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January 26, 2023: This episode of Japanpodden focuses on why Tokyo wants people to move to the countryside. A new Japanese film hits cinemas. Master director Hirokazu Koreeda, who last made the award-winning Shoplifters, is hailed for ‘The Good Stars’. Also, the podcast focuses on the new relocation grant that Tokyo’s rulers are planning for […]

January 24, 2023: The recording of the webinar “Moscow and China-India Relations: Understanding the Complexities beyond Eurasia” is now available on ISDP’s YouTube channel. The trilateral grouping of Russia, India and China (RIC) has for long been one of the most significant frameworks bringing together three of Eurasia’s biggest economies. Owing to its traditional partnership […]

January 16, 2023: The latest issue from the “India-Sweden Strategic Compass” is now available. The Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, the ‘India-Sweden Strategic Compass’. The newsletter focuses on current affairs, highlighting Sweden and India relations, India-Nordic relations, EU-India relations, domestic developments in India, and relevant international updates. The latest […]

January 5, 2023: Lars Vargö, Head of the Stockholm Japan Center, participates in a documentary aired on Sveriges Radio P3 about the death of Shinzo Abe and links to the Moon movement. On 8 July 2022, Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot dead in the middle of a campaign speech. An investigation reveals […]

January 3, 2023: Mats Engman, a Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, was interviewed by the Swedish Sveriges Radio on President Yoon’s proposal for more nuclear-related exercises with the U.S. Tensions on the Korean peninsula are likely to rise after South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol said the country is discussing increased cooperation regarding U.S. nuclear weapons. […]

December 29, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by Dagens Nyheter about South Korea investing millions in defense: “South Korea needs to improve its capacity to act in order not to find itself in a vulnerable position. You can’t say ‘if South Korea hadn’t done this, it would have been fine’, but it’s […]

December 23, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated as a speaker in an online discussion on “How to manage China’s rise”, organized by the Centre for Asian Affairs at the University of Lodz. The discussion centered on the current context of the rising China with particular […]

December 22, 2022: Niklas Swanström, ISDP’s Executive Director, was interviewed by the Swedish news agency TT on COVID-19 in China after the restrictions were lifted and Xi Jinping’s silence on the topic. “I think he’s trying not to be linked to either the previous policy or the new one until he knows the outcome. He’s […]

December 16, 2022: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, had the privilege of meeting the Honorable Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea (ROK), H.E. Park Jin, in Seoul. The meeting covered Seoul’s emerging Indo-Pacific perspective on the regional security situation. Dr. Panda was invited by the East […]

As the world welcomes 2023, ISDP invites its readers to a review of the year 2022 with 22 publications (in chronological order). 2022 was an eventful year in ISDP’s focus areas with heightened tensions and increased instability. The war in Ukraine changed the face of Eurasia and created global insecurity. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un […]