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June 20th, 2017: Lars Vargö was interviewed in Sveriges Radio Studio Ett on the implications of American student Otto Warmbier’s death following imprisonment in North Korea: Ökad spänning efter studentens död.  

June 20th, 2017: Niklas Swanström was interviewed in Sveriges Radio Ekot following the deat of American student Otto Warmbier who died following improsonment in North Korea.

June 19th, 2017: Niklas Swanström, Director of ISDP, holds a keynote speech at the AMO Lectures for Young Asia Scholars (ALYAS) program in Prague. ALYAS is a series of lectures for outstanding Czech young professionals in civil service, business, non-profit sector and academia with an interest in Asia affairs. Its main objective is to deepen the understanding of political, […]

“Fokusera inte på EU-medlemskapet, är Cornells råd. I stället nämner han att ekonomin och säkerhetspolitiken kan användas som påtryckningsmedel.”

“Det finns en oskriven regel att inte lämna jobbet innan chefen har gått hem. Det viktiga är att fylla ut arbetstiden, inte nödvändigtvis att vara produktiv, säger Lars Vargö.”

On June 13, 2017,ISDP welcomed James Sherr and Svante Cornell for a discussion on the international politics of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.

ISDP Senior Fellow Suat Kiniklioglu spoke at the Koerber Debate on the question whether Turkey is still a partner for Germany and Europe. Mr. Kiniklioglu debated against former chairman of the German Parliament’s foreign affairs committee Ruprecht Polenz. The debate was moderated by Südeutsche Zeitung Foreign News editor Stefan Cornelius. More than 300 guests followed […]

In a series of articles between 2000 to 2007, S. Frederick Starr, originated the idea to build infrastructure to promote trade and security along the ancient “Silk Road,” a network of trade routes that connected commerce between Asia and the West.

June 14th, 2017: Niklas Swanström was quoted in Expressen on North Korea’s release of the American student Otto Warmbier, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison in March 2016. Read more here.   “– Men sedan tror jag att osäkerhetsfrågan kanske är det svåraste för en sådan här person, att inte veta vad som händer imorgon. […]

On May 26, Boris Ajeganov, Junior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center, participated in the Clashing Visions: Russian Foreign Policy in The Age Of Xi And Trump conference at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. He held a presentation on the EU’s willingness and capacity for conflict resolution entitled “The […]