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November 5, 2025: ISDP Director Dr. Niklas Swanström, Head of the Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Korea Center Amb. Lars Vargo and Asia program intern Melita Phachulia attended a meeting with the visiting experts and scholars from New Zealand, hosted by the New Zealand Embassy in Sweden. […]

November 5, 2025: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was quoted by Anadolu Ajansı on the Trump-Xi meeting as a ‘good beginning’ for future relations. “Trump and Xi’s meeting has been a good beginning for US-China bilateral ties,” said Jagannath Panda “It has opened a gateway for their […]

November 5, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was quoted by Al Jazeera about Europe lacking an assertive response to Russia’s suspected operations. “The hybrid warfare is about making us stressed, making us feel that in peacetime we are vulnerable … and, I think, in a way, exhausting us towards being more recipient […]

Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, released the “Whither Tibet in Climate Crisis Agenda?” at the International Center for Sustainability (ICfS) in London. This release event was attended by various representatives from academia, civil society, think-tanks, and journalists etc. Ms. Shruti Kapil from the ICfS moderated the […]

October 23, 2025: Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, was interviewed by the South China Morning Post on how China views defense ties between Asia-Pacific allies. Jagannath Panda said that Australia had “moved well beyond” being an elementary defence partner for India and was now a “preferred and […]

October 20, 2025: Tibet at the Edge of a Tipping Point: The Second Stockholm Forum on Himalaya, organized by ISDP’s Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs on October 16, 2025, was featured by Geopolitika (Norway). This year’s forum focused on the climate crisis in Tibet. You can read the report (in Norwegian) here. […]

October 20, 2025: Anna Wieslander, Chair of the ISDP Board, was quoted by Al Jazeera on Russia’s economy, sanctions against it, and how it impacts the war in Ukraine. Find the article here.

October 15, 2025: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs (SCSA-IPA), chaired a panel on “Unity in Indo-Pacific: Mounting Climate Crisis in Tibet” at the Forum 2000 in Prague. This panel was a part of the SCSA-IPA’s research project ‘Climate Crisis in Tibet’, and featured Rayhan Asat (Senior […]

October 14, 2025: Yesterday, on October 13, the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) team had the pleasure of hosting a fireside discussion with Dr. Alicia Hennig, Associated Senior Research Fellow, who shared her first-hand insights into China’s academic environment, government structure, and ethical challenges in research and cooperation. The conversation was moderated by […]

October 10, 2025: Dr. Jagannath Panda, Head of the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs, participated in the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence’s Community of Interest Workshop on “Russian and Chinese Global Information Operations” held in Riga (Latvia) on October 7, 2025. Dr. Panda spoke on ‘The Sino-Russian Equation: Challenges for NATO’s […]