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May 12, 2026: In-bum Chun, Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, was quoted by Aju Press on South Korea pushing for drone autonomy through standardization. “Drones have already changed the battlefield, but South Korea still has a long way to go.” Read the article here.

May 11, 2026: Svante Cornell, ISDP’s Director, spoke at a seminar on the investment and tourism potential of Central Asian countries at the Swedish Riksdag. A business seminar was held at the Riksdag (the Parliament of Sweden), organized by the Embassies of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in Stockholm in cooperation with the Parliamentary Friendship Group for […]

May 11, 2026: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, spoke at the Krakow Security Forum, organized by APEIRON in Poland, from 7-9 May 2026. He spoke about ‘Hormuz 2030: What Implications for European Security in Times to Come’ and participated in the discussion. This event was attended […]

May 8, 2026: Will Pakistan’s new defence pact with Saudi Arabia give Chinese arms risk-free exposure? Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted by the South China Morning Post. Read the article here.

May 7, 2026: The recording of the Silk Cage Series – Webinar V: “Hormuz in the Silk Cage: China’s Choke Point Strategy by 2030–35” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. This webinar, under the Silk Cage series, examines whether the Strait of Hormuz is becoming another node in China’s evolving strategic cage, where connectivity, commerce, […]

May 7, 2026: Yesterday, on May 6, the ISDP team had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable discussion with Dr. Marcin Grabowski, Associated Senior Research Fellow with ISDP’s Stockholm Center for Research and Innovation Security (SCRIS). Marcin Grabowski presented current challenges concerning research and innovation security in Poland as well as core findings from “The […]

May 6, 2026: During his stay at ISDP as a guest researcher (April 4th – May 10th), Lieutenant General (Ret.) In-bum Chun, a three-star general of the Republic of Korea Army, engaged in a series of high-level exchanges across Stockholm, all around his research into how middle powers adapt their defense postures to shifting security […]

May 5, 2026: ISDP is pleased to welcome Ingrid Tersman as a member of our board. Ingrid Tersman is a Swedish diplomat with over 30 years of experience from international diplomacy at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and from service at the Ministry of Defence. Her profile is security policy, Central and Eastern Europe […]

May 4, 2026: Lars Vargö, Head of the Stockholm Korea Center, was interviewed by Dagens Nyheter about Kim Jong-Un’s speech about North Korean soldiers in Ukraine and its ideological implications. “The fact that Kim Jong-un is now speaking openly about this may also be an attempt to make South Korea fear North Korean soldiers,” says […]

April 29, 2026: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, visited Kyiv in Ukraine and spoke at a conference titled “From Diplomacy of Resistance to Diplomacy of Action” organized by the Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism” along with the Representative Office of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Ukraine. […]