The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) is an independent institute and a platform for research and analysis. For Swedish: @UISweden
Stockholm, Sweden
Joined April 2015
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Happy to share this contribution to @TheNatlInterest, with my reflections on the deeper reasons why the #DPRK sent boots on the ground to #Russia. @ResearchUI @UISweden
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For an American president with dealmaking ambitions, the North Korean troop deployment to Russia has made things more complicated. It links the European and Northeast Asian theatres in new ways.
@HallgrenJakob @UISweden in @TheNatlInterest
@ResearchUI
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30 years after the EU referendums of Austria, Finland and Sweden enlargement is back on 🇪🇺 agenda.
In the webinar of FIIA, @tepsaeu & @oegfe on 5 December, experts from 🇦🇹, 🇫🇮 and 🇸🇪 discuss the views of the three countries on EU enlargement.
Sign up ➡️ fiia.fi/en/event/the-future-…
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Timely discussions on Nordic-Baltic challenges and opportunities among NB8 Institute Directors in Stockholm today! Pia Hansson @KragelundP @kari_osland @KristiRaik @HiskiHaukkala @KarlisBukovskis Margarita Seselgyte for the time and input! @ResearchUI
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How can we engage in dialogue with China and maintain conversations with Chinese scholars?
Last week, the Swedish National China Centre hosted a roundtable discussion featuring David Ownby, with comments from @MalinOud and @yangfulei.
Thank you for an insightful discussion!
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Dr @MartinKragh1 @SCEEUS_UI in @TheNatlInterest:
The decision by Pyongyang to enter Russia’s war against Ukraine is a stark reminder of why the West has little to be smug or complacent about.
@CFTNI @ResearchUI @tepsaeu @Konflikt_Sicher @GSPSipo
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Timely and important. @ResearchUI
Climate financing is a central focus of COP29. Which parties should bear the cost? What will a fair transition require? And how might the U.S. election impact the negotiations? Join us for a webinar ahead of #COP29!
📅 7 November
🕔 5:30-7 PM
📍 Zoom
👉 ui.se/events/cop29-who-will-…
ALT Webinar: COP29: Who will finance climate action?
Climate financing is a central focus of COP29. Which parties should bear the cost? What will a fair transition require? And how might the U.S. election impact the negotiations? Join us for a webinar ahead of #COP29!
📅 7 November
🕔 5:30-7 PM
📍 Zoom
👉 ui.se/events/cop29-who-will-…
ALT Webinar: COP29: Who will finance climate action?
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The @ResearchUI workshop in April on politics in the Western Balkans: the deadline for this call for papers is fast approaching...
🚨Call for papers🚨 The Europe Programme @ResearchUI invites abstracts for a workshop, Contemporary Politics in the Western Balkans (Albania, B&H, Kosovo, Montenegro, N. Macedonia, Serbia), to be held in Stockholm (10-11 Apr 2025). 📅 Deadline: 1 Nov 2024 forms.office.com/e/ADuWCi4CP…
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My dear colleague @ChRodhe on main stage of #RigaConf2024 moderating the important conversation about ‘The new Global Order - 10 years hence’. No shortage of gloomy scenarios & challenges, but the question is how to leverage our collective agency to cope? @ResearchUI @SCEEUS_UI
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Fascinating panel at the #RigaConf2024 addressing if ‘neutrality is geopolitically obsolete?’ While that issue is settled in #Sweden a remaining question is whether some countries’, ‘multi-alignment’ is the new neutrality? @ResearchUI
🌏 The concept of the "Global South" is often used but rarely defined. What does it really mean, and is there unity in diversity?
📃 Read our latest UI Brief written by Sara Johansson de Silva and Åsa Malmström Rognes to explore this elusive term!
👉 ui.se/butiken/uis-publikatio…
ALT UI Brief: The Elusive Global South. Cover photo: TT Nyhetsbyrån.
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Spoke with DN about Russian negotiation theatre vs genuine negotiations (spoiler: the latter = could *maybe* happen when Kremlin sees itself fail, the former = escalatory & dangerous).
Have a look 👇👀
(in 🇸🇪 - paper in 🇬🇧coming soon).
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What are the vulnerabilities and risks associated with Chinese involvement in the wind energy sector?
In our latest report, @henrikwacht outlines key risks stemming from Chinese ownership and supply chain reliance in the Swedish wind power industry. 👇
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What does @UISweden's Calle Håkansson make of 🇸🇪 attitudes and positions towards the prospect of future 🇪🇺 #enlargement
❓And what policy recommendations does he give? 👉 tepsa.eu/book-on-the-future-…
@Calle15 @unidue @JohannesPollak @WebsterVienna @_PaulSchmidt @oegfe @SpringerNature
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War in Ukraine 🇺🇦 has aggravated ethnic tensions in Latvia 🇱🇻 - yet the party system may have been shocked into more of a bridge-building mode. This is the argument in a new report by Gustav Lundberg, published by the Europe Programme @ResearchUI ... ui.se/butiken/uis-publikatio…
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The Embassy was delighted to host the esteemed political scientist Professor Brendan O’Leary for a programme of public and academic events on the current and future political landscape in Ireland.
With thanks to our partners @UU_PoliSci @Stockholms_univ @SIPRIorg @UISweden
ALT Dan and Brendan shaking hands at SIPRI. Left: Dan Smith, Director of SIPRI. Right: Brendan O'Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
ALT Brendan O'Leary holding a lecture at Stockholm University.
ALT SIPRI event. Dan Smith and Brendan O'Leary seated in the middle, full audience in the venue pictured on the sides.
ALT UI event. Brendan O'Leary holding a round-table discussion.
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Now at #WSF2024 @WarsawForum @ResearchUI Director @HallgrenJakob moderating an exciting panel on Si vis pacem, para bellum?
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Much looking forward to this panel trying to unpack the simple question whether we are sufficiently prepared to counter Russia’s wars of aggression and how to build public understanding for it @WarsawForum #WSF2024 @ResearchUI
