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Stina Torjesen

Stina Torjesen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and Associate Professor at the Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromsø. She specialises in security, energy, politics and interstate relations in the Caucasus, Central Asia and South Asia. She previously worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kazakhstan.

Stina Torjesen holds a DPhil in international relations from the University of Oxford; her thesis assessed the prospects for regional cooperation in Central Asia in the spheres of trade, water and security. Her recent publications include (co-editor, with Elana Wilson Rowe) The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy, Routledge, 2008.

Research areas: Asia

Publications

Fixing Afghanistan: what role for China?: Stina Torjesen 22 June 2010
Stina Torjesen assesses the Sino-Afghan relationship against the larger context of regional politics. She argues that China's short-term contributions will be limited, especially in the security field; but in the long term, China will become a major economic and political player in Afghanistan. more