot och desinformation? Är akademiker utsatta för samma fenomen? Håller internet på att förvandlas till en verbal våldsarena och är reglering av de mäktiga sociala medieföretagen rätt väg att gå för att få bukt med hot och hat?
I samband med seminariet lanserade Medieinstitutet Fojo en pilotstudie som undersöker hur propaganda, påverkansoperationer och näthat mot framför allt kvinnliga journalister påverkar förutsättningarna för fri och oberoende journalistik.
Panel:
Christer Pettersson, redaktör och huvudförfattare av pilotstudien, Medieinstitutet Fojo Kersti Forsberg, Verksamhetschef, Medieinstitutet Fojo Lena Karlsson, redaktör för Världspolitikens dagsfrågor och medförfattare till pilotstudien, Utrikespolitiska institutet Martin Kragh, programchef Ryssland- och Eurasienprogrammet, Utrikespolitiska institutet
Samtalet modererades av Marika Griehsel, projektledare för pilotstudien, Medieinstitutet Fojo
I början av 2018 överraskade Kim Jong-Un omvärlden med att inleda ett närmande till Sydkorea med anledning av att vinter-OS skulle hållas i Sydkorea i februari. I slutet av april hölls ett historiskt möte med Sydkorea i den demilitariserade zonen då de båda ledarna kom överens om att verka för att under 2018 nå fram till ett fredsavtal och total kärnvapennedrustning på Koreahalvön.
I juni i år träffades Kim Jong-Un och USA:s president Donald Trump för att diskutera kärnvapennedrustning, och i september upprepade ledarna för Nord- och Sydkorea sina utfästelser om fred och nedrustning.
Är tiden redo för avspänning i relationerna mellan Nordkorea, Sydkorea och USA? Hur låter tongångarna i Pyongyang?
Ett föredrag av Gunilla von Hall, utrikeskorrespondent för Svenska Dagbladet, nyss hemkommen från Nordkorea.
Seminariet modererades av Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare på UI.
Bakom rubriken är en samtalsserie vi anordnar tillsammans med Världskulturmuseerna om det som finns bakom rubriken i aktuella händelser vi kan läsa om i tidningen.
Under 2018 hålls val i både Brasilien och Mexiko, Latinamerikas ekonomiska och befolkningsmässiga tungviktare. Dessutom har medborgarna kallats till vallokalerna i Colombia, Paraguay, Costa Rica och Venezuela, och på Kuba har Raúl Castro överlämnat presidentposten till Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Supervalåret hålls samtidigt som den enorma korruptionsskandalen med epicentrum i Brasilien fortsätter att ge eko i hela regionen. Byggjätten Odebrecht har erkänt mutor till toppolitiker i över tio länder – och presidenter, ministrar och senatorer har tvingats avgå, fängslats eller är under utredning. Samtidigt styrs USA av en president som främst tycks se latinamerikaner som knarksmugglare, våldsverkare och snyltare.
Får Odebrechtskandalen några politiska efterverkningar i regionen? Finns tecken på någon generell politisk kursändring? Gör Trumps hårda retorik och politik någon skillnad?
Ett föredrag av Fredrik Uggla, Professor vid Latinamerikainstitutet på Stockholms universitet.
Seminariet modererades av Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare Utrikespolitiska institutet.
Bakom rubriken är en samtalsserie vi anordnar tillsammans med Världskulturmuseerna om det som finns bakom rubriken i aktuella händelser vi kan läsa om i tidningen.
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) organised a seminar on minority rights in the world’s largest democracy, India.
One of the defining features of the Indian democracy has been its safeguarding of minority rights. Some observers now suggest that such rights are being challenged. The seminar will provide perspectives on the state of minority rights in India. Why did India constitutionalize minority rights in the first place, who argued for it and how were the ideas justified? How has the debate changed over time? How robust are public institutions and public opinion in India concerning minority rights in international comparison?
Speakers: Rochana Bajpai, Senior Lecturer in Politics at the SOAS, University of London Sten Widmalm, Professor in political science at the Department of Government and researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University
Moderator: Henrik Chetan Aspengren, Research Fellow at the Asia Program at UI and coordinator of the UI-SASNET South Asia Initiative.
The 79th Stockholm Seminar on Japan
Four islands – which are controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan – are the subject of a disagreement stretching back more than two generations. As a result, Japan and Russia have yet to sign a peace treaty to end World War II.
What role does the islands – which are known as the Southern Kurils in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan – play in the geopolitical culture of both countries? What are the regional implications of the dispute? And will Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and President Vladimir Putin be able to solve the issue during their time in office?
