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On September 16, 2016, Dr. Niklas Swanström held a presentation on the current situation on the Korean Peninsula at the Myanmar Institute for Strategic and International Studies (MISIS), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yangon. Participating were 24 participants including MISIS members, Embassy representatives, and representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On September 16, 2016, Dr. Niklas Swanström, Director of ISDP, gave a lecture on The role of mediation and negotiation in international relations at Yangon University. Attending were around 35 political science students, who raised questions and discussed topics such as the difference in roles of meditator and negotiator, and the different nature of conflicts.

On September 9th, North Korea conducted its 5th nuclear test. Dr. Lars Vargö, former Ambassador to Japan and South Korea, shares his views on Japan’s response.

September 14, 2016: Karlis Neretnieks, Member of the ISDP Board, was quoted in the Expressen article Experterna: Så kan Ryssland invadera on the risk of Russian invasion of the Swedish island Gotland.

On September 2nd, the Institute for Security and Development Policy hosted a panel discussion on the state of the Belt and Road Initiative. As an essential part of China’s foreign trade agenda, the Belt and Road Initiative, announced by President Xi Jinping in September 2013, is bound to have a profound impact both in China […]

September 8th, 2016: Svante Cornell appeared on Al Jazeera’s The Stream on the future of Uzbekistan. Is political change possible?

Svante E. Cornell, director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University, briefed the Middle East Forum in a conference call on August 30, 2016. The failed July 15 military coup in Turkey brought to a head a long-standing struggle between President Erdoğan’s overtly anti-Western approach and the […]

“Frederick Starr, an expert on Central Asia, said he expected Mr. Karimov may have paved the way for a managed succession.

“It’s hard for me to imagine that he wouldn’t have given careful thought to this””

On Thursday, September 1st, 2016, the Institute for Security & Development Policy and the Central Compilation & Translation Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CCTB of CPC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

“The wild card here is Moscow. A transition of power in Tashkent will be viewed as a tremendous opportunity for Russia.”