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Contact:
Tel. +46-8-410-56961
e-mail: nnilsson /at/ silkroadstudies.org
Expertise:
- Security issues, state building, conflict
and interethnic relations in the South Caucasus
- Wider Black Sea regional security
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Research Fellow
Associate Editor, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst
Niklas Nilsson is a Research Fellow with the Joint Center, while also a pursuing a Ph.D. Degree at Uppsala University/Södertörn University College. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from
Lund University and has studied Post-Communist
Transitions in Eastern Europe at Budapest
University of Economic Sciences and Public
Administration. He has also pursued Russian
language studies at Stockholm and Uppsala
Universities. He has previously served as
an intern at the Swedish International Development
Cooperation Agency (Sida) in Stockholm and
as a guest researcher at the Georgian Foundation
for Strategic and International Studies,
Tbilisi.
Nilsson currently specializes in state
building processes, conflict, and regional
security in the Caucasus and the Wider Black
Sea Region.
Publications
Books & Monographs
Ekaterine Metreveli, Niklas Nilsson, Johanna Popjanevski, Temuri Yakobashvili "State Approaches to National Integration in Georgia: Two Perspectives", February 2009.
Svante E. Cornell, Johanna Popjanevski, Niklas Nilsson "Russia’s War in Georgia: Causes and Implications for Georgia and the World", August 2008.
Svante E. Cornell, Niklas Nilsson, eds., Europe's Energy Security: Gazprom's Dominance and Caspian Supply Alternatives, CACI & SRSP, February 2008.
Niklas Nilsson and Svante E. Cornell, Georgia's May 2008 Parliamentary Elections: Setting Sail in A Storm, CACI & SRSP Policy Paper, May 2008.
Svante E. Cornell; Johanna Popjanevski; Niklas Nilsson, Learning from Georgia's Crisis: Implications and Recommendations, CACI & SRSP Policy Paper, December 2007.
Svante E. Cornell,
Anna Jonsson, Niklas Nilsson and Per Häggström, The Wider Black Sea Region: An emerging Hub in European Security, Central
Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road
Studies Program Silk Road Paper,
December 2006.
Journal Articles / Book Chapters
Niklas Nilsson and Svante E. Cornell, "Georgian Politics since the August 2008 War", Demokratizatsiya, forthcoming, 2009.
Niklas Nilsson, "Georgia's Rose Revolution: the Break with the Past," in Svante
E. Cornell and S. Frederick Starr, eds., The
Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia,
New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2009.
Niklas Nilsson, "EU and Russia in the Black Sea Region: Increasingly Competing Interests?", Romanian Journal of European Affairs, vol. 8 no. 2, 2008.
Niklas Nilsson, “EU-GUAM: Engagement or Estrangement?”,
Central Asia and the Caucasus, no 3-4, 2008.
(With Nicklas Norling).
Niklas Nilsson, "Daha Yakin Bir Avrupa Komsulugu:
Genis Karadeniz Bölgesi ve Avrupa Güvenligi"
[A Closer European Neighborhood: The Wider
Black Sea Region and European Security],
Avrasya Dosyasi [Ankara], vol. 13 no. 1,
2007. (With Svante E. Cornell)
Niklas Nilsson, “Hotbilder och Nationell Samhörighet
i Georgien” [Threat Perceptions and
National Community in Georgia], Nordiskt
Östforum [Nordic Journal of East European
Studies], No. 2, 2006.
Short Articles/Analyses
Niklas Nilsson, "EU Deploys Observers in Georgia", Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 1 October 2008.
Niklas Nilsson, "New Evidence Emerges on Start of Russian-Georgian War", Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 17 September 2008.
Niklas Nilsson, “New Round of Demonstrations Starts in Tbilisi”, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 12 November 2008.
Niklas Nilsson, “Georgian Parliament Convenes ”, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 11 June 2008.
Niklas Nilsson, “Unmanned Aircraft at Center of Georgian-Abkhaz Information War”, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 14 May 2008.
Niklas Nilsson, “Unwelcome Crisis Ahead of Georgia’s
Elections”, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 30 April, 2008.
Niklas Nilsson, “Tbilisi Withdraws from the Joint
Control Commission; Proposes New Format
for South Ossetia”, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 19 March, 2008.
Niklas Nilsson, “Tensions Escalate Over South Ossetia”,
Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 11
July 2007.
Niklas Nilsson, “GUAM Leaders Discuss Conflicts and
Energy in Baku”, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 27 June 2007.
Niklas Nilsson, “Changes in Armenia’s Political
Landscape Set Scene for Presidential Elections”,
Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 31
May 2007.
Niklas Nilsson, “Republican Party of Armenia Tightens
Grip over Parliament”, Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 16 May 2007.
Op-eds
Niklas Nilsson, “Rysslands hot växer”
[Escalating Russian Threats], Sydsvenska
Dagbladet, April 2008. (With Svante E. Cornell).
Reports
Niklas Nilsson, "New Momentum for Europe's Energy Diversification" ISS Group, Caspian Europe Center, 2008.
Niklas Nilsson, “National Minorities and the State
in Georgia”, Report of Joint Conference
with Georgian Foundation for Strategic and
International Studies, Tbilisi, Central
Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road
Studies Program, Washington and Uppsala,
June 2006. (With Johanna Popjanevski).
Niklas Nilsson, "Conflict Management and Ethnic Relations
in the South Caucasus: National Minorities
in Georgia", Workshop Report, Central
Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road
Studies Program, Washington and Uppsala,
June 2006. (With Johanna Popjanevski).
Conferences and Speaking Engagements
Security from Europe to the South Caucasus
through Turkey
Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International
Studies; International Association of Young
Diplomats, Businessmen, Scientists and Lawyers;
The Strategic Research Centre of Yeditepe
University. Tbilisi, March 27-28, 2008.
Paper presented: “Prospects for Territorial
Integrity in the South Caucasus: Geopolitics,
State Building, and Conflict Resolution”.
Regional Security, Energy Security, and
NATO: Future Problems and Possibilities
EURISC Foundation and Royal United Services
Institute, Constanta, February 19-20, 2008.
Paper presented: “Problems in Forming
a Common EU Energy Policy: Supply Diversification
in the Black Sea/Caspian Regions”.
Lecture on Political Developments in Georgia
Lecture given to election observers ahead
of the Georgian Presidential Elections.
Swedish International Development Cooperation
Agency, Stockholm, December, 2007. (With
Johanna Popjanevski).
Energy Security and Critical Infrastructure
Protection
EURISC Foundation and World Security Network,
Bucharest, November 22-24, 2007. Paper presented:
“Prospects for Energy Cooperation
in the Black Sea Region: Contradictory Strategies,
Diverging Interests and the Role of Regional
Organizations”.
The Association for the Study of Nationalities
2007 World Convention
Columbia University, New York, April 12-14,
2007. Paper presented: “Threats to
Building a Civic Nation: Georgia’s
Armenian Minority and Conflicting Threat
Perceptions”.
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