Speakers: Paul Richardson, The School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham Paul O'Shea, The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
Moderator: Björn Jerdén, Head of UI's Asia Programme
The seminar was co-sponsored by Södertörn University.
The Japan seminar series is jointly organized by the European Institute of Japanese Studies at Stockholm School of Economics, the Asia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University and the Swedish Defence University. It features monthly seminars on Japanese economy, politics and society.
De palestinska flyktingarnas situation blir allt värre, och ingen hållbar lösning tycks vara inom räckhåll. Den långvariga ockupationen, kriget i Syrien och diskrimineringen palestinier får utstå i Libanon är bara exempel som adderar till den allvarliga situationen. Politiskt är hela flyktingfrågan på väg mot sammanbrott.
Hur ser situationen ut för de palestinska flyktingarna, i och utanför de ockuperade områdena, och finns lösningar i sikte? Hur påverkar UNRWA:s finansiella kris det stöd flyktingarna i dagsläget får?
Hör Thomas Hammarbergs insiktsfulla analys. Han är just nu aktuell med rapporten 'Justice Postponed: Analytical Report on Palestinian Refugees.' Bitte Hammargren och Ann Dismorr kommenterar och Mats Karlsson modererar.
Vad innebär Brexit för små länders möjligheter att påverka i det Europeiska samarbetet (till exempel Sverige) och hur utnyttjar små länder förhandlingarna inför Brexit för att främja sina intressen?
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Talare:
Karin Enström, moderat riksdagsledamot och försvarsminister 2012-2014.
Nina Fellman, Minister Ålands landskapsregering med ansvarar för kansli-, kommun-, integrations- och bostadsfrågor. Nordisk samarbetsminister och ansvarar för nordiska- och EU-frågor
Silja Borgarsdóttir Sandelin, vice ordförande för Svenska folkpartiet i Finland
Björn Fägersten, programchef och seniorforskare, UI
Seminariet anordnades i samarbete med Hanaholmen och Ålands landskapsregering, och modererades av Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare på UI.
In 2014 India ushered in a new administration and ambitions for the future. Today, the world’s largest democracy is fast approaching general elections in 2019. How has the business and political climate developed in the country? Based on cross-industry interviews with leading Swedish firms and studies from others, Six Year Plan will present its report and conclusions on the present status.
Speakers: Ulrika Sundberg, Consulate General of Sweden to India, Mumbai Jenny Eklund, SVP Client Executive and Area Manager South/South East Asia, SEB Johan Henningsson, Head of Sustainability, SEK Aticka Chona, Managing Director India, Six Year Plan
This panel was part of the event Almedalen: Why India is Important to Europe and was organized in cooperation with SASNET, Lund University and Six Year Plan.
The strategic environment in Asia is changing. New US priorities, an active China, and India’s rise have contributed to new bilateral and multilateral partnerships taking shape. Current developments in Asia have global implications and will also affect Europe. How does the EU and individual member states approach India strategically? And is Europe a factor in Indian strategic thinking?
Speakers: Constantino Xavier, Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings India Shada Islam, Friends of Europe Hans Dahlgren, State Secretary for International and EU Affairs to Prime Minister Stefan Löfven Henrik Chetan Aspengren, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)
This panel was part of the event 'Almedalen: Why India is Important to Europe' and was organized in cooperation with SASNET, Lund University and Six Year Plan.
Hur ska vi medborgare förhålla oss till Fake News inför det svenska valet? Vad gör debatten om fake news, desinformation och dark ads för vårt förtroende för det politiska systemet? Lyssna på analyser från vårt seminarium i Almedalen (därav helikopterljud i bakgrunden), arrangerat i samarbete med Ålands Landskapsförening och Hanaholmen!
Talare: Jessikka Aro, journalist, Finska Yle Mikael Tofvesson, enhetschef omvärld och beredskap, Myndigheten för samhällsskydd och beredskap, MSB John Severinson, Head of Media Partnerships, Nordics, Facebook Åsa Wikforss, professor, Filosofiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet Björn Löfdahl, programdirektör, Sveriges Radio
Seminariet modererades av Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare på UI.
Viktigt fokus på stormakterna EU, Kina och USA och relationen mellan dem, samt framtidens världsordning och utmaningar i dess uppbyggnad.
