The Institute for Security and Development Policy is a Stockholm-based independent and non-profit research and policy institute. The Institute is dedicated to expanding understanding of international affairs, particularly the interrelationship between the issue areas of conflict, security and development. The Institute’s primary areas of geographic focus are Asia and Europe’s neighborhood. ISDP has two constituent parts: The Silk Road Studies Program and the Asia Program.

Through its Silk Road Studies Program, the Institute runs a joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. It is the first Center of its kind in Europe and North America, and is today firmly established as a leading center for research and policy worldwide, serving a large and diverse community of analysts, scholars, policy-watchers, business leaders and journalists. The Silk Road Studies Program focuses mainly on the western part of Eurasia, including Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and the Baltic Sea regions. The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program publishes the CACI Analyst, the China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly, the Silk Road Paper series and the Policy Paper series.

The Asia Program is more oriented towards the Eastern part of the Eurasian continent including the East Asian, Central Asian, and South Asian regions. The aim of the Program is to function as a focal point for academic, policy, and public discussion of the region through its applied research, its publications, research cooperation, public lectures and seminars. The Asia Program publishes the Asia Paper series and the Policy Paper series.

The Institute aims to be at the forefront of research on issues of conflict, security and development in the region; and to function as a focal point for academic, policy, and public discussion of the region through its applied research, its publications, teaching, research cooperation, public lectures and seminars.

The publication program is substantial -- publishing books, journals, e-journals, papers, news digests and fact sheets. Asia-Studies Full-Text Online carries the full-text of the following publications series from the Institute:

• Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst
• China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly Journal
• Silk Road Papers
• Asia Papers
• Policy Papers

The Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst is a globally leading periodical for analysis and information on the region. It is published both in hard copy and electronically. Begun in 1999, the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute Analyst has established itself among the world's most authoritative sources of analysis and information on the region. The CACI Analyst is edited by Dr. Svante Cornell. Each issue of the CACI Analyst contains four analytical articles, four field reports, and a news digest. Through this format, the CACI Analyst strives to offer original insights on developments in the region. The analytical articles offer timely but succinct studies of important developments, written by some of the leading experts in the field, both western and regional. The field reports provide perspectives from within the region on ongoing processes and events taking place there. Finally, the news digests give readers reliable data on relevant events of the last fortnight.

The analytical mission of the CACI Analyst has been widely acclaimed by professionals in the West and in the region itself. The target audience of the CACI Analyst is broad, including the policy-makers in the United States and the European Union; business leaders; representatives of the media and academia; and students. Naturally, the same communities in the countries of the region are also part of the core audience. The CACI Analyst is read in the presidential offices and decision-making bodies of most Central Asian and Caucasian countries.

The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly is an English language Web-based journal devoted to the analysis of the current issues facing China and Eurasia, as well as the growing relationship between the two. The journal is run by a team consisting of
Dr. Niklas Swanström (Editor-in-Chief), Dr. Sebastien Peyrouse (Managing Editor) and Christopher Len (Associate Managing Editor). The aim is to provide readers with reliable assessment of events and trends in this important part of the world. It also serves to link the business, governmental, journalistic and scholarly communities and is the global voice of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program. The journal can also be obtained in print for a fee.

The Silk and Asia Road Papers is the Institute's Occasional Papers series. Ranging from 50 to 150 pages in length, the Papers are an avenue for the rapid publication of research in a concise and accessible yet rigorous manner. An average of fifteen to twenty Papers is produced yearly. The Papers are published electronically and in print.

The Policy Paper series forms part of the Institute's ambition to respond, through up-to-date analysis and policy implications, to contemporary events in Eurasia. Ranging from 10-30 pages in length, the Policy Papers are intended to give concise and accessible analysis to both policy-makers and business leaders.

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