Director

Dr. Niklas Swanström is Director of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, and one of its co-founders. He is a Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. His main areas of expertise are conflict prevention, conflict management and regional cooperation; Chinese foreign policy and security in Northeast Asia; narcotics trafficking and its effect on regional and national security as well as negotiations. His focus is mainly on Northeast Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia.

Dr. Swanström has authored, co-authored or edited a number of books, including: Sino-Japanese Relations: The need for Conflict Prevention and Management, Transnationell brottslighet: ett säkerhetshot? (Trans-national Crime: A security Threat?), Regional Cooperation and Conflict Management: Lessons from the Pacific Rim and Foreign Devils, Dictatorship or Institutional Control: China 's foreign policy towards Southeast Asia. His articles have appeared in the Asian Survey, Global Crime, Korean Journal of International Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, CEF Quarterly, Peace Review, Central Asian Survey etc.

Dr. Swanström holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University. His dissertation dealt with regional cooperation and conflict management in the Pacific Rim. He also holds a Licentiate degree from the Department of Peace and Conflict research that examined the Chinese foreign policy towards Southeast Asia. He holds MA degrees from Uppsala University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He has also been a student at Beijing Languages Institute, Beijing University and Dalian Languages University.

Ongoing book projects
- Eurasia's ascent in Energy and geopolitics with Routledge spring 2012
- Sino-Japanese Relations: Rival or Partner for Regional Cooperation wíth World Scientific spring 2012

Curriculum Vitae

Latest Publications

Niklas Swanström
Globalisation and the Rise of Asia: Regional Cooperation to Sustain Economic Stability in Asia
BOOK CHAPTER, in Towards a New Asia Order, January 2012

Niklas Swanström
China and Greater Central Asia: New Frontiers?
SILK ROAD PAPER, December 2011, pp. 86

Niklas Swanström
Organized Crime in Pacific - Asia: Cooperation and Challenges
BOOK CHAPTER, in Security Cooperation and Asia Pacific, November 2010

Niklas Swanström
Smoking Tiger, Injecting Dragon: The Illegal Trade in Narcotics in China
JOURNAL ARTICLE, Freeman Report, November 2010

Latest Articles & Commentaries

Niklas Swanström
Don't Hold Breath on Korea
ANALYSIS, The Diplomat, December 27, 2011

Niklas Swanström
After the Death of Kim Jong Il: Everything and Nothing has Changed
ISDP POLICY BRIEF, No. 82, December 19, 2011

Niklas Swanström
China’s Growing International Role: Words, Deeds and Needs
ANALYSIS, ISPI Studies, No. 52, May 25, 2011

Niklas Swanström
Global Insider: China-Kazakhstan Relations
COMMENTARY, World Politics Review, March 01, 2011

Full list of publications

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