Medverkande:
Björn Fägersten, Programchef Europaprogrammet och seniorforskare UI
Björn Jerdén, Programchef Asienprogrammet och forskare UI
Malin Oud, Chef Stockholmskontoret och teamledare för ekonomisk globalisering och mänskliga rättigheter, Raoul Wallenberg Institute
Oscar Theblin, Ordförande Utrikespolitiska förbundet, UFS
Seminariet anordnades tillsammans med Utrikespolitiska förbundet och modererades av Ylva Pettersson, Programsamordnare UI.
Samtidigt som Sverige går till val pågår en allt intensivare debatt om EU:s stora framtidsfrågor. Lyssna på vårt seminarium där experter och Europapolitiker diskuterar Europa i Sverige och Sverige i Europa.
Talare: Christoffer Fjellner, Moderat ledamot av Europaparlamentet Jytte Guteland, Socialdemokratisk ledamot av Europaparlamentet Annika Ström Melin, journalist, skribent och EU-korrespondent för Dagens Nyheter Magnus Blomgren, Universitetslektor vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, Umeå universitet Maria Strömvik, Universitetslektor vid Statsvetenskapliga institutionen och biträdande föreståndare vid Centrum för Europaforskning, Lunds universitet
Seminariet anordnas tillsammans med The Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA) och medfinansieras av EU:s program "Ett Europa för medborgarna". Björn Fägersten, Seniorforskare och chef för UI:s Europaprogram modererade.
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) in cooperation with the Swedish Defence University held a seminar addressing climate change and security.
Linkages between climate change and security are complex. Climate change is often understood as a “threat multiplier” for security concerns, such as social conflict and economic inequality. It is not only posing a threat for the future, but is already an existing risk for many communities. For example, climate related resource scarcity, such as lack of water, combined with inequality and shifting demographics provide fertile grounds for conflict.
Numerous governments and institutions such as the UN and NATO have recognized climate impacts on human security, but has this knowledge been translated into practice? Our high-level panel will explore the links between climate change and security, and give their views whether and how policy-makers and militaries are ready to anticipating the climate change-security nexus.
Panel: Stephen Cheney, Brigadier General and CEO of the American Security Project (ASP).
Linnea Engström, Member of European parliament, Greens. Vice chair of the fisheries committee, member of environment and gender equality committee.
Robert Egnell, Professor of Leadership and Head of the department of Security, Strategy and Leadership, the Swedish Defence University
Moderator: Gunilla Reischl, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Global Politics and Security Programme, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)
Welcome!
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) invites you to a discussion on the impact of China’s global trade and infrastructure push, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The seminar will mark the establishment of the Stockholm Belt and Road Observatory, a research network created to tackle questions arising in relation to BRI and China’s growing global footprint.
Launched in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, the BRI is connecting countries across Asia, Europe and other continents through an extensive web of infrastructure. While the Chinese government assures widely shared benefits, doubts and concerns remain about the drivers and consequences of the project.
How is China’s proactive economic foreign policy impacting Sweden and Europe? How does BRI relate to Chinese global leadership? Are there opportunities for Sweden and the EU in engaging China? And how can we contain possible risks emerging from the BRI?
Speakers: Viking Bohman, Coordinator of the Stockholm Belt and Road Observatory Jerker Hellström, Head of Asia and Middle East Programme at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) Åsa Malmström Rognes, Researcher at the Department of Economic History, Uppsala University Mikael Weissmann, Associate Professor at the Swedish Defence University and Senior Research Fellow at UI Jiayi Zhou, Researcher at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Moderator: Björn Jerdén, Head of UI’s Asia Programme
Cherine Hussein, forskare vid UI's Särskilda forskningsprogram med inriktning på Mellanösternpolitik, föreläser om möjligheten för en enstatslösning på Israel-Palestina-konflikten under UI:s gymnasiedag 31 maj 2018.
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs in cooperation with Arena Idé, held a seminar discussing attempts to create a global framework for international migration.
Morocco will be hosting UN’s first world conference on migration later this year that will adopt a global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration.
Through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) all the countries of the world commit to ‘…end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment’.
A global framework on migration needs to balance states’ rights to control their borders, with rules and principles that protects the people crossing them. It also needs to create preconditions for a world that can give people a better opportunity to fulfil their potential in dignity and equality.
Can an international convention for people’s mobility be part of the solution? What gaps could such a convention fill?
