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2008: Ups and downs in Korea

 by Geir Helgesen, Senior Researcher, NIAS

Last year in Korea was, as was previous years, filled with ups and downs, hopes and doubts, surprises and shocks, mystical occurrences and wild speculations, political shrewdness and political stupidity, conflict and thaw, tragedies and hope, fear and forgiving. All in all probably not so different from previous years, so what can be said about the recent past and the possible future on the Korean peninsula?

THE ATTACK ON MUMBAI By Stig Toft Madsen Lund University

  The attack on Mumbai came after a series of terrorist acts in other Indian cities. Shortly after the attack, a hitherto unknown group, the Deccan Mujahidin, took the responsibility. Because the attack on Mumbai followed the attacks to which the similarly named Indian Mujahidin had owed responsibility, many commentators initially connected the two groups, […]

Towards a better understanding

Timo Kivimäki, Senior Researcher, NIAS and Gerald Jackson, Editor in Chief, NIAS Press

In the West, Islam is often presented in a very simplified manner (much as the West is interpreted in simplified terms in many parts of the Islamic world). This is no surprise but in fact is typical in situations where there is tension between two parties.

Thai Crisis: A Struggle for Democracy or a Struggle for Power? by Thomas Håkansson

          The past week’s occupation of Thailand’s two biggest airports is the result of a quite complicated crisis in Thai society that has remained unsolved for at least three years, but that does probably have its roots as far back as 1932 and the abolition of absolute monarchy. It can seen be a crisis that […]

A coming clean and green energy revolution in China should attract Nordic interest

by Jørgen Delman and Chen Yong, NIAS In a situation where both China and the Nordic countries are eager to exploit the opportunities in the world energy and energy technology markets, the purpose of our recently published study, “Nordic Collaboration with China in Energy Research and Development”, was to point to ways in which Nordic […]

THE ATTACK ON MUMBAI

By Stig Toft Madsen

Surrendering to the Impatient?

Trine Brox

Ph.D. Candidate, Tibetology

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Reflections on the Global Financial Crisis and China’s Economic Development

Christer Ljungwall,
China Economic Research Center, Stockholm School of Economics, ([email protected])

Indigenousness in the Philippine highlands: Colonial construct or the real deal?

Katja Kvaale
anthropologist (mag.scient.), Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

Protecting the rural poor against economic consequences of major illness: a challenge for Asian transitional economies. Notes fr

Kristina Jönsson,
Ph.D, Researcher,
Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden