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Contact:
nnorling /at/ silkroadstudies.org
+1 202-297-4559
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
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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.
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