Speakers: Michael Doyle, University Professor and Director, Global Policy Initiative, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Nicola Clase, Ambassador, Coordinator for Migration and Refugee Issues, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Panel: Åsa Odin Ekman, Migration Expert and Analyst, TCO Georg Andrén, Secretary-General, Diakonia and Chairman, Concord George Joseph, Director Migration, Caritas Sweden and Board Member Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) Hamza Ibrahim, Founder of Ensamkommandes förbund and Swedish Youth Representative to the United Nations General Assembly 2018 Emma Borgnäs, Project Coordinator, International Migration Project, Columbia Global Policy Initiative (CGPI)
Moderator: Lisa Pelling, PhD, Chief Analyst, Arena Idé
Osäkra framtidsvägar för Europa - vad betyder skiftena i internationell politik för våra europeiska intressen?
Europadagen 2018 kommer att firas mot en mörkare bakgrund än mången majhimmel. Står verkligen de värden som EU grundats på – liberala, demokratiska och sociala – under hot? Förmår Europas länder möta utmaningarna i världen? Vilka bör Sveriges intressen vara?
Europa utsätts idag för disintegrerande krafter. Avgörande Brexit-frågor står fortfarande obesvarade. Nationalistisk populism skapar osäkerhet. Kan axeln Merkel-Macron betyda något avgörande? Och vad betyder det då för EU27?
Från omvärlden kommer utmaningar av kraftfullt slag. Rysslands aggressiva utrikespolitik, konflikterna i Mellanöstern och USA:s oklara transatlantiska hållning har gett EU:s utrikes- och säkerhetspolitiska, även försvarspolitiska, samarbete ny vikt. Hur hanterar Europa Kinas ambitioner? De växande handelspolitiska konflikterna? Klimatfrågorna? Kan Europa skydda sina intressen i den globala ekonomin?
Om drygt ett år äger val till Europaparlamentet rum. En ny kommission tillträder hösten 2019. En ny femårsbudget ska antas. Olika europeiska länder och olika europeiska politiska krafter har intressen att skydda och främja. Vad betyder det för Europas styrka i världen? Vad bör Sverige tänka på när framtidsvägarna för Europa framstår som mer osäkra än på lång tid?
Ledande experter i ett samtal om EU och världen på UI.
Björn Fägersten, Europa Jan Hallenberg, USA Bitte Hammargren, Mellanöstern Björn Jerdén, Asien Gunilla Reischl, klimat och miljö Helena Rietz, Afrika, UD Carolina Vendil Pallin, Ryssland, FOI
UI:s direktör Mats Karlsson modererade samtalet.
Välkommen!
Hör Bitte Hammargren, ansvarig för MENA-programmet, om vilka konsekvenserna kan bli i händelse av att USA lämnar Iranavtalet, vilket Trump meddelade senare samma kväll.
Från seminariet "Osäkra framtidsvägar för Europa - vad betyder skiftena i internationell politik för våra europeiska intressen?", arrangerat på Utrikespolitiska institutet, 8 maj 2018.
This discussion focuses on the challenges to democracy facing Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, two countries with the experience of internal conflict and civil war, with speakers Dr. Vagisha Gunasekara, Executive Director, American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, Sri Lanka and Admir Skodo, researcher at the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET), Lund University. Henrik Chetan Aspengren, associate researcher with the UI Asia programme and coordinator of the UI-SASNET South Asia Initiative moderated.
This seminar brings you an excellent analysis on the militarisation and armament developments around the Persian Gulf.
Pieter Wezeman starts off with SIPRI's new data on military expenditure which show a big increase in the Middle East, which is mainly driven by military spending in Saudi Arabia, already at war in Yemen.
The discussion continues with looking at the standoff between the US/Trump and Iran and the rifts between some of the monarchies in the GCC, the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Speakers: Pieter Wezeman, Senior Researcher, SIPRI Rouzbeh Parsi, UI Associate Research Fellow, Historian at Lund University Dina Esfandiary, Fellow at War Studies Department at King's College, London
Moderator: Bitte Hammargren, Head of UI’s Middle East and North Africa Programme
Listen in on this very interesting seminar on the role of public opinion in peacemaking.
During the past decade, Palestinian and Israeli public opinion has become more hardline exhibiting greater opposition to compromise. Support for the two-state solution has decreased by at least one third. This change raises worrying questions regarding the role of public opinion in peacemaking. The talk will describe trends in Palestinian public opinion and examine the implications of recent changes.
Speaker: Khalil Shikaki, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research
Commentator: Cherine Hussein, Research Fellow at UI's Middle East and North Africa Programme
Moderator: Bitte Hammargren, Head of UI's Middle East and North Africa Programme
The oceans are the lifeblood of our planet. They offer huge potential for human development. Ensuring their sound management and sustainable use is a vital part of our work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In the decades ahead, the world’s population will need more food, medicines, energy, minerals and other resources. Clear rules and stable framework conditions are necessary for peaceful cooperation between countries, blue growth, and sound management.
