Danish scholar visited SAIAS

    On January 5, 2015, Lars Erslev Andersen, an expert on Middle Eastern affairs at Denmark’s International Studies Institute, visited East China Normal University and held a discussion with SAIAS faculty Wang Haiyan, Zhang Hong, and Sun Suyuan. The discussion focused on the geopolitical situation in the Middle East, the rise of the ISIS and its impact on such issues as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the situation in Central Asia, and China’s Xinjiang region. Mogens Chrom Jacobsen, a visiting scholar in the Department of Philosophy at ECNU, also attended the discussion.