Tag Archives: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Looking at China’s Foreign and Security Policies

Many international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have located their headquarters in Stockholm. One of these is SIPRI, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Last Friday SIPRI sponsored a half-day presentation by scholars from China, Finland, and the USA entitled China and Global … Continue reading

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About Afghanistan

In the summer of 2005 I spent 30 days in four provinces of Afghanistan as an unpaid consultant to a non-profit organization, The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan. The financing for this consultation (travel expense, primarily) was provided by the Stockholm-Kista … Continue reading

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