How can we ensure closer coordination between the various ocean initiatives and actors in the time ahead?
Keynote speech by Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ine Eriksen Søreide: 'Oceans in Norway’s Foreign Policy'
Commentators: Gunilla Reischl, Head of Global Politics and Security Programme and Senior Research Fellow, UI
Mats Svensson, Head of Research at the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
Johan Kuylenstierna, Vice chair, Swedish Climate Policy Council and Adjunct Professor, Stockholm University
Helen Ågren, Swedish Ambassador for the Oceans
Members of the Swedish parliamentary delegation to the Nordic Council also participated at the seminar.
The seminar was moderated by Mats Karlsson, Director of UI.
The Brexit referendum and the US presidential election in 2016 have demonstrated the growing role of social media platforms in shaping political debate and popular opinion, possibly affecting the outcomes of these democratic elections. This poses difficult questions for open democracies – should social media platforms be regulated in order to prevent the dissemination of false information aimed to produce political effects? If so, what shape and form could such regulations take? Or should self-regulation and neutrality be guiding principles in the interest of safe-guarding an open internet?
Renee diResta, Data for Democracy and founding member of Haven. Renee has a background researching Russian disinformation and the anti-vaccine movement as well as fighting disinformation campaigns and computerized propaganda on social networks
Marcin de Kaminski, Program Director for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, Civil Rights Defenders. Marcin has a background in internet research, with a specific focus on online communities, political movements and extreme subcultures
Christian Christensen, Professor of Journalism in the Department of Media Studies at Stockholm University. His research has examined the intersections of journalism, politics and technology. He is also a regular contributor to The Guardian and other international news outlets
Moderator: Ludvig Norman, Research Fellow with UI’s Europe programme
The seminar was arranged together with the American embassy in Stockholm.
President Trump höjer sin gard mot den Islamiska republiken Iran, som i sin tur är rival till det sunniortodoxa Saudiarabien i rader av konfliktzoner i Mellanöstern. I Teheran pågår samtidigt ett maktspel om vem som ska bli näste högste ledare och hur statsbudgeten ska fördelas.
I vintras skakades Iran av sociala protester bland främst unga och arbetslösa. I Iran finns också en kvinnorörelse som ständigt gör sig påmind – som när unga kvinnor trotsar hijab-tvånget och kastar sjalen i en tyst protest på offentliga platser.
Ett samtal som rörde sig från det stora maktpolitiska spelet till vardagens villkor i Iran.
Medverkade gjorde Bitte Hammargren, mellanösternanalytiker vid Utrikespolitiska institutet, Mohammad Fazlhashemi, professor vid Uppsala universitet och Sepideh Nekomanesh, doktorand vid Stockholms universitet.
Seminariet är ett samarbete mellan UI, Världskulturmuseerna och Re:Orient, och en del av Världskulturmuseernas uppmärksammande av internationella kvinnodagen.
Utvecklingen i Turkiet har varit minst sagt intensiv de senaste åren . Den har präglats av ett nedslaget kuppförsök, 20 månaders undantagstillstånd, kringskuren pressfrihet, tiotusentals frihetsberövade och ett rättsväsende som påverkas av politiska intressen . Turkiet glider allt längre ifrån Nato och USA och en lösning av kurdfrågan förefaller vara helt utom räckhåll.
Seminarium med: Klas-Göran Karlsson, professor i Historia vid Lunds universitet Bitte Hammargren, ansvarig för UI:s MENA-program Can Dündar, f.d. chefredaktör för Cumhuriyet (i samtal med Bitte Hammargren via Skype, på engelska) Helin Sahin, statsvetare och verksam vid Palmecentrets MENA-program Ali Gharavi, IT-konsult som satt fängslad under flera månader i Turkiet efter ett tillslag mot ett människorättsseminarium i juli. Medverkar gör också hans hustru Larissa Gharavi (på engelska).
Seminariet modererades av Arne Jarrick, professor i historia vid Stockholms universitet.
Frågan om katalansk självständighet blottlägger en kamp om ekonomiska resurser och nationell identitet i Spanien och har skakat om det spanska statsskicket. Hör Niklas Bremberg, forskare vid Utrikespolitiska institutets Europaprogram, intressanta föredrag. Ylva Pettersson modererade.
Bakom rubriken är en samtalsserie vi anordnar tillsammans med Världskulturmuseerna om det som finns bakom rubriken i aktuella händelser vi kan läsa om i tidningen.
Together with the Royal Dramatic Theatre, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs held a seminar on LGBTQ+ rights under threat.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) declares the protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, but the reality for many LGBTQ+ people is profoundly different. Europe is facing great challenges as populism and nationalistic values have grown in recent years. Various movements now call for a return to ”traditional values” and LGBTQ+ rights are under attack in several countries. Since the election of President Trump, the US have withdrawn several anti-discrimination laws and in June 2017 thousands of people demonstrated in protest, claiming the president is threating LGBTQ+ rights. At the same time, countries across the world are limiting rights and freedoms for LGBTQ+ people and endangering their possibilities to organize and live openly, the persecution and killing of gay men in Chechnya in 2017 being one of the most severe examples.
Is there a global backlash to LGBTQ+ rights? How has the restrain of rights developed? How can we strengthen the rights for the LGBTQ+ community, how shall it be done and what is the way forward?
Speakers: Neela Ghoshal, Senior Researcher in the LGBT Rights Program, Human Rights Watch
Goran Miletic, Director for Europe, Civil Rights Defenders
Emil Edenborg, Research Fellow at The Swedish Insitute of International Affairs (UI)
Moderator: Anna-Maria Sörberg, Journalist and writer
This seminar is the second and last talk on the global role of the US, that UI is organising together with the Royal Dramatic Theatre.The previous seminar was held on November 21.
This seminar was enabled by the financial support of SIDA through Forum Syd.
UI researcher Lucia Ardovini speaks with Dr Simon Mabon, Lancaster University, on his forthcoming book Houses built on Sand which explores the fragmentation of state-society relations in the post Arab Uprisings Middle East using the ideas of Giorgio Agamben and Hannah Arendt.
Dr Mabon visited the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) on the 16th of March 2018 to present at a seminar on the implications of the rivalry between two regional powers in the Middle East, namely Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The Nordic countries frequent the rankings of stability, wealth and quality of life, but their geographical region is finding itself the subject of new geopolitical tensions. Russia’s annexation of Crimea and undermining of Ukraine’s sovereignty have repercussions for the security policy of all Nordic countries, from the Baltic to the High North. While the US has sent mixed signals about the liberal order and European security, and the UK is preparing its withdrawal from the EU, Germany is reinforcing its commitment to European integration and a rules-based order.
In these turbulent times, the Nordics and Germany have a joint interest in preserving stability in our region as well as protecting the liberal order that forms the basis of the success of the open countries of the North. Considering this, how could cooperation between the Nordics and Germany be developed? What scope for cooperation can be found in Europe’s new security landscape? And how can the rules based liberal and democratic order be protected in times when globalization and interdependence is challenged by great power rivalry and surging nationalism?
Keynote speaker: Audun Halvorsen, State Secretary, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Special guests: Constanze Stelzenmüller, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.
Matthias Jopp, Director, Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin
Comments: H.E. Hans-Jürgen Heimsoeth, Ambassador of Germany to Sweden
René Nyberg, former Ambassador, Finland
Krister Bringéus, Ambassador, Sweden
Public discussion
Moderator: Mats Karlsson, Director of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI)
This seminar was arranged jointly with the Norwegian Embassy.
Myth one: North Korea is a communist country. Myth two: Kim Jong Un is a grotesque not very smart man. Myth three: Kim Jong Un starves his people.
Listen to economist Loretta Napoleoni talk about some of the myths surrounding North Korea and also comment on the possible upcoming Trump-Kim meeting (May 2018) as she visited The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) to speak on a seminar on myths and realities about North Korea on March 12, 2018.
She has also recently published the book 'North Korea; the country we love to hate.'
The Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Transparency International Sweden held a seminar focusing on Tunisia and its challenges ahead.
Listen to Youssef Cherif, Deputy Director, Columbia Global Centers, Tunis, Columbia University, speak on 'Why Building Functioning States after the Fall of Corrupt Regimes doesn't Happen in the Blink of an Eye'.
More information about the seminar 'Corruption after the Arab Spring – Challenges and Lessons Learned' can be found here: https://www.ui.se/evenemang/tidigare/2018/mars/corruption-after-the-arab-spring--challenges-and-lessons-learned/
This seminar is part of the series ‘Corruption and the World Order’ that will explore and deepen the understanding of the various implications of corruption for security and the world order, in cooperation with Transparency International Sweden (TI). Three more seminars will be arranged during spring 2018.The seminar series is financed by Riksbankens Jubilumsfond (RJ).
