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The full recording of ISDP’s recent webinar with Taiwanese Representative Vincent Chin-Hsiang Yao and ISDP’s Torbjörn Lodén, “Developments in U.S.-Taiwan Relations”, is now available on our Youtube channel.

August 27, 2020: Dr. Sangsoo Lee made a presentation on Sweden’s Covid-19 measures at a seminar on the Nordic countries’ responses to Covid-19, organized by the Nordic-Benelux Center at Korea University.

September 7, 2020: ISDP’s Executive Director, Dr. Niklas Swanström, participated as a speaker at the ‘Korea Global Forum for Peace’ on the topic of a “paradigm shift for peace and dispute resolution on the Korean Peninsula”. The full recording is available on YouTube.

ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Riccardo Villa as the new Project Coordinator at the Stockholm Korea Center. He holds a Master of Arts in Global Peace, Security and Strategic Studies from Vesalius College in Brussels, Belgium, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Languages, Cultures and Societies, specializing in the Indian […]

ISDP is pleased to announce the appointment of Torbjörn Lodén as the new Head of the Stockholm China Center. Mr. Lodén’s most recent post was as Professor of Chinese language and culture at Stockholm University, through 1990 to 2014. He has a bachelor’s degree in Russian and philosophy from Stockholm University (1968), and took up […]

August 19, 2020: Associated Senior Research Fellow, Torbjörn Lodén, appeared on the Swedish Radio program Studio Ett to discuss the news that Taiwan has established relations with Somaliland. “Det har symbolisk betydelse . . . Det handlar i första hand inte alls om att uppmäta fullvärdiga diplomatiska förbindelser, för det är under den närmaste tiden […]

August 18, 2020: ISDP’s Associated Senior Research Fellow, Torbjörn Lodén, spoke to Studio Ett (Swedish) about Cai Xia, the expelled Chinese Communist Party member and former professor at the Central Party School in Beijing, openly criticizing the CCP and its leader, President Xi Jinping. “Jag tror att man ska lägga ganska stor vikt vid den […]

August 4, 2020: The Head of ISDP’s Korea Center, Dr. Sangsoo Lee, participated in a webinar organized by the Korean Women’s Development Institute on the topic of humanitarian aid to North Korea as well as the issue of gender equality during the Covid-19 crisis. Dr. Lee made a presentation on disaster management and the current […]

July 28, 2020: ISDP’s Distinguished Military Fellow Mats Engman participated in a video event hosted by the Hudson Institute to debate the economic and national security threats posed by China and Russia and what Europe can do to counter their increasingly aggressive stance.

July 24, 2020: Tensions between the U.S. and China continue to rise. The U.S. consulate in Chengdu in southwestern China has been closed in response to the closing of a Chinese consulate in Texas following spying allegations. Meanwhile, the military presence in the South China Sea is escalating. Distinguished Military Fellow at ISDP, Mats Engman, […]