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Expertise:

- The international politics of Central Asia
- Domestic politics in Iran
- Relations between South and Central Asia
- Trade, Energy, and Infrastructure in Eurasia
- Security in South Asia and India-Pakistan relations
-Afghanistan's role in the regional security context

Nicklas Norling
Research Fellow

Nicklas Norling is Research Fellow at the Joint Center and a PhD Candidate at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS.

He holds an MA degree in Political Science from Stockholm University. His articles have appeared in Asian Survey, Central Asian Survey and other journals and his comments on regional events in Asia frequently appear in both national broadcasts and the international print media.

He currently specializes in Central Asia at the center, and his main expertise are in the fields of foreign policy, infrastructure, trade, and energy issues. He is also the initiator of a project on energy and confidence-building in Eurasia. The project is a joint effort in cooperation with the Institute of Political and International Studies, Tehran, Iran. He is proficient in Russian, French, and speaks some Persian.

Publications

Nicklas Norling, "Kazakhstan's Investments Abroad", CACI Analyst, 4 April 2012.

Nicklas Norling, “Afghanistan’s Railway Frenzy”, CACI Analyst, October 5 2011.

Nicklas Norling, ”Afghanistan’s Trade with Central Asia Revives,” CACI Analyst, April 27 2011.

Nicklas Norling, “Ohlys önsketänkande hjälper inte Afghanistan,” [Ohly’s wishful thinking won't help Afghanistan] Svenska Dagbladet, April 8 2011.


Refereed Articles

Nicklas Norling and Niklas Swanström, "The Virtues and PotentialGains of Continental Trade in Eurasia", Asian Survey, XLVII, No. 3 (May-June 2007): 351-373.

Nicklas Norling and Niklas Swanström, "The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Trade, and the Roles of India, Pakistan, and Iran," Central Asian Survey, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2007): 429-444.


Silk Road Papers

Ingolf Kiesow, Nicklas Norling, Svante E. Cornell, Niklas Swanström, "Pakistan's Crisis: Incremental Steps toward Democracy," Policy Paper (Stockholm: Institute for Security and Development Policy).

Nicklas Norling, "Gazprom's Monopoly and Nabucco's Potentials: Strategic Decisions for Europe" Silk Road Paper (Stockholm: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2007), 48 pp.

Ingolf Kiesow and Nicklas Norling, "The Rise of India: Problems and Opportunities" Silk Road Paper (Uppsala: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2007), 140 pp.

Articles

Nicklas Norling, "Is Russia Stirring Unrest in Central Asia?" CACI Analyst, July 1 2009.

Nicklas Norling, "Don't Put Afghanistan in 'Reset' with Russia," Real Clear World, June 6 2009.

S. Frederick Starr, Svante Cornell, Marja Snyder, Nicklas Norling, Talaibek Koichumanov, and Vladimer Papava, Evaluation of Finland's Development Cooperation with Central Asia, South Caucasus, and Eastern Europe (Helsinki: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, forthcoming 2009).

Nicklas Norling, "The Emerging China-Afghanistan Relationship", Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst, May 14 2008.

Nicklas Norling and Niklas Nilsson, "EU-GUAM Relations: Engagement or Estrangement?", Central Asia and Caucasus (May 2008).

Nicklas Norling and Niklas Swanström, "Sino-Russian Relations in Central Asia and the SCO," Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst, October 3 2007.

Nicklas Norling, "EU's Central Asia Policy: The Adoption of a Strategy Paper 2007-2013" Central Asia and Caucasus, No. 3, Vol. 45 (June, 2007).

Nicklas Norling, "China and Russia: Partners with Tensions", Policy Perspectives vol. 4, no. 1 (2007).

Nicklas Norling, "Russia’s Energy Leverage over China and the Sinopec-Rosneft Deal," China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly vol. 4 4, no. 4 (2006).

Nicklas Norling, "RATS Exercise in Tashkent: Concern Over Nuclear Terrorism?" Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, March 5 2006.

Book Chapters

Nicklas Norling, “Introduction” in Eds. Jayanta Kumar Ray and Arpita Basu Roy Political Roles of Religious Communities in India (Kolkata: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, 2008).

Nicklas Norling, Ingolf Kiesow, Svante Cornell, and Karlis Neretnieks, "Southwest Asia [Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan] 2018-2028," in Niklas Swanström Ed. Asia 2018-2028: Development Scenarios (Stockholm: ISDP, 2008), 110-151.

Nicklas Norling, "Domestic Consequences of an Attack on Iran" in Consequences of an Attack on Iran ed. Rydkvist et al., (Swedish Defense Research Agency, 2008).

Nicklas Norling, "The Nabucco Pipeline: Reemerging Momentum in Europe’s Front Yard," in Svante E. Cornell and Niklas Nilsson (Eds.) Europe’s Energy Security: Gazprom’s Dominance and Caspian Supply Alternatives (Stockholm: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2008).

Niklas Swanstrom, Nicklas Norling, Zhang Li "China" in S. Frederick Starr (Ed.) The New Silk Roads: Transport and Trade in Greater Central Asia (Washington DC: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, 2007)

Nicklas Norling, Niklas Swanström, Yin He, "Introduction" in Niklas Swanström & Yin He, China's War on Narcotics: Two Perspectives, Silk Road Paper, December 2006. (51 pp)

Reports

Nicklas Norling, First Kabul Conference on Partnership, Trade, and Development in Greater Central Asia (Washington D.C.: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, April 2006).

Op-eds

Nicklas Norling, ”Russia and China play ’soft ball’ in Central Asia,” China Briefing: Domestic, Diplomatic and Security Issues on the Eve of the Beijing Olympics, International Affairs Forum, August 2008.

Nicklas Norling, "Militancy and the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border," Asia Portal - Nordic Institute of Asia Studies, January 21 2008.

Nicklas Norling, "Skyll inte på Musharraf," [Do not blame Musharraf] Expressen, December 31 2007.

Nicklas Norling, "Pakistan behöver en ny generation ledare," [Pakistan needs a new generation of leaders] Utrikesbloggen, January 1 2008.

Other

Nicklas Norling, "Some remarks", in Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, Maqsudul Hasan Nuri, Muneer Mahmud, and Khalid Hussain (Eds.) The Political Roles of Religious Communities in Pakistan (Islamabad: Islamabad Policy Research Institute, 2008).

Nicklas Norling and Niklas Swanström, "Editors Note: Manas Airbase and U.S. Strategy in Central Asia," China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 4 (2008).

Nicklas Norling and Niklas Swanström, "Editors Note: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Bishkek Summit," China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 3 (2007)

Papers and Presentations

Paper presented at "Sino-Russian Relations in Central Asia and Beyond", Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School, May 6-7, 2009.

Participation in conference on "Afghanistan and Regional Security" organized by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 2009.

Participation in Reflection Group organized by Kazakhstan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Astana on April 2-3 ahead of the ministerial summit "Common World: Progress Through Diversity".

Paper presented on Reviving the Silk Route, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, March 25-26 2008.

Paper presented at the workshop "Europe's energy security: Gazprom's dominance and the role of the Caspian region", October 2007.

Discussant on a conference on Iran-US relations at the Swedish Defense Research Agency, October 2007.

Discussant on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at the 17th Economic Forum, Krynica, Poland, September 2007.

Paper presented on Iran's domestic politics and economy at the 12th World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, US, April 2007.

Paper presented on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at the 14th International Conference on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Tehran, Iran, October 2006.

Paper co-written on China at the First Kabul Conference on Trade, Partnership and Development in Greater Central Asia, Kabul, Afghanistan, April 2006.