The Internet is arguably the most significant global infrastructure today, connecting more than half the world's population and profoundly shaping everything from high politics to everyday lives. Yet where do power and control lie in this global communications network? Is it with leading states or is the global Internet ruled by big multinationals such as Google and Microsoft? Or do technical computer experts run a show that neither companies nor governments understand? Or is Internet governance a model of new global democracy, where everyone including individual users can have their say?
Speakers: Gabriella Schittek, Global Stakeholder Engagement Manager, Europe; Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
Jan Aart Scholte, Professor of Peace and Development, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
Maria Häll, CEO, SUNET and RIPE NCC Executive Board
Moderator: Niklas Bremberg, Research Fellow, UI
The seminar was held at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on March 6, 2018.
How can we understand the rise of sectarianism in the Middle East today, to what extent is it linked to religion, if at all, and why has it proven so effective for mobilization in wars and conflicts in the region?
Sectarian identity politics is on the rise in the Middle East. The power rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia has intensified sectarian dynamics in several hot spots across the region, just as the break down of state structures and the resurgence of authoritarian rule have led local communities to a fallback on sectarian identities and intensified dynamics of sectarian Othering.
In Syria, the Assad regime has from the uprising’s very beginning installed fears with minority groups of Sunni extremism, and today the war is being led by militias and regional powers, who predominantly are grouped along sectarian lines. Similarly on social media platforms and Arab satellite stations, sectarian agitation are rampant, and even in states such as Jordan or Egypt, where Shias are effectively non-existent, anti-Shia rhetoric has gained a new foothold.
Helle Malmvig, Senior Researcher focusing on regional policy in the Middle East at DIIS, focused her talk on how we may understand sectarianism in the Middle East theoretically and empirically, focusing in particular on the case of Hizbullah and its war in Syria.
Commentators: Lars Erslev Andersen, Associated Researcher, UI, Senior Researcher, DIIS.
Emin Poljarevic, Associate Professor, Sociology of Religion, Uppsala University.
The seminar was moderated by Bitte Hammargren, Head of UI’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
UI programme manager Aras Lindh talks to Emin Poljarevic, Associate Professor, Sociology of Religion, Uppsala University.
Garry Kasparov spent twenty years as the world’s leading chess player. In 2005, he retired from professional chess to lead and support the pro-democracy opposition against President Vladimir Putin. His most recent book, Winter is Coming (2016), is an in-depth study of Russia's system of power.
Speaker: Garry Kasparov, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and chess grandmaster
Moderator: Martin Kragh, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
The seminar is supported by the Bertil Ohlin Institute and held at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs on 27 February 2018.
Welcome!
Ett föredrag av Börje Ljunggren, associerad senior medarbetare inom Utrikespolitiska institutets Asienprogram, Sveriges ambassadör i Kina 2002-2006 och författare till ”Den kinesiska drömmen: Xi, makten och utmaningarna”.
OBS! Vi ber om ursäkt för sämre ljudkvalitet då rätt teknik inte fanns tillgänglig. Vi har trots det valt att publicera på grund av stor efterfrågan. Ljudet blir bättre från 7.40 minuter.
Seminariet är det första i serien *Bakom rubriken’ där vi tittar närmare på aktuella utrikespolitiska frågor i nyheterna. Serien sker i samarbete med Världskulturmuseérna.
Mer information om serien hittar du på vår hemsida www.ui.se
Christian Mölling talks on potential future scenarios for the Franco-German axis and their implications for European security and defence.
Based on prior estimates by the keynote presenter, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reports that US$2 trillion is lost due to corruption and bribery every year, equaling to about 2 percent of the global GDP. The leaked Panama documents revealed how the international financial system enable the world’s rich and powerful to hide their wealth in tax havens. Corruption not only persists, its manifestations and form changes.
What does the evidence show about trends in governance and corruption around the world? How costly is corruption and which manifestations pose a major threat nowadays? Is corruption in reality becoming “legalized” in international affairs? Are some sectors and regions particularly vulnerable, requiring special attention? What are the implications of the shift in global leadership on governance and corruption matters?
Key-note speech: 'Governance and Corruption at a Crossroad?: Worldwide evidence and reflections for policy and leadership'
Daniel Kaufmann, President and CEO of the Natural Resource Governance Institute(NRGI); non-resident Sr. Fellow, Brookings Institution, and member of the International Board, EITI
Commentators: James Lynch, Deputy Director of the Defence & Security Programme (DSP), Transparency International
Johan Engvall, Researcher, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
Moderator: Mats Karlsson, Director, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
The event was organized in collaboration with Transparency International Sweden and funded by Riksbankens jubileumsfond.
