Dr Joris Van Bladel (1 March - 30 April 2007, Uppsala)
Dr Joris Van Bladel holds a PhD in Russian studies (Groningen, The Netherlands). His research was basically focused on Russian military reform (and especially the ‘soldiers’ question). He was also affiliated with Chris Donnelly who acted as the personal advisor on Russian affairs to the general-secretary of NATO. Joris Van Bladel’s research is currently focused on the question of (1) how new types of conflicts are influencing the military organization and vice versa. Studying organizational change, organizational culture and organizational learning in a national and international context provide the tools for a comparative analysis; (2) Peacekeeping: its failures and successes, decision-making in peace operations and the different perspectives on the concept of peacekeeping in the Eurasian region; (3) the announced changes in Russian foreign and defense policy.



Dr. Bishnu Raj Upreti (March 2007, Uppsala)
Dr. Bishnu Raj Upreti, Kathmandu University, Nepal, is visiting Uppsala.

Ms. Kherlen Badarch (Autumn 2006, Uppsala)
Ms. Kherlen Badarch from Dept. of Sociology and Psychology at the Academy of Management, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia is visiting Uppsala.

Dr Eric Teo (Autumn 2006, Uppsala)
Dr Eric Teo, Council Member, Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) is visiting Uppsala. He is also Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Major Liu Lin (Autumn 2006, Uppsala)
Major Liu Lin from the Academy of Military Science in Beijing is visiting Uppsala.

Prof. Peter Tzeng (Autumn 2006, Uppsala)
Prof. Peter Tzeng from Tatung University in Taiwan is visiting Uppsala.

May-Britt Stumbaum (Spring 2006, Uppsala)
May-Britt Stumbaum is a Resident Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations in the European Foreign and Security Policy Programme.

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Mr. Ganesh Datta Bhatta (Spring 2006, Uppsala)
Mr. Bhatta is a legal scholar and lecturer at the Law Campus at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Professor Lok Raj Baral (Spring 2006, Uppsala)
Prof. Baral is the Executive Chairman of Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies (NCCS), Kathmandu, Nepal.

Dr. Sangeeta Thapliyal (Spring 2006, Uppsala)
Dr. Thapliyal is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Regional Studies at the University of Jammu. She is an expert on Nepal’s internal political dynamics and India-Nepal relations.

Ms. Kherlen Badarch (Spring 2006, Uppsala)
Ms. Kherlen Badarch (Academy of management, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) was visiting Uppsala 16 Feb - 12 March 2006 as part of the SYLLF Fellows Mobility Program.

Dr. Jaewoo Choo (Spring 2006, Uppsala)
Dr. Choo is Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Area Studies at Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Dr. Choo's visit was funded by a scholarship the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT).

Dr. Zhang Tiejun (Spring 2006, Uppsala)
is Deputy Director of the Department of European Studies at Shanghai Institute for International Studies. For more information visit Dr. Zhang Tiejun's Personal webpage.

Dr. Trifin J. Roule (Spring 2005, Uppsala)
is joining the Department of East European Studies and the Silk Road Studies Program as Visiting Research Fellow. Dr. Roule will spend two weeks at the Department, followed by two weeks field research in the Baltic republics. Dr. Roule is head author within the subproject on Money Laundering to be conducted this Spring within the Project on Narcotics, Organized Crime and Security in Eurasia at the Silk Road Studies Program.

Dr. Roule is a Senior Intelligence Analyst with Northrop Grumman Corp. He is also Assistant Editor of the Journal of Money Laundering Control and a correspondent with Jane's Intelligence Review. Previously, Dr. Roule served as Consultant for the World Bank on Governance of Natural Resources, as Ridgway Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, and as Lecturer in History at Waynesburg College, PA.

Dr. Han Hua (Spring 2005, Uppsala)
is an Associate Professor at the School of International Studies (SIS), Peking University. She also heads a project on Arms Control and Disarmament, a second university-based arms control studies in China. Further, she has been involved in second-track dialogues relating to a number of subjects of concern.

Her research interests rest on security-related issues, such as international arms control and non-proliferation, and China's security strategy on its periphery, including Asia-Pacific and South Asia. She has published in various academic journals and newspapers both in China and abroad.

Dr. Hua Han’s visit has been made possible through the Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies (SSAAPS)

Kairat Osmonaliev (May - Aug, 2004, Uppsala)
was a visiting researcher from Chui University, Kyrgyzstan (May - August 2004). Dr. Osmonaliev is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Chui University and the Kyrgyz National University. His fields of research include Criminal Law policies, Drug control issues, mechanisms to combat organized crime and corruption in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation.

Previously, Kairat Osmonaliev worked as a Deputy in the Headquarter at the Drug Control Agency (DCA) in Kyrgyzstan, Chief of the Department on Analysis, Prognosis and International Cooperation at the State Commission on Drugs Control (present DCA).

In addition, Dr. Osmonaliev is an Expert in the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for Kyrgyzstan. He is the author of about 50 articles and monographs.

Kairat Osmonaliev's visit became possible due to the scholarship provided by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT).

Viljar Veebel (Apr - Jun, 2004, Uppsala)
was a visiting researcher from Tartu University, Estonia. He was currently undertaking research for his PhD thesis “Interstate Security Measures in 21st Century – Choice between Security and Dominance”. He is also giving courses in European Political Cooperation, EU and Estonia, Intro to Political Science, and EU Institutions.

Viljar Veebel’s main research areas are Conflict Prevention and solving methods in International Relations, EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, EU common Defense initiatives and transatlantic security network, Modeling new security priorities and rethinking security policy discourse, Russian – Estonian relations, and International political economy.

Previously he has been an Academic advisor of Estonian Government delegation in EU Future Convention and lecturer and academic coordinator at Tartu University.

Viljar Veebel's visit to Uppsala has been made possible by the Margaretha af Ugglas Foundation (MAUS). It is part of the The Uppsala-Tartu Exchange Program in Peace and Conflict Research and Political Science.

Dr. Su Hao (Jan - Mar, 2004, Uppsala)
(Visiting Senior Research Fellow) is the Deputy Director for the Center for International Studies at the Foreign Affairs College of China, Beijing. He is also affiliated with some other institutions in China, such as, member of Chinese Committee, Council of Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific; board members of China Association of Armscontrol and Disarmament, China Association of Asia-Pacific Studies, China Association of Asian-African Exchange. He is researching China's Foreign Policy, Strategy and International Security, and International Relations in the Asia-Pacific Region. He has extensive international experience, including advanced study in SOAS, University of London, and two Fulbright Scholarships to Columbia University and the University of California at Berkley, USA. His publications relate to the fields of China's foreign policy, international security, regional integration in the Asia-Pacific. Dr. Su Hao's visit became possible due to the scholarship provided by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT).

Mo Wei (2003, Uppsala)
from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), her specialization is in ethnic conflict study, nationalism, identity. She graduated from the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.