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-…
Together with @UTokyo_News and @UISweden Asia Programme, @kinacentrum is hosting a symposium in Tokyo on the impact of the 2024 elections, China-Russia coordination, responses to China’s rise, and de-risking strategies in Europe and Japan.
Registrer here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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!
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?
🚨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…
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
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.
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).
dn.se/varlden/expert-enda-fr…
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. 👇
kinacentrum.se/en/publicatio…
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…
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.