Link to pdf presentation: https://www.ui.se/globalassets/evenemang/2018/februari/d-kaufmann-stockholm-ui-lecture-feb-15-post.pdf
Cherine Hussein, researcher in the Special Research Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), tells us (in two sittings as you may notice) about why she became a researcher in the field of political science, and also about her book "The Re-Emergence of the Single State Solution in Palestine/Israel: Countering an Illusion (Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict" recently published in paper back).
I Europaperspektiv 2018 – den 21:e årgången av årsboken – diskuterar tretton ledande svenska forskare och experter hur EU påverkar och påverkas av de pågående maktförskjutningarna inom världspolitiken och utmaningarna mot den liberala världsordningen. Niklas Bremberg, forskare vid UI:s Europa program förklarar mer.
How entrenched is corruption in the Eurasian region? This seminar explored its multifaceted implications, in cooperation with Transparency International Sweden, held on February 6, 2018.
Corruption in the Eurasian region manifests itself in many ways. Politicians using state power to accumulate private wealth and the misuse of public funds effectively erodes the public legitimacy of most governments in the region. Similarly, foreign aid spent in Afghanistan to reconstruct and rebuild its economy often ends up in the pockets of warlords, further fuelling the military conflict in the country. Corruption thus manifests itself in many ways, not least in the financial and security realms. What can be done to tackle this deeply rooted corruption and what are its main implications for the region?
Speakers: Sarah Chayes, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Alexander Cooley, Director of Columbia University's Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe
Moderator: Martin Kragh, Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs
This seminar is part of the series ‘Corruption and the World Order’ that will explore and deepen the understanding of the various implications of corruption for security and the world order, in cooperation with Transparency International Sweden (TI). Three more seminars will be arranged during spring 2018.The seminar series is financed by Riksbankens Jubilumsfond (RJ).
'UK foreign and security policy post-Brexit: The search for a European Strategy'
How will Brexit impact on European security and what will the UKs European strategy look like post-Brexit? The scope of the impact of Brexit on European foreign and security policy relationships will be determined by a number of factors and gives rise to prospective scenarios explored in this brief.
Listen to Richard G. Whitman, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent and Senior Visiting Fellow at Chatham House.
UI Brief in full: https://www.ui.se/butiken/uis-publikationer/ui-brief/2018/uk-foreign-and-security-policy-post-brexit-the-search-for-a-european-strategy/
USA:s maktposition är inte längre självklar på den internationella arenan. Vilken betydelse får det i utrikespolitiken, och för oss i Sverige? Tillsammans med Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern bjöd vi in till ett seminarium om USA:s globala inflytande.
Maktskiftet i Washington i januari 2017 har inneburit en stor omläggning i amerikansk politik, med potentiellt stort genomslag i världspolitiken. En starkt nationalistisk och isolationistisk ton har använts i utrikespolitiken då frihandels- och klimatavtal rivits upp, och osäkerheten kring hur USA ska agera internationellt är stor.
Vilken är USA:s roll och inflytande i världen idag? Vilken är dess självbild? Hur förhåller sig USA till den nya världsordningen (vilken den nu är?), och hur påverkas vi i Sverige av detta?
Talare:
Sanna Torén Björling, journalist på Dagens Nyheter, senast utsänd som korrespondent i Washington
Karin Henriksson, USA-korrespondent för bl.a. Svenska Dagbladet, bosatt i Washington D.C. och författare till biografin Trump – Miljarderna, medierna och makten
Jan Hallenberg, senior forskningsrådgivare på UI och professor emeritus i statsvetenskap vid Försvarshögskolan
Seminariet modererades av Ylva Pettersson, programsamordnare på UI.
Seminariet är det första i en serie av tre samtal på temat USA:s globala roll som UI anordnar tillsammans med Dramaten. De övriga seminarierna är:
14 februari 2018: Störst går först? – USA och Kinas relationer och den nya världsordningen
12 mars 2018: HBTQI-personers rättigheter nu och då – en global utblick
Utrikesmagasinet, UI:s oberoende forum för analys och opinion, möter EU-kommissionär Cecilia Malmström för att tala om EU:s utmaningar, Brexit, brist på visioner och om hennes långa karriärväg. Ursprungligen publicerad för ett år sedan av Utrikesmagasinet.
Björn Fägersten, Chef för UI:s Europaprogram om Europas kris efter brexit. Ursprungligen publicerad för ett år sedan av Utrikesmagasinet.