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Expertise:

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

Ongoing Projects at the Program:

- Conflict and Security in Asia
- Assistant Editor of the CEF Quarterly

Nicklas Norling
Assistant Editor, China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly

Nicklas Norling is Assistant Editor of the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly.

He holds a MA degree in Political Science from Stockholm University, and has also pursued graduate studies at Stockholm University's International Graduate Program, at Uppsala University and at the Swedish National Defence University.

He currently specializes in Central Asia,South Asia, and the Middle East at the center, and his main expertise are in the fields of regional cooperation, trade, and security issues. He is also the coordinator and initiator (together with Niklas Swanström) 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.

His comments on regional events in Asia have appeared in both national broadcasted and international print media.

Publications

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.


Books & Monographs

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).

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.

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.

Articles

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 forthcoming).

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, "The Interests and Activities of Europe, Russia, and Central Asia in Reviving the Silk Roads," in Reviving the Silk Route (forthcoming, Nelson Mandela Center of Conflict Resolution, India, 2008)

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

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

Papers and Presentations

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.